In front of him, Qin Xiang would only ever brag endlessly about Qin Mei, never mentioning a single word about her three older brothers.
"You're not close, yet you talked for so long?" Qin Mei herself had barely spoken a few sentences with her brother. It was almost always Qin Zhao asking the questions and her giving the answers. Talking with Qin Zhao put an invisible pressure on her.
She hadn't even met Qin Zhao in person, but she already felt as if she had nowhere to hide, a guilt that left her feeling completely exposed before him.
Forget Qin Zhao—even when she first met Qin Xiang, she felt guilty and was under enormous pressure.
Jie Jingchen felt wronged but had no one to complain to. 'Did *I* want to talk to him?' She was the one who had shoved the phone into his hands before scurrying away to buy ice cream. She treated Granny Li to a cone, choosing to chat with the old woman rather than her own eldest brother.
