Chapter 62: Strange
"Xiya, do you like Chen Xun?"
Eighteen-year-old Zhao Nanyu licked the ice cream in his hand and asked Xi Ya, who was also eighteen years old.
"Well, I like him and I want to marry him."
Whenever Xi Ya thought about marrying Chen Xun in the future, she couldn't help but reveal a happy and sweet smile on her face.
Zhao Nanyu saw clearly that Xi Ya liked Chen Xun as much as she did.
That's why she changed her major temporarily, left L City and lived in her parents' hometown.
"Chen Xun, Xiya has always liked you, and Ren Yu is just a coincidence."
Putting aside his memories, Zhao Nanyu wanted Chen Xun to understand Xiya's true feelings and not to believe everything he heard and misunderstand Xiya.
"The cake you receive on your birthday every year is not bought by me, but ordered by Xiya."
One day, Zhao Nanyu received a call from Xiya. She asked Zhao Nanyu to help order a cake for Chen Xun every year. She felt very strange at the time and wanted to ask Xiya what was wrong, but Xiya seemed to be busy with something and hung up in a hurry.
A few days later, Xiya died.
"Why aren't you surprised?"
Zhao Nanyu revealed what he had hidden for Xiya, thinking that Chen Xun would react strongly.
"After Xiya's death, I slowly began to figure out some things, and I've almost resolved some misunderstandings."
Chen Xun went to the cake shop and asked the owner. The cake card used by Zhao Nanyu was sent to her by Xiya after she recharged it. The owner had all the records. He knew at a glance that some things were not what he thought, but when he realized it, Xiya was already dead.
"Then you just deliberately led me to believe that Xiya liked Ren Yu. Are you trying to deceive me and fool me again? You even slandered Xiya and cleared yourself. You're going too far."
Zhao Nanyu despised Chen Xun and didn't want to stay in the same space with him for too long.
"Nan Yu, Xiya wants me to think that she likes Ren Yu. I just think so. Isn't that okay?"
Zhao Nanyu was stunned. Yes, isn’t it good?
Chen Xun watched as Zhao Nanyu finally took out the engagement ring he had always been wearing, "Nanyu, take another look at this."
Zhao Nanyu looked around at the platinum ring. There was nothing new about it, but he felt upset.
Chen Xun pinched her nose and looked in the direction he pointed. The inner circles of the two platinum rings were printed with CX and ZNY respectively.
"How come?"
"Try putting it on again."
Chen Xun took the ring engraved with his initials and put it on Zhao Nanyu's ring finger on his right hand. It fit perfectly.
Zhao Nanyu put the same one on Chen Xun. They looked at each other and felt uncomfortable.
"How did Xiya get her engagement ring in my size, with my name on it, and why is it on the ring finger?"
Both of them knew all the answers to their questions, and Xiya had prepared it specially for them.
"You said I was engaged to Xiya, but I was wearing a ring with your name engraved on it. Zhao Nanyu, am I with Xiya or with you?"
Chen Xun sneered. He should really thank Xi Ya for the arrangement. He also hugged her left and right.
"I'm not a commodity. You push me around. Have you ever asked me if I'm willing? Is my love so cheap? Do I have to like whoever you tell me to like?"
They had said that some things should not be mentioned again, but every time Chen Xun thought about how he was pushed back and forth between the two of them, he felt uncomfortable.
"No."
Zhao Nanyu felt a little guilty when he thought about what he had done.
"Zhao Nanyu, I've said so much, don't you have anything you want to confess?"
Chen Xun calmed down and talked about another thing he cared about.
"What?"
Zhao Nanyu, who hadn't digested it yet, looked at Chen Xun.
"Let me ask you, is it Xiya who sends the birthday letter every year?"
Every year there would be a letter addressed to him in the mailbox. There was no signature, no address, not even a single word in the envelope. There was only a photo, a photo of him and Xiya.
Chen Xun had seen the photos and they were not taken by him and Xi Ya. The angle of the photos looked like a candid shot. He guessed that Zhao Nanyu had secretly recorded him and Xi Ya when no one knew about it.
Zhao Nanyu didn't dare to look into his eyes. How could a grown man be so meticulous that he could notice this? The photos she chose were similar to normal group photos, and they were all sent together with the cake. This shouldn't be right.
With her like this, there was nothing Chen Xun didn't understand.
"You see Xiya and I talking and laughing in front of you, and how do you feel walking alone behind? Zhao Nanyu, I feel pain even if you don't feel pain."
Zhao Nanyu nestled beside Chen Xun, helping him to calm down and stroking his outline.
"Chen Xun, why do you think Xiya and I would fall in love with the same person?"
Xiya and she are obviously two different types of people, and they like different things, but the man fell in love with the same thing without any prior agreement.
Zhao Nanyu tried, in the five years after Xiya's death, or in the ten, fifteen or even longer years that they had known each other, but she had never been able to give up Chen Xun.
She sometimes wondered what would have happened to them if it hadn't been the end of the world and she hadn't called Chen Xun that day to return to L City?
She should still be working as a Vlog blogger in the old house. Chen Xun is taking his class in L City, and they meet on their mobile phone WeChat Moments.
Chen Xun didn't answer her, he couldn't answer either.
If love can be controlled, it is no longer love.
"Chen Xun, do you find Xiya's death strange?"
Putting the stories together, it seems that Xiya knew that she was going to die, so she arranged everything in advance.
Engagement, rings, cake, and maybe something else.
Chen Xun also noticed something was wrong, and remembered something he couldn't figure out, so he asked, "Have you ever lost your memory?"
"Amnesia? No."
Zhao Nanyu didn't understand what the connection was between amnesia and Xiya's death.
"I can't remember how Xiya died."
"Didn't Xiya die of... illness?"
wrong.
Zhao Nanyu couldn't remember how Xiya died.
She only remembered that when she heard the news of Xiya's death, she rushed back to L City overnight. Someone told her that Xiya had died of illness, but she had not seen Xiya lying on the hospital bed with her own eyes. She only heard it from others.
The two men stood up instantly, and since the tent was not big, their heads bumped into each other.
"Ouch, that hurts."
Chen Xun rubbed Zhao Nanyu's head and continued, "I don't remember the person who told me Xiya died of illness. It seems like I just woke up one day and someone else has been filling my head with this deep-rooted information."
Zhao Nanyu and Chen Xun took out their soy milk buns and began to nibble on them. After taking a sip or two of the soy milk, they both suddenly shuddered and said in unison, "We've been hypnotized."
"Damn it, Xiya must have been murdered."
"We must find out the truth and avenge Xiya."
"Why did that man want to harm Xiya?"
"And who is that person?"
The two checked Xiya's social circle one by one, and even studied Xiya's deceased grandmother in detail, but found no clues about that person.
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