Chapter 3 - Like A Piece Of Paper (1/2)
One would think that having no memories of the original owner, Xiu was given a chance to a clean slate to fill it with her own story. But only she knew how difficult it was to pretend to be someone you have no clue about. Being a professional actress, she knew how to immerse herself into a role but here she was clueless. There was no script or any impression of the real Bai Xiu.
She was lost. She was living with the burden of not knowing whose life she had snatched and why? All she knew was that she wanted to do justice for the departed soul. Even in these five years, she couldn't find a fragment of a memory that belonged to the real Bai Xiu.
After an hour-long bus ride, she finally reached the sky-high building of Spark International Group. The tall, glass building was intimidating in its own way. But it was not something that could wear down Xiu - the girl who had gone through death. And yet survived miraculously through rebirth.
She sniggered at the word 'rebirth'. It seemed so foolish to even herself even when she had experienced it first hand. According to her, this supernatural phenomenon was only suited for fictional stories and now, her own life had become like one.
But before entering the building, she took a turn to enter the cafe. She stood in the long queue waiting for her turn. The tv was playing in the background and she could faintly hear the current news playing.
”The Nominations for the Golden Phoenix Awards have been uploaded. It is reported that the voting lines will be open till the...”
Xiu zoned out the voices around her. Once upon a time, she was the winner of the Best Actress Award at that Golden Phoenix Awards for four consecutive years. She certainly made one green with envy with her achievements. However, it was just once upon a time kind of a fairytale.
Today's Xiu was nothing like that Goddess that people admired or scorned at the end. She didn't want to be that naive again. Perhaps that's why Xiu never even tried to look back or tried to find out what was going on in the Capital. After her rebirth, she had completely let go of the past that belonged to Chen Xiu.
She was fine being an ordinary girl in the An City. It was peaceful here with no one to point fingers at her again. It's easy to point fingers but those people could never understand what Xiu had to bear. People said Chen Xiu committed suicide. She would say, 'You all killed me. How could a coward like me even dare to jump? It was your accusations that pushed me down that balcony.' But unfortunately, she couldn't change the past.
And neither did she want to anymore. This wasn't her body and she had no right to solve her personal grudges when she couldn't even solve the ones the original soul left behind.
”Miss?” Xiu's thoughts were disturbed when the cashier called her asking for her order.
”One black coffee to go,” she gave her order and paid with her mobile before leaving the cafe and entering the busy lobby of the company.
She entered the elevator and stood at the back while others filled in.
”Hey, are you a new intern as well?” A perky girl asked the guy in glasses standing beside her. While he nodded in reply like a shy person, she went on, ”I knew it. I felt the vibes. By the way, I'm Bo Jiu. And you are?”