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"I'm sorry... I don't know why he is acting like this all of a sudden."

After taking my seat, I was so embarrassed to face Wu Mian alone, but he said with a smile: "It's okay, couples, it's normal."

I took a sip of tea to restrain my embarrassment, and Wu Mian said thoughtfully, "Mr. Yang really cares about you."

I smiled sheepishly, "Why do you see that?"

He said: "The way he looks at you is the way he looks at his lover."

"How is that possible." I said softly, "He doesn't know what love is at all."

Wu Mian turned to me: "Junyan, in the eyes of others like me, you are a perfect match."

"...Maybe. I don't know if I love him or not. I seem to have lost the ability to judge him." I turned my head to look at Yang Chen outside through the single-sided glass, and smiled self-deprecatingly, " Although he always talks about life, when I think of this possibility, I don't hate it, it's just...inexplicable, and I feel unwilling."

"Why do you think so? I thought Mr. Yang's conditions were impeccable."

"Yes," I said, "perfect, nothing to change, but I can live with it."

"It's okay to be patient for a while, but it's not good for the relationship to develop like this all the time. Maybe I should talk to Mr. Yang."

"No...let him be himself." I said, "Doctor Wu, change the subject?"

Wu Mian smiled gently: "Okay."

The chat today was very relaxing. I chose some old childhood stories that I could tell others.After the chat, Wu Mian and I pushed the door out, I turned around and was about to call Yang Chen, but found that he was holding a book loosely in his hand, but he was leaning on the sofa and fell asleep.

Dr. Wu smiled at me, and said softly, "I'm going to pick up my daughter, so let's take a step first. If you have nothing to do in a while, let Mr. Yang stay here to rest."

I nodded and watched Wu Mian take the door out, walked up to Yang Chen and sat down.He slept deeply, his thin lips were tightly pressed, his brows were straight when he closed his eyes, and his long eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes.

He was still beautiful, and when he opened his eyes to look at people, he was angry with a kind of romantic affection, which could easily captivate people's souls.He is obviously a proud and cold person, but sometimes he is like the most innocent and naive child, who would crush an ant's nest with a long stick nonchalantly, or watch me keep falling in the swamp of obsession, stand by and remain unmoved.

He watched the fire from the other side, and sighed that when it was burning hot and beautiful, I was already reduced to ashes.

I bowed my head and kissed his brow bone softly. When he fell asleep, his expression was still very unhappy, looking a little naive and childish.

I can't tell what emotion is overflowing in my chest.If loyalty is the criterion of love, and if you love someone, you will do your best for that person, then I don't love him.I don't want to live with him, I don't want to be held tightly by him, I don't want to be his vassal, I don't want to be the weight that the Yang family and the Xu family pull each other, I don't want to experience the future where everything is arranged.

I still have anger and resentment towards him in my heart, but this anger has been brewing for too long, and it has turned into a bitter sense of powerlessness.It's not that I don't love...but that I dare not.He is eager to prove his heart, and I can also feel that he cares about me at this moment.He said that he wanted to start over from the beginning and spend his whole life with me seriously and without any grievances.

But he didn't understand.There is no unequal love in this world.

He is always on top, he can easily decide everything about me, kill my life as he wants, if he wants me to see a doctor, I have to go to the doctor, if he wants me to come out, I have to come out... I am not his lover, just him Some favorite knitted dolls were held in his palm and fiddled with wantonly.

I think Yang Chen is not fickle.He just doesn't know what love is.

Yang Chen also woke up after only a short sleep. He was a little surprised to see me sitting next to him, rubbed his temples and let out a sigh of relief: "It's over? How long did I sleep? How did the chat go?"

"Not long," I said. "It's been a good day. Go back."

Yang Chen wanted to call the driver, I said I drove the car and I could take him back.He looked at my cheap Santana with disgust, and then condescended to sit in the co-pilot with his long legs, and he didn't forget to complain: "I said Xu Junyan, can you change the car? Is this car cheaper than yours?" How big? How poor. In a few days, I will take you to my garage to pick a handsome one to drive."

"No, I'm driving." I said, "Where? The company?"

"Go to your house." He folded his arms and ordered, "I want to eat your cooking."

"I usually call to order food." I said, "Cooking only makes sandwiches, are you serious?"

"Sandwiches are just sandwiches." He clicked his tongue and looked at me, "Surprise check to see if you have committed any disorder, are you afraid?"

I thought to myself what is there to be afraid of, so I turned the car and changed direction at the intersection ahead, and said back to him: "I haven't checked you yet, who is afraid of whom?"

Yang Chen looked at me with his hands on his pillow, and said in a drawn-out tone, "Then I'll let you check to see if I'm messing around outside—"

"I'm driving." I glared at him, "Master Yang, please show some face."

He pinched my face with a smile.It hurts a bit.

Yang Chen stood behind me with his hands in his pockets, I took out the key to open the door, and said, "The part-time worker will come tomorrow, I didn't clean it up like this, the room is very messy..."

