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Chapter 156 Extremely jealous

Tao Jiuxi left the study and returned to the yard. He felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained away and he was exhausted.

She sat by the window with a listless look on her face, completely bewildered and not knowing how to face what was happening before her.

Until dinner time, the people waiting in the flower hall did not see Tao Jiuxi coming. Finally, Tao Jiuxi's maid came to report that the second young lady would not have dinner today.

Upon hearing this, Tao Hongyuan was so angry that he stormed out.

Afterwards, Ji Qingyi and Tao Qingwan came to Tao Jiuxi's courtyard together. Ji Qingyi stopped at the door and motioned Tao Qingwan to go in first.

"Jiuxi, why didn't you go to have dinner?" Tao Qingwan asked softly.

"I'm sorry, sister, I'm not hungry. You guys just go and eat." Tao Jiuxi sat on the couch in front of the window with his head hung down and his knees hugged, looking very pitiful.

"I heard that your father called you to his study this afternoon. What did he say?"

"No, my father just chatted with me for a few minutes." Tao Jiuxi answered softly.

"Then let's go have dinner, okay?" Tao Qingwan persuaded again.

"Sister, I want to sleep. You should go to dinner soon." Tao Jiuxi got down from the couch, took Tao Qingwan's hand, and walked her out of the room. As soon as they reached the door, they saw Ji Qingyi waiting outside.

Tao Jiuxi forced a smile: "Brother Yi, you are here too. I didn't get enough rest yesterday, so I really have no appetite today. You guys go eat first, I will find something to eat when I am hungry."

Ji Qingyi looked at Tao Jiuxi who was trying to pretend to be cheerful, and his heart was filled with pity, but for now he could only not disturb her.

"You sleep for a while. If you're hungry at night, I'll take you out for a midnight snack."

"Well, sister, take care, Brother Yi." Tao Jiuxi bowed to the two of them.

After the two left, Tao Jiuxi ordered the maid: "Qing'er, close the gate of the courtyard. If anyone comes to look for you, tell them that I have gone to bed." Tao Jiuxi changed into pajamas, lay on the bed, staring at the dark room, with a thousand thoughts in his mind.

The more I thought about it, the more wronged I felt, and my eyes gradually turned red.

Tao Hongyuan might have his own hidden difficulties, but it was an indisputable fact that he treated her badly. And she had taken over someone else's daughter's body. What was even more frustrating was that Tao Hongyuan even used Tao Qingwan to threaten her.

Tao Jiuxi couldn't help feeling sad, and finally could only hide in the quilt helplessly and let herself cry.

Just after she fell asleep from crying herself tired, she seemed to hear someone calling her softly.

Until she realized that the dream seemed to be real, she immediately sat up without hesitation and threw herself into the man's arms.

"Ayi, why did you come just now?"

Shen Zhiyi hugged Tao Jiuxi tightly in his arms, and at the same time he keenly noticed that her voice was filled with tears.

"Why are you crying like this?"

"My father is using my sister to pressure me. I don't know what to do."

"Ji Qingyi is here, right in the mansion. He is... a very nice person. I feel we are very sorry for him. It's all your fault. Why didn't you come back until now?" The more Tao Jiuxi spoke, the sadder he felt, and in an instant, tears flowed down his face.

"It's all my fault. The day you entered the palace, the emperor issued a secret decree for me to leave the city hastily to do some errands. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let you face all this alone."

Tao Jiuxi cried even louder as she listened to Shen Zhiyi's apologetic words of comfort.

Shen Zhiyi gently patted Tao Jiuxi's back, trying to calm her down a little.

Suddenly, the silent night was broken by a creaking sound, and the door was pushed open without any warning.

Tao Jiuxi was terrified, his body trembled, and he huddled tightly in Shen Zhiyi's arms.

The person who came was Ji Qingyi. As a martial artist, Ji Qingyi's senses were always extremely sharp. Even though Shen Zhiyi's footsteps had been as light as possible, his slight movement on the eaves still woke Ji Qingyi from his light sleep.

After noticing something unusual, he quickly put on his coat and ran out like the wind.

Seeing the black shadow heading towards Tao Jiuxi's yard, his heart tightened and he quickened his pace.

Just as he came down from climbing over the wall, he clearly heard faint crying coming from the house.

The sound of crying made his heart suddenly tighten, and an inexplicable worry surged in his heart. He pushed open the door without hesitation, but the scene inside the room was like a thunderbolt. In the haze, he vaguely saw two people hugging each other tightly on the bed.

Ji Qingyi felt as if his heart was blocked by a huge rock, and he felt suffocated beyond words. Even his breathing seemed to have stopped at this moment.

"who are you?"

Ji Qingyi's voice was as cold as frost on a cold night, and the sword in his hand pointed without hesitation at the blurry figure with its back to him.

At this moment, he felt both confused and angry.

Tao Jiuxi had been avoiding him for the past two days, was it because of the person before him? At this moment, he really wanted to tear this silent scene apart.

When Shen Zhiyi heard that the person coming was Ji Qingyi, a complex emotion flashed across his eyes.

He gently pulled the thin quilt from the bed and wrapped Tao Jiuxi tightly. Then he slowly stood up and looked at Ji Qingyi calmly.

Under the moonlight, Shen Zhiyi clearly saw the sadness on Ji Qingyi's face, and the guilt towards Ji Qingyi immediately swept over him, drowning him in an instant.

But he still had to face the opponent. He calmed himself down and tried his best to make his voice sound calm.

"Qingyi, it's me."

When this familiar voice reached Ji Qingyi's ears, it was like a bolt from the blue, striking him directly, causing him to freeze instantly, his mind going blank, as if he was in chaos and nothingness.

"Shen Zhiyi?" Ji Qingyi spoke subconsciously, his voice trembling slightly.

He really didn't want to believe what he heard. How could he believe it? The person who spoke was Shen Zhiyi, whom he trusted so much!

Just yesterday, he was happily planning to introduce his beloved fiancée to his best brother. But just one day later, fate, like a pair of ruthless hands, played a cruel joke on him.

In an instant, Ji Qingyi felt a surge of boiling anger rising from the bottom of his heart. The sadness that had just surged up was instantly ignited, and the fire spread rapidly. In the blink of an eye, he was completely filled with endless anger.

Anger was like an out-of-control beast, rampaging in his chest, trying to devour his sanity.

The two people hugging each other tightly in front of him, one is his fiancée who has been engaged to him for a long time and whom he cherishes like a treasure, and the other is his brother who was as close as a brother to him and shared life and death with him!

The pain surged over him like a surging tide, wave after wave, nearly suffocating him, as if an invisible hand were tightly gripping his throat. He felt like a ridiculous clown.

"Shen Zhiyi, do you know what you are doing?"

Ji Qingyi growled, his angry voice seemed to shake the whole house down, and every word was filled with his pain and anger.

"Qingyi, I'm sorry, but Ah Xi is my woman." Shen Zhiyi's tone was firm and full of apology.

"She's not, she's my fiancée!"

Ji Qingyi shouted loudly, pointing the sword in his hand straight forward. The sword body trembled slightly, and under the moonlight, it emitted a cold light.