The Final Chapter of Secret Love

“Crystal, have you had enough of following me? Go back and do not block my way here.

“Are you not going to study abroad next month? Why are you still thinking about this? Get lost!”

Crystal stood in front of the motorcycle with her thin body in a daze for a moment before she realized that Octavio regarded the marriage date as a countdown for her to go abroad.

Octavio did not know that Crystal had already been arranged to marry.

When Octavio’s parents told Crystal about this, her reaction was exceptionally calm.

The Carrillo Family had given her a comfortable life for more than twenty years, and marrying into another noble family was her way of repaying the Carrillo family.

The marriage partner was The Prince of Hollywood, Glen Raymond. It was the Raymond Family who took the initiative to propose it, and the wedding would be held next month.

The Carrillo Family also found it strange at first. The Raymond Family, with its wealth and power, had no need to rely on marriage to stabilize the family business. However, the Raymond Family's attitude was very firm, and Crystal also agreed.

At that time, Octavio’s parents were about to tell Octavio, that they were going out for a drink, but were stopped by Crystal.

Crystal did not want the person she liked to know this news and her embarrassment, but she did not expect to be misunderstood by Octavio.

Octavio violently threw the helmet next to Crystal, almost hitting her, but Crystal did not even try to dodge and just spoke persistently.

“Mom asked me to take you back home. You have not been home for three days.”

Octavio's peach blossom eyes narrowed dangerously. He looked down at the trembling Crystal, and spoke slowly after a moment.

“You want me to go back? Sure, get on board and I'll take you for a spin. After that, we'll go back.”

There were whistles around the two of them, and everyone looked at the timid adopted daughter of the Carrillo Family, Octavio's nonblood sister, at ease, expecting her to retreat, run away, and burst into tears.

But Crystal did not. In the bleak cold wind, she looked at Octavio's smiling eyes, and she seemed to be able to hear the sound of her own heartbeat.

It was Octavio's youthfulness and highspirited spirit that made Crystal's heart beat.

To everyone's surprise, she said firmly, “Alright.”

Octavio raised his eyebrows slightly. He was also a little surprised. In his impression, Crystal was most afraid of this kind of thing.

Looking at the bewildered Crystal, Octavio quickly pulled her onto the motorcycle and personally helped her put on the helmet. His intimate actions stunned everyone around him.

Noticing everyone's gazes, Octavio said unhappily, “She's so stupid. If I drop her and something happens to her, how am I going to explain this to my dad?”

The motorcycle roared, and Octavio had already turned the accelerator to the bottom. The body of the motorcycle rushed up the mountain on the rainy night like a silver lightning.

Crystal's heart almost jumped out of her throat and cold sweat broke out on her palms. She tightly grasped the corner of Octavio's clothes, too scared to open her eyes.

Octavio laughed unscrupulously and freed one hand to grab Crystal's hand, his voice could not be heard clearly in the strong wind.

“Crystal, do you like me?”

Crystal was stunned. Octavio's words exploded in her mind like a bomb, and she even forgot to be afraid.

How did Octavio know that?!

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 nearzero temperature making her shiver uncontrollably, and she knew it was time to end.

It was time to end this tenyear 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!”

There was laughter in the box for some reason, and someone started talking.

“Have you heard? Last night on the motorcycle night, Crystal walked down the mountain by herself. It was minus two degrees Celsius. How much does Octavio hate this sister?”

“Crystal, this adopted daughter, was probably raised by the Carrillo Family to take care of Octavio. Isn't she almost like a little servant? Hahahaha.”

“Did not Mr. Carrillo have dinner with Jocelyn Howe yesterday? As for that female celebrity, he must really like her. The photos were all released to the media..."

Separated by the wall, Crystal's heart twitched violently, and she remembered the time when she found out that she fell in love with Octavio.

At that time, she had just arrived at the Carrillo Family, and no one cared about this fatherless and motherless child. Only Octavio took her out to play and introduced her to people.

She met Octavio during the years when she needed love the most, and then she threw herself obsessively on him for a full ten years.

Octavio was at the age where he loved to play, but in order to accompany Crystal, he always went home on time after school and brought various gifts to Crystal every day.

Crystal asked him if he found her annoying, but Octavio said that as long as Crystal did not find him annoying, it would be fine.

