Fujiwara Chiyasa? A Japanese person...

Meeting again, where had he seen her before...

Xie Ci stared blankly at the Japanese girl before him, racking his brains but unable to recall where he had ever seen her.

So he could only apologize first.

"Uh... sorry, Chiyasa... ah, no, Senior Fujiwara. I actually saw someone I knew in the crowd earlier. She was also wearing the same black dress as you. I was running quite urgently at the time and felt dizzy, so I wasn't paying attention and mistook you for her. Really sorry, haha..."

While Xie Ci smiled and apologized, his brain raced.

Where exactly had I seen her before?

Damn, I really can't remember.

Throughout his entire freshman year, apart from the cafeteria, dormitory, and classroom routine, plus morning five-kilometer runs, he had only worked part-time at his roommate's cake shop. He didn't remember seeing such a Japanese schoolgirl.

It was bad enough that he had roughly and suddenly grabbed her wrist without her making a big deal of it, but now he had also inconveniently forgotten her. He really couldn't bring himself to save face.

Cold sweat broke out on Xie Ci's forehead, mixing with the hot sweat from his earlier running.

Fujiwara Chiyasa just watched him with interest, then chuckled and waved her hand. "Junior, don't force yourself if you can't remember. You won't be able to."

"Eh?"

"Because only I know you, while you don't know me."

"Why is that..." Xie Ci asked puzzledly.

"Let's keep that as my little secret~" Fujiwara Chiyasa suddenly extended her hand. "Besides, now we know each other, don't we?"

Xie Ci looked at that slender, pale little hand, hesitated for a moment, then finally grasped it in return.

"Everyone has moments of mistaking someone else. Besides, the person who could make you run desperately like that must be very important to you, right?"

"Mm..." Xie Ci neither agreed nor disagreed. For some reason, he didn't want to discuss this topic.

"I won't introduce myself. Everything about me is on that business card." Fujiwara Chiyasa suddenly glanced behind Xie Ci and showed a meaningful smile. "Also... please give my regards to Professor Dong."

With that, she gracefully turned and left. The two girls beside her had remained silent ever since she started talking to Xie Ci, quietly standing there. Finally, they nodded slightly to Xie Ci and left together with Fujiwara Chiyasa.

Xie Ci stood there stunned, his mind somewhat chaotic.

What exactly was going on?

A pure black sedan slowly drove up behind him. The window rolled down, revealing Ye Li's fair, pretty face, though her expression wasn't very friendly. She frowned slightly, her amber eyes showing three parts confusion and seven parts resentment.

"Little Ci! Didn't we agree you'd wait for me at the market entrance? How did you end up here!"

Ye Li looked in the direction Fujiwara Chiyasa had left. That graceful, shapely figure stood out particularly in the crowd, drawing high rates of turning heads from passersby.

"Why are there so many women around you!"

...

"President of the anime club, works part-time as a car model outside school, usually participates in various anime conventions both on and off campus...

"From a politically influential family in Japan with vast family businesses involved in multiple fields including entertainment, technology, real estate..."

Another rich woman...

As a poor student, he seemed to have too many rich women around him.

Xie Ci shook his head, stopped overthinking, and organized the various information Ye Li had provided him. The outline of events gradually formed in his mind.

Last semester, unable to resist his roommate's repeated requests, he had accompanied him to an anime convention at school.

But he still couldn't remember seeing her anywhere.

Had he forgotten?

He'd ask his roommate when school started.

But most importantly, she seemed to know about some kind of relationship between him and Ye Li?

What was that about... From her manner, it didn't seem like she had any ill intentions.

When he asked Ye Li, she only said she had seen her a few times in the office, but had no other impression.

While Xie Ci was organizing information, Ye Li tilted her head slightly. Her amber eyes sparkled, her lips parted as if to say something, but seeing Xie Ci with his eyes closed and a troubled expression, she ultimately didn't speak.

"Ye Li." Xie Ci suddenly said to her. "The black-clothed girl from the coffee shop, do you remember her?"

"I remember. What about her?"

"She might... be related to my past..." Xie Ci paused, then finally spoke.

Even though the resistance welling up from the bottom of his heart still made him extremely uncomfortable.

But from age four when he began remembering things until age fifteen after the high school entrance exams, there was an eleven-year gap. And that girl, possibly named Wen Ruohan, might have played an important role during that period.

He had to face it eventually.

Xie Ci had always maintained a very laid-back attitude toward trouble and the unknown.

But he wouldn't keep avoiding it forever. The sudden impulse to see her that had erupted in his heart today confirmed his thoughts.

Honestly, he was somewhat surprised. Not long ago his heart had felt like something had been carved out of it, but now it felt filled with something that made him deeply nostalgic.

Like hitting rock bottom and bouncing back, after experiencing the lowest point, things could only go up.

Suddenly, Xie Ci felt like teasing her a bit.

"She... is she someone important to you? Do you... do you remember now?" Ye Li asked carefully, looking exactly like an anxious little girl.

Everything she was thinking was written on her face.

"I remembered. She's my long-lost sister who's now a rich family's daughter. Actually, she recognized me at the coffee shop last time and was thinking of finding me for a reunion, to take me home..."

"Ah? Really... really?! Wuu... how could that be? No, I mean, haha, how wonderful, little Ci, you don't have to..."

The dejection on Ye Li's face was obvious. Her large amber eyes looked ready to wring out water, her small hands anxiously grasping at the steering wheel.

The car slowly entered the underground parking garage beside the villa.

She suddenly turned her head away, not wanting Xie Ci to see the expression on her face. She saw her reflection in the car window. Her mouth was clearly curved upward, but it kept drooping down uncontrollably.

"Ouch!"

Ye Li's little head suddenly received a chop.

She covered her head with both hands, looking at Xie Ci with teary eyes.

"What are you doing!"

Seeing her aggrieved, tearful expression, Xie Ci felt very guilty. He regretted it.

"Sigh, you really are a troublesome little fool..."

"What, what's wrong with me?!" Ye Li asked loudly in confusion, the reluctance and grievance in her heart twisted into tears that nearly fell from the corners of her eyes.

"You believed such an obviously flawed story? How could I remember her? I have no impression of who she is at all. She's probably just a complete stranger, just a coincidence of many chance events.

"Besides, how could I leave? Look, I have nowhere to live, the money I spend is yours. Without you, what would I do?"

Moreover, compared to those ethereal memories of the past, he preferred to hold onto the real person in front of him.

Ye Li was stunned for a moment, big confusion flashing through her little head, then that confusion transformed into shock, shock into complete realization and joy, which mixed with her previous inner grievance and turned into indignation toward the person before her.

Xie Ci thought to himself that she was usually quite clever, but at times like this, she couldn't see through such an obvious lie.

But this confirmed certain things in his heart.

"Xie Ci, you actually tricked me!" Ye Li's chest heaved with anger. She raised her small fist to hammer at Xie Ci's shoulder, but reduced her strength at the last moment, hitting as lightly as being struck by cotton.

She bit her lip tightly, her beautiful eyes staring at Xie Ci, then suddenly hugged him tightly and took a deep breath.

"Little Ci, don't make such unfunny jokes anymore!"

Xie Ci also hugged her and gently patted her back.

"Sorry, I won't anymore."

"Little Ci, you! How, how are you going to compensate me!"

"Ah?"

Xie Ci looked at Ye Li somewhat bewildered, then his lips were covered by softness and sweetness.

Both of them were breathing heavily (in every sense).

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