Only after her death did I realize that she was the white moonlight of a billionaire CEO.

"What did you say!"

Xie Xingyun pulled Xie Jiaoyue up from the ground, gripped her arm tightly, and demanded, "Gu Huaizhou rejected you? He rejected you to your face?"

"Yes!" Xie Jiaoyue wiped away her surging tears and sobbed as she complained, "After you and my sister-in-law left that day, Butler Gu Han took me to the Lakeside Villa."

“I met Gu Huaizhou and asked him if he really arranged for Grandpa Gu to go on blind dates for me. He admitted that it was indeed his arrangement.”

"I questioned him about why he was so cruel to me."

Xie Xingyun pressed on impatiently, "What did he say?"

"He said..."

Thinking of Gu Huaizhou's words that day when he rejected her, Xie Jiaoyue was even more heartbroken. "He said I was delusional and that he never had any romantic feelings for me!"

"What?!" Xie Xingyun exclaimed in disbelief, "He's such a scumbag!"

Xie Xingyun, feeling indignant on behalf of his sister, muttered under his breath, "He's bullying her!"

"If he doesn't have romantic feelings for you, why would he get close to you and deliberately do things that lead to suggestive thoughts?"

"Everyone knows that you are Gu Huaizhou's favorite."

"In the entire city of Dongzhou, no one but you can enter the Gu family or get close to him!"

He's playing with your feelings!

Xie Jiaoyue then said, "Brother, I lied to you."

"...What do you mean by that?" Xie Xingyun looked at his sister in surprise.

"Actually, Gu Huaizhou has never acknowledged that I am his girlfriend. Every time I go to the Gu family, I can only say a few words to him through the screen."

“Every time we meet, he listens to me for at most half an hour. Even if I’m talking until my mouth is dry, he’ll only reply with three or four sentences at most.”

"I lied to you all, I lied and said we were boyfriend and girlfriend..."

Upon hearing this, Xie Xingyun was shocked.

"How could this be?"

He looked at his sister with a bewildered expression and asked, puzzled, "Why would you tell such a lie?"

"You make your parents, and the entire Dongzhou City, feel that you are their special favorite."

"If people find out that all of this is a lie, that Gu Huaizhou was ever in love with you from beginning to end, do you know how much ridicule you will face!"

"Jiaoyue, you're too..."

hypocritical.

Xie Xingyun could use those two words on any woman, but he couldn't bear to use them on his closest sister.

Xie Jiaoyue roared through her tears, "Because I love him!"

"I fell for him the first time I saw him at the Gu family home when I was 15!"

Gu Huaizhou is the heir of the Gu family.

With his wealth and status, Gu Huaizhou exudes an air of mystery.

Xie Jiaoyue was 15 years old when she was first summoned by Old Master Gu to meet Gu Huaizhou at the Gu family home.

That day, as she rode in the Gu family's garden car along the lakeside park toward the lakeside cottage, she caught a glimpse of Gu Huaizhou from afar.

It was early summer.

A 17-year-old boy, wearing a black silk shirt and a baseball cap, stood in the middle of the pavilion in the lake, practicing shooting with a gun.

The boy pulled the trigger, and a peach on a yellow peach tree on the shore of the lake was smashed into minced meat.

The boy's precise shooting skills not only hit the yellow peach, but also Xie Jiaoyue's heart, which was just beginning to open to love.

That day, Xie Jiaoyue was invited to the living room of the Lakeside Villa, where Gu Han, the housekeeper, handed her a plate of yellow peaches cut into small pieces.

Xie Jiaoyue took a bite; it was very crisp and sweet.

From then on, yellow peaches became Xie Jiaoyue's favorite fruit.

"I like him, and I'm the only girl he's willing to get close to. My heart flutters time and time again, so I..."

"So you lied, deceiving everyone, including yourself?" Xie Xingyun looked at her with a complicated expression, saying with disappointment, "Jiaoyue, is it meaningful to deceive yourself?"

Deceiving yourself is pointless.

Can...

"But over the years, I have indeed been the only woman he has ever been in contact with. If he doesn't love me, then who does he love?"

Xie Xingyun remained silent.

Who knows who Gu Huaizhou loves?

