Ever since she learned of her elder brother's unusual feelings for her, she had been afraid, terrified, and always wanted to escape, the further the better, the longer the better.
It wasn't until she experienced life and death last night that Du Ruoxin understood that in this world, so-called love could disappear, vanishing in the wind and rain with the passage of time.
Only her brother's love for her would not diminish with time.
Only, her brother was the person she trusted most in her life.
Then why should she guard against him? Why should she escape him?
Cristiano: "————"
What?
What did she say?
Love?
Xin'er...
Cristiano's blue eyes flickered with disbelief, his entire being frozen like a sculpture.
Du Ruoxin didn't think she had said anything shocking. She hugged him, kissed his cheek, and smiled as bright as summer flowers, "Brother, I love you!"
"Just like I love Daddy, you are the most amazing man in my life."
They say an elder brother is like a father. What reason did she have to guard against an elder, a brother?
Even though her brother's feelings for her had gone astray, it didn't stop her from respecting him, liking him, and caring about him.
Moreover, as long as she and Rong Jingyang were doing well, Du Ruoxin believed that her brother would eventually let go of his obsession with her.
So, why should she hurt her brother's heart? Why should she avoid him?
Cristiano looked at the woman's open and honest smile, his heart inexplicably paused.
No longer afraid of him? No longer escaping him?
Good.
But—
He couldn't quite explain the feeling, but Cristiano was inexplicably displeased.
However, after a moment, he suppressed the emotions in his heart and gently stroked her head, "Eat quickly, aren't you hungry?"
"Mhm!" Du Ruoxin buried her head in her food.
This meal was the most comfortable meal she had had with her brother in years.
However, just after finishing the dessert, Cristiano started causing trouble again.
"Tomorrow is the deadline, have you thought of an answer?"
He said.
Du Ruoxin looked utterly bewildered, "Mhm?"
After a two-second pause, she realized her brother was referring to the choice of whether Clara's child should stay or go.
"Hiss—"
"Oh dear—"
Du Ruoxin immediately felt a headache, neck pain, back pain, leg pain, her whole body aching.
She deliberately raised her bandaged hand and exposed her leg, which was covered in surgical tape beneath her long dress, pretending to cry pitifully, "It hurts so much, my whole body aches!"
"Last night, I didn't dare to fall asleep."
She was afraid that if she fell asleep, she would be like a dead pig, allowing the scumbag to violate her body.
"Mom said I have a face that invites crime."
"I must accumulate virtue and do good deeds my whole life to live peacefully."
As she spoke, Du Ruoxin, like a Golden Horse award-winning actress, looked at Cristiano with sad, tear-filled eyes, glistening, "It must be because I'm usually too mischievous and rarely do good deeds, that's why what happened last night occurred."
Her eyes welled up with tears as she looked at Cristiano, "Brother, you are the person closest and most dear to me. Your good deeds can also be transferred to me."
"So, let my sister-in-law keep the child, okay?"
"Don't commit murder."
"Consider it accumulating virtue for me?"
Cristiano: "…………"
There's such a fallacy?
His eyelids twitched incessantly!
Du Ruoxin, as if not seeing his twitching, pressed on, "Brother, please?"
"If what happened last night happens again, I will surely die!"
To set the mood, her tears flowed as soon as she spoke, striking Cristiano's heart.