Of course, given his special relationship to them, Ruthless’s Brother stepping in would help, but it certainly would not decide the matter.
How everything would unfold, and what the outcome would be, ultimately depended on the people involved.
However special their relationships were, they were still "outsiders" in this matter.
What did the people involved truly feel? What choices would they make?
Those were things outsiders could never know for certain.
Ruthless’s Brother felt he had seen things clearly, but nothing in the world was more complicated than the human heart. Who could ever understand another person completely?
Ruthless was no longer the innocent, carefree Xiao Nannan she had been at the beginning.
Long years had passed. Ruthless might not be complicated, but the depths of her heart had surely become unfathomable.
And Meng Chuan? Ruthless’s Brother had even less chance of understanding him completely.
So Ruthless’s Brother feared disappointment too.
What if I've read this wrong?
If the two of them truly had no such feelings, then nothing Ruthless’s Brother said or did would make a difference.
Ruthless’s Brother stayed home alone, his heart in turmoil.
Elsewhere, Meng Chuan lingered by the Lake for a while, turning many things over in his mind before quietly leaving.
When he next appeared, he was standing before Ruthless.
Ruthless's gaze was vacant, her eyes fixed on nothing. There was no telling what she was thinking, or whether she was simply lost in a daze.
Only when Meng Chuan arrived did light return to her eyes, and she came back to herself.
"Sit," Ruthless said.
Meng Chuan sat down obediently.
"What were you thinking about just now? You seemed so lost in thought," Meng Chuan asked.
"I seem to have thought about a great many things, and yet it feels as though I