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 zero-degree 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 self-deprecatingly 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 blood-related family members.

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