After Losing My Memory, I Suddenly Had A Fiancée - Chapter 42

Ji Fanghuai’s head was buzzing, and she only found Ji Dongyuan as annoying as a fly. She didn’t hear a single word he said after that.

Jiang Zhi is her older sister?

What kind of fantastic theory is that?

Ji Fanghuai turned and walked away, her steps unusually unsteady. The cold wind poured down her collar. She didn’t want to stay there for another half-minute.

Seeing her hastily flee the scene, a smug smile appeared on Ji Dongyuan’s face.

He rushed up to Ji Fanghuai in a few steps, like a bully tormenting the weak in school, blocking her path. He mocked, “I thought you’d grown some spine. Turns out you’re still useless. Don’t want to face the facts? Or don’t want to hear me speak ill of her? Well, I’m going to say it anyway! Jiang Zhi is an ingrate, a bitch!”

Finding she couldn’t get around him, Ji Fanghuai stopped and looked at him indifferently.

She couldn’t possibly have a brother like this.

No matter how bad Jiang Zhi was, she had never cursed her.

Ji Fanghuai frowned, her head aching as if pricked by needles.

Seeing her in pain, Ji Dongyuan became even more delighted.

“Are you hurt because I cursed her? You’ve been living quite a carefree life the past six months, fooling around with her. Only you could manage to be with your enemy.”

“Our family raised her all these years like a charity case, and she turned around and colluded with outsiders to bankrupt Dad’s company, and even tampered with the car. Now we’re all motherless like her, and she’s thrilled. Do you think the person who smashed you was a self-directed, self-acted scam she set up?”

Ji Fanghuai finally spoke, “Shut up!”

After she spoke, she coughed violently. Her vision went black, and she almost lost her footing, but the episode was short, and she quickly recovered.

Ji Dongyuan just wanted to see Ji Fanghuai angry and didn’t notice her physical discomfort. He continued to taunt, “Angry and embarrassed? Wasn’t she protecting you well? Why do you look like a stray dog now? Did she get tired of playing and dump you? That’s a shame. I was looking forward to this cheap sister of yours becoming a brother-in-law.”

Ji Fanghuai sneered, “Yes, she got tired of playing, so I came out to get some air. Why are you looking for me now? Do you want to know if your sister’s bedroom life is harmonious? Or do you want to beg your future sister-in-law for money?”

Ji Dongyuan wanted to mock her, but she refused to give him the satisfaction.

Ji Fanghuai finished speaking and moved away from him with disgust.

After the family crisis and her father’s imprisonment, Ji Dongyuan, incited by his disreputable friends, tried to make a comeback while continuing to live extravagantly. In less than half a year, the meager remaining family fortune was almost completely squandered.

He wanted to find Ji Fanghuai but couldn’t. Now that he was exposed face-to-face, he jumped up and shouted, “Can’t you just talk properly, you damn woman?!”

“Sorry, I can’t.” Ji Fanghuai ignored him, hailed a taxi on the roadside, and got in. After getting in the car, she could still hear Ji Dongyuan cursing outside.

If this kind of brother was truly related.

Ji Fanghuai would rather never have one.

“Miss, where are you going?”

Ji Fanghuai gave the address. The driver glanced at her strangely. It took barely three minutes to enter the residential area. Ji Fanghuai paid the fare, and her face was not well when she got out of the car.

It was only a few minutes drive, yet her carsickness reaction was the strongest she had ever experienced. Ji Fanghuai stood still to recover, breathing hard for fresh air, but only inhaled a gasp of cold air that made her cough violently.

Ji Fanghuai returned home.

Lin Mianmian nervously greeted her, asking, “Where did you go? I woke up and you were gone, and you didn’t answer your phone. I almost called the police.”

Ji Fanghuai didn’t want Lin Mianmian to worry, saying, “Sorry, I forgot to look at my phone. I just walked around downstairs.”

Lin Mianmian was relieved, and then said, “Is it very cold outside? Your complexion looks bad.”

Ji Fanghuai thought for a moment and said, “It’s not cold. I just ran into an annoying fellow who wouldn’t leave no matter how much I tried to shoo him away. I’m going to catch up on sleep now.”

Lin Mianmian thought she ran into a stray dog and was completely reassured.

Ji Fanghuai lay on her back in the quilt, her mind filled with everything Ji Dongyuan had said. Although he was cursing the whole time, she still remembered a few key points. She didn’t know whether these were true, false, or half-true.

In fact, finding out the truth was simple.

Ji Fanghuai took out her phone and opened the call history, which was full of missed calls from Jiang Zhi. Now, all she had to do was touch the screen to get a clear answer.

But she didn’t know if she could trust Jiang Zhi.

What if Jiang Zhi lied to her again?

If the allegations were true, the thief would only cry “Stop thief!”

Ji Fanghuai realized that subconsciously, she didn’t want to believe it.

While thinking, her head started to ache again, feeling like it was about to explode, and her temples throbbed fiercely.

Ji Fanghuai passed out from the pain. When she woke up, a dark head was resting by her hand. When she looked closely, it was Lin Mianmian sleeping by the bed.

For some reason, Ji Fanghuai felt a sense of disappointment.

