Rong Yu opened the diary and began to read with a serious expression.
The others were also very curious about the younger brother with his tragic background. They wanted to know what he truly felt towards his older brother. Hatred? Resentment? Bitterness?
He should have all these emotions, right?
Yin Chengjue also looked at Rong Yu curiously, wanting to know what was written in that diary.
"...If I had the chance to confess my true feelings to my brother, I would tell him," Rong Yu's gaze lifted from the page of the diary, deeply fixed on Yin Chengjue.
"I want to tell my brother that I never hated him. I just often thought, if my brother hadn't been sick, if his illness didn't require me to sustain his life, then... would I never have been born? Would I never have come into this world? Would I... never have had the chance to call you brother?" Rong Yu said.
Hearing this, the others were stunned.
Yin Chengjue also showed a surprised expression.
This train of thought was indeed unexpected.
Rong Yu: "I still remember, brother, how you secretly took me to the amusement park, how you bought me ice cream, how you made me the strawberry cake I always wanted to eat, how you held the umbrella over me while your own shoulder got soaked... I remember how, when Mom got angry, you always stood in front of me, taking the blame for everything, even for mistakes you didn't make."
"Brother, I never hated you. On the contrary, I feel fortunate to be your brother, to be able to call you brother. I think Mom was right about one thing. She said she couldn't accompany us too far on our journey, she would leave this world before us one day. So, she hoped we could support each other and walk further, much further, together."
"We share the closest bond in this world. After so many years of blood transfusions, we almost have the exact same blood flowing in our veins."
"Brother, no one is as close as we are."
"Brother..." Rong Yu closed the diary, looked at Yin Chengjue, and said, "I love you."
Qin Linlin behind the camera: "..." Oh, go to hell! The last line definitely isn't in our prop diary!!!
"Alright, my sharing is over." Rong Yu's expression instantly returned to normal as he said, "Your turn now."
"My goodness!" Wei Shu exclaimed. "Xiao Yu, your expression just now was absolutely incredible! I really thought you were confessing your love to Juezi, you know?"
Liu Qingling: "The screenwriter is amazing, able to write a character's emotions so intricately. And Xiao Yu acted it out so well. I was completely convinced! For a moment there, I truly believed I was watching the younger Rong brother finally confessing the feelings he had buried in his heart for years to his Yin brother."
Guan Haifeng: "Hey? Let me ask an off-topic question. Why is it that in the story, they are clearly biological brothers, but one has the surname Rong and the other Yin? Is there some story behind this that we haven't connected yet?"
"Uh, isn't it just so we can distinguish the characters?" Wei Shu said.
"No, Xiao Guan raises a good point." Yang Ji patted the stack of clues he had collected and said, "Let me tell you, I discovered a lot of shocking clues yesterday!"
Yang Ji: "Let's first talk about why their surnames are different. It's because the lady, after the divorce, quickly remarried. So the child born later took the stepfather's surname. And that stepfather is none other than the father of our very own Lawyer Lei!"
The others: "..." Damn! This relationship is messy and dramatic enough!
Hearing this, Lei Miao revealed a perfectly mysterious smile. "Oh dear, you found out. Yes, that's right. I actually don't bear the surname Lei, I bear the surname Rong. Please call me Rong Lei. Brother Yin and Brother Rong are both children of my stepmother, my nominal brothers."
Yang Ji: "Correct! So you are not a completely impartial lawyer. You are here to help your two stepbrothers seize this massive inheritance, because you've already agreed that once you secure the inheritance, you'll get half."
Yang Ji laid out the clues he had collected on the table, sharing them with everyone one by one, and said, "Besides that, I also discovered that the owner of this villa might not be as wealthy as you all imagined. He also doesn't seem to have left a vast fortune for you to fight over after his death, unlike what you thought."
As he spoke, Yang Ji pulled out a long, thick scroll of debt statements, almost as thick as two wrists.
Yin Chengjue glanced at the amount on it and raised an eyebrow slightly.
It seemed his guess was correct.
The legacy of this villa owner wasn't money or material possessions at all. It might not even be a physical object.
Yang Ji: "This villa owner was already drowning in debt. What family wealth is there to distribute? On the contrary, there's a pile of debts left here. Maybe you could inherit a small portion of his remaining assets, or perhaps pawn all his properties, but even that would be far from enough to pay off the debts he owed."
"In other words, if you inherit any of his money, you'll have to help him pay back a mountain of endless debt."
"So, all of you can stop fighting over it. This trip was a waste of money." Yang Ji spread his hands and shook his head. "We've all been deceived. Yes, Butler Liu couldn't possibly be unaware of this. We've all been deceived by this Butler Liu."
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