Chapter 48 The Third Time
Yan Sui rolled down the car window. Tian Ji, who was standing outside, suppressed his shock and asked, "You saved my daughter?"
There was doubt in the other person's voice. After saying this, Tian Ji looked her up and down, and then as if he thought of something, his eyes instantly became alert.
Yan Sui noticed the subtle change in his expression, pursed her lips, and said slowly, "I saved the little girl who fell into the water, but..."
She emphasized the word "fall into the water" particularly strongly, as if giving a deliberate warning.
Tian Ji instantly understood what she meant and his expression eased slightly.
Yan Sui noticed his slightest change and asked, "Want to chat?"
Tian Ji glanced behind her silently.
Yan Sui understood, gathered her clothes, and was about to get off the bike. But just as her hand touched the handlebars, someone gently pressed her shoulder, squeezing it. A soft, gentle voice rang from behind her: "It's windy outside. Your clothes aren't dry yet."
Yan Sui turned around and met the other person's eyes. Lin Jingyang smiled at her and said, "You stay in the car. I'll go out."
Lin Jingyang turned up the air conditioner in the car to the maximum, opened the driver's seat and got out of the car.
As he walked around the front of the car and reached the passenger seat, he fixed his gaze on Yan Sui again and said, "For safety's sake, just keep chatting with him! Don't let him get in the car. You can roll down the windows a bit; at least it'll be warmer than being outside."
He paused, then nodded his chin slightly toward the nearby willow tree. "I'll be waiting there for you. If you need anything, just raise your hand and call me."
After giving these instructions, Lin Yangyang retreated to the nearby lakeside. Standing under a willow tree, he could see what was happening over there, but he couldn't hear any of their conversation.
As soon as Lin Jingyang left, Tian Ji said anxiously: "Yan Sui, I don't know where you know about me and your father. But I told you very clearly last time at the school gate, I will not -"
"You won't cooperate with me." Yan Sui interrupted him and said this first.
"Then what are you doing here? And involving children?"
Tian Ji frowned slightly, and said in a restrained voice: "Don't think that just because you saved my daughter, I should..."
"I never thought of repaying a favor," Yan Sui interrupted him and said softly, "It wasn't until just now that I realized the person who fell into the water was your daughter."
"so......"
"So I saved her out of instinct, not to gain anything from you."
A cold wind blew over the lake, and the smell of the wind came to the car. The gentle breeze made the wet clothes on the body even colder. Even though there was an air conditioner next to them, they could not withstand the cold wind.
Seeing Tian Ji remained silent, Yan Sui stared at his eyebrows for a while, then continued, "I admit that my purpose for coming here was not simple. I still came here with the idea of seeking your cooperation. But what happened today was an accident. Even if the person who fell into the water was not your daughter, I would still jump in to save her."
Seeing Lin Jingyang approaching the car in the distance, Yan Sui retracted her gaze and said to Tian Ji seriously, "If you still have doubts, just pretend I haven't been here today!"
After the words fell, Lin Jingyang walked to Tian Ji's side and said: "Although the time is a bit short, I see that the wind is blowing on the lake."
The look he gave Yan Sui was gentler. "If you haven't finished talking yet, do you want to get in the car and change places? I'll take you to change clothes first. Your body can't handle the cold wind."
Yan Sui looked away and shook her head: "No, we've already talked."
After saying that, she took the initiative to roll up the car window.
Lin Jingyang outside the car window understood, without even glancing at Tian Ji, he walked around the front of the car and opened the driver's door.
He got in the car, closed the door, and fastened his seatbelt, all in one smooth motion. He shifted gears by pressing the handle and tilted his head to ask, "Shall we go?"
Yan Sui didn't look out the window again, and said calmly: "Let's go!"
The accelerator was stepped on and the car started. Tian Ji's figure moved from the passenger window to the rearview mirror. Looking at the figure in the rearview mirror that was getting smaller and smaller, Yan Sui tilted her head and called Lin Jingyang's name.
Lin Jingyang said "hmm" softly.
"Why are you here?"
"Coincidence."
"It's just a coincidence again."
Yan Sui raised her head, rested the back of her head on the headrest of the chair, and said softly, "You've been here for a long time, but you've been hiding in the car and observing me."
She tilted her head and asked, "Are you doing some business nearby and stopping by here, or are you just camping here?"
Lin Jingyang's expression paused, then he raised the corners of his lips and smiled: "What do you think?"
Yan Sui's eyes remained motionless. "When did you know about Tian Ji? Did you hire someone to investigate me?"
There was a hint of annoyance in her voice. Yan Sui didn't like the feeling of having her fate in the hands of others and having her every move monitored, regardless of whether the other party was trying to help her or not.
