Lydia Shu stayed up until midnight before falling into a deep sleep.
The next morning, she was awakened by her mother's phone call. She reached out to the bedside table for her phone in a daze, but accidentally dropped it to the ground. With a bang, Lydia Shu suddenly woke up.
As soon as she leaned out, Ethan Jiang's voice came from outside the door: "Are you okay?"
Lydia Shu was stunned for a moment. Although it was a caring word, it became very annoying when it came out of Ethan Jiang's mouth. She picked up the phone sullenly and said loudly: "What does it have to do with you?"
There was no sound outside the door.
Lydia Shu hesitated to speak.
After answering the phone, Emily Fang's tone was a little anxious: "Li Li, why did you take so long to answer the phone? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No," Lydia Shu paused for a few seconds before realizing that it was her mother on the other end of the phone. She said gently, "I just woke up."
"Does your head still hurt? Has the wound on your shoulder scabbed over?"
Lydia Shu rubbed her temples. In fact, her head still hurt a lot, but she lied to Emily Fang, "My headache is much better than when I was in the hospital. Mom, you don't have to worry too much."
"How can mom not worry? Lili, when will you come home?"
"I---" Lydia Shu hesitated a little.
"Mom has contacted a very professional nutritionist who can live at home. Mom has also asked someone to find a physical therapist who specializes in acupuncture and massage for mental illnesses. As soon as you get home, Mom will contact him and ask him to come to your home to help you with head massage. The physical therapy is very effective and will definitely help you recover your memory as soon as possible."
Lydia Shu tugged at the quilt, feeling a little embarrassed.
Seeing Lydia Shu was silent, Emily Fang's voice became lower, "Tell mom, why do you have to go back with him? Don't you believe in him and don't believe in mom and dad?"
"I don't."
Lydia Shu glanced at the door and said, "I didn't believe him."
Just because I don't believe it, I want to verify it.
"I just want to know what I see in him."
Emily Fang smiled helplessly: "Look, without the barrier of love, you yourself feel that you two are not the same kind of people, and you yourself doubt this relationship, let alone how his parents feel about him?"
Lydia Shu woke up as if from a dream.
Indeed, this was also the reason why she followed Ethan Jiang back. Although this reason sounded selfish, annoying, and condescending, she and Ethan Jiang were obviously not the same kind of people.
But she suddenly remembered the past events that Ethan Jiang mentioned before, and couldn't help but confirm with her mother: "Dad..."
Even without the shared memories as an emotional support, Lydia Shu still retained a childish dependence on her parents. She remembered what Ethan Jiang said, "Did Dad really cheat on her back then?"
After waking up from the car accident, her parents had always acted in love and happy in front of her. If what Ethan Jiang said was true, Lydia Shu would probably be devastated, because nothing in this world is trustworthy.
Emily Fang was actually speechless.
Lydia Shu felt uneasy at her mother's pause.
"Did Ethan Jiang tell you that?"
Lydia Shu didn't say anything, Emily Fang understood instantly and angrily asked: "What is his intention?"
Lydia Shu didn't know what Ethan Jiang's intention was.
"Your father made a mistake, but it didn't cause any serious consequences. He broke up with me immediately after I found out. He wrote a letter of commitment, signed a property transfer agreement, and then he calmed down and returned home. Mom has let it go, Li Li, you don't have to dwell on this. No matter how bad your father is, he is still a hundred times better than Ethan Jiang. At least he can give you the best life."
Lydia Shu was a little confused.
There is nothing wrong with what Emily Fang said, but there is nothing right about it either. It is just the unspoken rule of the adult world.
Lydia Shu's father, Henry Shu, is the chairman of a real estate company with assets worth over 100 million yuan. When Emily Fang just married him, Henry Shu's career had not yet started. The two of them went through the most difficult days together for several years. When the real estate industry reaped huge dividends, Henry Shu bought an office building in the city center and became the chairman of a real estate company on the 26th floor.
In the past few years, the real estate industry has been in decline, the company's performance has declined significantly, and the capital chain was almost broken. Just when Henry Shu was desperate, Emily Fang stood by him without hesitation, helped him find investment, and also proposed suggestions for the company's transformation.
Thanks to Emily Fang's help, Henry Shu finally got through the difficulties. Now the company is gradually stabilizing and starting to enter the new energy industry. The investment is beginning to bear fruit. Emily Fang knows very well that divorcing Henry Shu at this time is not a wise choice.
Because Henry Shu is in his prime and his career is still booming, the division of property at this stage cannot match the long-term expectations in the future. Simply put, it is not cost-effective.