"It doesn't matter who he loves, what matters is that he doesn't love you at all."

Xie Jiaoyue's heart was shattered.

Yes, the most fatal flaw is that Gu Huaizhou doesn't love her.

Xie Xingyun walked back to his office chair and sat down, then asked hesitantly, "So, Gu Huaizhou allowed you to get close to him and instructed the Gu Group to support Zhaixing Entertainment's rise, just to repay a debt of gratitude?"

Xie Jiaoyue nodded reluctantly.

"...Um."

Upon hearing this, Xie Xingyun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Jiaoyue".

Xie Jiaoyue looked at her brother.

Xie Xingyun solemnly warned Xie Jiaoyue: "Since Gu Huaizhou has clearly rejected you, you should know when to stop and cut your losses. Don't do anything unreasonable."

"Gu Huaizhou is a grateful person, which is a good thing."

“You can’t do something foolish and squander his gratitude to our family. The Gu family is a huge family, and you saved his life. This debt of gratitude should be saved for a critical moment.”

"Understand?"

Upon hearing this, Xie Jiaoyue's heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously said, "I want to ask Old Master Gu for help."

Xie Xingyun frowned. "Why should I ask him for something?"

Without hesitation, Xie Jiaoyue said, "I beg him to agree to let Gu Huaizhou marry me!"

Xie Xingyun suddenly grabbed the pen holder from the desk and smashed it on the floor in front of Xie Jiaoyue, harshly scolding her: "Are you a pig-brain?!"

"By saving Gu Huaizhou, you have saved the Gu family's only heir! The Gu family owes our Xie family a great debt of gratitude!"

"Such kindness should be used to save lives in critical moments!"

Xie Jiaoyue trembled in fright and instinctively took two steps back to avoid Xie Xingyun's furious attack.

Xie Xingyun scolded her with disappointment:

"Our Xie family is still doing alright. You're a big star. Even if you can't marry Gu Huaizhou, you can still marry a man from a wealthy family!"

"Even if your affair with Zhou Yaoguang is exposed, and your reputation is ruined and you can't find a good partner, your brother can still support you for the rest of your life!"

Hearing this, Xie Jiaoyue's nose tingled with emotion, a mixture of gratitude and grievance. "Brother..."

Hearing his younger sister call him in a loving tone, Xie Xingyun realized that he had gone too far in his attitude.

He took a breath, softened his tone, and earnestly persuaded Xie Jiaoyue.

"Jiaoyue, marriage is a lifelong commitment! Gu Huaizhou loves you and wants to marry you. Old Master Gu will definitely not say a word against it."

"But Gu Huaizhou has clearly rejected you and even had Old Master Gu publicly propose setting you up on blind dates. It's obvious that Gu Huaizhou doesn't love you at all."

"Do you think someone as ruthless as Old Master Gu would be blackmailed by you?"

"If you really go, that would be using our gratitude to force the Gu family to abandon the Xie family!"

Xie Jiaoyue hadn't thought that far ahead.

She just loved Gu Huaizhou too much.

He was just jealous of Li Xi after seeing her dating a man from the Gu family in Kyoto, and wanted to marry someone better.

After listening to her brother's analysis, Xie Jiaoyue realized how naive and foolish her thoughts were.

She almost made a huge mistake.

Wiping away her tears, Xie Jiaoyue calmed down.

She said, "I won't go to see Grandpa Gu anymore, but brother, if Li Xi really gets together with that Gu Zhen, he will definitely retaliate against our family."

“I don’t believe that she would really forgive our family just because she extorted money from my parents.”

Xie Jiaoyue frowned slightly and said worriedly, "Don't forget the real reason why she became the Xie family's adopted daughter."

"Saying they're masters who can predict fate is just an excuse to appease outsiders. The real reason is..."

"Shut up!" Xie Xingyun warned Xie Jiaoyue sternly, "You'd better keep this to yourself! If the Gu family finds out that the person we sent to rescue Gu Huaizhou back then wasn't you, but Li Xi..."

"Even the destruction of our Xie family is not enough to quell Old Master Gu's anger."

Xie Jiaoyue fell silent, not daring to utter another word.