Xi Family Estate, 10:30;
Xi Yuan let out a quiet, stunned laugh—more of a hollow smile than anything real—as Luo Youyou's cruel honesty echoed in the air.
"Hmm. That would do it," he murmured. "Reducing me to the lowliness of a whimpering animal, crawling at my brother's feet, licking up whatever scraps he spared."
He turned to Xi Fang, his eyes unreadable. "Would you have fed me, Fang?"
Xi Fang's face twisted in pain, and before anyone could stop him, he dropped to his knees in front of his elder brother. "Don't say that. Please, don't talk like that. I am begging you, Brother."
"Fang," Xi Yuan sighed, a helpless smile tugging at his lips at the younger man's devotion. "It was a joke. I was just messing with you."
