"Big sister, are you still cold with me holding you like this?" Yuanbao's shy voice came from inside.
"Not anymore, dear little sister. But why is your chest so flat?"
"Oh, stop it!"
"Big sister, you want me to stay with you, but what am I supposed to do if you marry Liu Shi?" Yuanbao asked pitifully.
"I never wanted to marry a man in the first place. I don't even like men. Marrying him would merely shield me from the judgment of the world."
"But with a faithless man like him, I have nothing to feel guilty about. The three of us can simply live happily together from now on!" Li Qian said coolly.
"Now that you've said that, big sister, I don't like men anymore either. Men are so annoying!"
The snatches of conversation drifting out of the room struck Liu Shi like a bolt of lightning!
The two people inside.
One was the friend he had fought tooth and nail to win back.
The other was the young woman his family had arranged for him to meet as a prospective bride.
The three of them were now more than romantic rivals.
They were tangled in a complicated love triangle.
He liked Li Qian, Li Qian liked Yuanbao, and Yuanbao claimed to like him.
He thought Yuanbao was a man, while Li Qian thought Yuanbao was a woman...
Li Qian was fighting him for Yuanbao, and Yuanbao was fighting him for Li Qian!
At that thought, he bit his lip hard, trying not to cry, but the twitching at his temples had already betrayed his feelings.
Xia Wanwan stood at the doorway, covering her mouth with her little hand in astonishment as she silently looked up at her youngest maternal uncle.
*Good heavens, what a battlefield of