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"That phrase absolutely cannot be said... Xing'er, dear... that phrase cannot be said, if you do, you won't be able to go back... you will never be able to go back."
In the hypnotic murmurs of Chu Donglin, the girl looked at him with red eyes, tears wetting her lashes.
"Why go back? Why must we go back? Isn't it good like this? Isn't it good to be out? I never want to return to those muddled days again!"
She threw herself into Chu Donglin's arms, burying her head tightly against him, tears pouring out like a broken dam as she cried out with a choked voice, "Am I not good enough? Why won't you accept me? What have I done wrong? Do you hate me?"
Chu Donglin held her stiffly, silent.
"Ah! What is wrong with me? Why won't you accept me? I knew you had an older sister before, so I never dared to show anything, afraid of disturbing you both."
"But now the situation is different; you two have long since parted ways. You don't have any other women now. Why won't you... do you still have her in your heart?!"
Liu Xiner suddenly thought of something, lifting her head to look at Chu Donglin with disbelief.
"In your heart... do you really still think of that woman? After everything she did to you, you still remember her? She still has a place in your heart?"
Chu Donglin awkwardly averted his gaze, unable to meet the girl's shocked eyes, murmuring softly.
"I have no possibility with her anymore. From the moment she chose to go to Jiang Hai, we could never heal what was between us. No matter what happens, there is no possibility for us anymore; you know that."
"But she still has a place in your heart! You still think of her! You still remember her! Right?"
The girl relentlessly cried out, desperately wiping away the tears on her face, but they flowed like a flood, refusing to be erased.
Through her blurred vision filled with tears, she cried out and clung to Chu Donglin's body, pounding her fists against his broad chest as if mourning the loss of something most beloved.
"You bastard! Brother-in-law! You're such a jerk!"
"I'm a bastard, a big bastard."
Chu Donglin murmured these words, gently tightening his embrace around the crying girl in his arms. "Cry, go ahead and cry out loud. It will be alright once you do."
He reached out, softly stroking the girl's head, trying to soothe her turbulent emotions. "It's all my fault. I'm sorry. I'm a bastard."
However, the girl suddenly broke free from Chu Donglin's embrace, pushing his hands away.
In his incredulous gaze, this girl—who had always been gentle and submissive—stubbornly lifted her tear-streaked face, her red eyes fixed intently on him.
"Brother-in-law, tell me now... I want to know what place I hold in your heart. How do you really see me?"
"You are..."
"The truth! I want the truth!" Chu Donglin barely began to speak when he was interrupted by the emotionally charged girl.
She cried out but stubbornly held his gaze, as if she wanted to witness her own sentence of death reflected in his eyes, unwilling to look away for even a moment, determined to hear the most ruthless words from him.
"You must tell me the truth!"
For the first time, this usually gentle and submissive girl was so assertive that it made Chu Donglin uncomfortable.
But he took a deep breath and did not shy away from her gaze this time.
He looked seriously into her swollen eyes and slowly said, "Sister... in my heart, you have always been my sister, just an ordinary sister. I care for you as if you were my own sister, without any mixed feelings."
Better to endure the pain quickly than to prolong it; Chu Donglin had never been indecisive in his life.
Since a decision had already been made, even if the girl's gaze was filled with despair and tears, he resolutely steeled himself, unwilling to let her continue to be tormented by this matter.
He lowered his head firmly and silently, looking into the girl's eyes, and spoke each word clearly, "In my heart, you have always... just been a sister."
The girl looked at him in despair. "Really just a sister?"
"Just a sister."
"Not even a little bit of other feelings?"
"None."
"Not even a tiny bit, a thread, or a millimeter of other feelings?"
"None."
"Absolutely none?"
"None."
"Have you ever had any other fantasies about me?"
"None."
"Have you ever liked me?"
"I have always liked you, but not in that romantic way."
"Have you ever felt the slightest impulse towards me?"
"No."
"Do you want to have sex with me?"
"I don't want to."
"Not even a little?"
"I don't want to."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Brother-in-law..."
"Yeah."
"You bastard."
Amidst the girl's curses, Chu Donglin lowered his head, looking at the tear-streaked face of the girl before him, who was filled with despair and anger. He forced a bitter smile.
"Yeah, I'm a bastard... You're right, I really am a bastard. I deserve it; I'm worse than a beast. It's all my fault; I owe you an apology."
The girl looked at him resolutely, took a deep breath, wiped away the tears on her cheeks, and turned to leave with determined strides.
As she stepped into the bedroom, she coldly turned her head to look at Chu Donglin, her gaze devoid of any warmth. "Brother-in-law, I hate your eyes."
With a loud bang, the bedroom door was slammed shut, leaving only the girl's last icy words to drift in the evening breeze.
"You've changed, and your eyes have changed too."
Watching the girl's disappearing figure and the tightly closed bedroom door, Chu Donglin forced a bitter smile.
"Yes, I have indeed changed. I've become a jerk and unapproachable."
After a moment's thought, he couldn't help but shake his head and let out a wry laugh. "Ha... as if I was ever approachable before... Chu Donglin, being resolute and unapproachable is just your nature, isn't it? Better to endure short pain than long suffering; I believe you understand that. So why pretend to be a good person?"
Gazing at the closed bedroom door, he sighed and leaned against the doorframe, sitting down on the balcony.
"Xing'er, you've really given me quite a dilemma."
As he looked at the sun setting on the horizon, bathed in the glow of red evening clouds, a bitter smile lingered on Chu Donglin's face as he sat silently on the balcony.
"How am I supposed to face you from now on?"
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