Ji Wei didn't know how she got back.
It wasn't until his assistant said, "Mr. Ji, we've arrived," that he finally snapped out of his daze, got out of the car in a daze, and walked into the elevator, but Chen Tong's words kept echoing in his mind.
His eye is intact.
Ji Wei reached out and touched her left eye. After a long while, her fingers suddenly trembled.
Maybe... he's overthinking it.
The elevator arrived at the floor and the doors opened.
"Ji Wei!" A gentle female voice called out, carrying a hint of familiar joy.
Ji Wei looked up and saw Lin Ran standing outside the stairs waiting for him. Her eyebrows and eyes were clear and beautiful, and her white dress complemented the cool-toned buildings around her.
Ji Wei stared at the scene before her, somewhat lost in thought.
It seems... Jiang Fei also loves wearing a white sundress and lounging lazily on the sofa.
"Ji Wei, what's wrong?" Lin Ran asked, reaching out to affectionately take his arm, a gesture she often made when she was with him.
But Ji Wei subconsciously moved aside.
Lin Ran froze in place, her expression a mixture of confusion and grievance for a moment: "Ji Wei?"
Ji Wei avoided her gaze in a panic. He didn't know what was wrong with him, or even why... he couldn't accept Lin Ran's touch, even though she was his fiancée...
"I'm sorry." Ji Wei lowered her eyes, her voice a little hoarse. "How did I end up here?"
Lin Ran was silent for a moment: "Have you forgotten what you said last time about our engagement banquet?"
Ji Wei paused for a moment. Last time, he couldn't wait to attribute his anxiety and soreness to his longing to return to the beginning, and proposed to Lin Ran that they get engaged: "How could I forget?" He forced a smile.
Lin Ran stared intently at his expression: "Should we postpone the engagement banquet? Anyway..."
"No need." Ji Wei interrupted her quickly, her tone too hasty and impatient.
Lin Ran's face paled slightly, and she bit her lower lip.
Ji Wei realized what was happening, and his voice softened considerably: "Ranran, you are my fiancée," his voice gradually lowered, "and always have been." The last four words seemed to be a way of convincing himself.
Lin Ran nodded obediently, but the joy in her eyes disappeared.
Ji Wei, who usually always noticed him, didn't look at him this time. He simply said softly, "I have some things to do. Let my assistant accompany you around."
After saying that, he quickly left.
Lin Ran watched Ji Wei's retreating figure. He had always been a chosen one, proud and noble, yet gentle to her. Now, everything had changed drastically, his temperament had changed, but he remained as gentle to her as ever. But why... did she feel that gentleness had changed? It was as if... he never showed any emotion beyond measure.
For example, at this moment, he left without hesitation, without even turning his head back once.
Lin Ran felt even more aggrieved.
She suddenly remembered when Gu Xi used tricks to keep her by his side, he was very obedient to her, and even when she said she didn't want to be alone, he would specially take a whole day to accompany her.
Such a high and mighty person would kiss him tenderly.
But Ji Wei would even avoid having her arm linked with his...
On the other side.
Ji Wei stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in her office, looking at her own reflection in the window.
He lied. He had nothing to do. He was just... anxious.
After an unknown amount of time, the assistant's cautious voice came: "Mr. Ji, I knocked on the door but you didn't answer. Miss Lin has already left..."
Ji Wei turned to look at her assistant, her gaze still unfocused.
The assistant added, "Also, your prosthetic eye has been placed in the research lab, and the staff are all ready..."
Prosthetic eye.
Ji Wei finally snapped out of her daze, and then suddenly remembered something and strode out.
The assistant, puzzled, hurriedly followed behind.
Ji Wei walked straight into the laboratory where he had been last time. Several staff members were adjusting the equipment. When they saw Ji Wei, they were surprised and alarmed: "Mr. Ji?"
Ji Wei looked at the instrument; this was the instrument used to conduct experiments on Jiang Fei and Lin Ran last time.
"Do you still have the experimental data from last time?" Ji Wei asked in a hoarse voice.