The boy's clear eyes left Crystal speechless, and her heart could not stop trembling.

In the last twentyfive days, she would never appear in front of Octavio again as Octavio wished.

She gritted her teeth and pushed open the door of the box.

In the dim room, Octavio sat in the middle, with sexy beauties on both sides.

If Octavio did not go home that day, his parents might really get angry, and Crystal would be the one who got bullied.

Octavio halfclosed his eyelids and lazily looked up at Crystal. Crystal was wearing a white dress and looked timid, like a lost deer.

“Brother, Mom wants you to go home.”

As soon as these words came out, the girl who was feeding Octavio wine suddenly stopped and said coquettishly, “Mr. Carrillo, is this your sister?”

Octavio smiled and said nothing. Then the girl spoke again, “Is she a younger sister or a sweet sister?"

Hearing this, Crystal clenched the corner of her clothes tightly. Seeing that Octavio had no intention of explaining, she was interrupted by Octavio just as she was about to speak.

“What? Are you jealous?”

The girl nodded aggrievedly, looking at Octavio with admiration in her eyes.

“She suddenly came in, did not want to drink or play, and wanted to take you back. What should we do…?"

Octavio's eyes fell on Crystal, and some evil thoughts arose in his mind.

“Crystal, drink the wine on the table, and I will go home with you.”

Hearing this, the people in the box looked at each other, not knowing whether they should speak up to persuade them.

The wine on the table was all strong liquor. It would be hard for a man to finish drinking it all, let alone Crystal who never drank.

Crystal felt a bitter feeling in her heart. She had a bad stomach, and Octavio knew it. He used to be most concerned about her health.

In the past, Octavio would watch her eat breakfast every day, and would invite a nutritionist to prepare her three meals a day, so as to arrange each of her meals to be the best.

Everything started to change after Octavio knew that she liked him.

Crystal hesitated for a moment, and under Octavio's gaze, she picked up the first glass of wine and drank it all.

Then, it was the second and third cup... Crystal's face turned red visibly, and Octavio's brows gradually furrowed. As she was about to drink the sixth cup, Octavio said in a cold voice, “That's enough.”

But Crystal acted as if she did not hear it. She drank one glass of liquor after another, refusing to stop as if torturing herself.

“I've said enough, fucking enough!”

Octavio kicked the table hard, abruptly interrupting Crystal's drinking. With a sullen look on his face, he raised his wine glass and smashed it next to Crystal. The glass broke and cut Crystal's fair instep, leaving a glaring blood.

“Can you come with me then?”

Crystal forced a smile, but then everything went dark before her eyes and she fainted.

Octavio almost subconsciously rushed out to catch her. Looking at Crystal with her eyes closed, Octavio cursed under his breath, picked her up and walked out of the box.

It was two days later when Crystal opened her eyes again.

The ten glasses of strong Scottish vodka successfully gave her acute gastroenteritis. She was the only one in the empty room and could not stop coughing.

When she opened my phone, she found Octavio's name clearly listed on the hot search list.

[Popular actress, Jocelyn Howe, and the noble son of Carrillo Group are about to get married?]

In the photo, Octavio hugged Jocelyn from behind, lowered his head and whispered, with a gentleness on his face that he had never shown before when facing Crystal.

A handsome man and a beautiful woman, what a perfect match.

When she looked at the date, it was the night Crystal fainted from acute gastroenteritis.

Crystal turned off her phone in disappointment and started packing her things.

Octavio used to dote on her the most. For Crystal, a child who was not loved by her father and mother, that was her greatest confidence.

Even when they were young, Octavio jokingly said that if Crystal did not get married, he would support her for the rest of her life.

He would also get angry when others made jokes about Crystal, and Octavio would say that it was because Crystal was his sister.

But then it was different, she was no longer Octavio’s sister.

The wedding date with the Raymond Family was in twenty days. It was very tight, but no one cared.

This was originally a business marriage, and for Crystal, the simpler the better.

But in the afternoon, Glen Raymond sent his assistant to bring more than a dozen wedding dresses for Crystal to choose from. The white wedding dresses were inlaid with gems of various colors, which made Crystal a little dazzled.

Crystal finally found a suitable one and breathed a sigh of relief. She decided to take this one.

Octavio just happened to walk in, and he and Crystal looked at each other. The white wedding dress, the dazzling diamonds, and the sparkling Crystal, Octavio could not take his eyes off her.