"It's okay, I don't mind," he said. "Open the door quickly, I'm hungry."

As soon as the voice fell, the door opened from the inside, and two men in overalls came out, holding toolboxes and ladders in their hands.I was stunned, they nodded to me and turned around to leave, I stopped them in a daze: "Hey wait, who are you? What's going on?"

"They are the workers I invited." Andre's voice sounded behind me, and Yang Chen's expression became ugly almost immediately.He only wore long trousers and a sweater, and stood barefoot on the floor with a cup in his hand. He said with a lazy charm, "Brother, you are back."

"Why are you here?!"

"Why is he here?!"

Yang Chen's voice and mine sounded at the same time, but I was shocked and his was angry.Andre shrugged, let the two men leave first, leaned against the porch and smiled: "What are you doing standing outside, come in and talk about it?"

I followed him into the door, and Yang Chen stood beside me with a gloomy face. I watched Andre pour coffee for himself but didn't speak for a long time. I couldn't help but ask: "What did you ask them to do? It's my home, Andre, don't go too far!"

"Let them hang the presents I gave my brother, and finally found a suitable place in the study." He took a sip slowly, probably a little hot, his lips were ruddy, like the brightest flowers in the garden. Rose, "Does brother have any objections?"

"I have an opinion." Yang Chen cut off the conversation and raised his chin, "No matter what the reason is, I don't want to see you again. If you don't want to be beaten, you'd better stay away from my people."

Andre put down his glass and smiled contemptuously: "Who are you? I'm talking to my brother."

Yang Chen said coldly: "Are you provoking?"

"How dare I." His smile widened, and he looked at me pretending to be sweet, "Brother, I'm so scared."

The gaze of the two of them made me feel like a light, so I said to Yang Chen, "Actually, he didn't do anything... If it doesn't work, I'll change the lock. Is that okay?"

"Brother wants to lock me out?" Andre's smile disappeared instantly, and the air seemed to turn cold when he was expressionless, "Didn't you say that this will always be my home?"

I was so stared at by him, I didn't know what to do, but Yang Chen seemed to have heard something funny, so he sneered: "Your home? What are you? I heard what your brother said, don't stay here Don't go, get out early."

"No, can we have a good talk?" I looked at Yang Chen and then at Andre, but both of them looked so pale that they wanted to eat me, "Andre, your things are also hung up, go back first , I still have things to do."

"But once I leave, I won't be able to come in next time." He said, "Why should I leave? He is an outsider, right?"

Yang Chen's eyes were gloomy: "Xu Junyan, I'll save face and not quarrel with him, but you'd better let your brother know better."

This scene was a bit familiar. I just wanted to persuade him helplessly, when I heard Andre counterattack: "It's so pitiful, I thought I was a lover, but I was actually kept in the dark, right?"

His tone was subtle, and there was a bit of gloating in his dismissive glance, which made Yang Chen's tone suddenly raised: "What did you say?"

The aggressiveness of tit-for-tat in the air made my back tingle.I wanted to rush over to cover Andre's mouth, but Yang Chen grabbed my wrist, and he narrowed his eyes dangerously: "Let him tell—or do you really have something to hide from me?"

"I..." I turned my head and looked at Andre pleadingly, "Can you stop talking nonsense?"

"Ah, it's really nothing, it's just that my brother is really cute on the bed..."

Before Andre finished speaking, Yang Chen rushed over and punched him hard.

He moved so fast that I couldn't stop him at all, his strength was so great that I felt chills on my back when I saw it.Andre was caught off guard by the attack. Although he reacted quickly and wanted to avoid it, he was still hit in the abdomen, and he groaned and leaned on the table.

"I told you."

Yang Chen pinched his neck, his expression was sinister and terrifying, and his whole body exuded a terrifying aura.I saw his palms tightened hard, and Andre's forehead was covered with veins. I held his arm and tried to break free, and looked at him fiercely without showing any weakness.

Yang Chen said in a low voice word by word: "Be sensible, don't provoke me."

"Let go!" I rushed over and pulled his hand away, letting Andre catch his breath, "Yang Chen——! Are you crazy?!"

Andre coughed a few times and gasped for breath. He held my wrist tightly: "Cough, cough, bro... I'll tease him, who knows... this guy is so crazy?"

"Did you hear that, he was joking!" I patted Andre on the back in a panic to comfort him, and said to Yang Chen, "Don't do it casually, can you? How come it blows up like a firecracker?"

Yang Chen glanced at me, turned around and left without saying a word, he was very angry, the sound of the door slamming made the floor tremble.I glanced at Andre, who was full of grievances just now, but now looks indifferent, and said bitterly, "So you are satisfied?"

I left him and turned to chase Yang Chen. When I went out, Andre said behind me: "...Love."

He raised his eyes and smiled at me, the redness from his collarbone to his face due to lack of oxygen has not faded, and it looks like a ferocious rose mark on his fair neck:

"The name of that picture is "Love."