The staff member nodded: "It has been backed up and preserved." Replacing memories will naturally scan all of a person's memories.
"May I take a look?"
The staff member hesitated for a moment: "We can observe the data by converting it to the same frequency as human brainwaves, but it may cause temporary damage to the brain."
Ji Wei looked at the instruments, her hands clenched tightly at her sides. After a long while, she whispered, "I need to check."
The staff members looked at each other, bewildered: "Whose is it?"
Ji Wei paused for a moment, then said, "Jiang Fei."
After a while, the staff put a cold metal EEG helmet on Ji Wei's head.
Ji Wei didn't speak, but as the instruments began to flash, a sudden, sharp pain shot through his brain, followed by a deathly silence.
Countless jumbled memories flashed before my eyes like a fleeting glimpse.
A girl who was abandoned in a slum when she was young has been wandering on the fringes of big cities since she was a child.
After being taken away by Gu Xi, he began a period of heartless exploitation.
Later, Gu Xi swapped her memories with Lin Ran's, and the memories began to feel familiar...
He was blind and destitute, and she led him back to the tin shack by hooking her little finger around his arm;
She took his finger and registered her fingerprint on the fingerprint lock outside the tin shack, then smiled faintly at him.
She applied medicine to his wound and told him to learn to cook. While saying, "We can't just stay here for nothing," she kept a close eye on his movements, quickly pulling his hand away when he was about to burn himself.
She took him to see a doctor to inquire about a prosthetic eye, where they encountered the same group of spoiled brats from before. To stand up for him, she fought with them and was injured in the process.
She held his hand and ran in the rain. When they stopped, she stood on tiptoe and kissed him...
Ji Wei's eyelashes trembled, and her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
The memory continues.
She went to retrieve the prosthetic eye. In the chaotic and noisy black market, in the noisy and crazy fighting arena, she was knocked down time and time again, but she got up again and again. Her frail body endured such heavy punches, all for the sake of getting him the prosthetic eye.
As Ji Wei looked at those memories, her hands trembled slightly.
besides……
After his prosthetic eye malfunctioned, he was unconscious for several days.
During those few days...
Ji Wei's breath caught in her throat.
In that dilapidated warehouse, there was the old man who pushed him and Jiang Fei into the laboratory, and... she held his hand and whispered, "You will see."
He did see it.
It's because she gave him her eyes.
His eyes were filled with her eyes.
However, she is blind in her left eye.
No wonder her left eye was so dark and lifeless; no wonder his left eye shed tears along with hers back then, did he sense the original owner's sorrow?
Ironically, after restoring light and regaining everything, he dismissed her with just a check.
"Mr. Ji, Mr. Ji..." came the chaotic voices from all around.
Ji Wei snapped back to reality and looked up to meet the worried and fearful gazes of the crowd: "Mr. Ji, are you alright?"
Ji Wei didn't say anything, but expressionlessly removed the equipment from her head, turned around and walked out of the laboratory door in a daze. The cold white corridor seemed to have no end.
Ji Wei walked for a long time before suddenly stopping, standing stiffly in the corridor. The chaotic emotions pounding in his chest gradually became clear, causing waves of unbearable pain and soreness to surge in his heart. Then his back gradually hunched over, his breathing became heavy and labored, and he began to cough violently.
She didn't say anything.
Say nothing.
Jiang Fei...
...
Ji Wei's favorability rating instantly jumped to 99.
When Jiang Fei received the news, she had just helped the injured Gu Xi back to the Gu family. Hearing this, she guessed that Ji Wei probably already knew about the eye issue.
Unfortunately, he only learned about this when he had lost his value.
However, there's only 1 point of affinity left.
The Gu family had learned of Gu Xi's injury while he was on the road and, after making all the necessary preparations, rushed out to greet him.
After all, Mr. Gu rarely got injured, in fact... in their memory, Mr. Gu had almost never been injured.
Lin Jiu only vaguely heard the words "injured" and "Miss Jiang," and after a long pause, she rushed forward almost immediately.
