Mr. Ex completely lost his mind, raised the gleaming knife, and was about to swing it down at the heart of Xu Chengzhi, who was being held down on the hospital bed.
Two almost identical faces appeared in everyone's sight. One of them was about to kill the other, who was not struggling at all and just waiting to die.
No matter how you look at it, this scene is extremely bizarre.
"Stop!" Lin Yang shouted, calling out the real name of the man who had raised the knife, "Xu Chengzhi!"
Lin Yang wasn't calling for the person lying on the bed, but for the person who had raised the knife and swung it down.
Upon hearing those three familiar yet unfamiliar words, Mr. Ex's hand, which was halfway up the knife, trembled slightly.
How long has it been since anyone called out that name...?
"Who... are you calling?" Mr. Ex asked, his back to Lin Yang, his voice trembling with disbelief.
No one could see the complex emotions on his face, including Xu Chengzhi, who was lying in the hospital bed and the only one who could look Mr. Ex in the eye.
From this angle, backlit, Mr. Ex's entire face is shrouded in shadow, making him appear enigmatic.
"Xu Chengzhi, I'm calling you." Lin Yang took a step and slowly approached Mr. Ex.
Ex was slightly taken aback, realizing that Lin Yang was calling him.
But she shouldn't have known.
After walking a full twenty steps, Lin Yang finally reached Mr. Ex and gently extended his hand.
The moment his fingertips touched Xu Chengzhi's back, his keen senses told him that this action seemed to have provoked him. The dagger that had been hovering in mid-air immediately swung down and pressed hard against Xu Chengzhi's chest.
With just a thin layer of hospital gown fabric between them, Mr. Ex could easily pierce the skin and reach the still-beating heart inside with a little force.
"Don't come any closer, stay away from me." Mr. Ex warned Lin Yang, who was trying to calm him down, while tightening his grip on the dagger.
"Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go, but can you listen to me for a moment, Xu Chengzhi?" Lin Yang raised her hands above her head, and in order not to provoke Mr. Ex, she took a step back.
Mr. Ex lowered his head and gritted his teeth. "Don't call me by those three words. I'm not."
He rejected the name, the name that had killed the woman he loved.
"Alright, alright, Mr. Ex, can we calm down and have a proper talk? I sincerely want to talk to you." Lin Yang stopped in a safe position, speaking sincerely and trying to go along with Mr. Ex's emotions.
"What's there to talk about? The one who betrayed me has probably already told you everything you want to know, right? You even know my name."
When Mr. Ex said this, the system hidden in Lin Yang's mind felt inexplicably guilty.
Yes, Lin Yang knows everything.
The whole truth.
At first, she found it unbelievable and didn't believe it at all, thinking that the system was deceiving her again.
But when the system told her to open the second drawer of Mr. Ex's desk, she believed it.
Mr. Ex is Xu Chengzhi.
Two people with such different personalities were actually the same person from beginning to end.
However, one is the present Xu Chengzhi, and the other is the future Xu Chengzhi.
Oh no, this one now is also a kind of future one.
Through the truth revealed by the system, she understood why Xu Chengzhi's personality changed drastically when she fell from her horse. All the mysteries were cleared up in her mind, and she saw the truth beneath.
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