Yan Sui thought of the person who suddenly appeared beside her that night, and the explanation became pale as she thought about it more deeply.
She frowned slightly and asked bluntly, "What is your purpose in appearing beside me?"
The moment the words fell, the system in her mind reacted even before Lin Jingyang. It sounded three alarms in quick succession, its normally mechanical and cold voice now tinged with a hint of anxiety: "Host, don't forget Lin Jingyang's strategy mission! If the progress bar goes backwards, the terminal will impose penalties!"
Yan Sui didn't care what the system said. The feeling of being watched by someone and having her every move seen by someone made her feel more panicked than the inexplicably rising favorability bar on Lin Jingyang.
She didn't know why Lin Jingyang was investigating her. Was he doing this for some other purpose? Or was he trying to control her?
Facing Yan Sui's vigilant gaze, Lin Jingyang's smile faded, and a strange emotion flashed in his eyes: "Without your permission, I will not investigate your people without authorization."
His voice paused, and then he continued, "You told me that you wanted the truth."
Yan Sui was stunned.
Lin Jingyang's eyes darkened: "You definitely don't remember. After all, you are her, but you are also not her."
The car slowly stopped after the last word fell. Yan Sui looked out the window and saw a hotel.
"Let's stop here first and change your wet clothes. Aren't you uncomfortable wearing them all the time?"
“…”
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When Yan Sui came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, her cell phone rang.
She glanced at the caller and pressed the answer button:
"I've asked the waiter to bring your clothes up. After you change, come to the cafe on the first floor! I'll be waiting for you here."
Yan Sui responded, and just as she hung up the phone, there was a knock on the door: "Hello, Miss, I'm the room service staff."
Yan Sui walked over and opened the door. The waitress at the door handed her the bag: "Mr. Lin downstairs asked me to give this to you!"
After the waiter left, Yan Sui opened the bag and saw that everything she needed, including dry clothes and disposable underwear, was in the bag.
Yan Sui changed and went downstairs. Lin Jingyang had already ordered tea for her. He noticed that Yan Sui's clothes were a little too big and explained, "I asked a shopping guide to buy the things in the bag for me at the mall. I don't know what size clothes you wear now, so I can only measure them roughly according to your body shape. Is the jacket a little too big?"
Hearing this, Yan Sui lowered her head to glance at her clothes, then raised her head and said, "It's okay, it's not a problem."
Lin Jingyang nodded and pushed the tea in front of her towards her: "Try it. I don't know if you like the taste now, but you will like to drink this in the future."
Yan Sui sat upright in the chair and immediately found the key word in this sentence: "Later?"
Lin Jingyang had a smile on his face and looked at her with a smile in his eyes.
He didn't say anything, but Yan Sui could see a lot of information from his eyes.
This information was something she had never seen in Lin Jingyang's eyes before and was something he had deliberately hidden.
The image of another person emerged in her mind, and her eyes staring at Lin Jingyang began to be filled with inquiry: "So, is it precognition, or rebirth?"
Lin Jingyang's smile widened, but he did not answer her question.
Yan Sui then asked tentatively: "Precognition?"
There was no fluctuation in his expression.
"Rebirth?"
Lin Jingyang's brows relaxed for a moment.
Yan Sui knew that she had guessed right.
She hadn't thought about this before.
But she was never quite sure about this.
But after Yu Shuli told her that he had a dream, a bold guess emerged in her mind.
Since Yu Shuli's memory was disordered, it proved that the magnetic field of this world was not so stable. If the answers she had not been able to obtain before were also described with words like "time travel" and "precognitive dream", it would be easy to explain.
The unusual favorability, knowing her taste in her previous life, and all the tiny details were getting closer to the guess in her heart.
Lin Jingyang is not from this world either.
Yan Sui suddenly thought of that night: "That night, you were waiting there on purpose, right?"
Lin Jingyang stared into her eyes for a while before asking, "When did you become suspicious?"
"just."
Lin Jingyang chuckled, lowered his head, and said slowly, "I'm not deliberately trying to hide this from you, it's just that this phenomenon is really hard to explain. Even if I told you from the beginning, I'm afraid you would just think of me as a 'weirdo' who escaped from a mental hospital, right?"
Yan Sui's eyebrows jumped: "Then why are you telling me now?"
"Aren't you suspicious?"
Yan Sui's eyes were calm, and her face showed no emotion: "We're already here, why don't you tell the truth?"
Lin Jingyang raised an eyebrow: "What do you mean?"
"Isn't it because you deliberately revealed the truth to me that I became suspicious?"
After hearing this answer, Lin Jingyang laughed twice for no apparent reason.
The fingers hanging on his knees tapped the surface of his knees lightly, and then he sat up straight, his smiling eyes slowly calmed down, the smile in his eyes faded, and his voice became much hoarse: "What I said just now was not right."
