The anchor I was supposed to meet turned out to be my student.

Luo Yao, who was about to struggle out, paused and silently lowered her head...

I couldn't see her expression clearly, but I did notice a few damp spots on her blanket. I quickly reached out and lifted her face, and saw two streams of clear liquid slowly flowing down her cheeks.

"Brother Tusheng, you are so despicable..."

"Me? Me, I'm despicable?"

Luo Yao reached out and wiped away her tears, saying, "Although you sincerely apologized, acting as if you were at my mercy... but... but I like you so much, how could I really do anything to you? You're just taking advantage of my love for you, acting with impunity!!"

"I've never really thought about it that way, but subconsciously it might really be like that..."

Luo Yao continued, her voice trembling with tears, "When you first moved next door to us, I was only eight years old. I've liked you for eleven years now, so much so that I don't even know how to be angry with you anymore, and so much that I can't live without you... I confessed to you when I was in sixth grade, but you thought I was too young, that I wasn't feminine enough... I changed myself because of that, and now I'm an adult, I'm feminine, but you're surrounded by other women. Do you know how much it hurts me...?"

"I can bear the pain, and I can tolerate those vixens, but why, why did they have to target you, Yan Yi? How am I supposed to face you now?!"

Faced with Luo Yao's increasingly hysterical outburst, I could only hold her tighter and tighter.

"What should I do, what should I do... I don't know how to face you anymore. Should I cling to you like before? But after everything that's happened, wouldn't I look like a fool? But I can't really leave you... Brother Tusheng, please teach me, please tell Yaoyao, tell me what I should do?!"

I paused for a moment before saying, "There is... a way..."

Luo Yao's breath hitched, and she suddenly let out a cold laugh, which made my heart skip a beat...

I know about that so-called solution, and so does she, because I once brought it up in front of her and Lu Xiaojun.

"Hehe...hehe..."

Luo Yao just sneered without saying a word, which made me even more at a loss.

I don't know how much time passed before she reached out and gently pushed me away from her chest, looking me straight in the eye. Her gaze was so sharp it seemed to see right through me, which made me, who was already feeling insecure, even more nervous. I looked away, but I was also prepared for her to say that I was "daydreaming."

"How many are there?"

But that's what she asked, and because it was so unexpected, I'm not sure if that's what she was asking about...

"Yaoyao, what you're asking is..."

Suddenly, a small fist landed on my chest. I saw Luo Yao biting her lower lip as if she was holding back a huge grievance.

"I'm asking, how many female foxes have already entered your den?!"

Foxes dig burrows, they don't build nests!

But now is clearly not the time to correct it.

"Come on, tell me, I'll count for you."

Luo Yao spoke through gritted teeth, extending her small, jade-like hand and clenching it into a fist.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn't speak for a moment. It was quite shameful to talk about this so openly, especially in front of another girl who also liked me.

"Brother Tusheng, you have the guts to do it, but not the guts to admit it!"

Luo Yao clenched her fist, which she had been using to count, even tighter, as if she wanted to smash my **.

"Lehan!"

"That silly girl is really something... Continue."

Luo Yao picked up a slender, jade-like finger.

“Ye Zhi…”

"Sister Ye Zhi is so heartless! Does she not care that her boyfriend is cheating on her as long as she can play games?!"

“Xin Ning…”

Luo Yao scoffed at her eleven-year-long rival, saying, "Tch, I thought she was so powerful, but she still gave in in the end. She's been fighting me for over ten years, she's not worthy of being my opponent!"

"..."

Seeing that I didn't speak, Luo Yao looked at me with complicated eyes and said, "And Yan's pair, right?"

I nodded, but I didn't say anything because I was afraid of upsetting her...

"How wonderful... It's amazing that my older brother, who was single until he went to university, only got his first kiss and first time touching a girl's teddy bear because of my charity, has become so capable now!"

I sighed inwardly. I was definitely more used to her openly insulting people than to her sarcastic and cryptic manner...

(Happy Mid-Autumn Festival~~ I have to go back to my internship tomorrow, so sad ╮(￣▽￣")╭)

Chapter 237 Internship will be over tomorrow!

2021-09-22T20:24:01

Sorry I got back to my dorm really late tonight, so I'll be skipping updates for the night. But today is my last day of internship! From now on, I can update regularly every day! Hehehehehe

Chapter 238, 940. Let's chat?

2021-09-23T21:16:39

As Luo Yao finished her sarcastic remarks about the "Paradise Project," she also ended the conversation, or rather, made it awkward. I lowered my head in embarrassment, unable to speak, but the only thing I did was keep my arm around her waist without changing it. I maintained a distance of less than a foot from her, close enough that our breaths could barely touch. Only in this way could I eliminate the unease in my heart and avoid seeing her pull away from me.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but hold her tighter. Luo Yao let out a soft moan, as if she felt the firmness against her buttocks. She didn't blush, nor could she blush, but she didn't pull my hand down to explore the beautiful scenery of the canyon as seductively as usual. Instead, she bit her cherry-red lips and looked at me with conflicted eyes.

Finally, she placed her hand on my arm and gently pushed it away.

"I told you, Yao Yao isn't someone who can be done whatever she wants with her brother anymore..."

