C2006 An Unforgettable Predecessor
Jiang Nanchen looked at Jiang Nanxi in surprise. He found that she looked calm and peaceful at the moment. Her eyes were as gentle as water. She looked at Zheng Shaohuai as if she was looking at a newborn baby, and her entire body was emitting a loving glow.1
She had never been so gentle to Jiang Xiaolang before!
Under Jiang Nanxi's gentle comforting, after a long time, Zheng Shaohuai's violent emotions slowly dissipated, and his expression became somewhat blank.
He seemed to be pondering as he asked, "Do I like pineapple rice?"
Jiang Nanxi focused on him, and the gentle smile in her eyes didn't diminish. "Don't you like it? You mentioned it to me last time. I thought you liked it very much?"
Zheng Shaohuai slowly shook his head and then looked at Xia Ruchu. "Chu Chu, do you like eating pineapple rice?"
Xia Ruchu looked at Zheng Shaohuai and tried his best to make his tone and expression gentle.
After a few days, she was already able to clearly understand the point of Zheng Shaohuai's violent temper, and that was that she couldn't be too disobedient to him.
As long as she followed him, his emotions would be stable.
She said softly, "We did eat pineapple rice together before, but I don't really like eating that kind of sweet and sour taste. I like spicy food. I remember the last time we ate, we even let them put in a lot of chili sauce. Do you remember?"
Zheng Shaohuai stared blankly at her as if he was recalling something.
His expression became somewhat gentle, as if that broken memory made him feel happy.
"Is it at a seaside restaurant called Cape of Good Hope? Did we go to the sea together? We seem to have caught a lot of crabs and a very big fish! You were even brought into the sea by that fish and almost drowned. It was I who saved you..."
As he spoke, Xia Ruchu's face turned paler and paler.
She pursed her lips tightly and did not speak.
Jiang Nanxi also did not speak and only carefully observed Zheng Shaohuai's mood.
She was already accustomed to this kind of situation.
Every time Zheng Shaohuai flared up, he would recall a bit of his memories from before. Although those memories were vague, they were unforgettable.
Jiang Nanxi now had the ability to hypnotize Zheng Shaohuai once more, or perform a transformation on him to eliminate the effects of the hypnosis from before and make him remember everything from before completely.
But now his condition was not so stable, Jiang Nanxi did not know if he could bear it again. He was betrayed and abandoned, and that person was separated from him by yin and yang. Therefore, she did not dare to rashly try. She just let him explore bit by bit. From there, she could strengthen her mental endurance.
On the other hand, every time Zheng Shaohuai recalled the events of the past, he would become unusually silent, and he felt extremely guilty towards Xia Ruchu. Thus, he relied even more on Xia Ruchu, and he hoped to have a beautiful future with her.
In psychology, this was called a traumatic compensation mentality.
However, Xia Ruchu was currently unwilling to accept this sort of compensation. To put it bluntly, she didn't have any confidence in Zheng Shaohuai. Or it could be said that she really didn't love Zheng Shaohuai. At the same time, she couldn't forget Zheng Shaohuai's past. And she felt slightly uncomfortable in her heart.
Thus, Zheng Shaohuai had never recalled the bits and pieces of the past when he was with her, and it was just like pineapple rice that he'd mentioned earlier. He didn't remember the matter of mixing pineapple rice with chili sauce with her, but he clearly remembered. The restaurant where he and his predecessor ate together!
Who exactly was that predecessor? Why was he hypnotized, even confused, or could he not forget her?
Zheng Shaohuai's head started to ache.
He rubbed his head with one hand, and at the same time, he looked at Xia Ruchu. "Chuchu, is that you?"
Xia Ruchu slowly shook his head and looked at Zheng Shaohuai with a complicated expression. "That's not me!"
Zheng Shaohuai was obviously slightly dejected, yet he stretched out his hand to grab Xia Ruchu's hand and said with a wisp of a smile, "Sorry, it can't be that, right? You want to eat pineapple rice mixed with spicy food, right? Can I make it for you?"
Facing his begging gaze, Xia Ruchu felt like crying for some reason.
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