He was silent for a moment, and then his deep voice with a barely perceptible hoarseness said: "Axue."
"Um?"
"When did you start to like me?" Fu Zhewei asked, staring into her eyes with burning eyes, not missing any subtle expression on her face.
Lin Jianxue was slightly stunned when she heard this.
Then, she curved her lips and smiled, a mischievous glint flashed across her eyes, and her voice was a little bit coquettish: "Didn't I tell you? It's very early."
"Very early? How early?" Fu Zhewei pressed, his tone carrying a hint of stubbornness. "Obviously... when we were deskmates, you didn't seem to have any special interest in me."
The smile on Lin Jianxue's face froze slightly.
She noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with Fu Zhawei's mood.
He didn't seem to be joking, nor did he seem to be simply reminiscing about the past.
His eyes were too focused, too serious, as if he was searching for an answer that was extremely important to him.
"Awei, what's wrong with you?" Lin Jianxue restrained her smile and looked at him with some concern. "Is...something wrong at the company? Or do you have something on your mind that you want to ask me?"
Fu Zhawei did not answer her question, but continued to ask his own questions stubbornly.
"That winter, in Tongqi Village."
His voice was very soft, but it was like a huge rock thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples in Lin Jianxue's heart.
"Why did you suddenly send me so much money and tickets?"
Lin Jianxue's heart skipped a beat.
This question came too suddenly.
For a moment, she didn't know how to answer.
You can't tell him that your wife is actually a monster born from the future, right?
Just as she was racking her brains to think of how to put it, Fu Zhewei's next words exploded in her ears like a thunderclap.
"Because you know Qingqing will have a high fever, right?"
Lin Jianxue suddenly opened her eyes wide, her pupils suddenly constricted, and she looked at Fu Zhawei in disbelief.
How...how could he know?!
Looking at her shocked and bewildered reaction, Fu Zha's heart sank little by little.
His thin lips moved slightly, and he spoke with difficulty, his voice very hoarse: "I... I had a dream."
Lin Jianxue subconsciously held her breath and looked at him nervously, her heart in her throat.
"What dream?" She heard her own voice, dry and vague.
Fu Zhawei closed his eyes, as if he couldn't bear to recall the scene in his dream, but he forced himself to speak it out.
"I dreamed...that winter, Qingqing had a persistent fever that damaged her brain. Later...she died in childbirth, leaving two lives."
Every word he uttered was like a hammer, hitting Lin Jianxue's heart hard.
"I dreamed that my mother couldn't bear the shock, went crazy, fell into the river and drowned."
"I dreamed that my father was feeding chickens on the farm when he suddenly fell ill and died..."
"I also dreamed... that I went to Hong Kong City alone and came back many years later."
Fu Zhewei opened his eyes again, his eyes filled with pain and bloodshot. He stared at Lin Jianxue, his voice so low and hoarse that it seemed to be squeezed out from his chest:
"I dreamed of you...you had a serious illness and died in a suburban nursing home."
"I also dreamed that I buried your ashes with my own hands..."
Fu Zhawei's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Lin Jianxue's heart hard.
Every word was filled with bloody truth, pulling her back to the desperate and cold past.
She thought that those unbearable memories had long since passed away with her and were buried deep in the dust of time.
But he didn't expect that he would be seen by Fu Zhawei in such a weird way.
Lin Jianxue's face turned pale and bloodless in an instant.
She opened her mouth, but her throat felt like it was clogged with cotton and no sound came out.
The air seemed to freeze at this moment.
The only sounds left in the living room were the intertwined breathing of the two people and the occasional sound of wind coming from outside the window.
a long time.
Lin Jianxue finally found her voice and said with difficulty and a trembling voice, "You...you dreamed about it?"
Her voice was very soft, as light as a feather, yet it weighed heavily on Fu Zhewei's heart.
Fu Zhewei nodded.
His eyes were fixed on her, not missing any subtle expression on her face.
He saw shock, panic, and... a barely perceptible, deep sadness in her eyes.
That sadness was exactly the same as the one he felt in his dream.
"This dream... is true, right?" Fu Zhawei's voice was hoarse, with a certainty that was almost cruel. "If you didn't send the money, Qingqing... would have been burned to death and died in childbirth, right?"
Lin Jianxue was silent.
There was a long silence.
Every minute and every second felt like torture on Fu Zhewei's heart.
Finally, she nodded slowly and with difficulty.
"right."
Just one word, but it seemed as if she had used up all her strength.
It was like a verdict, completely shattering Fu Zhewei's last bit of luck.
