Chapter 4.1 (2/2)

I shot him a glare.

“I surrender I surrender! Yan Xiao, don’t look at me with such a bloodthirsty expression! Just kidding!3 I only felt, I guess, you and Yin

and Yin Li are from two different worlds and don’t seem like the type to ever interact. I mean, look at how interesting you are and how boring he is. Men like Yin Li are most suited to those brainless, obedient, and well-bred young ladies that orbit around him.”

Suddenly he changed the topic: “You don’t believe Yin Li, right? That’s why you have no intention of depending on him to figure out your past, and don’t trust anything he tells you?”

I glanced at Mo Xing Zhi and didn’t respond.

Sure enough he lost his composure: “If you don’t ask me anything how am I supposed to help you?” Then he continued on, deflated, “Ai, so troublesome, I like it the most when people beg me for help but you’re not satisfying at all. Alright I’ll help you out; after coming home from overseas it’s so hard to come across any interesting people, especially one that hasn’t been deceived by Yin Li yet. I’ve actually been thinking that your car accident was probably part of some big conspiracy.”

After that Mo Xing Zhi asked for photos so that he could help me post a “searching for this person” announcement, and ended up taking a couple of pictures of me, including a selfie

including a selfie together. Before leaving, he warmly encouraged me to speed up my rehabilitation, and added that he hoped I could quickly regain my memories and the use of my leg.

Every person has their own circ.u.mstances; in the end he was unable to come by often. Thereafter, I returned to my solitary lifestyle. Seeing that the sky was beginning to darken, I decided it was time for my daily physical therapy.

1 In Chinese, the idiom 拳头打进棉花里 literally means “a fist hitting into cotton”. According to my mom, it’s often used to describe when there’s a one-sided argument where one person is getting super angry and emotional, but the other person doesn’t react/respond to them. I imagine it feels pretty pointless and frustrating for the first party. (rip our MC Yan Xiao)

2 “young master returning from overseas” probably refers to the practice among China’s wealthy upper crust of sending their kids to receive education/college education at elite overseas, usually American, inst.i.tutions. Y’all might have heard of these rich kids running around on college campuses with their ma.s.sive iPhones, s.h.i.+ny cars, and designer clothes …looking for a rich young master to sponsor me ;__;

3 This was spoken in English so I don’t really have an equivalent language to change it into haha…

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