He held her rounded shoulders and spoke gently, as if coaxing a child, "There's no one else here. You can say whatever you want. Say what's been weighing on your mind. It will make you feel better."
Xiao Yisheng stared at him blankly, unsure how to respond to his unusual attitude and tone. She opened her mouth, but ultimately lowered her head instinctively and asked in a low voice, "Is it okay?"
Her cautious tone made Xiao Yiting's heart sink.
Immediately, regret welled up in his eyes.
What terrible things has he done all these years to make her so... timid and submissive?
In fact, not only did Xiao Yisheng feel extremely unfamiliar with him, but he himself also felt a very awkward sense of unfamiliarity from the bottom of his heart, but more than anything, he felt fortunate to have survived a disaster.
Ever since that night at the hotel when he was punched several times by Yan Jingzhou, he would often be awakened in the middle of the night by a series of splitting headaches. At the same time, images he had never seen before, or perhaps had forgotten, would often appear in his mind.
He went to the United States and found all the answers in a small bedroom in the old house where the Xiao family used to live.
The truth is extremely cruel. Like a clown, he abandoned the person he should have loved and protected for so many years for a hazy figure in his dreams.
But it turns out that from beginning to end, the person Gong Ning forgot was not him, and the person he should have remembered was not Gong Ning either.
The little girl who softly said, "Big brother, when I grow up, will you marry me?" wasn't Gong Ning, but...
It's... Xiao Sheng.
His memory became so confused because Gong Ning, who cried and begged for her older brother in the slums that night, triggered his second personality, causing him to subconsciously mistake Gong Ning for Xiao Sheng.
From then on, his second personality gradually took over his mind, slowly turning him into a hypocritical politician who habitually faked smiles...
So the reason why Gong Ning left the Xiao family inexplicably later was because his main personality had returned and told Gong Ning that he was not the older brother she had been longing for; it was just that his appearance at the right time made her self-hypnotize herself into mistaking him for someone else.
Little Gong Ning's hard-won beliefs crumbled just like that. Unable to withstand such a huge shock, she forcibly and selectively forgot that older brother—whom he himself didn't even know.
Xiao Yiting's thoughts were interrupted by the soft sobbing beside him. He looked up in a daze and, by the moonlight, saw the mottled tear tracks on her face. The pink at the corners of her eyes seemed to be revealing all her sadness and grievances in the dim light.
He opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse, "Xiao Sheng... don't cry..."
He had just regained his main personality when he learned that she had a boyfriend. For some reason, he almost couldn't control himself and wanted to question her. She was his Xiao Sheng. But after seeing her overflowing tears, all his rationality returned, and he couldn't bring himself to ask her any questions.
He's been treating her like this all these years, he's a real scoundrel.
He tried to coax her casually, but in reality, he dared not look into her eyes again, afraid of seeing the disappointment he absolutely did not want to witness...
Her sobs gradually grew louder, no longer suppressed, and eventually, as if she had collapsed, she burst into tears.
Suddenly, she threw herself into his arms, hugging him tightly, her voice broken and incoherent, "Brother, you're back, right? You remembered me, didn't you? You defeated your second personality and remembered me, didn't you?"
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