Chapter 263 I'll only cry for you for a little while; any more, and you don't deserve it.
Even after Ji Yuze explained, Zhao Baoqi's attitude remained extremely cold.
His heart was throbbing with pain.
"Baoqi, do you hate me now?"
“Ji Yuze.” Zhao Baoqi looked at him expressionlessly; this was the first time she had looked at him directly that evening. “We met before because I was injured and hospitalized, and my older brother asked you to keep me company.”
"Later, I was the one who asked you to stay."
"If I had known things would turn out like this, I wouldn't have called you in the first place."
"I admit that during our time together, I developed feelings for you and felt we were quite compatible."
"However, your concealment makes me very uncomfortable. For two people who are in love, the most essential premise is that they cannot lie."
"In that case, let's end it here. After all, it hasn't officially started yet, has it?"
Zhao Baoqi's words were extremely cruel.
Ji Yuze couldn't help but take a few steps back. He stared blankly at Zhao Baoqi's innocent yet cruel face. "Baoqi, it's not fair to me to say that."
"I love you, and it has always been you. I had no idea I was engaged. If I had known, I wouldn't have let myself get close to you."
"I'm not the kind of shameless person."
He also had self-respect. As the young master of the Ji family, although his elder brother Ji Jialin was in charge of the family business, he still chose to take the military academy entrance exam and took a different path.
He is not an irresponsible man.
"Ji Yuze, you're out." Zhao Baoqi was frighteningly calm. "It's late, go home."
She possesses the pride of being the eldest daughter of the Fu and Zhao families.
She couldn't bring herself to do something as degrading as competing with a girl with a heart condition for a man.
Moreover, the girl was already engaged to Ji Yuze.
She didn't want to be branded as a mistress.
"Baoqi, I will break off the engagement!" Ji Yuze stared intently at her, his expression a mixture of suppressed pain and heartache. "I will definitely break off the engagement."
After he finished speaking, he turned and stepped into the night, leaving without looking back.
Zhao Baoqi lowered his eyes, and after a while he looked up, preparing to go upstairs.
When she turned around, she saw Fu Yanshen standing behind her, and she didn't know how long he had been there.
"elder brother?"
Fu Yanshen remained calm. "Have you thought it through?"
"Yes, I've thought it through," Zhao Baoqi replied softly. "I am Fu Yubai's daughter, Fu Yanshen's sister, and Xia Mian's older sister!"
"If I want to find a boyfriend or a marriage partner, I have plenty of men to choose from."
"So what if Ji Yuze is the one I love? He's a man who's engaged, he doesn't deserve my waiting."
Fu Yanshen curled his lips into a smile. "It's rare that you've thought this through so thoroughly."
He just received a call from his aunt, Fu Yubai, and he's a little worried.
Surprisingly, Zhao Baoqi is quite clear-headed and not a love-struck fool.
"Brother, it's late, hurry back and keep Mianmian company." Zhao Baoqi made a face at him, suppressing the sadness in his heart, "I'm going to rest too."
Fu Yanshen nodded and turned to leave.
Zhao Baoqi no longer feigned ease when facing him; her heart was heavy. She lay down on the bed, turned off the light, and gazed at the night outside the window.
Tears welled up in my eyes. Ji Yuze, I'll only cry for you for a little while, just a short while.
No matter how much more, you don't deserve it.
...
Ji Family Villa.
Ji Jialin took off his gold-rimmed glasses and massaged the bridge of his nose. "Breaking off the engagement isn't as simple as you think."
"Big brother, I beg you!" Ji Yuze looked at him with red eyes. "I really like Baoqi, I only like Baoqi. How can I accept this sudden engagement?"
"If there was an engagement, why didn't you tell me a few years earlier? You only told me after I had fallen for Baoqi..."
"There's nothing we can do about it." Ji Jialin put his glasses back on, looking a bit of a headache. "It was decided by my parents. You're telling me this, there's nothing I can do."
"Big brother, is there really no way?" Ji Yuze was almost crying, his handsome face filled with pain.
“She has a heart condition and can’t handle stress. If you try to break off the engagement and she has a relapse, who will take responsibility? You or Zhao Baoqi?” Ji Jialin wanted to dissuade her brother. “I advise you to be obedient and accept this marriage.”
"You're clearly my older brother, so why aren't you the one engaged to her?" Ji Yuze couldn't help but voice his grievances. "I'm the youngest son, so why did this happen to me, bypassing you?"
“Your elder brother is going to inherit the family business, how can he have a wife with a heart condition? She probably can’t even have sex with her husband!” a middle-aged woman’s voice rang out.
The two brothers looked up and saw their mother walking towards them.
Ji's mother looked at Ji Yuze with displeasure. "Have you been serving in the army or something? It's just a marriage, not a death sentence. If you marry her, it'll just mean one more pair of chopsticks in the house."
"Mom, I don't like her!" Ji Yuze looked at his mother helplessly. "I like Zhao Baoqi, and I want to marry Zhao Baoqi!"
“Your fiancée has a heart condition and is physically weak. Who knows when she might pass away… Just consider it a relief for her parents.” Ji’s mother earnestly advised Ji Yuze, “If she really does pass away, you can still marry Zhao Baoqi.”
"Mom, do you think Zhao Baoqi will wait for me forever?" Ji Yuze felt that there was no way to reason with his mother; what she said was simply ridiculous.
He was furious. "I don't understand why I have to marry that fiancée, and I don't understand why I have to be the one chosen."
"What kind of society are we living in now? Why do you still arrange marriages?"
"You guys are ridiculous!"
With a cold face, Ji's mother looked at her disobedient youngest son, and finally, unable to bear it any longer, she raised her hand and slapped him across the face.
"Why? Don't forget, when you were eight years old, you accidentally fell into the water, and she saved you! After saving you, her previously mild heart condition became critical. You owe her that! You owe her for the rest of your life!"
"This is your own fate! You can't blame anyone else!"
Ji Yuze's face turned pale, ignoring the pain on his face, "Mom, what did you say?"
"I don't remember this at all."
Ji Jialin looked at her younger brother with pity, "You did too many naughty things when you were a child, Yuze. You have to take care of your fiancée for the rest of her life. This is a debt you owe her."
Ji Yuze returned to his room in a daze, his mind a jumbled mess. Why did this happen...?
He opened WeChat, looked at Zhao Baoqi's profile picture, but no longer had the courage to click on it.
Why? Why punish him like this after he's found a girl he likes?
...
Early in the morning, Xia Mian received a large bouquet of beautiful sunflowers paired with hydrangeas as soon as she went downstairs. It was pretty, fresh, and eye-catching.
She paused, then noticed a card included with the bouquet.
Upon opening it, one finds a man's vigorous and powerful handwriting.
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