Ji Wei never expected that she would see such a scene upon returning:
Jiang Fei sat on the sofa, her long hair draped over her right shoulder, her shirt hanging down, her snow-white back bare, gleaming with a lustrous sheen under the dim light. Even with her prosthetic eye, which couldn't see very clearly, one could still sense a certain allure.
A strange young man was sitting in her usual spot, gently stroking her bare back with one hand.
Ambiguous yet harmonious.
Ji Wei clenched her fists tightly. The joy of regaining her sight had not yet completely dissipated before it was replaced by anger.
I tried my best to stay rational, but anger kept surging up, inexplicably and overwhelmingly.
Hearing the sound at the door, Jiang Fei quickly put on her clothes, turned around, and her eyes lit up when she saw Ji Wei. She immediately stood up and asked, "You're back? Can you see me? How do you feel..."
Her voice trailed off when she met Ji Wei's furious gaze, and her previously joyful expression froze: "...What's wrong with you?"
Lin Jiu, who was on the sofa, also stood up.
He detected that Ji Wei's anger level was constantly rising.
Ji Wei glanced at Lin Jiu, then looked at Jiang Fei, her voice growing increasingly somber: "What are you and him doing?"
She had told him she liked him before, risked her life to get a prosthetic eye from the black market for him, and even... kissed him. Now, he's only been gone for a day, and she's sitting half-naked with another man!
Could they get even closer if she came back a little later?
Jiang Fei looked slightly flustered and glanced at Lin Jiu, tightening her coat: "I didn't do anything, it's just..."
"Just taking off your clothes in front of a strange man and letting him touch you?" Ji Wei interrupted her, her voice suppressed, "Jiang Fei, do you know what the difference between men and women is? Do you know that you can't let strangers into your room? Do you know..."
He stopped before he could finish speaking.
Jiang Fei was looking at him intently, her eyes sparkling, as if she were extremely happy.
Ji frowned slightly.
Jiang Fei suddenly said, "Ji Wei, are you jealous?" Her eyes were full of anticipation and joy.
Ji Wei's expression changed slightly. After a moment, she took a small step back and subconsciously retorted, "How could that be!"
"Can……"
Jiang Fei was about to say something when Ji Wei interrupted her: "I... I just don't like that you have Ranran's memories and are still getting involved with other men..."
The expectation in Jiang Fei's eyes suddenly froze, her face turned pale, and after a while she murmured, "I see."
Ji Wei thought that bringing up Ranran would bring her some comfort and make her feel better, but looking at Jiang Fei's expression, she felt even more choked up.
He could only be more forceful: "So, from now on, you're not allowed to..."
"And what about you?" Jiang Fei asked in a low voice.
Ji Wei was stunned for a moment: "What?"
"Where did you go?" Jiang Fei asked again. "After regaining your sight, you couldn't even wait for me to wake up. Who is this person you're so eager to see?"
As Ji Wei listened to her words, she thought of the "like" she heard her mutter in her sleep before leaving, and the Ranran she saw downstairs at the Gu family's building. Her mind was in complete chaos.
“I could guess even if you didn’t say it,” Jiang Fei chuckled self-deprecatingly. “You must have gone to see Miss Lin, right?”
Ji Wei's eyes changed slightly, and she moved her lips, but couldn't bring herself to deny it.
He did indeed go to the Gu family and meet Lin Ran, which is impossible to refute.
Jiang Fei lowered her head: "I knew it."
After saying that, she didn't look at him again and turned to leave.
Ji Wei looked into her dimming eyes, as if... she was about to give up everything, and a sudden panic gripped her heart. She hurriedly reached out and grabbed her wrist: "Go..."
Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Fei's body trembled slightly as he grasped her wrist, and her face paled slightly, as if she were enduring pain.
"What's going on?" Ji Wei's expression changed slightly.
"It's nothing," Jiang Fei replied almost immediately, and then tried to forcefully break free from his hand.
