Chapter 96 "He... is a bit hard to judge."...

After undergoing a brain scan, Wen Chu lay in the hospital bed and learned about her identity from the doctors, nurses, and Lu Ming. Her background was surprisingly impressive.

Just as she was about to ask the next question, two more people rushed over.

"Chu Chu!"

"Xiaochu!"

Wen Sheng looked in the direction of the anxious yet joyful voice. A sense of familiarity washed over her, and she instinctively recognized the two people. She exclaimed happily, "Mom, brother?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt Lu Ming's gaze tremble violently, and the black mist that always surrounded him seemed to thicken even more. He was probably wondering why she could remember her family but not him.

Yang Lan and Wen Heng were covered in sweat, clearly having rushed over in a hurry. When they reached her, they didn't speak immediately, but instead looked her up and down carefully, seemingly unable to believe what they were seeing.

After a long while, confirming that her daughter had indeed woken up, Yang Lan turned away to wipe her tears, sobbing softly, "It really is a blessing from God..."

Wen Chu quickly sat up, took her hand, and hugged her affectionately: "Mom, I'm fine, really, I'm lively and energetic, I'm perfectly alright."

Yang Lan hastily wiped away her tears and anxiously scolded her, "Lie down immediately! Don't move around."

Wen Chu was pushed back onto the bed by Yang Lan, and then looked at Wen Heng beside her, who was also staring at her in a daze. Wen Chu also carefully looked at the man, and then joked, "Brother, why do I feel like you've gotten older?"

Wen Heng took a deep breath, suppressing the stinging tears in his eyes. He pointed at her, feeling both angry and heartbroken: "Wen Chu! You're incredibly lucky this time! You fell from such a high building and still survived! Let me tell you, if you ever dare to do something like this again, I'll just lock you up at home and never let you go anywhere! Did you even consider how we feel when you did something like this?! You..."

He choked up again as he spoke. All the anger and heartache that had been left unsaid vanished when he saw the other person standing vividly in front of him, and they became unimportant.

All the words I wanted to say came to mind, but only four words remained on my lips: "It's good that you're awake."

"What happened to me? I was just about to ask that. How did I fall from upstairs? And where's Dad? Why didn't he come to see me? He must be so worried." Wen Chu tilted her head and looked towards the door again.

At this point, Yang Lan and Wen Heng both looked bewildered.

Seeing this, Lu Ming explained in a low voice, "Wen Chu just woke up, and she hasn't remembered anything from before."

Wen Heng looked at Wen Chu in disbelief, and Wen Chu gave him a naturally naive smile.

"How much have you forgotten? You can still recognize me, can't you?" He thought for a moment, then asked, "Do you remember you have an older sister?"

"I have an older sister?" Wen Chu's eyes widened in surprise. "How come I have absolutely no recollection of her?"

"..." This remark once again left Wen Heng and Yang Lan looking at each other in bewilderment.

Wen Heng looked up at Lu Ming again: "Does she still remember you?"

Lu Ming silently shook his head.

"Heh. That's great. Perhaps it's a protective mechanism of the brain." Wen Heng's attitude towards Lu Ming was still not good. If it weren't for the fact that the other party had indeed acted very resolutely and crazy in the past year, he would not have allowed Wen Chu to see him again.

Thinking that my little sister hadn't betrayed us this time made me feel much better.

Wen Chu listened silently to their conversation and became even more convinced that Lu Ming and she actually had a strained relationship.

The brain test results came back quickly and showed no abnormalities. All the damage had miraculously healed, with very few aftereffects.

"If that's the case, how could you have lost your memory? Is it possible that you'll never be able to recover your memories?" Wen Heng asked, hands on his hips.

"The fact that Miss Wen Chu can remember you and Mrs. Wen shows that the memory damage is not irreversible, but it needs a certain amount of stimulation to recover. As she sees more and more things, she will naturally remember them, but this process needs to be gradual. Recalling too many negative memories at once is not beneficial to the patient's physical recovery. I suggest that you observe for a few days first. If there are still no signs of recovery, we will proceed with the next step of treatment."

"Okay, thank you, doctor." Wen Heng breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Wen Chu, who was sitting obediently to the side, and said with a gentle expression, "It's alright, as long as you can remember me and Mom, that's enough. Other people are not important. If the subsequent treatment plan is too painful, we won't bother with it. Why suffer like that?"

Lu Ming, who had been following behind Wen Chu, moved his lips upon hearing this, but ultimately said nothing.

At Wen Chu's insistence and after she tried her best to prove that she was cured, Wen Heng allowed her to be discharged from the hospital.

Seeing his younger sister, who had been lying lifeless in the hospital bed for so long, regain her rosy complexion and walk energetically in the sunlight, Wen Heng was overwhelmed with emotions.

Yang Lan's eyes were still red, but Wen Chu kept holding her and talking to her, which made her feel a little better.

"Which one is your car?" Wen Chu asked.

Wen Heng stopped in her tracks, glanced at Lu Ming who had been silently following behind them, and felt a pang of pity. After a moment's hesitation, she said, "Are you really not going to talk to him anymore? You're just coming home with me like this?"