But when they saw Jiang Fei helping Gu Xi walk towards them step by step, they realized that the injured person was Gu Xi.
Lin Jiu's gaze involuntarily fell on Jiang Fei's hand as he supported Gu Xi.
She was supporting him, her hand tightly holding his, her frail body supporting his tall frame.
He felt a strange emotion gradually rising within him, an emotion that manipulated him, almost making him want to break free of the command and completely separate the two.
There were so many people around who could have helped Gu Xi, so why did he only let Jiang Fei support him? Gu Xi's emotions were completely calm at this moment; he clearly had no feelings for Jiang Fei at all…
At the same time, Gu Xi, who was being supported, almost immediately looked up at Lin Jiu, her eyes sharp.
Lin Jiu was scanning him, even trying to manipulate his emotions.
This had never happened before, and he would never allow an AI to treat him like this.
Lin Jiu only realized that she couldn't scan any data on Gu Xi, and was stunned for a moment.
Jiang Fei seemed to sense something and looked up at him.
Lin Jiu felt her heart skip a beat, and she tensed up as her gaze fell upon her. But before the tension could fully rise, she froze.
Jiang Fei saw him, but only glanced at him, paused for a moment, then lowered her head, ignoring him completely.
Lin Jiu remained frozen in place, feeling as if she were superfluous, standing there helplessly, staring straight at her back.
He wanted her to pay attention to him, or at least look at him, even just once...
But just like she said yesterday, telling him "not to follow her anymore," she never looked back.
...
Jiang Fei supported Gu Xi until they reached his private floor on the top floor.
Gu Xi glanced down and saw that her cuffs were stained with blood and torn open at some point. Jiang Fei's hand remained tightly pressed against her arm, covering the metal bones embedded in her flesh.
She seemed even more nervous than him.
Gu Xi glanced at Jiang Fei's tense expression, seemingly even more nervous than him. He frowned and looked at the people behind him: "Jiang Fei, come in alone."
Everyone was stunned and stopped in their tracks.
As soon as they entered the room, Gu Xi immediately broke free from Jiang Fei's hand.
Jiang Fei finally saw the interior decoration clearly. Apart from a few instruments and the projection on the floor-to-ceiling window, everything else was white in a cool tone, which was just like the feeling Gu Xi usually gave people: aloof and extremely cold.
"Miss Jiang, did you see everything?" Gu Xi's voice suddenly came.
Jiang Fei was taken aback and turned to look at him with a puzzled expression.
This time, Gu Xi didn't try to hide anything; he never deceived himself.
Instead, he rolled up his sleeves, revealing metal embedded in his flesh that had been twisted and stained with blood, making it look particularly gruesome.
Gu Xi moved his wrist, and the twisted metal arm gradually returned to normal. He looked at Jiang Fei with a hint of mockery: "Aren't you going to give your opinion?"
Jiang Fei pursed her lips: "I've heard that implanting mechanical organs can cause severe rejection reactions in the body at any time..." She paused, looking at him earnestly, "Does it hurt?"
Gu Xi narrowed her eyes, seemingly surprised by the question. Her expression softened slightly, but she quickly recovered, her eyes sharpening. Without a word, she walked to a machine, picked up a syringe that had been prepared on the table, and skillfully injected the liquid into her vein. Then she placed her arm under the machine, watching as fibrous tissue covered the wound at the nozzle, and the bleeding slowly stopped…
Jiang Fei watched his retreating figure. She had initially thought Gu Xi was just the head of a business empire, but now it seemed...
"System, I need to know Gu Xi's storyline," she said slowly to herself.
The plot unfolded quickly.
To Jiang Fei's surprise, Gu Xi, who is now high and mighty, actually grew up in the arena.
It's not a chaotic and bloody fighting arena in the black market, but... a gladiatorial arena.
In a fighting arena, people fight each other, but in a gladiatorial arena, people fight against beasts.
The arena was clearly divided into classes. The nobles, who were high above, were the most prestigious. The beasts that were the pets of the nobles were next in rank, while those who entertained the nobles and fought with the beasts were at the very bottom.
