896: She apparently lost her memory in the past.

She apparently lost her memory in the past.

"There's less than a week between these two dates."2

Gazes, filled with lost instead of surprised, landed on Madam Ji the moment she finished talking.

She realized what she had just said upon seeing everybody's perplexed gazes on her.

"Aye! Why did I bring it up?"

She laughed it off. "My son's kidnapping incident happened way too suddenly back then, and it's a very grave matter, so I'm sensitive to any issue somewhat related to it. That's why I…"

Once they heard her explanation, everybody finally understood why she had said that.

"Oh, it is as such!"

Zhang Manhua smiled and nodded, asking thereafter, "Xiao Ji was involved in a kidnapping incident before, huh?"

"Yes. I can still recall every bit of it even today."

Even after many years had passed, each time her son's kidnapping was brought up, the fear deep within her would surface.

"Aye. I can understand this kind of feeling."

The mother of her son's fiancée nodded in agreement as she looked at her daughter.

"When Ge Ge had that accident, I was so scared I nearly followed her father to afterlife."

"What?! Ge Ge got into an accident?"

She looked at her son's fiancée in utter surprise; meanwhile, Ji Ziming looked at his beloved woman with his dark eyes.

"It should be the accident mentioned in the newspaper," offered Mister Ji all of a sudden.

"Yes."

Zhang Manhua nodded as she recalled what had happened at that time.

"That time, my husband got into an accident and died from it. He was our family's sole breadwinner and I was just a housewife. When it happened, our family's business folded. My daughter, who couldn't accept her father's death, ran away while I was busy settling his funeral affairs."

Her eyes moistened as she shared this.

Her words made the rest sigh endlessly.

"I was anxiously looking for her when the hospital called me to say that my daughter was involved in an accident. Due to intense fear, I fainted on the spot. My husband just died from an accident, yet my daughter also…"

Ji Ziming did not know why, but as he listened to his fiancée's mother, he felt an inexplicable familiarity with it.

"What happened afterward? Was everything all right?"

Madam Ji's heart was in her mouth as she listened to Zhang Manhua's narration.

Although she knew that Pei Ge had grown up safely, she was still worried about the little girl involved in an accident then.

"When I went to the hospital, the doctor told me that she had luckily gotten discovered early so they were able to save her life, but…"

Zhang Manhua shook her head lightly and looked at her daughter with a complex expression.

"But what? Did Ge Ge suffer from any side effects? Is her body alright now? It's okay; we know local and foreign doctors, so you don't have to worry about her health," offered Madam Ji out of worry. She did not wait for the other's reply in her anxiety.

"Pfft!"

Seeing how anxious the man's mother was behaving, Pei Ge burst into peals of laughter as she felt very touched.

"Mom, you don't have to worry. I'm very healthy, but I hurt my head during the accident, so I lost some of my memory."

The Ji family all widened their eyes at her.

"Lost your memory?!"

It was rare for this family to say the same thing at the same time.

Seeing how they had so much unity, she again smiled.

"That's right. At that time, Ge Ge's doctor said that her head suffered a trauma, and with her father's death, her mind developed a complication."

Zhang Manhua nodded as she slowly explained.

"Back then, although I was saddened by the doctor's words, I was glad. That's because she forgot about that hurtful incident, and her memory was stuck to that time before her father's death."

"My gosh…"

Madam Ji's mouth widened as her eyes became filled with shock. "I really didn't expect Ge Ge to have lost her memory before."

"That's right. At that time, I forgot that my father died, so mom lied to me that our family's company folded and everyone, especially the creditors and loan sharks, was looking for him. That's why he went into hiding to earn money in secret. I was still young, and coupled with my memory loss, I actually believed it."

The matter happened long ago; she had long recovered from her grief.

Whenever her father's death was brought up, she would still feel slightly sad, but she had long moved on.

"Yes, when my husband died, she received a bigger blow than I did. Since young, their relationship was better than mine. Hence, when Ge Ge forgot about her father's death, I thought that it's a good thing, so I lied to her.

"I kept the truth from her until I could no longer carry on with the lie, but by then, she was already a grown-up and sensible."

Madam Ji sighed and looked at her before saying softly, "It's been hard on you all these years."

"It's still fine. My daughter is very sensible, so it's not that tough for us, but I failed her in many ways as she could've—"

"Alright, mom. Let's eat and not talk about those matters. I've had a rather fulfilling life all these years, and never have I thought that you've failed me!"

Hearing her mother self-censure, Pei Ge quickly changed the topic.

"Ah! So hungry! Let's eat!"

She grinned at the others.

"Mhm."

Sitting beside her, Ji Ziming knew what she was thinking and looked gently at her. "Let's eat."

He did not expect that such things had happened to his beloved woman.

However, he felt really glad as well. If all those things had not happened, she would have been Fu Mingxuan's!

Thank God; thank God!

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