Chapter 1015: Elusive Memory (2/2)
”Hmm.” She tilted her head to the side. ”Are you sure that it actually happened to you?”
”I don't know.” He sighed before shrugging. ”It's a waste of time thinking about it. Wait here, love. I'll just dry my hair and we'll sleep, okay?”
”I'll help you dry.”
He let her. They headed to their walk-in closet. He helped her dry her hair earlier and now she was returning the favour. Blow drying his wet hair didn't take as long as hers. However, he enjoyed these short moments of her pampering him.
While she busied herself with drying his hair, she began humming a song. It sounded familiar. He remembered that it was the same song that she sang to him as lullaby while he grieved after discovering for the first time that his Fifth Brother Zihao was dead and the one occupying his sworn brother's body was actually his brother-in-law.
His wife's melodious voice was soft yet still clear enough to be heard above the whirring blow dryer. It just went on to show the high quality of her voice and her top-notch vocal skills.
The Italian aria was supposed to be emotional, yet she transformed it into a comforting song instead. It was like a delicate but still powerful salve to one's troubled soul. Jin Liwei's distracted mind began to clear as he savoured his wife's beautiful singing voice.
Then it was as if lightning struck him. He gasped as the slippery memory finally revealed itself in his mind.
”Liwei?” Iris turned off the blow dryer and looked at him in concern. ”What happened? Why do you look shocked?”
He didn't answer because several quick images flashed inside his racing mind. He stood up all of a sudden and carried his alarmed wife before running back to the bedroom.
”Liwei! What are you doing?! Calm down!”
He placed her on the chaise longue, and then grabbed the envelope on the table. He removed the photos inside and stared at Evelina's beautiful solo shot.
”Why are you looking at them again?”
He faced her. ”I remember.”
”What do you remember?”
”Evelina.”
”Yes? Liwei, you're acting so weird right now.”
He took a few deep breaths to calm himself before sitting down beside her. The photo was still in his hand but his eyes were focused on her face, intending to closely observe her reaction.
”Have you ever been to my university in Boston before?”
She blinked a few times at the unexpected subject of his question. ”No.”
He frowned. ”Are you sure?”
”I haven't gone to America yet ever since waking up in this body and starting to live as Long Xiulan.”
”No, that's not what I mean. I'm asking if you ever visited my university as Evelina.”
”Oh.” She tilted her head to the side and thought about it. Then her eyebrows rose. ”Yes. As a matter of fact, I did visit your university before.”
His eyes lit up. ”Really? Do you remember when?”
”Hmm, yes. My brother helped me sneak out of our Russian estate and then we flew straight to America. Big Brother had some important business to attend in Boston so he left me to explore the place with his subordinates. Your university is famous so I went there to see what it's like and how it compares to Cross Academy. Why are you asking me this?”
She looked at him in confusion, not understanding at all why he was asking her this question with such a weird expression on his face. Did her outburst from earlier angered him too much that he went cuckoo in the head?
No, that shouldn't be the case. Her husband wasn't the fragile type. He wouldn't break so easily like that. Then why was he acting so oddly like this right now?
His heart jumped and started racing with excitement.
”Evelina, I think we've met before.”