“Don’t joke around like this,” Cheng Yang said, with a tinge of traumatized shock. “Your brother’s a straight male, a steely type.”

He thought that his words were witty, but Cheng Xi didn’t even crack a smile. She looked coldly at him. “You know, brother, I wish that the truth was that you were truly attracted to him. Otherwise, you would be intentionally manipulating his attraction towards me.”

Cheng Yang muttered, “Mom would kill me.”

“If she didn’t beat you to death, then would you really like him?”

Cheng Yang glared at his sister, but then deflated in the next moment. “No.”

“Then why did you do all that?”

“……”

The reason was honestly too embarrassing to say out loud, and he braced himself as he spoke his next words. “Can you not interrogate me like a criminal? It’s really quite scary.”

“Brother!” Cheng Xi was about to slap the table herself.

Cheng Yang could only surrender. “Alright,...