Chapter 182: Have You Lost Your Memory?
The crowd panicked and scattered, finally returning to calm.
Old Mrs. Xie rushed over and saw Xie Jingyan clutching his hair, slumped dejectedly against the wall. She was still carrying the lunch box she had gotten from the canteen: “What happened to Xiao He? Ah?”
Xie Jingyan kept his head down and said nothing.
Old Mrs. Xie anxiously looked around, her voice trembling with tears: “Tell me, where is Xiao He? Where is she?”
Xie Jingyan finally looked up at her. Old Mrs. Xie was over seventy years old, her face full of wrinkles, her hair gray, her body thin and frail. She was wearing an old-style cotton-padded jacket from several years ago, bought from the roadside for fifty yuan each. She had worn it for several years and was reluctant to buy a new one for herself.
But Xie He received new clothes every year.
She scrimped and saved, even putting all her coffin money into treating Xie He, treating Xie He as more important than her own life.
Xie Jingyan’s words stuck in his throat, and suddenly he didn’t know how to tell Old Mrs. Xie.
Should he say it was “Jiang Ning” who did it?
Clearly, his grandmother and Xie He liked Jiang Ning the most.
How could they believe that the person who sent Xie He into the operating room for rescue was “Jiang Ning”?
Xie Jingyan didn’t believe it either.
The Jiang Ning he liked… wasn’t like this.
Xie Jingyan took a deep breath: “Grandma, I’m sorry. I didn’t watch Xiao He properly. It’s all my fault.”
Seeing her grandson so self-blaming, Old Mrs. Xie realized she had been too agitated.
She pursed her lips and wiped the corner of her eye with her hand: “Grandma is old. My only wish before I enter the soil is for Xiao He to get better, to see you marry and have children. I don’t want anything to happen to you or Xiao He. Grandma would be heartbroken and sad, Xiao Yan.”
Xie Jingyan slowly stood up, pulled Old Mrs. Xie into his arms to comfort her: “Grandma, Xiao He will be fine. Don’t worry. After the New Year, we’ll arrange for Xiao He to have surgery. In the future, she can go to school too.”
Old Mrs. Xie nodded with red eyes. She couldn’t eat anymore and handed the lunch box to Xie Jingyan: “You eat it. I’ll wait at the operating room entrance. Amitabha, may all the bodhisattvas bless my Xiao He. She’s really too pitiful.”
Xie Jingyan sat on the long chair nearby, opened the lunch box, and ate bite by bite in silence.
Jiang Ning sat right beside him. She felt powerless about this situation. Looking at her increasingly transparent soul body, she turned to Xie Jingyan and said, “I notice my color is getting fainter. If I really disappear from this world, will you still remember me?”
He would probably forget, right?
Memories about Jiang Ning, those beautiful ones, the times of laughing, playing, getting angry, and crying, would fade little by little.
Until replaced by the current “Jiang Ning.”
Like would turn into hate, an unending feud of you die or I live.
So after going around in circles.
Jiang Ning still had to accept this ending.
Waiting for Xie Jingyan to slowly hate her.
“That wasn’t me, Xie Jingyan… The first personality is back. Will you still like me?”
Jiang Ning got no answer.
So the world consciousness made her like this to show her that love is worthless under the resistance of the plot?
Even people who adore each other would develop hatred because of reality.
Jiang Ning tugged at her lips, somewhat speechless.
……
Meanwhile, on the other side.
“Jiang Ning” learned that Gu Lanli was also at Jingya Hospital.
A month ago, that knife was only 0.1 millimeters from his heart. A little more off and it would have been beyond saving. The doctor snatched Gu Lanli back from the god of death, and then Father Gu and Mother Gu sent their son to Jingya for follow-up treatment.
Now more than a month later, the wound on Gu Lanli’s chest had scabbed over, revealing pink new flesh.
The reason he hadn’t been discharged was that “Jiang Ning” was still in a coma, also at this hospital.
Anyway, he had been expelled from school, so he simply stayed in Jingya Hospital to recuperate.
Just as he was preparing to quietly visit “Jiang Ning” in her hospital room.
His hospital room door was suddenly pushed open.
“Jiang Ning” was dressed exquisitely and beautifully, standing prettily in front of him.
Gu Lanli felt a bit at a loss, even ashamed to face Jiang Ning. It was all because of his stupidity that Jiang Ning had been in a coma until now. What puzzled him the most was…
Su Wanyuan had returned safe and sound.
She said the young master of the Huo Family had paid five million to redeem her back.
Gu Lanli wanted to investigate those kidnappers but couldn’t find any leads, so he had to drop it.
He just assumed it was Jiang Ning who did it.
But one thing was separate from another. He felt very guilty for causing Jiang Ning’s injury.
Gu Lanli kept his head down, losing his usual arrogance, his voice tight and hoarse: “Ning Ning… I’m sorry. Hit me or scold me as you like. I just beg you to forgive me. I didn’t do it on purpose…”
After he finished speaking, “Jiang Ning” rushed over and hugged him tightly: “Wuwuwu, Lan Li Gege, I was worried to death. As long as you’re okay, that’s fine. I don’t mind.”
Gu Lanli stood there, somewhat dumbfounded.
He couldn’t react to what was happening.
“Jiang Ning” continued: “Can we be good from now on? I want to be with you forever.”
Gu Lanli’s mind reeled from the impact, feeling an unreal sense that happiness had come too fast.
“Can… can I?”
He was a bit uncertain because Jiang Ning had clearly expressed her disgust toward him, and the person she liked was even Xie Jingyan.
He regretted it only after losing her, but this situation left Gu Lanli confused. He uncertainly asked: “Jiang Ning, did you lose your memory… Do you still remember Xie Jingyan?”
“Jiang Ning” lifted her head from Gu Lanli’s arms, looking at him somewhat dissatisfied: “I didn’t lose my memory! I remember Xie Jingyan too. He’s just a poor loser, nowhere comparable to you. I feel disgusted just looking at him. Lan Li Gege, can we not mention him? The only one in my heart is you.”
“Jiang Ning” hurriedly expressed her true heart, afraid that Gu Lanli would misunderstand she had something with Xie Jingyan.
Joking aside, she was the young lady of the Jiang Family and should match with the best. That otherworldly soul occupying her body had no ambition and actually fancied the poor guy Xie Jingyan. Following him would only bring losses, no blessings.
Moreover, she had guarded Gu Lanli painstakingly for over a dozen years. How could she just give up like that?
Hearing “Jiang Ning’s” answer, Gu Lanli’s heart slowly sank.
That familiar feeling assaulted him, making him inexplicably feel suffocated.
Seeing him silent, “Jiang Ning” narrowed her eyes and said hatefully: “Do you still like that disaster star Su Wanyuan? Lan Li Gege, her identity doesn’t match you. Only you and I are a match made in heaven. And didn’t you promise we’d get engaged after graduation? I’m willing to marry you.”
Gu Lanli’s mind was a mess. He should be happy that Jiang Ning was willing to turn back and accept him, but he couldn’t be happy. Instead, he pushed “Jiang Ning” outward: “You go back and rest first. Let me think it over. The engagement doesn’t have to be so rushed…”
“Jiang Ning” turned her eyes, saw Gu Lanli rejecting her again, bit her lip, and threatened: “If you don’t agree now, I’ll marry Xie Jingyan!”
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