Chapter 114 Who Should I Hate
Was he so obvious? Chu Yuan smiled bitterly and didn't answer Jiang Ran's question immediately.
He didn't know how to answer.
Did something bad happen between them?
Not really.
It was just that she unilaterally refused to communicate, and he also didn't want to accept the truth he imagined.
"We... are in a cold war." Chu Yuan thought of a suitable word, "Maybe we don't know how to communicate with each other, so..."
"Huh?" Jiang Ran felt she couldn't understand. "Why is this a cold war? We're all adults, why can't we just talk it out?"
Chu Yuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Things are not as simple as you think... Ranran, if you have nothing to do, you can go to my house to accompany her."
Everyone has their own difficulties, and Chu Yuan is no exception.
Faced with the man's hesitation, Jiang Ran didn't pursue the matter and nodded in response: "I just happen to have nothing to do today."
When they finally parted ways, Chu Yuan smiled gratefully and said, "Thank you for your help, Ranran."
…
There were two soft knocks on the door, and the girl who was sleeping with a diary in her arms slowly woke up.
The only one who would knock on the door at this time is Chu Yuan.
He finally realized something was wrong and came to confront her.
The girl put down her notebook and stood up to open the door.
"Clang clang! Fresh cantaloupe!" Jiang Ran held the cut fruit in front of her at the door and said in a raised tone, "This is my first gift since I started working! Are you surprised?"
"Jiang Ran?" Infected by her cheerful mood, the girl's voice became more lively. "Why are you here?"
"I heard from Sister Yaoyao that you've recovered your memory. I came home from get off work and stopped by to see you." Jiang Ran put the key in her hand and said, "I met Captain Chu on my way back. He gave me the key to the front door, and I just walked in without saying hello."
The girl said "oh" and stepped aside to let her into the house.
After entering the room, Jiang Ran sat on the chair opposite the girl, opened the package, and handed the cut fruit to her: "This is a reward from my workplace. Try it. It's the first cantaloupe grown in our base's simulated natural ecological planting test site."
Knowing how precious the fruit was, the girl carefully picked up a piece and ate it.
After she chewed it slowly and swallowed it, Jiang Ran blinked and asked, "How does it taste?"
"Well, not particularly sweet."
"Haha, maybe there's not enough sunshine, and the temperature difference between day and night isn't that big? We'll adjust it later." Jiang Ran laughed. "Originally, they said the first fruit to grow would be sent to the Shen family, who are in charge of the base. I insisted on rewarding the staff, so I cut it into many pieces for everyone to taste together. I brought some left over for us to bring out - you're the first person outside our experimental base to taste it."
After hearing her simple description, the girl laughed: "They just let you divide it up casually?"
"It's not casual." Jiang Ran said confidently, "I argued with our person in charge for a long time - in the end he didn't win the argument, so I divided it up."
Worried that she might get into trouble, the girl asked, "Did Professor Si ask you to go to work?"
"I don't have much to do at the base. I can't just be lazy and rely on him for support." Jiang Ran clenched her fists. "Girls have to rely on themselves. Supporting yourself is the best way!"
"Does Professor Si know what happened today?"
"Oh, I heard there were guests at the base, and he was called by the Shen family to greet them, so he probably didn't know." Jiang Ran raised his clenched fist in front of his eyes and made a cheering gesture. "I never bother others with things I can handle myself. It's my principle."
Looking at Jiang Ran quietly, the sadness in the girl's eyes faded and filled with a smile: "Ranran, you remind me of my sister - you look a lot like her."
It seemed like the girl's smile was different from before, or perhaps her whole person had changed. Jiang Ran also looked at her: "Qi Yuan, did Captain Chu do anything excessive to you? Why do I feel like you've aged so many years?"
How many years older? The girl's eyelids twitched: This girl really likes to tell the truth.
"Are you old?" The girl didn't get angry, but agreed, "Maybe I am."
She has died once, so why should she care about whether she is old or not?
"Qi Yuan." Jiang Ran confirmed that the girl who had regained her memory was different from before. "You are not always looking forward to remembering the past. I thought that no matter what the past was, you were ready to face it calmly."
The girl smiled bitterly: "I thought I was prepared to face it calmly." But it turned out that she was not as strong as she thought, or rather, the past in her memory was more difficult for her to accept than she could have imagined.
"Qi Yuan, Sister Yaoyao said that you lost your memory because someone hypnotized you and deliberately changed your memory." Jiang Ran asked, "Is it your parents?"
She is the daughter of the Qi family. Who would dare to change her memory without the consent of the Qi family elders?
The girl lowered her eyes and didn't answer.
Silence is tantamount to acquiescence.
Jiang Ran asked: "Why?"
"It's to avoid some bad things." The girl's eyes were a little dazed, and she murmured, "I always thought they didn't love me, but only my sister. Later, I thought they might not even love my sister, but..."
"What?"
"But after the disaster, I realized that maybe they loved me too, but they just used the wrong way."
"Were they with you when the disaster happened?"
"Yes." The girl's expression darkened as she recalled the first week. "Ranran, my parents died tragically... My father was beaten to death by a mutant for a little food, and my mother... starved to death in order to leave food for me."
All the good and bad memories of the past flooded into her mind, and tears welled up in the girl's eyes: "It was not until then that I realized that maybe they loved me too, even more than I thought."
She choked up: "I don't even know who to hate."
Do you hate her parents? They died protecting her.
"Four years ago, my sister and I were in a car accident. My sister died in the accident and I was the only one who survived.
“At that time, everyone outside knew that Qi Yao, one of the Qi family’s twins, was engaged to the eldest son of the Chu family, Chu Yuan, and that the younger sister, Qi Yuan, was about to be engaged to the second son of the Chu family.
“Since only one of the twins survived, my father chose to preserve the second path for Chu Yuan, who had already lost all value.
"He found a skilled psychologist who hypnotized his eldest daughter, who had just woken up, causing her to forget everything that had happened before. He then announced to the public that the child who died in the car accident was the older twin."
From then on, according to the descriptions of her parents and relatives, the elder sister followed her parents' expectations and lived like her younger sister.
After hearing this, Jiang Ran had sorted out everything.
Even though she had known for a long time that the girl was hiding a secret, she still found it hard to believe when she heard it now.
"So, actually you are..."
Out of caution, she ultimately did not say the name.
"Ranran, tell me, who should I hate?" The girl forced a smile that was uglier than crying. "I thought someone who only cared about profit died to protect me. In the whole story, I was the only one who survived... Actually, it might have been a good thing that I died in that car accident a long time ago."
(End of this chapter)
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