"Brother Zishu, what exactly happened halfway up the mountain just now?!" As soon as she got out of the car, Jiaojiao ran over with a pale face, anxiously asking.

Looking at the back of Ruan Chi leaving with Lu Xian, Lu Zishu finally clutched his chest, let out a heavy sigh, and looked at Jiaojiao with the kind of gaze one would use to look at a bewitching enchantress.

Just now in the car, he really thought he might die, yes, die, and in the most tragic way possible.

In the car, Ruan Chi and Lu Xian had a dispute. Lu Xian was emotionally unstable, his hand on the steering wheel trembled a bit, and the car skidded slightly because of it, almost veering off the mountainside.

Not to mention Jiaojiao, who was following behind and was startled, Lu Zishu’s heart clenched tightly.

But as Ruan Chi warned, how could he dare to say what had just happened in the car? That would not only put Jiaojiao in a difficult position, but he would also get on the wrong side of the two brothers!

His thoughts drifted back to just over ten minutes ago when their car left the neighborhood. Although neither of the men in the driver’s seat and the back seat spoke, the low pressure left Lu Zishu shivering all the way, clutching his seatbelt and playing the part of the invisible little poor thing.

Just when he thought they would arrive at their destination in silence, Ruan Chi in the back finally spoke.

"Yanzi, I always thought you were smart, and rational enough," Ruan Chi said.

Smart enough to know how to hide your feelings, and also know how to maintain the rare friendship between the Ruan Family and the Lu Family.

Hearing this, Lu Zishu just felt baffled. He peeked at one and then at the other through the rearview mirror. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Then he heard his brother sneer, repeating those two words over and over: "Smart, rational, smart, rational..."

"Chizi, I just don’t want to look back and regret it when I’m old, regretting I didn’t even try."

Lu Xian of course knew what the consequences of doing this would be. When Jiaojiao and Duan Xi got engaged, he had told himself the same thing, that he should let go.

But if feelings could be so rational, there wouldn’t be so many lovesick men and resentful women in the world.

When he couldn’t see her, he could restrain himself, but as soon as he was face to face with her, watching her smile in front of him, his heart felt gnawed by bugs, overwhelmed with the urge to embrace her, and there was simply no way to be rational.

He also wanted to give it a try; after all, she was still young, maybe... just maybe, she would find someone else more suited for her.

Regret, try?

Lu Zishu became even more confused upon hearing it.

His head full of questions, then he heard Ruan Chi coldly snort from the back seat: "Lu Xian, don’t find so many excuses for your selfishness."

"You know Jiaojiao’s temperament. If you let her be even a little bit troubled or heartbroken, don’t blame me for not warning you, our brotherhood would be over."

They, the nine brothers, knew Jiaojiao’s temperament all too well.

Raised by the Ruanlin Family from a young age, she appeared soft and tender to outsiders, but when confronting others, she was sharp-tongued and never backed down, having acquired about eighty percent of the Ruanlin Family’s eloquence, rarely suffering losses.

But to her family, especially to those she cared about, she was like a real soft and gooey glutinous rice ball, getting terribly hurt by the slightest harm.

If she knew about Lu Xian’s feelings for her, she would certainly be troubled, and even more constrained and restricted.