Chapter 112, Recovered Memory
After Qi Yuan went in, he didn't come out for a long time. Chu Yuan walked around the hall twice, walked to the door and lit a cigarette.
He smokes, but he's not addicted. He only smokes when he's upset.
Perhaps because he was too nervous, he choked and almost coughed up tears.
The man threw away the cigarette in annoyance, and when he turned around, he saw a familiar figure slowly walking out of the laboratory.
"Qi Yuan?" He hurried to meet her, and as expected, he saw that the girl's eyes were red. "Are you okay? It doesn't matter if you don't remember. We're not in a hurry..."
"Chu..." She really wanted to call his name, but the helplessness and confusion stuck in her chest made her only able to squeeze out one word before she could no longer make a sound.
"Qi Yuan?" Chu Yuan had a bad premonition in his heart. He held her shoulders and asked in a low voice, "What happened? Don't scare me."
"Chu Yuan." She pursed her lips and uttered three words, "I'm sorry."
After saying that, the girl covered her face with her hands, slowly squatted down, and burst into tears.
Chen Yao happened to see this scene when she came out. The girl sighed, walked to the bewildered Chu Yuan, and patted his shoulder.
"Seventh Brother guessed right, it really is hypnosis."
Hypnosis? After Qi Yuan's car accident, someone hypnotized her and made her forget the past? No, if that were true, had she really been in a car accident? Or was even the car accident a lie fabricated by the Qi family?
After a brief moment of confusion, Chu Yuan calmed down.
Whether her amnesia was caused by hypnosis or something else, it doesn't matter now.
He thought it through. He wanted her to regain her memory so badly simply because he didn't want her to forget the good times they once had, and he didn't want him to leave no trace in her past years.
In the Qi and Chu families, except for the two of them, everyone has become a victim of the disaster. He has long let go of the past, so she doesn't need to blame herself.
Squatting in front of the girl, Chu Yuan touched her head and said softly, "Don't cry, Qi Yuan... the past is the past. I no longer have any resentment towards your family."
"I know, I know..." She slowly stopped crying and choked, "Chu Yuan, I'm sorry."
I'm sorry, in the end, I still deceived you.
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It was not until the head of the Chu family committed suicide in prison that she learned what her father and the second master of the Chu family had done together.
The girl rushed into her father's room and questioned his decision.
"I'm already engaged to Chu Yuan. The Qi and Chu families are relatives. Father, why are you helping outsiders deal with Uncle Chu?"
Compared to her excitement, Qi Zhengguo seemed quite relaxed, perhaps even smug at the success of his plan: "You're just a kid, what do you know?"
He leaned back in his chair and smoked: "Even if the Chu family's direct lineage is defeated, the Qi family and the Chu family are still relatives."
"Father?" she blurted out, her eyes wide in disbelief. "You're planning to use Xiaoyuan as a tool for marriage?"
The eldest daughter is already engaged to Chu Yuan, so even if it is to avoid suspicion, it is impossible for her to be promised to the son of the second branch of the Chu family.
Therefore, if the Qi family needs to maintain the in-law relationship between the Qi and Chu families, the Qi family can only offer their second daughter Qi Yuan.
Facing his eldest daughter's questioning, Qi Zhengguo calmly replied: "Your sister is the same age as you, it's time for her to have a boyfriend."
"In that case, why bother with so much trouble, father?" We should still marry into the Chu family. Wouldn't it be better to have a legitimate heir to the Chu family?
"Qi Yao, do you really not understand, or are you pretending not to understand, why did I agree to cooperate with Master Chu?" Qi Zhengguo sneered as he crushed his cigarette butt in the ashtray. "Marrying into the Chu family was just to get support for the company. Now the company is facing a financial crisis, but the Chu family has been reluctant to agree to financing. Waiting for you and Chu Yuan to marry? By the time you get married, the Qi family will have collapsed long ago!"
Knowing the current situation of the company, Qi Yao didn't know how to refute his father for a moment.
"Since Second Master Chu can save our Qi family, why should I hang myself on a tree in the eldest house?" Qi Zhengguo said earnestly, shocking his daughter. "Yaoyao, when you inherit the company, you'll understand that for a businessman, the least valuable thing is friendship."
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Coming out of the study, Qi Yao was stunned to see her sister standing in the corridor.
She quickly closed the study door and took her sister's hand: "Qi Yuan, what are you doing here? Go back to your room first..."
Silently shaking off her hand, the girl looked at her elder sister coldly and said slowly: "Qi Yao, have you been convinced by your father?"
"Wha…what?"
"You've been persuaded by Dad, and you also think that businessmen don't need to be friendly with each other?" the girl said coldly, "You also think that Dad was right to betray his faith and frame the Chu Yuan family?"
Knowing that she had heard everything that had just been said, Qi Yao fell silent.
"Qi Yao, answer me." Unlike her usual cheerful and bright self, the girl looked very similar to her sister when she turned cold. "Do you really agree with Daddy's approach?"
"I..." Qi Yao smiled bitterly.
Of course she disagreed, but what was the point of saying it out loud? Especially saying it here, other than angering her father, it would not help Chu Yuan in any way.
"Qi Yao." Facing her silence, Qi Yuan laughed sadly, "You like Chu Yuan, right?"
“…”
"You like Chu Yuan, but you don't dare admit it. You think your father did something wrong, but you don't dare admit it either." She sneered, "Qi Yao, you are a coward!"
After the girl finished speaking, she threw the book she was holding at her face.
She didn't dodge and took several blows. Blood flowed from her forehead and her vision was blurred.
Qi Yuan was also frightened by the scene before him. His face changed slightly. He wanted to step forward, but stopped again.
"Qiyuan!" The elder who heard the noise came out of the study and saw the blood on his eldest daughter's face. He was so angry that he almost fainted. "What are you doing?!"
"I'm not messing around." Seeing her father, the girl's brief hesitation turned into determination. "Dad, I've been in love with Chu Yuan as Qi Yao, and I'm also the one who's engaged to Chu Yuan. If you want me to get engaged to other grandchildren of the Chu family, ask them if they dare to accept me."
"What did you say?!" Did he think he had misheard? Qi Zhengguo's eyes widened, his gaze darting between his two daughters, and he got the answer from Qi Yao's face, "You two..."
He was furious: "Go back to your room! No one is allowed to leave without my permission!"
"I won't! I'm going to find Chu Yuan! I want to tell him the truth!" Compared to her sister's silence, the younger sister spoke fiercely, loudly accusing her father, "I want to tell Chu Yuan that the elder he trusted is a liar!"
"Oh, go find Chu Yuan?" Qi Zhengguo didn't get angry, but just smiled coldly and ordered the housekeeper who stood motionless beside him, "Arrange for someone to keep the Second Young Miss under my watch. I've already promised Second Master Chu, Qi Yuan, don't think you can do whatever you want just because I indulge you on a daily basis."
As soon as he finished speaking, the housekeeper and the servants blocked Qi Yuan's way, forcibly holding the girl's arm and taking her back to the room.
"Don't touch me! I want to get out, let me go!"
The girl's voice was cut off as the door closed. Qi Zhengguo stared coldly at the door for a moment, then turned to his other daughter.
"Yaoyao, do you know what to do?"
(End of this chapter)
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