Become a stepmother and save the male protagonist of the painful literary school

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

She frowned and found that the happy expression in his eyes had long gone, and was instead gloomy.

Tong Ruixiao pursed her lips tightly, suppressed the jealousy in her heart, and uttered only one sentence: "...I'm sorry, I don't like to hear you mention that person's name."

He was ashamed to express his possessiveness, thinking it was shameful.

She thought that he disliked this person because he had seen her experience and felt that this person had done many evil things.

So he nodded and said, "Yeah, I hate to mention him too. But after listening to what you said just now, I remembered the feeling of hugging him in the past, and suddenly I understood something."

Tong Ruixiao secretly clenched her hands. What did she understand? Did she love that man deeply in the past without regrets?

He turned sideways and pulled the corner of his mouth in self-mockery, not wanting her to notice his abnormality, and his tone was no different: "You were very happy when you hugged him, right?"

I thought I had controlled my tone, but I didn't realize how hurtful my words were.

Jian Yan smiled and shook his head: "On the contrary! Although we hugged very rarely, I remember the feeling of rejection in my heart."

"I figured it out. It turns out that I only treated Si Yanchen as a tool. When I heard people say that I loved him deeply, I even brainwashed myself - that's the truth."

She took advantage of Si Yanchen and Si Yanchen also took advantage of her. Both of them were hypocritical emotional liars.

The innocent one is Ye Wanwan.

The girl naively believed that Si Yanchen had loved Jian Yan and regarded herself as her substitute. However, she didn't know that he treated all women as clothes that could be thrown away at will and didn't love anyone.

"You never loved him?"

Tong Ruixiao's tone was hesitant, and the expression on his face changed again and again. He believed her words, but he couldn't forget what he saw in his dream.

The girl was pursuing another man seriously, passionately and persistently! It was completely different from her usual indifference and alienation, and it was something he had never seen before.

It made him so jealous that he was unrecognizable. Every time he thought about it, he couldn't help but feel sour.

In that case... does that count as treating the other person as a tool?

What tool could receive such a favor?

Tong Ruixiao pressed the tip of his tongue against his upper palate and lowered his eyelashes. The shadow cast by his long eyelashes hid the jealousy and bitterness in his eyes.

Jian Yan knew this was hard to understand, and in fact she had just figured it out.

She explained: "If I don't force myself to 'love' Si Yanchen, then my crazy pursuit of him for a living will make me feel humiliated and humiliated. I will have a mental breakdown."

Hearing the words "mental breakdown", Tong Ruixiao's eyes trembled and his face turned pale.

She continued, but paused: "You have seen my past, you should know what kind of environment I grew up in..."

He shook his head.

"I saw your experience with Si Yanchen, but I didn't see you as a child."

"I forgot about this," she said with a somewhat forced tone, "Then let me briefly explain it."

"My name is Jian Yan. My father gave me the word 'Yan', which means he hates me. It's because I'm not a boy and I didn't meet the expectations of my family. My nickname is Zhao Di."

He felt a surge of anger rushing into his chest and said with difficulty: "...your brother's name is Tianci."

She smiled, calmly as if she was telling someone else's story, as if she had never cried in pain, or felt sad or angry because of it:

"Yes, Zhaodi was born to bring a younger brother. Boys are a gift from God!"

"I was born in a family that favors boys over girls. I knew from a very young age that my parents hated me and wanted to marry me off early for money. I refused to accept this and wanted to control my own destiny."

"Si Yanchen is the best choice I can get. Although he is an illegitimate child of the Si family who has no power yet, I know something about the Si family's situation, and he is very likely to inherit the family property in the future. If I can win his heart and be with him, I can break away from my parents' control and live a better life."

"So I had to fall in love with him, please him without limits, and pursue him persistently," she asked with a smile, "Isn't this what you see me as?"

Tong Ruixiao was in a low mood: "Yeah."

"I thought that when you like someone, you would be so passionate and reckless."

She denied:

"No, that's not how I love someone, that's how I struggle to escape from the abyss!"

“I’m not in love, but I can learn how others are in love, brainwash myself, deceive the whole world, and deceive myself.”

“Actually, I’m not a passionate person…”

Her voice was a little unclear, and the last sentence was like a sigh that was blown away by the wind.

"In the past, many people have accused me of being cold and self-righteous, and I think they are right."

The man was silent for a long time.

He whispered, "No wonder you only show passionate emotions towards Si Yanchen. It makes me feel very strange. It turns out that you learned how to fall in love from others just to survive."

Before today, he had always firmly believed that Jian Yan once loved Si Yanchen, and never expected that the truth would be like this.

"I just got out of the vicious circle of self-brainwashing. Thank you for your explanation about hugging."

Seeing that he was in a trance and still seemed in disbelief, she couldn't help laughing.

He was stunned: "Hug?"

"Yes, you said I didn't like your opinion enough."

She nodded, with a smile as bright as stars in her eyes as she spoke. She was in a very good mood today.

It wasn't that she "deeply loved Si Yanchen but was abused", but that she "used Si Yanchen but failed to succeed"!

These two are completely different!

The subject is always her and the object is always him, but the starting point has changed from "altruism" to "selfishness".

This earth-shaking change made her less bothered by the past.

Anyone who makes a dangerous decision, especially one who takes advantage of others, gains benefits from them, or pins his hopes on them, will inevitably bear risks and consequences.

A big gamble.

She was just playing around from the beginning to the end and never really gave in. But she lost the bet in the end.

The other party was a scumbag, with no moral integrity and no bottom line. She was a normal person, so it was natural for her to lose the game.

Smiling, "I'm repelled by his hug, but not by yours. You think I don't like you enough, so how can I like him?"

Tong Ruixiao was stunned, his eyes suddenly widened, incredulous: "You said... you don't reject me? You mean..."

His heartbeat began to speed up and his cheeks felt slightly hot.

The woman laughed at his shocked and unstable expression.

"Hmm, is that hard to understand?"

She took a step closer, looking up at him, but she seemed to be looking down on him. She tapped his chest, which was covered by his black round-neck shirt, with her fingers to express her dissatisfaction.

He raised his eyebrows and said, "You don't think my words don't count, do you? I said I care about you, and now I'm staying. Are these all lies?"