He could not help but think of a post he had just seen, about a brother and sister who fell in love, and the whole family fell into chaos and eventually fell into ruin.

But, were he and Crystal not siblings?

Realizing what he was thinking, Octavio quickly stopped his thoughts from drifting further and further away.

He turned his head slightly and spoke somewhat unnaturally, “Why are you trying on a wedding dress all of a sudden?”

Crystal was a little surprised by his arrival. She had just organized her words to find an excuse when she heard Octavio's words full of disgust, “Did you let me see this on purpose?”

“Stop daydreaming, Crystal, please save some face! It's bad enough that you're disgusting, but you want to destroy me?

“Go downstairs to eat. Do not keep your sisterinlaw waiting for too long.”

After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Crystal standing there in surprise.

Sister in law?

It must be Jocelyn, she smiled bitterly helplessly. What right did she have to be sad, and what qualifications did she have to be sad?

Yes, Octavio’s identity was high, even if he did not move, countless people would come to him.

There would always be someone next to him, but that person definitely would not be her.

In eighteen days, she could leave. At least Octavio was still as good as before in her eyes. She did not want to let herself become devastated.

In the cozy restaurant, Jocelyn sat beside Octavio with confidence. She had black hair, red lips and black eyes. She was so beautiful that people could not take their eyes away, and her smile was gentle.

The entire Carrillo Family was immersed in a joyous atmosphere. The playful Octavio at that time had a decent person by his side. Who in the Carrillo Family would not be happy?

Crystal was eating quietly when Jocelyn suddenly brought her up.

“Crystal, can you help me get a bowl?”

The serving aunt was standing nearby. This was obviously their job, but Jocelyn asked Crystal to do it. The expressions of the people at the table became a little subtle.

Crystal did not say anything. She calmly got up and went to the kitchen to get a bowl for Jocelyn.

“Oh, sorry, I do not need it anymore, could you please put it back?”

Crystal had just taken the bowl when she heard Jocelyn speaking apologetically.

Octavio watched all this in silence, neither stopping nor interrupting.

Crystal became even more silent. In the past, Octavio protected her the most. When someone joked that Crystal was a nanny brought by the Carrillo Family, Octavio slapped her in the face.

Next, Jocelyn found all kinds of excuses to ask Crystal to help her with things, such as peeling fruit or getting her coat, but no matter how she asked, Crystal looked submissive.

Octavio was annoyed by what he saw, but he did not say anything until Jocelyn specifically asked for the necklace on Crystal's neck.

That was the only relic Crystal's mother left her.

“No, this is…."

“If Jocelyn wants it, just give it to her,” Octavio suddenly interrupted.

Crystal was stunned. Octavio clearly knew that this was left to her by her mother.

Seeing that Crystal did not move, Octavio directly pulled off the necklace on Crystal's neck. Crystal was choked and fell to the ground, with her knees bruised. She could not help but cry out of anger.

The necklace broke, leaving a red blood mark on Crystal's neck.

Crystal coughed repeatedly, her eyes were red, and she raised her head stubbornly and shouted at Octavio, “Give it back to me, brother. This is what my... aunt left for me!”

Octavio obviously did not expect this situation. He thought he did not use much force. He looked at the broken necklace in his hand in a daze, and felt an inexplicable anger in his heart.

“So what?! Crystal, it's just a necklace.”

Octavio threw the necklace on the ground. The chain fell in front of Crystal, as painful as her broken heart.

“Crystal, put away those unrealistic fantasies of yours. You know I'm your brother, but you do not even look at yourself. Do you really think anyone would like you?”

As soon as Octavio said this, Jocelyn's expression changed visibly.

Crystal's eyes were red, and her thin figure slumped down in the hall. The last thing she saw when she raised her head was the backs of the two people leaving.

Octavio held Jocelyn tightly in his arms, with a strong and intimate gesture, as if she was the only character in this play, the clown to be laughed at.

She no longer liked Octavio, and she did not ask him to be nice to her, but why, why did he take away her most precious thing?!

The sour feeling came over her heart, and tears felt like a broken necklace. Crystal cried so hard that she almost retched. She looked at the broken necklace and made up her mind again.

She absolutely should not like Octavio again.

