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Boom—!

It was as if a thunderbolt had struck Qiao Lijun directly on the top of his head!

His body stiffened abruptly, and his hands, which were gripping Qiao Mingzhu, suddenly released as if he had been electrocuted. He staggered back half a step, and his back slammed heavily against the door frame.

It was as if he had heard the most outrageous and absurd joke in the world!

"How...how could you like...me?!"

Qiao Lijun pointed incredulously at his own nose, his tall frame swaying slightly, his head buzzing, his mind completely blank.

How could that be?! How could she like him?! He's her brother!

Even without blood ties, in name and in the eyes of everyone in the compound, they'd been like brother and sister for twenty years! If word got out...

Qiao Mingzhu was now cornered and no longer cared about propriety, morality, or worldly opinions.

She lunged forward, grabbing the man's strong waist tightly, burying her burning cheeks in his chest, and began to sob softly and unrestrainedly.

Tears streamed down like a burst dam, instantly soaking Qiao Lijun's shirt.

The scalding heat of the dampness seeped through the thin fabric and burned into Qiao Lijun's skin, making him tremble all over.

Qiao Lijun froze like a block of iron, his hands dangling in mid-air, not daring to disturb the woman in his arms who was crying and trembling all over.

"Brother, I'm sorry... I'm so sorry!"

Qiao Mingzhu gripped his waist tightly, crying her heart out, "I know this is wrong, I deserve to die! I shouldn't have such filthy feelings for my own brother! But... but I really can't control myself!"

"Before, I thought we were siblings. So I suppressed myself every day, never daring to reveal even the slightest feeling. Falling in love with your own brother, how terrible! How shameless! I thought I would have to take this feeling to my grave..."

As she cried, she raised her pale, yet pitiful face, washed clean by her tears.

"But...but then Xin Xin appeared. My parents said I was switched at birth, and we weren't actually siblings!"

Tears streaming down her face, Qiao Mingzhu stared blankly at his stiff face. "Brother, do you know how happy I was then? I even thanked God for letting Xin Xin come back! Because I wasn't your biological sister anymore, I could openly love you!"

"I never thought of bringing this up before, but since we're not related by blood, I thought, finally, there's a sliver of possibility! So I went crazy trying to break off my engagement with Zhou Liguang! Even if you don't like me, even if there's only the slightest chance, I want to try!"

She choked back tears, barely able to breathe, and desperately loosened her grip slightly: "Brother... I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. You hate me, don't you? You call me shameless, right..."

Hearing the girl in his arms confess her love with every tearful word, Qiao Lijun's heart swayed wildly.

Reason screamed wildly: Push her away! Stop her sternly! This is an incestuous scandal!

But... he just couldn't lift his hand.

He didn't push her away, but let her hug him tighter and tighter, their body heat mingling wildly through their clothes.

Because he was horrified and genuinely surprised to discover that—the moment he heard Mingzhu say she liked him, besides being shocked, a secret, elusive joy was secretly growing within him!

How pathetic.

Qiao Lijun, a company commander, actually felt secretly pleased and satisfied when the woman he had called "sister" for twenty years showed him affection!

It turns out that deep down, he had long since stopped seeing her as a younger sister.

Qiao Lijun closed his eyes in pain, his chest heaving violently.

The shackles of morality crumbled inch by inch in the face of the girl's tears.

He suddenly stretched out his arms and hugged Qiao Mingzhu's slender waist tightly, forcefully drawing her into his very bones.

Just a door away.

Qiao Xinxin, who was hiding in her personal space, was drinking sweet spiritual spring water from a bamboo tube when suddenly, the suppressed sobs and heavy breathing of a man outside clearly entered her ears.

"Pfft—cough cough cough!"

Qiao Xinxin spat out a mouthful of spiritual spring water, nearly choking herself to death.

She practically rolled her eyes to the heavens!

Big brother, big sister, I didn't offend any of you, okay?!

If she hadn't just drunk the spiritual spring water, which not only washed away her fatigue but also made her senses and hearing exceptionally sharp, how could she have heard the incredible scene of the "pseudo-siblings" pouring their hearts out to each other outside the thin door?

Even as they poured out their hearts to each other, they were actually trying to use her as a scapegoat, scheming to make her fill the pit of fire that Zhou Liguang had in!

Hey! You two are having to drag me, a mere NPC passing by, into this thrilling forbidden love affair? What did I ever do to deserve this?!

Qiao Xinxin casually wiped the water from the corner of her mouth, stroked her smooth chin, and chuckled mischievously in the space: "Heh, you two scoundrels are never quiet. All you do is scheme against me, or are on your way to scheme against me! What, do I look like a sucker to be slaughtered?"

You want me to marry someone in place of that scheming Qiao Mingzhu? Don't you even know how shameless you are?!

At this moment, Qiao Xinxin was especially grateful for her foresight.

Fortunately, she had written a letter in advance and sent it to her older brother Bai Zhengyuan, who was far away in the army, leaving herself a way out.

According to the warm memories in the original owner's mind, during the twenty years she lived in the Bai family, whether it was her strict but loving father and mother or her eldest brother Bai Zhengyuan, they all cherished her like the apple of their eye.

Otherwise, in the early 1980s, when there was a strong preference for sons over daughters, how could a rural family have gritted their teeth and supported the original owner, a girl, to finish high school in peace?

In my memory, after Bai Zhengyuan joined the army, he would send money and ration coupons home every month without fail as soon as he received his allowance.

Not only that, he also frequently wrote letters to the original owner of the body, showing concern for her studies and life, fearing that she might suffer mistreatment in the countryside.

The original owner still remembered that when she was a child, other children in the village would point at her and call her a "wild girl". It was always Bai Zhengyuan, the eldest brother, who stood in front of her like a mountain and protected her behind him. Because of this, he fought several times with those half-grown boys in the village, and his head was even broken.

Given the Bai family's protective nature, if Bai Zhengyuan knew her situation, he would definitely help her and agree to let her go and join the army!

Thinking of this, Qiao Xinxin felt a sudden, uncontrollable pang of bitterness and pain in her heart.

That was the original owner's lingering instinctive reaction within this body.

If Bai Zhengyuan knew that the girl he had cherished and protected since childhood, the girl he truly treated like his own sister, had been bullied and abused by the hypocritical Qiao family parents and beastly brothers, and had even perished in despair and depression... how much pain would he feel? How much self-blame would he feel?

Qiao Xinxin took a deep breath, her eyes instantly turning cold and sharp.

Since she had taken over the original owner's body by chance, she had to seek justice for the original owner!

She shook her head vigorously, trying to banish all these complicated emotions of melancholy and sorrow from her mind.

This is not the time to be sentimental!

She needed to prepare to leave the Qiao family, that cannibalistic den of monsters, as soon as possible!

If we stay here any longer, who knows what outrageous things that shameless madwoman Qiao Mingzhu might do!

And then there's Qiao Lijun outside. If this man is truly infatuated with love and has completely lost all shame, it's not impossible that a month later, he could knock her unconscious with a stick and force her into Zhou Liguang's wedding car!