Sure enough...it is true.
What he thought were just absurd nightmares turned out to be the bloody reality that she had personally experienced.
Fu Zhewei felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and his limbs and bones became cold.
He looked at Lin Jianxue with an extremely complicated expression, which included regret, anger, confusion, and more importantly, an indescribable panic.
"Then what do you mean?" There was a slight tremor in his voice that he himself did not even notice.
Lin Jianxue was stunned by his question: "What...what do you mean?"
Fu Zhawei's thin lips were pressed tightly into a straight line, and his jawline was tightly drawn.
He stared at her intently, his eyes filled with thick emotions that almost swallowed her.
"The reason why you...appeared in Tongqi Village at that time, and later...married me."
He paused, as if the next words would be extremely humiliating and embarrassing for him.
"Is this to repay me for collecting your body in my previous life?"
As soon as he said this, Fu Zhawei himself felt it was ridiculous.
But apart from this reason, he couldn't think of any other.
Lin Jianxue was completely stunned when she heard this.
She stared at Fu Zhewei blankly, and it took her a while to realize what he meant.
Repay a favor?
Collect his body to repay the favor?
Only then did she understand why Fu Zhawei's face had been so ugly and his eyes so complicated since just now.
Actually, he thought...
Lin Jianxue looked at the pain and the faint humiliation in his eyes, and felt angry and amused, as well as a hint of inexplicable bitterness.
"Do you think," she asked clearly, word by word, "that I married you to repay you?"
Fu Zhewei pursed his lips and said nothing.
The question "Isn't it so?" was clearly written in his deep black eyes.
Lin Jianxue was completely speechless.
She took a deep breath and tried to calm her somewhat awkward mood.
This man's train of thought was sometimes so bizarre that it left her breathless.
"How is that possible?" She looked at him helplessly, a hint of coquettishness in her voice that she herself didn't even notice. "If I didn't like you, I would just give you a large sum of money, or find a way to bring you back to Kyoto and arrange a job for you, wouldn't that be enough?"
"Why would you go to that godforsaken village?"
"And I'd go to so much trouble to seduce you?"
Fu Zhewei: “…”
He was obviously stunned by the word "seduced".
He looked at Lin Jianxue, his eyes full of disbelief.
Seduce...seduce him?
Lin Jianxue looked at his dazed expression and couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The heavy and depressing atmosphere before was instantly diluted by her smile.
"Emma," she raised her hand and rubbed her swollen temple, her tone full of disgust, "It's really hard to explain to a fool like you."
She stood up and stretched, her slender waist drawing a graceful arc under the light.
"I'm going to bed. I'm exhausted."
She didn't want to discuss past lives or love affairs with this man.
You are already an old couple, and it's so corny that you are still fussing about these things now.
Lin Jianxue yawned and went straight to the bathroom.
"I'm going to take a shower."
Fu Zhewei looked at her back, the words "seduce you" still echoing in his mind.
He followed subconsciously.
Lin Jianxue had just walked to the bathroom door when she noticed movement behind her.
When she turned around, she saw Fu Zhawei following her like a large dog, staring at her intently with a hint of inquiry, a hint of confusion, and a hint of... expectation that he himself was not aware of.
"You just said you seduced me?" Fu Zhawei's voice was still hoarse, but it was less solemn and more stubborn. "How could I not know?"
"How did you seduce me?"
Lin Jianxue: “…”
She looked at Fu Zhawei's face, which said "Don't even think about sleeping if you don't explain it to me clearly today", and her forehead twitched twice.
She pushed open the bathroom door and stepped one foot inside.
"Fu Zhewei!" She turned around and glared at him angrily, "I want to take a shower, why did you come in?"
Before he finished speaking, Fu Zhewei had already taken a step forward and squeezed into the bathroom.
With a "bang", he closed the bathroom door.
In the small space, the atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous.
Lin Jianxue was pushed against the door panel by him, with no way to retreat.
"Ah——!" She cried out softly, pushing his solid chest in embarrassment, "Fu Zhewei, what are you doing! You hooligan! Ahhhhh don't..."
The man's hot breath sprayed all over her neck.
A deep, bewitching voice rang in her ears.
"Jianxue, please tell me, how did you... seduce me?"
In the bathroom, breathing entangled.
Fu Zhawei hugged Lin Jianxue tightly.
"After the company successfully goes public, we'll have a child, okay?"
Lin Jianxue looked into the man's dark eyes, hugged his neck, and gently responded: "...He."
In this life, she finally changed his and her destiny with her own hands.
This will surely be a happy and fulfilling life...
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