There were still fifteen days before the wedding deadline. Crystal was so busy that she was dizzy, and news about Octavio and Jocelyn was also overwhelming.

The prime time of the news was used to report how this noble young man in the Las Vegas spent huge sums of money to buy a beautiful woman's smile, buying her a diamond necklace worth 7 million dollars, and setting off fireworks all over the city for her just to let Jocelyn take a satisfactory photo.

These enviable preferences make everyone envious.

Only Crystal had begun to try to block out the news about Octavio. She had begun to learn to ignore these news.

She subconsciously moved away from Octavio, and her avoidant attitude made Octavio feel strange in his heart, but he did not think much about it and just thought she was throwing a tantrum.

Jocelyn's birthday party insisted that Crystal and Octavio go together, under the pretext of getting to know the family better.

Crystal smiled bitterly. She was going to marry someone from Los Angeles soon. She did not know when she would meet the Carrillo Family next time. What was the point in getting to know them?

She wanted to refuse, but Octavio directly sent someone to bring the dress to her room and asked his assistant to say something harsh.

“Miss Hughes, Mr. Carrillo said that you must go. If you do not go, he will find someone to tie you up.”

Crystal caught a glimpse of the broken necklace out of the corner of her eye. She had already looked for many restorers, but they all said that it was too old to be repaired.

She put on the dress with a bitter heart. It turned out that this was how Octavio loved someone.

It was as if he wanted to bring all the best things in the world to her, but this person would not be her after all.

When Crystal arrived at the banquet, Octavio was touching up Jocelyn's makeup with gentle and meticulous movements.

Crystal felt depressed, so she went outside the banquet hall to get some fresh air. To her surprise, Jocelyn came up behind her with a glass of wine.

“Crystal, we are all smart people, we should all understand some things. It's uncontrollable to like someone, but it's also uncontrollable to like someone you should not like."

Jocelyn glanced at Crystal meaningfully. Crystal's eyes widened and her hands unconsciously clutched her skirt.

“I don't know what you're talking about.”

A trace of uneasiness flashed through her heart, and she was even less confident to speak.

Because she knew that from the beginning to the end, she was the one who violated social morals and ethics.

She was the sinner who should be condemned by everyone.

“You like Octavio, right? But you are his sister, Crystal. how dare you do that?”

Jocelyn's eyes narrowed dangerously, and her tone was harsh, with a hint of subtle malice.

“Today I will teach you a lesson and let you know what happens to those who miss me.”

Then, Jocelyn suddenly grabbed Crystal's arm with such force that Crystal was unable to break free.

As Crystal looked shocked, Jocelyn followed suit and pushed herself into the swimming pool.

A scream attracted everyone. The one who reacted the fastest was Octavio. His eyes were like a knife piercing into the helpless Crystal's heart.

Octavio moved quickly, almost rushing into the swimming pool, carrying Jocelyn out of the pool sideways and holding her in his arms.

“Octavio, I don't know what I did wrong. Why did Crystal treat me like this?

“I just invited her to our engagement party, and I did not expect her to be so angry. Did I do something wrong?”

Jocelyn was soaked all over, and Octavio held her in his arms, crying so adorably.

Octavio felt distressed when he saw her compromising look. He glanced at Jocelyn, whose eyes were red, and said in a cold tone, “I told you not to have unrealistic fantasies, but you could not hear me, did you?”

“Crystal, you are not a child anymore. If you bully Jocelyn, you must pay the price.

“I did not push her…." Crystal's eyes suddenly narrowed, and she was about to open her mouth to explain.

“You still want to say that she jumped down on her own?! Crystal, do you think everyone is as scheming as you?”

Octavio interrupted violently, his cold eyes fell on Crystal, and with a gesture from him, the two bodyguards around him simply lifted Crystal and pushed her into the swimming pool.

Crystal's struggle was completely futile. In the nearly zerodegree weather, the icy cold water engulfed her and she thrashed helplessly in the water.

Even if the weather was not cold, she could not swim!

But this was still in the deep water area, and the water kept choking her throat. Her strong desire to survive made her struggle to climb up, but she was stopped by Octavio's bodyguards and pushed back into the water again.

In a trance, she saw Octavio looking at her with a cold face by the swimming pool, as if he was looking at an enemy.

Crystal suddenly remembered that when she was learning to swim, she really could not learn it. Octavio smiled and pulled her out of the water, saying that he would never let her touch water again.