“I came to call you for dinner, but you were unconscious. This is serious; we have to go to the hospital right away for a check-up.” Lin Mianmian was very serious this time.

Ji Fanghuai sat up and said, “I want to see someone first.”

“Is it Jiang Zhi? I’ll contact her for you.” Lin Mianmian had seen everything these days. Ji Fanghuai hadn’t been genuinely happy lately, and her smiles were forced.

She generally knew some things about their relationship, though all of it was actively fed to her by Xin Ling.

Ji Fanghuai shook her head, saying, “No.”

When Ji Fanghuai arrived at the coffee shop, there were few people inside. The staff still didn’t recognize her. It was ridiculous; how could employees not recognize the boss, especially for this kind of business, unless all the old employees had been dismissed.

Ji Fanghuai sat quietly in the booth. The only difference between this place and the coffee shop in B City was the absence of the free reading corner. She waited for less than five minutes, and Shen Jing’s figure appeared in the coffee shop.

Ji Fanghuai smiled politely, “Cousin.”

“Fanghuai.” Shen Jing was as calm and elegant as ever.

Ji Fanghuai went straight to the point, “I want to bother you to tell me about me and Jiang Zhi—the me and Jiang Zhi I don’t know about.”

She believed Shen Jing knew far more than she let on, and she also knew she was being despicable. Shen Jing said she had never lied to her, but she knew so much. The only explanation was that she hadn’t asked, so Shen Jing hadn’t said anything.

Shen Jing had already expected the conversation to be related to Jiang Zhi. Some things she had never insisted on and had long since let go. She said, “I used to come to this coffee shop often.”

Ji Fanghuai listened quietly.

“I work at B University, so I live close by, and coming and going often made us familiar. I also knew a long time ago that Jiang Zhi had a coffee shop exactly like this one in A City. Jiang Zhi said she wanted to use it for a confession.”

Ji Fanghuai frowned.

Jiang Zhi had clearly said the confession was in the cinema.

Shen Jing lowered her eyes and said, “But now I realize she’s always been lying, and to cover one lie, she told another. Sometimes I admire her—I admire that she dared to gamble everything, insisting on a dream that would inevitably wake up.”

In a ward at B City Municipal Hospital, Jiang Zhi, with an IV needle in the back of her hand, was trying to reach for the phone on the bedside table.

Xin Ling snatched the phone halfway, lecturing her like a mother hen, “The doctor said you need to rest now. Let’s see if you dare to mess up your body again! Drinking every day, look how capable you are, now you’re lying in a hospital bed, aren’t you? Whether you look at your phone or not, no one is contacting you.”

The comment seemed to sting. Jiang Zhi quietly withdrew her hand. She was now wearing striped hospital pajamas, looked much thinner than before, and the melancholy in her eyes never seemed to dissipate, making her look somewhat pitiful.

Xin Ling couldn’t stand her pitiful look, so she handed the phone over, saying, “Fine, look, look.”

Jiang Zhi happily took the phone. It was exactly as Xin Ling said; Ji Fanghuai hadn’t contacted her. She checked all the contact methods related to Ji Fanghuai and found that Ji Fanghuai hadn’t blocked her.

But she dared not contact her first.

She was afraid that contacting her would remind Ji Fanghuai to block her.

Jiang Zhi put down her phone and turned to stare out the window in a daze.

Xin Ling asked curiously, “What are you planning to do next?”

Jiang Zhi snapped out of it and said, “I’ll wait for her to calm down a bit, and then I’ll be honest with her. Anything I say now she won’t believe. It should be better after a while.”

Xin Ling doubted, “Are you sure she’ll wait for you to confess on your own?”

Jiang Zhi contemplated with lowered eyes for a moment, then got up to get out of bed.

Xin Ling stopped her, “At least finish this bottle of infusion before you do anything. Also, do you think she still wants to see you?”

Jiang Zhi was clear about what she had done and admitted, “I overestimated myself. I was prepared for her to be very angry, but I didn’t expect her to be this angry. Her personality used to be so soft, but after losing her memory, she shows no mercy…”

She was referring to the time Ji Fanghuai said she was disgusting.

That incident was like a nightmare, constantly lingering in her mind.

Xin Ling looked at the dark circles under Jiang Zhi’s eyes and her noticeably thinner body, and asked, “Then, do you regret it?”

Jiang Zhi thought seriously for a moment and said, “No regrets. If I had another chance, I would still choose this way.”

Xin Ling was exasperated, “Couldn’t you have used a gentler approach? Did you have to lie that you were her fiancée?”

Jiang Zhi lowered her eyes, saying, “I was her older sister for so many years. I tried every gentle method, but none ever succeeded. This was the last gamble.”

“…” Xin Ling expressed a headache, saying, “You better confess soon, or you’ll be the one to suffer the consequences.”

Jiang Zhi, who had never been so indecisive, finally sent a text message to Ji Fanghuai: “Let’s meet and talk.”

She thought Ji Fanghuai would ignore her message or block her immediately. Unexpectedly, Ji Fanghuai replied instantly: “Okay.”

Jiang Zhi smiled involuntarily, holding her phone.