Tao Yu froze, instinctively looking at the TV. Her ears were suddenly filled with words like “seriously ill,” “incurable,” and “critically dangerous.” A clip of the butler’s press conference played, and when she heard that Yue Lin was in danger, her ears roared, and she stood completely stunned.
When Yue Ze returned, he saw Tao Yu staring blankly at the TV screen. His heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran to block the TV, placing the yogurt in her hand: “They didn’t have your usual brand. You can try this one; it should taste good.”
“You knew, didn’t you?” Tao Yu looked at him in disbelief.
Yue Ze pushed the yogurt into her hand and took out a sandwich: “I was afraid you’d find plain bread monotonous, so I had someone make a sandwich. The flavor is light and won’t make you uncomfortable.”
“Yue Ze, you knew, didn’t you? You’ve been hiding this from me.” At that moment, she suddenly understood why the hotel TVs had conveniently broken, just on the day of the butler’s press conference.
Yue Ze’s hand paused, and after a while, he lost his smile: “I knew. So what? He and we are just strangers.”
“…But you’re brothers,” Tao Yu said, though she knew about their conflict, she still found his coldness hard to accept.
Yue Ze looked at her expressionlessly: “I’d rather not be.”
Tao Yu stared at him for a long time, then softly said: “Do you know why he’s always been hard on you? It’s because of something you both experienced back then…”
“I know,” Yue Ze interrupted her, and after she looked at him in shock, he sneered, “I know, but so what? If I knew the price of being rescued first was to lose everything completely, I’d rather have been the one abandoned.”
Now, the choice was meaningless, so he could only transfer his hatred towards everyone onto Yue Lin, just as Yue Lin had done to him.
Tao Yu slightly parted her lips, unable to speak for a long time. Yue Ze laughed, his face without a trace of gloom: “So, are you going to abandon me like those people?”
Tao Yu’s fingers clenched tightly, then slowly relaxed, her voice rarely cold: “I won’t abandon you.”