Ji Wei suddenly increased the force, bent down and rolled up the sleeve that she was covering, then stared intently at her arm.
The scars that were previously invisible are now fully visible.
Her snow-white skin was covered with scars, several of which were bruised, and some wounds were still oozing pus and blood.
Her fingers were slightly curled up from the pain.
These injuries look even more painful than when he first had the accident.
Ji Wei paused, then reached out to remove her hand that was tightly gripping her coat.
"Ji Wei..." Jiang Fei was about to stop her when Ji Wei suddenly spoke up, "Shut up." Her voice was hoarse.
Jiang Fei pursed her lips; Ji Wei had already noticed the injury on her shoulder.
It's not just the arms, but also the shoulders and back.
Last night, when she retrieved her prosthetic eye, her body trembled several times, but she said she was "fine."
Only now do I realize that she was just making excuses for him.
"These injuries are from wearing a prosthetic eye?" Ji Wei asked in a hoarse voice.
Jiang Fei paused for a moment, then forced a smile: "Ji Wei, these are my own matters..."
"Just now, this person was just helping you apply medicine?" Ji Wei pointed at Lin Jiu.
This time, Jiang Fei remained silent, tacitly agreeing.
Ji Wei's breath caught in her throat. After a long while, she walked up to her and asked, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Jiang Fei looked at him with an extremely serious expression: "Ji Wei, it really doesn't hurt at all."
Ji Wei tensed up at her gaze, her Adam's apple bobbing. She turned and walked to Lin Jiu's side, not looking at her, but taking the ointment from beside him. She then looked at Jiang Fei and glanced at the cubicle: "Apply the medicine."
Jiang Fei was puzzled, but after realizing what she meant, her eyes widened in disbelief: "You have to help me..."
Before she could finish speaking, Ji Wei turned and went into the cubicle.
Jiang Fei followed, but then remembered something: "The guests are still outside..."
"Shut up." Ji Wei closed the cubicle door herself.
Only the two of them remained in the narrow and simple cubicle. Only then did Ji Wei see the interior decoration clearly: a bed, a dim light bulb, a simple bedside table, and light-colored fabric stickers on the wall. It was indeed very simple.
Jiang Fei sat on the edge of the bed without moving.
Ji Wei looked at her.
He had seen her with exquisite makeup and gentle eyes when she was by Gu Xi's side. He was no match for her at that time. The woman in front of him was wearing simple and even rough clothes, and her face was much paler than before, but she had a resilient and moving beauty.
"Ji Wei?" Jiang Fei's voice came through.
Ji Wei quickly snapped back to reality, realizing her earlier thoughts. Her mind went blank, and her expression darkened: "Apply the medicine."
As he spoke, he stepped forward.
Jiang Fei paused for a moment: "Didn't you just say that men and women are different?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Wei's expression grew even more unpleasant, and she laughed angrily: "You can let that stranger outside apply the medicine, just because we're men and women?"
Jiang Feileng looked up at him with bright eyes.
Ji Wei frowned; "Why are you looking at me?"
Jiang Fei smiled and shook her head, looked at him for a long time, then took off her coat, revealing her smooth back.
Ji Wei paused for a moment, looking at her completely exposed back, her skin seemingly glowing under the dim light. Her breath hitched, and the small space felt inexplicably warm.
He quickly put aside all other thoughts and walked behind her, gently stroking her back just as she had done when she applied medicine to him.
Her skin was soft and delicate, completely different from the calluses on her hands, but the scars looked very jarring.
These scars shouldn't exist, but because of the prosthetic eye...
Is he really worth all that she sacrificed for? Just because of the memories in her mind?
Perhaps his hand touched the wound, because Jiang Fei unconsciously flinched.
Ji Wei snapped back to reality, then, as if remembering something, said in a deep voice, "Let him leave tomorrow."