With just one thought, she gave up struggling and continued to sink.

Her consciousness gradually became blurred, and just at the last second when she was about to sink into the water, someone finally pulled her out.

She was in a very miserable state, collapsed to the ground powerlessly, and with her slightly opened eyes she could only see Octavio's face full of disgust.

“You're disgusting.”

She heard Octavio say.

News of what Octavio had done to Crystal soon spread. When Crystal returned home, Octavio was kneeling upright in the middle of the living room.

Octavio’s father's face turned red with anger, and he pointed at Octavio and scolded him, “Even if Crystal is not our child, she is nominally a member of the Carrillo Family! There were so many media at the banquet that day, Octavio, are you going to ruin us?!

“Didn't you have a good relationship with her before? No matter how angry you are, you cannot push her into the water. I remember Crystal is even afraid of water.”

Octavio’s mother also echoed, but Octavio kept his head down. When he heard that Crystal was afraid of water, he shook his head slightly, but then said nothing again.

After a moment, he said stiffly, “Crystal is bullying Jocelyn, she does not deserve this much protection.

“Besides, she and I have no blood relationship, she is not worthy of being my sister!”

Crystal paused as she was about to walk in. Although she had already decided to give up liking him, her heart still could not help but ache when she heard these words.

If she did not let Octavio know that she liked him, the two of them would probably be the same as before, just like ordinary siblings.

She concealed the loneliness and grievance in her eyes and pretended to have just walked in.

“Dad, Mom, I'm back.”

Octavio’s father and mother were stunned for a moment, but soon they put on a smile and held Crystal's hand affectionately, with a look of kindness that had never been seen before.

“Crystal, are you back? Have you picked out the jewelry? Just pick out whatever you like, we will pay for it for you.”

Crystal pulled her hand away distantly and responded indifferently.

Octavio raised his head in confusion. When did his parents start to care about Crystal so much?

But he did not take it too seriously after all, thinking that they had suddenly changed their nature.

“I have chosen it.”

“That's good. Crystal has really grown up. She was only ten years old when she came to our house."

Octavio’s father greeted awkwardly, and after talking for several sentences he finally got to the point.

“Isn't your engagement party with Jocelyn still two months away? Crystal happens to be going out next month, so it's a good opportunity for Crystal to attend in two months…."

Octavio interrupted coldly. “No! Jocelyn and I's engagement party is next month.”

Octavio's face was as dark as if he wanted to kill someone. He suddenly stood up, supported his numb legs from kneeling, and went straight back to the room.

Crystal felt empty inside. In order to avoid her, did Octavio even get engaged earlier?

Besides, that day was her birthday, but no one in the Carrillo Family remembered it, and no one would remember it.

In the past, Octavio would carefully prepare every birthday for her, but times had changed and things were different at that time.

She smiled selfdeprecatingly and returned to her room under the worried gaze of Octavio’s father and mother.

The diary was placed conspicuously in the middle of the desk. Crystal picked up the diary that contained her ten years of girlhood thoughts and decided to throw it away.

For ten years, Crystal recorded her time with Octavio in her own way.

When she was ten years old, she came to Octavio’s house for the first time. Octavio grabbed her hand and said that no one could bully her sister.

At fifteen, Octavio protected her everywhere, and the whole city knew how much Octavio valued this sister.

At the age of 22, Octavio found out that Crystal liked her, and everything went in a direction that Crystal did not want to see.

But there were still twelve days left and everything would be over.

She would marry Glen, and Octavio would get engaged to Jocelyn.

The bridge should be the bridge, and the road should be the road.

There should had been no connection between them.

Everything that Octavio and Crystal were implicated in was related to interests.

If Octavio’s father and mother had not chosen a marriage partner for the development of the family, Crystal would never have appeared in front of Octavio.

After a while, Octavio kicked open Crystal's door with a stern look on his face, while Crystal was holding her diary in a daze.

When Octavio saw this scene, he was stunned for two seconds, then his face turned gloomy again. He quickly snatched the diary from Crystal's hand and threw it out the door.

“Crystal, are you disgusting? I told you not to have those unrealistic fantasies about me anymore!”

The sound of the diary falling to the ground hit Crystal's heart. She felt a little aggrieved, her eyes slightly red, and she spoke after careful consideration, “I did not, brother. I was wrong. I was ignorant before. I do not like you anymore.

