Chapter 997 - A Necessary Lie (1/2)

Nora smiled widened as she looked at her, ”You are my best friend.” She took a pause and added, ”You're never a lie to me. And you can never be.”

”But I'm not Destiny whom you knew,” said Xiu in a helpless voice.

”I know,” replied Nora. ”You are Xiu, my best friend.”

Xiu sat up when she heard that and looked at Nora incredulously, ”Do you understand what I am saying?”

Nora lazily put one foot over the other as she said, ”I do understand it. You're saying, you're not Destiny. You're Xiu. But I already know that. I'm just surprised you're willing to talk to me about it at this time.”

Xiu didn't respond for a long while. She was too stunned to even form any words. She always thought she did a good job hiding from Nora but she seemed to have forgotten that Nora was the closest person to Destiny and she also became the closest person to her as well. So, how could she, being the closest person to both Destiny and Xiu, not even tell the difference? Or even notice that both were two different people?

But even if Xiu understood this in her head, she couldn't process it well.

”How long have you known it for?” asked Xiu after a long silence.

Nora thought about it carefully before answering, ”Honestly, I don't know. Initially, when you said you have amnesia, I accepted it without another thought. But slowly, I noticed how your habits changed. Again, I blamed it on amnesia. Then you became a whole different person and I still blamed it on amnesia.” Nora almost wanted to smack her old self for being dense enough to blame everything on amnesia. But as a normal person, she couldn't possibly make the connection with a soul exchange. ”It actually happened after I met my daughter. One day I went home and our cooking lady was watching a tv series. The female lead was reincarnated into another person. And the female lead's best friend noticed how she was acting differently. I don't even know why my brain connected that with you.”

”What?” Xiu felt like laughing at how it sounded. Her best friend actually doubted everything after watching a drama? She really wanted to crack open Nora's head to see what was inside it.

”Anyway, after that I started paying attention to you like a hawk,” confessed Nora. ”And the more I noticed, the more I got chills. At that time, my brain was unwilling to believe that amnesia could bring that much change to a person.”

”And that's when you knew I'm Xiu?”

Nora shook her head, ”Nope! I just figured out that you were not the Destiny I knew. I didn't know whose soul lived within this body but I was certain it wasn't Destiny.”

”Then why didn't you confront me?”