Yan Sui: “?”
Lin Jingyang raised his chin again, his eyes meeting Yan Sui's gaze: "You are still her, and she is still you."
“…”
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When Lin Jingyang talked about this past event, there was a hint of compassion in his eyes.
He said that he met Yan Sui again when she was 35 years old, in that hospital.
Amidst a family power struggle, he was framed and brought down. On the day he left the company, distracted by the collision, he crashed into a speeding car. The collision deformed the entire front of his vehicle. While the airbag saved his life, the leg pressing on the accelerator was crippled by the deformed front.
The double blow of career and health made him irritable and he attempted suicide many times but was saved by his family.
Finally, his family had no choice but to send him to the hospital. In the third year of his hospitalization, he reunited with Yan Sui, whom he had met in the park more than ten years ago.
He didn't like to tell anyone about his own affairs, whether it was his doctor or his family. But perhaps because they had met once before and the other person knew about his musical dream, he was willing to tell Yan Sui, a person he had just met, about his own affairs.
He didn't really like his work in the company. On the contrary, he was very annoyed by the company's affairs.
He just didn't like this feeling of being denied and forced.
He once wanted to pursue his dream of music, but his family cut it short and made him study finance instead. After graduation, they let him join their own company and he worked his way up to the highest position in the company.
This was a path written for him, not the path he wanted.
At that time, everyone told him that this was the safest path and the one that would benefit the family the most.
So he left.
But what happened? He was brought down by his own family. His father was so angry about this that he had a heart attack and was admitted to the ICU. His mother was also worried every day because of this.
At that time, he was wondering, is this the most suitable path they are talking about?
From childhood to adulthood, he had been oppressed by his parents. His family constantly placed the burden of the company on him as pressure, forcing him to isolate himself early and become a qualified heir.
He has always been denied and has been following the path planned by his parents.
When he was caught, the shareholders devalued all the energy he had put in over the years, forced him to transfer the power in his hands to others, and denied all his contributions to the company.
Their expressions were just like when his parents forced him to give up his musical dream.
He was once again denied and forced to do something.
So on the day of the accident, he sat in the car, his hands on the steering wheel, but his mind was unable to concentrate. Looking at the car speeding in front of him, an absurd idea suddenly emerged in his mind.
He thought, if he could just go for it, he would never be denied again, and he would never feel pressure again.
He had not told the doctor or his parents about these things and these thoughts, but he told Yan Sui about them when she was chatting with him.
He didn't expect to get any comfort from Yan Sui. After all, they were just fellow patients who had just met.
But the next day, Yan Sui borrowed a guitar from somewhere and played a song for him in the hospital ward that she had played and sung in the park more than ten years ago.
Lin Jingyang could tell that Yan Sui hadn't played guitar in years. Her fingers seemed a bit clumsy when plucking the strings, and she even plucked the wrong string several times.
But he still felt that the moment the guitar sound appeared, his world seemed to be purified. He was once again back to his youth when he was hiding in the music classroom and playing the guitar.
Yan Sui said that if he wanted to play it, he could try it.
Lin Jingyang was still a little hesitant.
Seeing him hesitate, she stuffed the guitar into his arms and said, "We've come this far. No matter what we do, the ending won't be worse than what we have now. So why not do more of what you like and make yourself happier?"
She smiled and said, "Actually, I also want to go back to the year when we first met."
The year before anything happened.
From then on, Yan Sui became his only good friend in the hospital.
It also became his only light during his lowest period.
As long as Yan Sui exists, he will be able to recall the warmth of those days in a dream he had lost.
When he was sick, it was Yan Sui who gave him direction to live his life again.
As they spent time together, he felt a throbbing and warmth he had never felt before. Whenever he was with Yan Sui, his heart and other organs would always roar in his body. Every time they were close, his heart would beat wildly for a long time.
When the last syllable of the piano flowed out from her fingers, his heartstrings trembled. Inspired by the piano music, the little bud in his heart slowly sprouted from the soil in his heart.
In an instant, an idea came to Lin Yangyang's mind.
The day his illness disappears and he gets better, he will tell Yan Sui that he wants to be with her forever.
But when Yan Sui was 35 years old, his illness had not yet fully recovered, and Yan Sui fell ill first.
After learning about her illness, when the doctor told her the treatment plan, Yan Sui did not choose to stay in the hospital for chemotherapy.
The doctor advised her earnestly: "You are still young. One more treatment means one more hope, and your life can be extended a little longer."
Yan Sui smiled and said, "I couldn't make decisions about my life before, but now I can finally make decisions about my own body."
She said she wanted to spend the rest of her life happily.
