“My name is indeed Yan Qing, I haven’t lied to you about that. However, the ‘qing’ that everyone recognizes is not the ‘qing’ of clear, but the ‘qing’ of green.”
“Yan Qing is my twin sister, and I am her brother. She died to save me, but I couldn’t accept that fact. So after her body was devoured by the interstellar monster, I lied to everyone and made them think that I was the one who died. And I am Yan Qing.”
Yan Qing's words were so informative that Qiao Mei was momentarily overwhelmed and unsure how to respond.
Yan Qing had anticipated her reaction, so he wasn't in a hurry. Instead, he picked up the drink he had poured for himself and continued, "I only told Shang Duojin about this, because he knows Xiaoqing best. I definitely can't hide it from him."
Qiao Mei also said it was strange that Shang Duojin had previously thought that asking Yan Qing to help him pretend to be his fiancée would not lead to any problems.
Now she understands, if the genders are wrong, what kind of accident could happen?
"I didn't intend to tell you this so soon, but now that you're about to get married to Cang Ao, I feel it's time."
“I should have been in this photo too, but I didn’t have time to come and take it. Now it seems you don’t remember it either, and you don’t remember what you said to me before, but it’s okay.”
As Yan Qing spoke, he turned on his smartwatch and sent a video to Qiao Mei.
"I was wearing a smart bracelet when I recorded this. You'll understand what I mean once you see it."
The video quality is very blurry, and the sound is intermittent, but it is generally clear that it is indeed a video from twelve years ago.
It's not very long, only fifteen minutes in total.
Aside from the beginning when Yan Qing, in his boy form, says a few words to the smart bracelet that he is about to go find the person he likes to confirm his feelings, the rest is a long walking phase.
The place they were in looked strange, somewhat like a large prison, but more spacious.
There were soldiers patrolling around, and all the children were wearing the same gray-white short-sleeved shirts and shorts.
Qiao Mei couldn't understand, so she asked Yan Qing, "Where exactly is this?"
"In the former Allied Forces prison, we were children of several powerful families. Because the relationship between the Federation Army and the Alliance Army had reached a freezing point, we organized a large-scale kidnapping. You don't remember, probably because the shock you experienced at the time was too great, and you selectively forgot this memory after being rescued."
Qiao Mei had heard Gong Jing talk about the former interstellar alliance forces when she was taking classes at the Federal Academy.
It is said that the most advanced batch of mechs were manufactured at the former Allied Forces in the interstellar era.
However, due to differing stances, the Interstellar Alliance was unwilling to believe in the so-called sacred beast, leading to a significant disagreement with the Federation Army.
They believed that sentencing someone to death and exiling them to a junk planet for failing to awaken their familiar's talent was inhumane, and that this had led to many years of civil war with the Federation army.
But the fact that the children of several powerful families were captured and taken prisoner was probably a secret, and she had never heard of it.
Just as I was thinking this, a tiny little girl appeared in the scene of the video.
She was sitting under a huge sycamore tree, seemingly waiting for something.
Upon noticing Xiao Yanqing approaching, her red eyes instantly lit up as she stood up and patted the maple leaves stuck to her bottom.
"Brother Qing, you're here! Did you bring the things for making the swing? Won't those people find out?"
Qiao Mei noticed that although the people in the video were prisoners in a former Allied Army prison, they were all fair-skinned and chubby, and it was obvious that they had not been abused.
They can even get things to make swings.
She recalled the evaluations of the former Allied forces that she had seen in the interstellar encyclopedia, and for a moment she didn't know whether she should believe them or not.
The above states that the former Allied forces were extremely vicious and used very cruel methods when dealing with enemies; skinning and dismembering were just the most basic methods.
The subsequent negative comments were even more outrageous; they went to great lengths to create a negative impression of the former Allied forces.
Based on the footage, she now feels that the facts are definitely different from what has been recorded.
"I brought it. Come over and help me out. Once it's tied up, sit down. I have a very important question to ask you!"
Xiao Qiao Mei nodded obediently, helped Xiao Yan Qing hold the wooden board and watched him tie the ropes. After tying the swing to the tree, she couldn't wait to sit on it.
Xiao Yanqing stopped her at this moment, looking at her with a very serious expression and said, "You can sit on it, but this is a swing for my future bride. Meimei, if you want to sit on it, you have to promise to be my bride in the future, otherwise you can't sit on it."
The result was obvious: Qiao Mei's love for the swing prompted her to sit on it, and she readily agreed, "I want to sit on it! Then I'll be Brother Aqing's bride later!!"
Xiao Yanqing's face was not recorded by the quantum computer, but Qiao Mei could still guess his expression from his joyful voice.
"Really? You can't go back on your word now! Pinky promise, if you ever fall for someone else, Meimei, I'll show you this!"
With an innocent look on her face, Xiao Qiaomei obediently extended her little finger and made a pinky promise with Xiao Yanqing.
The video ends here after fifteen minutes.
Qiao Mei looked at the now-blacked-out video, and when she looked up at Yan Qing again, she didn't know what to say.
She truly had none of these memories, and never imagined that the original owner of this body had made such a promise with someone when she was young.
Although they were all very young at the time, she could see the seriousness in Yan Qing's eyes in the video.
He truly took the words the original owner of the body said back then as a promise and expectation, and kept them in his heart.
But now, she is engaged to Ao Cang, and they are even about to get married.
Yan Qing tried to see a hint of guilt or helplessness in Qiao Mei's eyes, but found none.
There was only surprise and confusion.
"Gan Gan, I really don't remember these things, I'm so sorry."
Qiao Mei didn't call him by his name again, but instead called him by the name they used when they first met.
As intelligent as Yan Qing was, he immediately understood what it meant.
Qiao Mei was telling him that she would only treat him as a close friend and nothing more.
This ending was actually one of the outcomes he had envisioned, so it wasn't too hard to accept.
I still feel a sudden emptiness in my heart, which was originally filled with passion.
He gave a bitter smile, distanced himself from her, and looked up at her, still unwilling to give up, asking, "Then, I have one more question I want to ask you. You must give me the most honest answer, okay?"
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