Chapter 1: Encounter at the Bar

  Ou Mu Xuan hugged Gu Jia Xi, the two of them standing together so intimately. Ye Xiang Fu stared blankly at Ou Mu Xuan, staring at Ou Mu Xuan's arms wrapped around Gu Jia Xi. At this moment, they were so well-matched, while she seemed like a sudden third wheel, awkwardly disrupting their warm atmosphere.

  Suddenly panicked, Ye Xuanmo was at a loss for what to do. She had always wanted Ou Muxuan and Gu Jiaxian to be together, now that they were together, what was she panicking about, what was she afraid of, what was hurting her heart?

  She should be smiling and blessing them, shouldn't she?

  But she couldn't, and she didn't even dare to face them, nor did she dare to take another look at them.

  "Sister?" Gu Jiaxuan looked at Ye Xiangyu's expression, which she had never seen before, and then glanced at Ou Muxuan. For a moment, she didn't know how to explain it. Her leg was broken and she was being held by Ou Muxuan, wasn't that normal? They... hadn't done anything, had they?

  Ye Xuanmo tightly grasped the little girl's hand, but her fingers were icy cold. After a moment, Ye Xuanmo finally lifted her head, a forced smile on her face. "I... we didn't come at the right time, you... you..."

  Excuse me, I wish you happiness, you two are a perfect match. Such words filled her mind, but were stuck in her throat and couldn't be spoken out loud. She kept saying that she hoped they would be together, that Jiaxiang could be happy, but now, she couldn't say a word.

  "Sister, you misunderstood, we were just..."

  "I still have something to do, I'll leave first!" After saying that, she pulled Xiao Naiwa and walked away quickly.

  And from start to finish, Ou Mu Xuan just stood quietly in place, his eyes always looking at the little milk doll beside Ye Xuan.

  That child...

  Is he Ye Xuanmo's brother? But he looks so much like Ye Xuanmo, and when Ou Muxuan saw the little boy, she suddenly felt a strange sourness rising in her heart.

  Intuition told Oumu Xuan that the boy was absolutely not her adopted brother, but what he was to her, Oumu Xuan didn't dare to investigate further. Ye Xuanmo was only 24 years old, while the child looked clearly four or five years old already. If he were Ye Xuanmo's...

  Then who is the father of the child?!!

  At 18 years old, Ye Juanmo had not gone to France yet. At that time, she was still in City A and still liked Situ Luotian!

  She said that for Situ Luotian, she used every means possible. She said that at the time, she loved him more than anything else, so that child...

  But it's impossible, she's just a girl, going to France where she doesn't know anyone, and Situ Ying is no longer providing her with financial support. She needs to go to school and raise a child, but at that time, she herself was still a child, and even taking care of herself was very difficult, how could she take care of another child?

  Too many doubts and too much worry made him suddenly very worried, worried that Ye Xuan would become a person he could only look up to but never reach.

  "......that......Mr Ou?" Gu Jiaxiang reminded him, "You're looking for me...what's there to say?"

  Ou Mu Xuan came back to his senses, Ye Xuan's affairs were just Ye Xuan's, what he had to do now was to clear up the relationship with Gu Jia Chen. He turned around and put Gu Jia Chen on the sofa, Ou Mu Xuan looked at her seriously.

  "Do you like me?" The words were very direct, without any evasion, "Do you still like me now?"

  Gu Jiaxi was taken aback, not expecting him to ask that. Her face turned slightly red as she nodded, "I like you!" She had always been straightforward and open-minded, treating love the same way - if she liked someone, she liked them; if she didn't, she didn't.

  "I don't know why you like me or what you like about me, but I hope that's the end of it!" The words were ruthless, leaving no room for sentiment or face.

  "...". Gu Jiaxiang's head jerked up in shock, the last second was still heaven, but the next sentence, however, sent her heart plummeting into the eighteenth level of hell.

  "I don't like ambiguity, nor do I like vague relationships. In the past, I didn't understand what it meant to like someone, but now I know," Ou Mu Xuan said bluntly, "I have people I want to protect, so please don't waste your emotions on me anymore."

  Who is the person you want to protect?

  Heart, seems a little painful, also a bit want to break free feeling, however the brain is a blank, Gu Jia looked at him dazedly, looking at his absolutely beautiful face, foolishly asked, "......is......my sister?"

  "Yes!" Ou Mu Xuan's tone was firm.

  Her body shook violently. This matter had actually been very obvious all along, but when he admitted it with his own mouth, Gu Jiaxiang still couldn't bear it for a while.

  "Even if... even if she doesn't like you, even if she's no longer innocent, even if she already..."

  "I like Ye Qianmo!" Ou Mu Xuan interrupted her, his tone icy and firm, with an unapproachable majesty in his perfect features. "Even if we can't be together in the end, the one I like is only her!"

  "......" Gu Jiaxuan lowered her head, not speaking, but the corner of her mouth rose in a faintly mocking smile. "So, what's the point of telling me all this?"

  "I just want to make my position clear to you, you are her friend, I don't want to affect the relationship between you two because of me, she doesn't have many friends, I don't want to be the reason for you sisters to become estranged."

  As expected, in his heart, the one he had always liked was Ye Xuanfei. Only true affection would lead him to consider her wholeheartedly, taking all her joys and sorrows to heart, and then resolving them one by one.

  "She likes me or not, I don't know, but she's been trying to set us up," said Ou Mu Xuan in a soft voice, "so I came to explain things clearly to you, so we won't have any unnecessary misunderstandings between us."

  Gu Jiaxuan nodded, she knew, everything he did was for Ye Xuanmo.

  At first, she was surrounded by reporters, and he suddenly appeared to rescue her because it was Ye Xiangyu's order. Later, he found her many times also to ask about Ye Xiangyu's situation. Being trapped in the glass aquarium, what he wanted to save was Ye Xiangyu, while she was just an incidental rescue.

  Because of Ye Xuanmo, he would take photos to preserve the scene every day. Because of Ye Xuanmo, occasionally when they met, he would say a few words to her. Because of Ye Xuanmo, just now, he picked her up from the ground.

  He has always been indifferent to her, she has always been self-pitying, thinking that his coldness towards her was just because of his nature. Now Gu Jiaxiang finally understands that because he doesn't like her, he doesn't have to force himself to please her...

  Tears slid down her cheeks without her realizing it, but she immediately wiped them away, lifted her head and smiled.

  "Go and chase after my sister! Since you're determined to protect her, don't dare harm a single hair on her head!"

  Just as Ye Xiangyu hopes she will be happy, she also hopes that Ye Xiangyu will be happy. With a strong man like Tian Shen protecting her sister, she must be very happy, right?