"Hmm?" Jiang Fei asked, puzzled, then suddenly realized, glancing at the door of the cubicle. "He was injured and caught in the rain, I felt sorry for him and..."
"You brought him back?" Ji Wei continued, her tone growing increasingly somber.
He could never forget that she had brought him back when he was injured.
Jiang Fei glanced at him sideways and suddenly laughed.
"why are you laughing?"
Jiang Fei pursed her lips and suddenly said, "You really are jealous, aren't you?"
Ji Wei's hand, which was applying medicine to her, froze. Then he felt his heart skip a beat and he took a step back abruptly: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Jiang Fei simply turned around: "It's still raining outside, let him rest in my room for the night, anyway, he still looks like a teenager..."
"No." Ji Wei refused almost instantly.
Jiang Fei watched him silently.
Under her gaze, Ji Wei felt his breathing become much lighter, and the trembling in his heart became more and more obvious. He turned his head in a panic: "The medicine is finished."
He then turned to walk outside.
"Ji Wei," Jiang Fei called out to him.
Ji Wei stopped at the door without turning around.
Jiang Fei said, "I like you, Ji Wei."
The voice was very soft, with a hint of murmur and tenderness.
Ji Wei's back stiffened, and she became increasingly flustered, something churning violently within her.
But he quickly reassured himself, how could it possibly fluctuate?
It must just be a memory playing tricks on me.
This is not the real Jiang Fei.
Once the memories are regained, the person who said those words to him will be Ranran.
Ji Wei's favorability rating: 70.
Behind him, Jiang Fei lowered his eyes and chuckled softly.
Ji Wei remained silent, opened the cubicle door and walked out, but stopped when she saw the boy still standing by the sofa. Her panicked expression turned gloomy again.
That sofa was his territory.
He walked over, didn't even glance at Lin Jiu beside him, and sat down directly.
Jiang Fei walked to the door of the cubicle: "It's still raining outside, you..." She paused.
Lin Jiu looked at her, her eyes calm: "My name is Lin Jiu."
“Lin Jiu,” Jiang Fei nodded, glancing hesitantly at the cramped room, “you are here…”
"A corner is fine," Lin Jiu said calmly.
"Okay," Jiang Fei replied, glancing quickly at Ji Wei.
The latter kept his eyes fixed on her until the cubicle door closed, then slowly withdrew his gaze.
...
late at night.
The Gu Family Building.
Gu Xi sat on the sofa, her long legs crossed, her clear blue eyes slightly lowered, listening to the staff around her extracting and analyzing data and images about Lin Jiu.
"Mr. Gu, the data transmitted by Lin Jiu is very stable, and Miss Jiang's memory is not disordered at all," the staff member reported the results.
"Hmm," Gu Xi replied casually.
"Lin Jiu also sent a message," the staff member said, glancing at the holographic image and zooming in on the figure, which was Ji Wei. "The young master of the Ji family was originally blind, but today he suddenly regained his sight and even came to see Miss Lin."
Gu Xi finally looked up at Ji Wei in the image, her eyes slightly narrowed.
He naturally knew why Ji Wei could see.
Jiang Fei got him a prosthetic eye.
The woman who once looked at him with eyes full of love is now giving everything for another man simply because her memories have been altered.
How come Lin Ran hasn't changed?
Perhaps this only shows that Jiang Fei is more fickle.
However, the first thing Ji Wei did after regaining her sight was to look at Lin Ran...
He never allows anyone else to covet his people or possessions.
Gu Xi stood up, his sharp suit making him look cold and stern. He walked to the image, enlarged Ji Wei's virtual image, and then focused it on his left eye.
“Give Lin Jiu a mission,” Gu Xi said, staring intently at the prosthetic eye in Ji Wei’s left eye, “to interfere with Ji Wei’s prosthetic eye.”
This was a small punishment for him.
Moreover, he was eager to see just how far Jiang Fei would go for this man.
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