Gu Xi was at the very bottom of this unfortunate group.
He was sold here by his own mother for 50,000 yuan when he was a child. Because of his wild nature, he is the only one who walked out of the arena alive.
However, every time a part of his body was injured, that limb would be severed and replaced with an indestructible metal limb.
His body even became a test subject for the combination of machines and humans, and even intact limbs could not escape the fate of being amputated.
No one knows how he climbed out of the arena. All that everyone knows is that he dug out his first fortune from the black market, and then, with his ruthlessness and bestiality, he actually climbed up step by step from the bloodshed to stand at the top of the metropolis.
However, because too much metal was implanted in his body when he was a teenager, the constant rejection caused him to be in pain all the time. He could only inject sedatives into his body every day to relieve the pain.
However, with the injection of too many tranquilizers, his emotions gradually became stagnant; he lost all love and desire, becoming like a dead man.
Lin Ran was one of the few women who aroused his possessiveness. This feeling was novel to him, so he was determined to have her.
The story abruptly ends.
Jiang Fei snapped out of her daze and looked at Gu Xi.
The wound on his arm was already covered by a thin layer of fibrous tissue, and new flesh was regenerating rapidly, while he was about to treat the wound on his back.
Jiang Fei raised an eyebrow; the battle-worn beauty was indeed pleasing to the eye.
But when Gu Xi took off her shirt, Jiang Fei's eyes narrowed slightly.
His shoulder blades were also made of metal, the cold silver bones and flesh edges already tinged with blackish-red, standing out starkly against his pale back.
Treating the wound on her back was somewhat difficult. Gu Xi struggled to turn to the side and aim the instrument at the wound, but it still missed slightly.
Gu Xi frowned, and just as she was about to straighten the position, the instrument was steadily moved over.
Gu Xi was taken aback.
Jiang Fei supported his back with one hand and controlled the instrument arm with the other, spraying fiber onto the wound without uttering a word.
Gu Xi's body was tense.
Over the years, I've always treated my own wounds after each injury.
He wouldn't let anyone see what he looked like.
This is the first time I've had my wound treated by someone else.
Compared to the coldness of the machine, Jiang Fei's hands were warm, and touching his back caused a slight tingling sensation.
It was just like... the comforting words those people used to experiment on him gave him before the experiments; it was the only tenderness he had received in the first half of his life.
Gu Xi suddenly opened her eyes and stood up.
Jiang Fei was startled: "Gu Xi?"
Gu Xi looked down at her.
He hadn't thought about the past for a long time. All those who once regarded him as lowly had been dealt with by him one by one, and he didn't need to recall the past.
But now... I think about it again...
A bell rang outside the door.
Gu Xi quickly put on his shirt and suit, his light-colored long hair casually tied back. When he looked up again, his expression was blank. He didn't even look at Jiang Fei beside him, and got up to walk towards the door.
Jiang Fei watched Gu Xi's retreating figure, then lowered her head and curved her lips into a smile after a long while.
His favorability rating, after increasing by 10, quickly dropped back down.
Outside the door.
A staff member was waiting at the door with a communication device. When he saw Gu Xi come out, he rushed forward and asked, "Mr. Gu, are you alright?"
Gu Xi habitually touched the spot where his arm met the metal over his clothes, making sure no one could see it.
But today...
"Monitor Jiang Fei around the clock," Gu Xi said in a deep voice. "No one is allowed to see her without permission. If you find anything unusual about her, report it to me immediately."
He needed to use Jiang Fei to get Lin Ran, but if she revealed her secrets, he wouldn't mind erasing all her memories and turning her into a clueless idiot.
"Yes," the staff member hurriedly replied, and then added, "Mr. Gu, we have news from Miss Lin. Miss Lin and Mr. Ji will hold their engagement banquet in a month."
Gu Xi narrowed her eyes, and after a long while, she sneered: "It's just an engagement."
"Ms. Jiang and I will definitely attend."
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