“I apologize to you for what happened before. You can burn the diary.”

Octavio glanced at Crystal coldly. Her humble and submissive look always made him feel annoyed. “You better be!”

After saying that, he strode out of Crystal's room. Crystal had even forgotten why Octavio had come to see her in the first place.

Octavio also forgot that he first entered Crystal's room to get her a birthday present, which was a set of bracelets that Crystal had liked for a long time.

He stared at the diary on the ground in a daze, and after a moment he picked it up as if possessed.

The first entry in the diary is written in Crystal’s beautiful handwriting.

[Brother Octavio and I are obviously not biological siblings, so I should be able to like him.]

Five days before the wedding, Crystal's friends held a birthday party for her. Jocelyn and Octavio somehow got in among them.

Jocelyn, who was holding Octavio's hand, glanced at Crystal with a smile on her face. Seeing that Crystal's face did not have the lonely expression she had imagined, she gritted her teeth secretly.

That day was the last chance. After spending the past few days together, she clearly felt that Octavio had unknowingly been leaning towards Crystal.

He even asked her yesterday what impact the cancellation of the engagement would have on her.

Jocelyn felt an even deeper sense of crisis. Although she had agreed with Octavio on everything and it was all acting, she had her own selfish motives and she did not want Octavio to fall in love with Crystal.

Moreover, Octavio had been mentioning recently that he and Crystal were not biological siblings. A few days ago, he was furious because someone mistakenly thought that Crystal and Octavio were bloodrelated family members.

Jocelyn's eyes became darker and darker as she looked at Crystal, and a storm was brewing in them.

Halfway through, Crystal went to the bathroom, but saw Jocelyn walking towards her with a gloomy face.

Crystal's heart was filled with alarm. She vaguely felt that the same thing as last time was going to happen again. She quickly washed her hands and wanted to leave, but Jocelyn caught up with her in two steps and held her tightly.

“Jocelyn, have you had enough of acting?” Crystal said sternly. She tried to break free, but Jocelyn was surprisingly strong and she could not move.

“Of course not! Why would Octavio still favor you until now?”

Crystal did not understand why Octavio started to side with her.

“Don't worry, this is the last time!”

Jocelyn's voice was like a poisonous snake entwined around Crystal, making her feel cold.

Then, Jocelyn grabbed Crystal's hand and fell towards the stairs.

Crystal's eyes widened. This was a Europeanstyle spiral staircase. She just watched Jocelyn rolling down. She never expected someone would be so cruel to her.

With a scream, Jocelyn's head was broken and blood flowed down her face.

The waitress who happened to walk by was so frightened that she could not move. She looked at Jocelyn and then at Crystal in amazement.

The people in the box who were attracted by the sound were also stunned when they saw this scene.

Octavio reacted the fastest. He rushed down the stairs and held Jocelyn in his arms.

“Octavio, I was wrong. I really should not have gotten close to Crystal. “I just accidentally mentioned her past with you, I did not expect her to be so excited.

“I'm sorry, Octavio, I messed up. She also said that she likes you the most…,"

Before Jocelyn finished speaking, she fainted.

The onlookers frantically started calling for an ambulance, but Octavio was the only one who remained unusually calm, so calm that it was frightening.

While the ambulance was arriving, Octavio walked up to Crystal with a grim face.

“She was just trying to make friends with you, how could you be so cruel?!”

As Octavio spoke, he pushed Crystal hard with such force that Crystal lost her balance and fell heavily to the ground.

As if that was not enough, Octavio pressed on.

"Why? Is the darkness in your heart so deep that ruining me wasn't enough—you had to drag others into it too?"

"Crystal, how could you be this vile?"

Crystal's brain exploded. She had not recovered from Jocelyn's selfdestructive behavior yet, and her head went blank again because of what Octavio said.

She never thought of destroying Octavio, and she never thought of expressing her feelings.

If Octavio had not found out, she would definitely have kept this feeling hidden in her heart and not let anyone know.

Why, why did she tell Octavio that she no longer liked him, but he still did not want to let her go?

But before she could ask, Octavio's hand had already grabbed Crystal's collar.

Crystal was shaking all over because behind her was a whole floortoceiling window, and the mezzanine of that window had already been broken.

