The others also noticed something amiss, so at Yan Bin's signal, they all left the office, leaving the two of them enough space.
Sun Wu did not stop them, after all, he also wanted to know whether Shen Mu Ning was his junior.
Seeing that he didn't stop her, Shen Mu Ning didn't say anything more.
Only after everyone had left and Yan Bin had closed the office door for them did he continue speaking.
"Amnesia?" If what he said is true, then it is understandable.
"Yes, I lost my memory in a battle more than 30 years ago, and ever since then I have been trying to find my hometown."
"However, all the people I used to know are dead, and no one knows where I came from."
Although Sun Tzu only used these two sentences to explain the situation at that time.
But Shen Muling knew that they had fought a very difficult battle.
He was probably the only one in his unit who survived by sheer luck, and even then, it was a near-death experience.
After a brief pause, Sun Wu finally revealed his original purpose for wanting to see her.
"When Yan Bin told me that you could use hypnosis to know a person's deepest secrets, I wanted to meet you."
Upon hearing him mention his hypnosis skills, Shen Mu Ning understood why this high-ranking military officer was here.
He probably wanted her to try and help him regain his memories.
So, you still want to remember the past?
To be honest, she was quite surprised to learn that he still wanted to find his memories after more than 30 years of amnesia.
After all, judging from his appearance, he should have been doing quite well these past years, so why bother chasing after those illusory memories from the past?
"Well, I just know that there seems to be someone waiting for me to come home, so I'm trying to remember."
His friends and comrades all urged him to give up, but he kept dreaming.
I dreamt of the back door of a house. He was walking away in front of me, and the people behind him kept staring at his back.
He thought that must be the image of his family before he joined the army.
But after all these years, he still couldn't see the person's face clearly.
Otherwise, he has plenty of ways to find that person or his own home.
Shen Mu Ning nodded in understanding. She guessed that the person Sun Wu was talking about must be her maternal grandfather.
She wasn't sure until he remembered, so she simply nodded to indicate that she understood.
"After learning about your abilities, I had the idea of having you help me regain my memories, so I arranged for someone to investigate you."
After saying this, Sun Wu made a point of looking at Shen Mu Ning, and only continued speaking after seeing that her expression was completely normal.
She immediately noticed his look and knew he was worried that she would reject him because of it.
However, Shen Muling considered this to be a perfectly normal thing.
After all, his position was different now, and she was the one who needed to hypnotize him, so he should naturally be more careful.
Therefore, she had no resistance to it.
“Child, actually, after Zhou Zhou saw you, he came back and asked me if I had found my successor.”
“I was very excited at the time, but I was afraid it would all be for nothing, so I held back from seeing you right away.”
"I'm taking this opportunity of interrogating the prisoner to see you."
If Shen Mu Ning is his junior, he can inquire about the Sun family's affairs after acknowledging her.
If she weren't, he could try to get her to hypnotize him and help him regain his memories.
Of course, from the moment Shen Mu Ning's questioning gaze fell on him, he knew that this must be his child.
And one must have seen what he looked like when he was young to see him with that kind of expression later on.
"Judging from your expression, you must have seen my photo, or met someone who looks like me?"
Because he has lost his memory, it is impossible to determine which situation it is.
“I have indeed seen a photo of my maternal grandfather and mother together, and my maternal grandfather’s younger brother is in it.”
“You look a lot like my second maternal grandfather, but I can’t be sure right now.”
Shen Mu Ning knew that Sun Wu was most likely her maternal grandfather, since they shared the same name.
Upon hearing her say this, Sun Wu simply took a jade pendant out of his pocket.
"Look at this, does it look familiar?" It was the jade pendant engraved with the character 'Sun'.
Picking up this jade pendant, I saw that the reverse side had the character "孙" (Sun) written in clerical script.
According to what the original owner's mother, Sun Qing, said, the identity tokens of the Sun family members used to be made of jade.
However, when the whole country fell into chaos, the Sun family changed to silver pendants in order to avoid flaunting their wealth.
She was even more certain that this was the original owner's second maternal grandfather.
So she took out the pendant she always wore around her neck and showed him the inscription on it.
He then explained, "According to my mother, my grandfather made this out of silver after the war."
Of course, in reality, she shouldn't have this; it belonged to her mother.
Sun Wu stroked the writing on the pendant; it seemed to be a notebook of his thoughts.
He knew very well that Shen Mu Ning was truly his junior.
To be precise, she is his elder brother's granddaughter, and his niece's granddaughter.
"Good child, although I haven't remembered the past, I'm certain that you are now a junior member of my family."
"We still have important business to attend to, so let's stop here for today. After this matter is settled, you can try your hypnosis on me again?"
Shen Mu Ning also knew that she hadn't come today to reunite with her relatives.
So after putting the pendant away, she nodded gently: "Okay, then I'll show it to you after the interrogation is over."
Even after all that had been said, she still hadn't uttered the word "Second Grandfather".
Upon hearing this, the expectation in Sun Tzu's eyes vanished instantly.
Although all indications now suggest that Sun Wu is indeed a relative of the original owner of this body, she simply cannot bring herself to call him that.
The main reason is that she was an orphan in her previous life and had no relatives.
After arriving here, my second uncle's family of relatives is worse off than if they had never been there.
So even though she saw the expectation in Sun Wu's eyes, she pretended not to see it.
Afterwards, Sun Wu composed himself and did not force her. He simply opened the door and went out on his own.
His bodyguard, Wu Shuo, was guarding the door, while the others stood a little further away.
Shen Mu Ning then followed him out of the office.
"Commander Sun?" "Lieutenant General Sun."
Two different forms of address were heard: one was Wu Shuo's concerned greeting, and the other was from Yan Bin and the others.
"You..." Wu Shuo only learned that Sun Wu had lost his memory after Zhou Zhou returned.
Of course, he also knew that this Shen Mu Ning was likely a junior colleague of Commander Sun.
Because she could see how much her commander valued his junior, she instinctively wanted to ask him what was going on when she saw him come out.
Of course, Yan Bin, Ji Heng, and the others were also curious about their relationship, but they didn't want to gossip in front of their superiors.
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