Wen Chu shook her head frantically in small circles: "No! Let's go, let's go! I have so many questions to ask him when he's not around!"

“Okay.” Wen Heng pressed the car key to unlock the car, turned around and said, “She doesn’t remember you at all right now, and doesn’t want to talk to you. The doctor also said that she needs to recover slowly, so you shouldn’t upset her. I’ll take her home first.”

"Then... can I go see her tomorrow?" Lu Ming's voice was very pale.

"That depends on whether she wants to see you." Wen Heng was in a hurry to find Wen Chu, so he turned around and left in a hurry.

Lu Ming stood at the hospital entrance, watching the Rolls-Royce door close, his knuckles turning white from clenching his fist. But in the end, he managed a forced, relieved smile.

She really woke up; it wasn't a dream.

As soon as the car door closed, Wen Chu grabbed Wen Heng and asked, "Brother, that guy isn't really my fiancé, is he? Someone as free-spirited as me, would I get married so early? Is he really serious? Is there some unspeakable reason behind this? Is it because your company isn't doing well, and you sold me out to marry him? How exactly did I fall from the building? You guys are all so vague and evasive, not one of you is telling me properly!"

"Is someone trying to frame me? Are you sure that guy is a good person? He doesn't look like one. You can't just sell me out based on my appearance!" Wen Chu glared at her brother, then pouted pitifully and looked at Yang Lan.

Wen Heng never expected that one day he would hear his love-obsessed younger sister say that Lu Ming was not a good person.

He couldn't help but flick her forehead, his anger flaring: "Who knows why you jumped off the building! Nobody hurt you! You just jumped without a word or warning! Do you know how we got through that time? Mom was already worried about Dad's situation..."

"Wen Heng!" Yang Lan gave him a look, seemingly not wanting anyone to reveal Wen Shiyang's affairs and needlessly provoke Wen Chu.

Wen Heng sighed, "Mom, we can't hide this from her anytime soon. What are we going to say if she calls Dad later? She'll have to face reality sooner or later."

He said bluntly, "Wen Chu, Dad died in a car accident a year ago. It was indeed a traffic accident."

Wen Chu's expression froze, and a buzzing sound immediately came from her ears.

She asked again, still incredulous, "What?"

"You jumped off the building and took your own life not long after that," Wen Heng said with a dejected expression. "After Dad passed away, you became taciturn, moved out of the house, and refused to contact us. We had no idea what happened to you during that time. You damned girl, you didn't even leave us a suicide note!"

Wen Chu's eyes glazed over for a moment, and the dormant memories in her mind seemed to begin to awaken. A dizzying feeling of information overload overwhelmed her brain, causing her to suddenly clutch her forehead.

She first recalled the last look her father gave her before he left, and then her memories began to travel back along that timeline in both directions.

She saw herself falling from a great height with her arms outstretched and no will to live, then she saw Lu Ming's terrified expression after she jumped, then she almost had sex with Qi Siyan, and the tender moments between Lu Ming and Wen Xue in the bar.

Scattered fragments kept flashing back and quickly connecting, making her fully recall all the past events with the man who had been wary of her just a minute ago.

She chased after the man, but he never paid any attention to her. She felt wronged so many times and cried so many times. She finally managed to get a little change in his attitude, but as soon as Wen Xue came back, he would cut ties with her without hesitation.

She was panting heavily, her chest aching terribly, and her eyes were fixed blankly on a point in the air.

It seems I was too nice to them just now.

There are plenty of men in the world, why did she have to hang herself on one tree? And even to the point of choosing to take her own life?

"Oh dear, I told you not to say it!" Yang Lan slapped Wen Heng and quickly hugged Wen Chu in an urgent tone, "If you can't remember, then don't think about it. Let bygones be bygones! We were with your father before he passed away, so we have no regrets. People always have to look forward."

Wen Chu took a deep breath, and the dizziness and confusion slowly subsided. She closed her eyes, silently processing the memories from so long ago, before whispering, "I'm fine. I think I'm remembering things from before."

"Huh? So fast?" Wen Heng was stunned.

Wen Chu calmed down, her previous aggression replaced by a quiet sadness: "I'm sorry, brother. I don't understand why I wasted so much time on this kind of person. I should have spent more time with you, with Dad... Maybe I really was just acting impulsively because of my emotions..."

The car remained silent for a long time.

Wen Heng said in a low voice, "If you can cherish your life from now on, your father will be more comfortable in heaven."

"Don't worry, I won't do such a stupid thing again. I will live well and outlive him."

From this perspective, her hostility towards him was indeed not unfounded.

Wen Chu held them tenderly for a moment before asking, "Then how did he become my fiancé? Shouldn't he be living happily ever after with Wen Xue?"

“He…” Wen Heng sighed, “is a bit hard to judge.”

“After you fell into a coma, even though he and Xiaoxue kept saying that the person he really liked was you, I had seen him waver back and forth before. So even though he kept begging, I still transferred you back to the private hospital. I didn’t want him to be around you anymore.”

"After all, no matter how much remorse and self-blame he shows, it's only temporary. A month, a year, two years? He'll eventually go back to living his own life. I don't need him to pretend like that; I just want some peace and quiet."

"I just didn't expect him to be so persistent."