The hotel had not had time to replace it, and the warning sign was removed by naughty children, making it look so fragile that it could be touched.

But Octavio, who was furious, obviously did not notice this. He grabbed Crystal's collar and forced her to retreat until Crystal leaned against the cold glass that was like the grim reaper.

Someone noticed something was wrong and wanted to step forward to stop it, but in an instant, Octavio pushed Crystal hard again. What he did not expect was that the glass shattered and Crystal fell directly backwards.

Under Octavio's shocked gaze, Crystal fell into the swimming pool a few floors below along with the broken glass.

The last thing he saw was Crystal's desperate eyes.

The sound of someone falling to the ground made everyone's scalp tingle.

Octavio then realized what he had done. He fell to the ground and immediately got up.

Fortunately, the floor was not high and Crystal did not seem to be seriously injured. However, her tightly closed eyes and unconscious appearance made Octavio's heart rise to his throat.

He pushed away everyone's attempts to stop him, even stepped over Jocelyn who had fainted on the ground, rushed into the openair swimming pool, and picked up Crystal.

He tried to wake Crystal up, but to no avail.

He looked at Crystal's pale little face, and seemed to suddenly wake up.

What on earth was he so malicious towards Crystal?

Was it really the concern of an elder brother? Wasn't there a hint of his own feelings mixed in?

He kept trying to push Crystal further away, but he could not control himself from leaving her.

The one who needed love was never Crystal, but him.

He has accompanied Crystal as she grew up over the past decade and he had always been hinting at himself not to cross the line.

But he could not forget that he was happy when he saw the diary for the first time.

At that time, he even thought about taking the diary and confessing to Crystal, but reason held him back.

But what was he doing then?

Octavio's hands were shaking while driving. He stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and almost ignored all the red lights along the way.

He compressed the thirtyminute journey into ten minutes and got to the hospital.

The red light of the ICU was still on. He rushed over, almost unable to stand, but was stopped by two strange men in suits.

Then a man who seemed familiar to him walked out from behind them. He was tall and straight, with eyes as dark as the night, and thin lips tightly pursed under his high nose. Octavio would never forget that dark look in his eyes.

Octavio then remembered why he felt familiar with the man in front of him. It was Glen, the feared King of Hell in the Hollywood industry.

Glen's face was stern. He glanced down at Octavio and said in a deep voice, “Hello, I'm Glen Raymond, Crystal's fiancé.”

The incandescent lights in the hospital were so bright that Octavio could hardly open his eyes. His head was a little groggy and he obviously did not hear what Glen said.

“Get out of here! Where's the doctor? Where's the doctor? How is Crystal…?"

He tried to bypass Glen and walk towards the door of the confined ward, but was stopped by the people behind Glen.

He said angrily, “You dare to stop me? Do you know who I am? I am her brother!”

Glen's frown revealed his worry. He glanced at Octavio and spoke with his thin lips, “Don't make noise, Crystal is still in surgery.”

Octavio seemed to have just reacted to Glen's words that revealed his identity.

Octavio, overwhelmed by the whirlwind of confusion and the distorted information swirling in his mind, blurted out in disbelief, “What did you just say? You’re Crystal’s fiancé? Glen, have you lost your mind?!”

Glen did not say anything because the light in the operating room turned from red to green. He and Octavio walked to the doctor almost at the same time. The difference was that Octavio was stopped by several bodyguards.

“How is my fiancée?”

The word ‘fiancée’ stimulated Octavio's fragile nerves. His eyes were red and he interrupted the doctor before he could answer, “What do you mean your fiancée?! Glen, what on earth are you doing here? Get lost, Crystal is my sister!”

Glen looked at him coldly and did not want to argue with him. He only cared about Crystal's situation at that moment.

“The patient's condition is stable. He will basically recover after a good rest.”

Octavio felt relieved, but then he heard Glen say, “Postpone the wedding.”

Glen was tall, half a head taller than Octavio. What he said made Octavio's heart tremble violently. His eyes suddenly widened and his hands trembled slightly.

“What wedding? What's going on?!”

Glen was also a little surprised. Seeing that Octavio looked completely clueless, and considering that he was Crystal's family after all, he patiently explained, “Crystal and I got engaged last month, and the wedding is in five days. Mr. Carrillo, don't you know?”