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The next morning, Du Yaoyao invited Chen Jie to have breakfast together.
Two bowls of pumpkin millet porridge, a plate of mushroom and diced pork dumplings, and a small dish of pickles, simple and delicious.
Chen Jie drank the porridge slowly, guessing that Liu'er's words last night had taken effect.
Is she going to accept him?
After waiting for the whole morning, Du Yaoyao said nothing. After Xiao Cui cleared the tableware from the dining table, she spoke, "Chen Jie, I want to tell you something."
Chen Jie was inexplicably happy, but appeared calm on the surface. "You say." Seeing her serious expression, he felt a little uneasy.
Du Yaoyao pondered over how to start the conversation, and after a while, she decided to start with the almond cookies that the original owner was allergic to.
"Do you still remember the almond cake you brought back from the East Palace?"
"What happened?" Shen Jie remembered.
At that time, he suspected that Du Yaoyao's change was strange, so he took almonds to test her. She wanted to taste the dessert mixed with almonds as if she had lost her memory, completely forgetting that she almost killed a cook because of a plate of almond cheese.
Later she explained that she forgot things because of the fever, but he didn't quite believe it, so she used the excuse that she could have prophetic dreams to divert the discussion.
"Actually, it's not that I forgot because I was sick. It's that I didn't even know that my body was allergic to almonds." Du Yaoyao confessed.
"Yaoyao, what nonsense are you talking about?" Chen Jie felt inexplicably flustered, his intuition told him that he was getting closer and closer to Du Yaoyao's secret.
Du Yaoyao continued, "Like when Lin Shuwan fell into the water, I jumped into the lake to save her. I have never learned how to swim, so how can I save someone? Haven't you ever been curious?"
Shen Jie was silent. He had investigated, but to no avail. I don't want to think about supernatural events.
"You said you wouldn't get to the bottom of my secrets, and I'll tell you when I want to..."
"Yaoyao, I don't want to know anymore." Chen Jie interrupted and looked at her expectantly, "We are fine like this."
"Don't deceive yourself." Du Yaoyao said seriously, "In fact, you have already guessed that I am not your wife, the merchant's daughter Du Yaoyao."
The four words “the merchant’s daughter” are emphasized.
Everything was just as Chen Jie had imagined, she had one body but two souls.
Those words and deeds that were completely different from before, those sudden changes in flattery, those local dialects that were incomprehensible and could not be found... now all had an explanation.
Chen Jie was unwilling to admit it, "You are not my Yaoyao, who are you?" and tried to hold her hand.
Du Yaoyao dodged and said slowly, "A student whose soul inexplicably traveled here."
Shen Jie didn't quite understand what she said, she probably meant that they were not from here.
"Why are you telling me all this?" Are you going home?
"Nothing." Du Yaoyao felt that she trusted Chen Jie a little too much. She didn't find a way to go back, so she revealed her secrets first.
She lowered her eyebrows and said, "I'm not your wife, there's no need for you to be so persistent."
She was indeed moved by Liu'er's words.
Some of Shen Jie's emotional actions are different from those in the original text.
But does he care about the original owner's identity and body, or her, the foreign soul?
"What do you mean, are you trying to draw a line between you and me?" Chen Jie stared at Du Yaoyao's bulging belly and thought deeply, "You are not my wife, so why are you still entangled with Song Xingkai?"
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