A secret tryst? Her brotherly love triangle backfired.

Chapter 51: She has changed her mind.

But he looked into her eyes.

I caught the unguarded anger and...heartache in her eyes.

Something that should have been boring suddenly becomes interesting.

Shen Xianyu lowered his brows slightly and looked at her. "Can I ask you a question?"

Tang Wanwan paused for a moment, then said, "Ask away."

“Tell me something,” Shen Xianyu straightened up, bowed slightly, and said, “Tell me, how did you determine that you no longer like me?”

He's still fixated on this.

Tang Wanwan's eyelashes trembled, and she subconsciously tried to avoid his gaze, but he called out to her.

“Look me in the eyes and answer me,”

Shen Xianyu said calmly, "Aren't you concerned about me? Answer my question and let me give up on this idea, then I'll go upstairs to sleep."

His voice was exceptionally clear in the empty elevator entrance.

The footsteps behind her stopped, and a gaze seemed almost tangible, making Tang Wanwan feel her back stiffen.

What a dilemma.

She couldn't answer.

Not to mention looking into Shen Xianyu's eyes, even without looking into his eyes, she didn't know how to answer.

The air remained stagnant for not too long.

Shen Xianyu gently raised her eyes and looked behind her through her shoulder.

The two men stared at each other across the distance, and as if they were receiving something from each other's eyes, the atmosphere around them suddenly became extremely tense, and Tang Wanwan even softened her breathing.

She swallowed hard. "I can't explain it in detail, but I'm sure I like Jiang Yanzhi."

She said she liked Jiang Yanzhi.

Perhaps because he had heard it so many times, his pain receptors had become numb. Shen Xianyu found that he no longer felt the maddening pain he had felt the first time he heard it.

He nodded slowly. "Then let me ask another question."

"Watching you two together makes me very sad and painful. I don't know why we've become like this, and I don't want to believe that you really don't like me anymore. I always feel that you have your reasons."

Before she could speak, he launched into a long monologue, his voice hoarse and choked with emotion.

Finally, her bloodshot eyes glistened with tears, "You still care about me, so why don't you like me anymore?"

Why could she so decisively abandon him and choose Jiang Yanzhi instead?

Tang Wanwan felt a tightness in her chest. She opened her mouth to speak, "I feel sorry for you because I consider you a very important person. Even if we're not lovers, we are..."

"okay!"

Shen Xianyu raised her voice to interrupt her hurtful words, as if she had lost her strength, and leaned one shoulder against the wall again.

"if,"

He reached up and wiped his face haphazardly. "I mean, if I were like you, with someone else, with another woman, sleeping in the same room with her, always together, kissing and hugging, imagine that scene, how would you feel?"

How about it…

Tang Wanwan composed herself, looked up at him, and said earnestly, "I wish you happiness."

She didn't say 'you all,' but rather 'you.'

Shen Xianyu's face turned ashen, and the last glimmer of light in his eyes went out.

Like a gambler who has lost everything, only despair remains.

Tang Wanwan couldn't stand seeing him like this. "Don't be like this," she said.

She sniffed, her eyes reddening. "The last person I want to hurt is you. Really, even if we can't be together, I still want you to be well."

In her heart, this is someone who can stand shoulder to shoulder with physical health.

Even if it weren't a dream, he would still fall in love with the 'female lead'.

If it weren't for his mother's attitude.

She wouldn't be so resolute in choosing Jiang Yanzhi.

She said she didn't like him, but she wasn't completely indifferent to him; she cared about him a lot.

Shen Xianyu lowered his eyes and stared at her for a long time before suddenly saying, "You wouldn't have been thinking of me as your brother all along, would you?"

Upon hearing this, Tang Wanwan's eyes flickered slightly, as if her thoughts had been touched.

Shen Xianyu's face stiffened. He tilted his head back, took a deep breath, and couldn't help but sneer, "You dream of sleeping with your brother? You're missing out on that?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a whooshing sound came from behind him.

Jiang Yanzhi, who had been listening to their conversation in complete silence, could no longer hold back and kicked them.

Shen Xianyu stepped aside and clenched his fist, about to retaliate, when Tang Wanwan rushed in.

She wrapped her arms around Jiang Yanzhi's waist and shouted, "Stop fighting!"

"He deserves a beating!" Jiang Yanzhi grabbed her shoulder, his face darkening.

If he can tolerate being insulted by his girlfriend, he's not a real man!
Similarly, Shen Xianyu had been putting up with him for a long time.

His raging anger made him want to have a good fight, preferably to cripple Jiang Yanzhi and see if he still dared to try to take her away from him!

But seeing the man and woman embracing tightly in front of him, all his anger vanished.

All her resentment, doubts, and anger vanished the moment she rushed over and chose to embrace Jiang Yanzhi.

What else is there to doubt?

She's changed her mind.

It's an obvious fact.

Nothing could be more real than this.

Shen Xianyu felt a chill all over his body, so cold that he could barely stand. He staggered and slowly squatted down, burying his face in his knees.

A pitiful whimper echoed in the empty basement.

When the sound reached Tang Wanwan's ears, her body suddenly stiffened, and she froze for a few seconds before slowly turning her stiff neck to look back.

The man, or rather the boy, who was covered in a mess, squatted in the corner, his sobs muffled.

Suddenly, Tang Wanwan remembered that in her first year of high school, he transferred to Z City and lived next door to her.

The two, who had only seen each other during summer and winter vacations before, began spending every day together.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, she was a bit rebellious. She was annoyed by Shen Xianyu's strict control and had even been angry with him.

She deliberately walked closer to the male classmate, which infuriated him.

That was the first time he held her.

The tall, long-legged boy held her tightly in his arms, refusing to let her go, and forced her to promise that she would never do it again.

What did she say back then?

She said she would never look at anyone again.

So what has she done now?

A sharp pain shot through her chest, making Tang Wanwan want to bend over. Her throat tightened, and she couldn't speak.

She couldn't hold back any longer and was about to break free of the arms around her to hug the person in the corner.

I wanted to comfort him and tell him not to cry.

At worst, she'd rather give up her health.

She doesn't want it anymore, okay?

I'm also willing to muster the courage for him to gamble on an uncertain future.

I'm betting he won't be swayed by the plot and will fall for the 'female lead'.

She bet he would always protect her in front of his parents.

I'm betting that his feelings will never change.

She was acting very strangely; a trembling sound escaped her throat, and she couldn't speak, yet she was struggling frantically, trying to escape his embrace.

Jiang Yanzhi's brow twitched; his strong sixth sense told him that if he let go, the consequences would definitely not be what he wanted.

"Calm down!"

Without a second thought, he tightened his arms around her, practically dragging and carrying her towards the elevator, his voice low and menacing, "Wanwan, calm down! I know you feel guilty towards him, but he has to get through this!"

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