Touya Yaoyao

After much deliberation, Yu Yaoyao still couldn't find a solution. In a fit of despair, she decided to just go to sleep. After all, it wasn't a time-limited task or a requirement from the client, so why should she force herself like that?

But when she actually lay in bed, she realized that she had really underestimated herself. She tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep at all.

That's true. How can you fall asleep if your mind isn't calm? So, she stared blankly at the ceiling and began to drift off into a daze.

Just then, her phone suddenly rang. Yu Yaoyao picked it up and saw that it was Bai Taoshi calling.

Why call her so late at night? Are you crazy? Or are you having trouble sleeping like her?

Although puzzled, Yu Yaoyao still pressed the answer button. Before she could even speak, she heard Bai Taoshi's slightly teasing voice coming from the other end of the phone:

"What are you doing up so late at night?! Are you thinking about me?!"

Yu Yaoyao was speechless and couldn't be bothered to pay him any attention, while Bai Taoshi continued to speak gently to himself:

"Go to bed early, so you won't be unable to get up tomorrow. Okay, go to bed early."

He chuckled softly and muttered:

"If you really can't sleep, how about I lull you to sleep?! I remember my father used to lull my mother to sleep when she couldn't sleep, do you want to try? Oh, by the way, that song you sang..."

Bai Taoshi kept rambling on and on, making Yu Yaoyao's head spin. She subconsciously prepared to throw her phone aside, but then she heard a song coming from it.

The singing was intermittent, with slight panting, indistinct lyrics, and the person's increasingly gentle tone.

Yu Yaoyao didn't know if she was really hypnotized or if she was really sleepy, but she drifted off to sleep. When she woke up, it was already bright outside, and her phone was lying quietly by the bed with no battery left.

Yu Yaoyao glanced at her phone, which had automatically shut down, pursed her lips, subconsciously stretched her arms, and began washing up.

It was just another ordinary day, and Yu Yaoyao was still lacking inspiration. She sat in the car watching the street scene recede into the distance, looking somewhat forlorn.

Seeing that she wasn't very interested, Ye thought for a while before casually mentioning:

"I took a look at that old villa you mentioned last time. There are a few more that are nicely decorated but unowned. If you have time, would you like to go and take a look yourself? Which one do you like? I'll buy it for you!"

Ye Qishi spoke casually, which surprised Yu Yaoyao. She looked at Ye Qishi with a surprised expression, only to see Ye Qishi focused on the car, as if he were talking about a very ordinary little thing.

"Isn't this bad?"

Yu Yaoyao subconsciously looked away and said somewhat awkwardly:

"I was just saying it casually, Third Brother, you don't need to take it seriously."

Ye didn't actually speak, but subconsciously stopped the car. He looked at Yu Yaoyao, his eyes filled with doubt and confusion, and asked with a smile:

"Why are you suddenly being so polite to Third Brother?! Aren't we siblings?!"

If they were really siblings, Yu Yaoyao wouldn't be so troubled, but they're not related by blood at all! If the people in Jingbei found out, who knows what they'd say!

There were already rumors circulating that Yu Yaoyao was the Ye family's child bride. Now that Ye has given her another building, Yu Yaoyao is really afraid that one day Ye Yuntao and Yu Weijin will point their fingers at her and scold her for being shameless and seducing their son.

Ye had thought that Yu Yaoyao would be happier after hearing this, but to her surprise, Yu Yaoyao was not only unhappy, but even looked gloomy.

How could this be?! She was always so happy when I gave her things before, why does she find it troublesome now?!

Before he could ask, his phone rang. It was Ye Qiguo calling to ask why Yu Yaoyao hadn't arrived yet. He couldn't get through to her either.

Ye glanced at the time and realized it was almost ten o'clock. No wonder Ye Qiguo called to urge him.

Thinking of this, he casually brushed off Ye Qiguo and drove Yu Yaoyao away. Yu Yaoyao watched his car slowly drive away, her expression becoming increasingly complicated.

"What are you thinking about?"

Suddenly, Bai Taoshi's voice reached her ears. Yu Yaoyao turned around and saw him looking at her with curiosity. She silently looked away and said calmly:

"It's okay."

"You're alright?? You don't look alright at all. Yu Yaoyao, you don't like him, do you?"

He's my brother.

"They're not even blood relatives."

"you"

"That's true, you're not related by blood, if you were..."

Before Bai Taoshi could finish speaking, Yu Yaoyao's icy gaze fell upon him. He stammered and stopped talking, instinctively looking away. Yu Yaoyao ignored him, withdrawing her previously warning gaze, and repeated:

He's my brother.

There was certainty, stubbornness, a subtle warning, and barely perceptible anger in his words. Bai Taoshi shrugged awkwardly, then slowly walked behind Yu Yaoyao, a barely perceptible smile playing on his lips.

He knew Yu Yaoyao didn't like hearing this, but he liked to bring it up in front of her. The reason he brought it up was that he wanted Yu Yaoyao to know that people outside were suspicious of her relationship with Ye Qishi and thought their relationship was ambiguous, so that Yu Yaoyao would unconsciously keep her distance from Ye Qishi.

Since Ye Qishi openly wants Yu Yaoyao to stay away from him, why can't he subtly distance Yu Yaoyao from Ye Qishi? They're both men, does Ye Qishi really think his attempts to sow discord are so clever?!

Yu Yaoyao seemed unusually restless today. Seeing her absent-minded expression, Ye Qiguo couldn't help but lean closer and ask her:

"What's wrong? You seem listless all day!"

Yu Yaoyao didn't look at him, instead irritably flipping through the book in her hands. After a long while, she suddenly asked:

"Don't you think it's a bit too ambiguous for someone to suddenly give you a house?!"

Ye Qiguo was taken aback upon hearing this. He leaned closer to Yu Yaoyao with a gossipy look on his face and subconsciously asked in a low voice:

"Who gave you the house?!"

Yu Yaoyao seemed to find it somewhat difficult to say, but in the end she awkwardly said:

"My third brother said he wanted to give it to me as a gift!"

Hearing her words, Ye Qiguo couldn't help but respond with a disappointed sigh, withdrawing his body that had been peeking out to gossip, and said calmly:

"It's just a house, what's the big deal? Besides, he's your brother, not your lover. You're overthinking it!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Yaoyao frowned, pondered for a long time, and then asked:

"Isn't it a bit too ambiguous?! I feel like it's a little ambiguous to me."

Ye Qiguo glanced at her, looking at her timid appearance, and gave her a rather impatient reminder:

"If you feel it's ambiguous, why don't you just have him buy you and Zhuozhuo each a house? That way, you and Zhuozhuo will both have houses, and it won't seem ambiguous."