Yan Sui was indeed much stronger than he thought. She faced the disease calmly and quickly found a way out of the panic of the illness. She accepted the illness, accepted death, and accepted the fear.
When Lin Jingyang's eyes were red and he was speechless because of her illness, she could still calmly hand him a bowl of Tremella soup: "Would you like some? I just made it."
She rented a self-built house on the outskirts of the city and planted flowers in the front and back yards.
When Lin Jingyang went to see her, she was standing in front of the potted plants with a kettle, watering the flowers.
Seeing him coming, she smiled and showed him the flowers in the courtyard. "Ever since my family's house was repossessed by the court when I was seventeen, I haven't lived in a house with a front yard or backyard like this again."
Lin Yangyang felt uncomfortable, but he didn't want to deny the other party's interest. He smiled and continued, "So, is this room comfortable to live in now?"
"It's so comfortable! I haven't lived in such a comfortable house in a long time. Every day when I wake up and see these flowers, I feel so happy."
I don’t know if it was related to her mood, but Yan Sui lived longer than the doctor estimated.
A year later, she fell ill due to health reasons.
The doctor said that it only took three months.
Lin Jingyang vented the emotions that he had been holding back for a year at this moment. He sat on a bench in the hospital corridor, his elbows on his knees, curled up into a ball with his hands in his hands, and cried bitterly.
On the contrary, Yan Sui, the patient himself, was much more stable and comforted him: "For so many years, I have been living for others, trying every way to make their lives better. Although it may seem silly to say this, I still want to thank this disease for giving me the courage to live for myself. I have been very happy this year. Thank you, Lin Jingyang."
Lin Jingyang asked her if she had any other wishes, and he wanted to help her realize them.
Yan Sui pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, "Back then, my father schemed to push our family into an abyss, yet he easily abandoned everything and fled abroad to enjoy a carefree life. Wasn't it all too easy for him? If you can find out, I'd like to know how my father escaped."
This was Yan Sui's only wish. Lin Jingyang put all his strength into it and mobilized all his connections to investigate the matter, but he still failed to find out the truth before Yan Sui died.
He broke his promise and failed to complete the task assigned to him by Yan Sui.
It wasn't until three months after Yan Sui's death that he finally figured out everything and investigated the hidden conspiracy. But Yan Sui would never know the truth.
Lin Jingyang held his breath and wanted to understand the matter for Yan Sui.
He slowly climbed back to the top of the company, regaining power, and using his connections and position to help the police complete the investigation.
It was not until the fifth year after Yan Sui's death that Yan Zhaoting was captured in the deep ocean.
That day, Yan Sui's brothers and sisters came to see her at her tombstone and told her about this.
After Yan Sui's brother and sister-in-law left, he stayed with Yan Sui for one last night.
The next day he jumped from the top floor of the company.
At the last moment, he thought that he should go to the underworld and tell Yan Sui in person about his broken promise.
But for some reason, he did not meet Yan Sui in the underworld as he wished. Instead, he was reborn back to his 28-year-old self.
The first thing he did after being reborn was to go back to look for Yan Sui's shadow.
However, she discovered that Yan Sui in this life was different from her previous life. She was not with her husband, but they had separated peacefully during college. After graduation, she joined a foreign trade company and became one of the many employees.
Lin Jingyang didn't know why the course of events was different from what Yan Sui had told her in her previous life.
He was also afraid that his actions would change something, so he carefully maintained the trajectory of this world's actions while secretly observing Yan Sui.
Without Yu Shuli in this life, Yan Sui devoted herself to the workplace. She climbed up step by step from an intern to a team leader, and her life was slowly getting back on track.
When Lin Jingyang saw her current state, he felt sincerely happy for her.
Seeing that his return had no impact here, he began to prepare things on his side.
Things were not going smoothly at his company, and he planned to get to know Yan Sui in this life after he had dealt with the company's affairs. It didn't matter if the other party didn't recognize him, as long as he could get to know someone new.
But Lin Jingyang didn't expect that he would never wait for this day to come.
While he was on a business trip abroad, he received a notice from his assistant in China telling him that Yan Sui had been in a car accident on the highway.
Lin Jingyang immediately dropped all the company affairs and took the earliest flight back home.
When he heard the assistant's report on the plane, he learned that Yan Sui's mother had died in the ICU and her position in the company had been taken away by someone with connections.
As soon as he got off the plane, Lin Jingyang drove the car driven by his assistant to the hospital. However, due to speeding and the slippery road due to rain, the car skidded and hit the roadblock next to him, and he died on the spot.
The second before he died, he was thinking, it would be great if he went to find Yan Sui as soon as he came back.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was reborn.
After two rebirths and three lives, this time, he didn't want to make any plans, nor did he want to consider the rules of any world. He wanted to go to Yan Sui immediately.
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