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“Yes,” Su Xuelan replied, her voice lowering as she looked at her brother’s unhappy face.
She didn’t understand. She was only trying to help Mingyuan, so why did he seem… upset?
“Sister, thank you for your care and love, but…” Mingyuan took a deep breath and looked her in the eye. “I’m an adult now. I don’t need someone to protect me or interfere in my affairs under the guise of doing what’s best for me. I can handle my own life, whether I succeed or fail. So, sister, can you please not…”
He paused, leaving the rest of his words unspoken, but Su Xuelan understood his meaning.
Mingyuan not only didn’t appreciate her help, but he also hated her interference so much that he couldn’t tolerate it anymore and had to come to her directly to speak his mind.
Su Xuelan couldn’t understand. She felt so wronged, and her heart hurt. She thought her help this time would ease the tension between them and make Mingyuan feel her sisterly love and care.
But who knew that the result would be Mingyuan’s even deeper disgust and more obvious alienation?
Why… would it be like this?
“Mingyuan, I’m your older sister, I… protecting you, caring for you, shouldn’t that be… natural?”
At that moment, Su Xuelan’s expression was exceptionally soft and weak, exceptionally aggrieved.
She no longer had any dominant aura, and looked fragile, making people feel sorry for her.
But, when she showed her possessiveness earlier, it was so terrifying.
Su Mingyuan gently hugged her shoulders and whispered, “Sister, I know you want to protect me, but I’m not a fledgling bird that needs parents and relatives to shelter me from the wind and rain. I can face hardship and setbacks head-on, and I need to experience the wind and frost myself. I just hope that in the future, you won’t secretly eliminate all the setbacks and difficulties for me without my knowledge.
“You can cheer me on and encourage me on the sidelines, but I have to bear my own hardships. Besides, I’m not saying that I won’t need your help in the future. Look, even now, I often ask for your help, right?”
But I know you won’t ask for my help, because you’re forced by the damned will of the world to play the villain, to relive the plot in the novel… for me, for the sake of our family’s lives.
But, are you going to let me watch as you go and get slapped by Xiao Ran, watching him humiliate you again and again until you meet the death that follows the novel’s plot?
Even if I don’t have this selfish possessiveness over you anymore, even if I don’t feel the terrible need to control and dominate you, I still can’t be indifferent and watch you being humiliated by Xiao Ran!
Xia Xueqi, Murong Hongxue, Liu Mengning, and Xiao Ruoruo all feel the same as me! Why… why do you have to hurt my heart like this?
No, this is not right! Something is not right!
Su Xuelan gazed at Su Mingyuan’s face, examining every expression and detail. She saw a trace of helplessness in his face, as if he were carrying a heavy burden like a mountain.
Why was Mingyuan unhappy, and why did he seem so helpless as if carrying a huge burden?
Su Mingyuan was indeed very helpless and felt a lot of pressure.
Because if he handled things badly, it could escalate the conflict, completely angering his sister’s mind and leading her to extremes.
If she completely messed up the plot… So, Su Mingyuan came to talk to Su Xuelan and shared his burden.
However, to Su Xuelan, it was a completely different story.
She understood everything completely.
Why did Mingyuan not feel happy about her secret help but instead showed a hint of helplessness?
Why did he seem to be carrying a heavy burden and so eager for her to leave?
Because the damn will of the world was once again oppressing Mingyuan!
It’s all my fault, it’s me who was careless!
The world’s will has always been able to perceive my secret opposition to the chosen child of destiny and protagonist of the world, but because I was born as a local creature, it couldn’t target me.
After Mingyuan found out I sent Jiang Hua to help him, the world’s will finally had an excuse and reason to force Mingyuan to restrain me and stop me from opposing Xiao Ran!
No wonder Mingyuan is not happy at all.
No wonder he seems to be carrying a heavy burden and says such words to me with a helpless look.
He probably didn’t want to say such hurtful words to me, but under the oppression of the will of the world, he had to endure the pain and reluctantly say those words to his beloved sister.
Because the will of the world finally seized the opportunity to punish her, Su Xuelan.
It is to use Mingyuan, to pressure him to personally intervene and stop me from helping Mingyuan hurt Xiao Ran!
What a cruel world will!
Su Xuelan gritted her teeth, and when she looked at Su Mingyuan again, her eyes were full of tears of distress.
This is all my fault!
If it weren’t for me trying to mend our relationship, letting Mingyuan feel my love for him, and deliberately letting him know that I helped him behind the scenes this time, he wouldn’t have suffered like this. The world wouldn’t have pressured him like this!
I am such a bad woman!
Su Xuelan made up her mind in her heart.
In the future, she couldn’t let him know about her secret help, couldn’t let him be forced by the world will to come to her and say such hurtful things. She couldn’t let him suffer the mental torture imposed by the world will!
Even if all her future secret efforts for him couldn’t be known to him or appreciated by him, she couldn’t let Mingyuan suffer again because of her!
“Mingyuan, I understand now. I promise I will only appear when you need me in the future. I will never again act on my own without your consent and do things you are unaware of.”
Su Xuelan raised her head and promised seriously.
To prevent Mingyuan from suffering and being humiliated by Xiao Ran in the future, she had to lie.
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