Crystal was so nervous that she was waiting for Octavio's response. Maybe, maybe Octavio liked her too.
Then could they cancel the engagement next month? Maybe the future she wrote in her diary could come true.
But she did not expect that Octavio said it viciously, “You should know that I am your brother. Isn't it disgusting that you like your own brother?”
It was like a bucket of cold water poured on Crystal's head, and Crystal's tears flowed silently.
Yeah, wasn't it disgusting?!
She actually liked her brother.
Because of Crystal's silence, Octavio became even more agitated, and he added another sentence viciously, “Crystal, can you please not appear in front of me again? It's disgusting.”
Crystal's heart ached, and she just said ‘Fine’ in her heart. She knew that she would never appear in front of Octavio again.
In thirty days, she would marry a stranger.
In the strong wind, Crystal gritted her teeth, hesitating whether to tell Octavio the news, but in the end, she could not say it out loud.
Crystal's lowered eyes met Octavio's, making people feel a little depressed.
Octavio glanced at her with an ambiguous look. Just then the rain stopped. He rode away on his motorcycle, leaving Crystal alone on the top of the mountain.
Before leaving, he turned around and shouted to Crystal, “Tell her I'm not going back.”
Crystal felt a bitter feeling in her heart. The fear she had just experienced on the motorcycle suddenly came back to her. She could not even stand. Tears streamed down her face and her shoulders shook uncontrollably.
Yes, Octavio was his brother. Although they were not related by blood, they had lived under the same roof for more than ten years. How could she like Octavio?
All the scenes of her getting along with Octavio came to mind. When she was twelve years old, Octavio knocked out two of the other person's teeth because someone said Crystal was a motherless child.
When she was fifteen, Octavio ran from the east to the west of the city to bring her a chocolate cake because Crystal missed home, just to see her smile.
When she was eighteen, Octavio personally put a birthday crown on her and promised that he would stay with Crystal no matter where she went.
They grew up together, with Octavio by her side through the most pivotal years of her life, offering love and support during the decade she needed it most.
Crystal knew their relationship very well, but she still fell in love with him like a moth to a flame, and wrote down every little detail of their time in her diary, including every touching moment.
She never thought about getting a response. As long as she could stay with Octavio, it was enough for her.
But then everything had changed.
If Octavio knew that she liked him, he would probably just find her disgusting.
That diary, her ten years of girlish thoughts, her heartbeats, were all dug open by Octavio, and then ridiculed.
She stumbled down the mountain, the near-zero temperature making her shiver uncontrollably, and she knew it was time to end.
It was time to end this ten-year secret love.
This was an illicit relationship that should not be exposed.
Ocatvio’s parent kept the news of Crystal's marriage arrangement a secret very well, and only Crystal was silently preparing everything for the wedding.
At three o'clock in the morning, the capital city was still brightly lit. A few gossipers who knew the hidden truth mentioned the matter indirectly to Octavio. Octavio was laughing wildly in the box with a glass of wine in hand.
“Crystal is just a dog, how could she possibly go to the marriage alliance? She cannot even smile when she's with me!”