Her tone was full of awkwardness. She liked this intimacy, she had liked it for eleven years, but when it came to matters of principle, she couldn't be without dignity.

“Yaoyao…you…”

I bit my lip, finding it difficult to speak.

But I didn't need to finish speaking; Luo Yao already knew what I was going to say. She shook her head and said, "I don't want to. I said back then that I only belong to Brother Tusheng, and Brother Tusheng can only belong to me. So I don't care about Le Han or Ye Zhi. Whatever choices they make are none of my business..."

Then I have even less to say. I can't possibly pester her to persuade her, because that's her correct value of love, and I have no reason to undermine it.

"But I also know that you, Brother Tusheng, will not leave those fox spirits, right?" Luo Yao said sadly.

I silently acquiesced.

"Ugh……"

Unexpectedly, Luo Yao didn't continue to complain about how bad those "vixens" were. Instead, she sighed helplessly, her eyes filled with extreme resentment. Her small hand, which had been resting on mine, stopped pushing me away and began to pinch my flesh. I didn't dare to resist and could only listen to her wallowing in self-pity.

"I, Yao Yao, am the top female idol in a girl group, and I hold the top position in the largest entertainment company in China. I'm a well-known figure in the entertainment industry, and the number of guys who want to pursue me is so high that they could line up from Shanghai to New York..."

I knew she wasn't exaggerating; this wasn't just one queue in Shanghai, it was another queue in New York...

Thinking of this, a strange sense of tension welled up in my heart. I unconsciously pressed down on her, and she, with her delicate body, was caught off guard and was immediately pinned to the bed. Looking at her beautiful face, which was stunning even without makeup, my breathing became slightly rapid, and I pressed her fragrant shoulder even tighter with my right hand.

I know that it's that ugly thing called possessiveness at work, the possessiveness that comes from hearing that many boys are pursuing her. It's ugly but real. If I didn't have possessiveness towards her, then we wouldn't have any feelings for each other.

Even though possessiveness was at play, my slightly open mouth stammered for a long time but I couldn't utter any domineering possessive words. I could only stare intently at the young face I had known for eleven years beneath me.

Luo Yao, who had previously been preventing me from touching her, now stared at me with tender eyes, her gaze rippling with emotion, silently conveying her inner turmoil and deep affection.

I even vaguely sensed a hint in her eyes and expression that she herself was unaware of: Stop talking, love me first.

Luo Yao suddenly reached out and placed her hand on my shoulder instead of pushing it away.

"Although many boys want to pursue me, what's the use? Eleven years ago, you, this bad guy, stole my heart, and now it's all tied to you... Maybe there are boys more handsome than you, taller than you, and even richer than you, but you, Brother Tusheng, really know how to pick the right time to appear in my life. You've become the most memorable person for me besides my parents, and I simply can't let you go..."

"So you are my Yao Yao."

"But you are not just my adopted brother..."

Luo Yao sighed deeply again, feeling utterly helpless.

What to do, what to do, even the only solution is unacceptable...

This is the same question we are both pondering right now.

"That would have been fine, but you had to create another problem for me... What am I supposed to do about Yan Yi's matter, Brother Tusheng..."

As we talked, she became less agitated than at the beginning and started to calm down and think things through with me.

"Really... we can't be sisters anymore...?"

"What's the point of continuing? There's already a thick barrier between us..."

While we remained in this position for a while, pondering what to do, Luo Yao's phone, which was on the bedside table, suddenly vibrated. Someone had sent her a message. Taking advantage of this opportunity, I got up and helped her limp body sit up.

Luo Yao straightened her slightly disheveled dress and covered up the shoulder that I had accidentally pulled out earlier. It wasn't that she was trying to protect herself from me; it was just that the weather was quite cold.

Even when she knelt on the bed and bent over to reach for her phone, I didn't let go of her arms around her soft waist. I've never been more sensitive to the distance between us than I am now.

This made it inconvenient for her to bend down and reach for her phone. She turned around and gave me a resentful look, then glanced down at my hand.

"I won't let go," I said, somewhat reluctantly.

Luo Yao smiled for the first time that evening, but said with a hint of teasing, "I've never seen Brother Tusheng so concerned about me before, let alone being so inseparable from me now. Are you trying to be cute with your little sister who's six years younger than you?"

My lips twitched, and I blushed slightly.

Then Luo Yao smiled even more brightly, but then snorted and said, "Now you know how to care about me, right? I used to throw myself at you and you never appreciated it, but now you're clinging to me... Is this how all men are? The things you can't have are the things you want the most, right?"

"Go check your messages..."

I didn't want her to tease me anymore, so I slid my hand down from her stomach as a form of punishment to tease her. Luo Yao blushed and whimpered, no longer daring to tease me, and picked up her phone.

"Humph."

Looking at her phone, Luo Yao suddenly snorted coldly, which made me curious, so I knelt down behind her and looked at the messages on her phone... It was a message from Jiang Yanyi.

Want to chat?

The two identical characters, plus a symbol, already reflect the cold relationship between the two of them now.

"Want to chat...?" I really wanted them to chat, since neither of them could sleep, otherwise Jiang Yan wouldn't have sent a message so late at night.

To my surprise, Luo Yao sneered, "Chat, of course we'll chat, and we'll even have a voice chat!"

I sensed something was wrong from her profile...