Therefore Emily Fang can tolerate betrayal and lies.
Emily Fang continued to chatter: "Why did Ethan Jiang tell you this? I said he was very cunning!"
Lydia Shu was stunned and finally had no choice but to interrupt her mother: "I know, Mom, I know."
Emily Fang realized that she had lost her composure, calmed down her tone, and said, "Mom is not targeting him, Mom just cares about you."
Lydia Shu tugged at the edge of the quilt, "Hmm."
"Come back early, Mom has cleaned up your room."
"Well," Lydia Shu didn't know what to say. After thinking for a while, she just said obediently: "Thank you, Mom."
After hanging up the phone, Lydia Shu lay on the bed in a daze for a while.
She didn't know who to tell about this confusion.
The lost memory was sometimes like a siren that lured her with its singing, making her eager to ask and verify, and then causing her to fall into deeper confusion and fear.
Just like Ethan Jiang said: What do you use to verify my words? Your mother and your friends' words?
Lydia Shu didn't know who was real and who was fake, who was right and who was wrong.
She feels insecure about everything now.
Ethan Jiang's footsteps sounded outside the door. After a moment, Ethan Jiang came over and said, "Get up. It's time to take medicine."
Lydia Shu changed into her home clothes, opened the door and went to the bathroom.
After washing up, she simply applied some lotion and went to the restaurant. Today's breakfast seemed to be made by Ethan Jiang himself. It was two bowls of wontons sprinkled with shredded seaweed, chopped green onions and small shrimps.
The delicious aroma filled the entire restaurant.
Ethan Jiang helped Lydia Shu pour some warm water in advance and placed it on the table. "Take the medicine."
Lydia Shu felt like he had become a sickly person.
But she was too lazy to argue with him about these things. She took the medicine and drank a big gulp of water. Then she sat at the table, poked the large shrimp wontons with a spoon, and asked softly, "Did you make this yourself?"
Ethan Jiang paused and said, "I bought raw wontons from outside."
"Do you still have raw wontons for sale?"
"Yeah, the thyme wontons at the entrance of the community."
Lydia Shu was a little disappointed, "Oh."
When she realized her disappointment belatedly, she realized that she had actually been secretly looking forward to Ethan Jiang getting up early to make her handmade wontons, and was actually looking forward to such a down-to-earth life.
She lowered her head and took a sip of wonton soup.
It was scalded and there was a hissing sound.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ethan Jiang subconsciously reaching out his hand towards her, but then he paused inexplicably and retracted his hand.
Ethan Jiang's hands were very broad. Although they were not white and slender, they had distinct joints. Lydia Shu came back to his senses and continued to eat the wontons.
Both of them were silent while eating.
It has to be said that Ethan Jiang’s cooking skills were very much to Lydia Shu’s taste, with just the right amount of saltiness and sweetness, and she couldn’t find any faults at all.
When they were almost done eating, Ethan Jiang told her: "I have to go back to work tomorrow."
Lydia Shu was stunned. "Tomorrow?"
"I asked the company for half a month's leave, which ends today."
Lydia Shu was puzzled, "Who will take care of me then?"
"You just lost your memory, your arms and legs are not injured. I will buy breakfast and dinner for you, and you can just order takeout for lunch."
He actually said "it's just amnesia".
only---
Just amnesia?
Ethan Jiang seemed to have no empathy. He was completely unaware of Lydia Shu's panic, fear, and helplessness beneath her pretense.
He is an unqualified lover.
Lydia Shu felt very aggrieved.
In the past two days, she has repeatedly targeted Ethan Jiang, provoked Ethan Jiang, and behaved harshly and rudely, but Ethan Jiang didn't care.
She raised her eyes and stared at Ethan Jiang, and Ethan Jiang looked back at her calmly.
Ethan Jiang gave in: "Then I'll get up in the morning and make lunch for you, and leave work early in the evening and come back to make dinner for you, okay?"
Lydia Shu still stared at him without saying a word.
"What on earth are you doing?" Ethan Jiang asked.
He asked calmly, as if he was a parent who was fed up with his child's crying, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.
Lydia Shu stood up suddenly, and in an instant she felt a dull pain in her chest. Her first reaction was to ask herself: Yeah, what am I doing? Am I... having a bad temper?
I was being stupid, throwing tantrums after a husband who didn't love me, and expecting a little loving response from him.
On the one hand, she has a proud self-esteem, and on the other hand, she has an insurmountable dependence. She gave up her family's villa, the nutritionist and physiotherapist specially hired by her mother, and lived in this small house of dozens of square meters, and was still asked: What are you doing?
"I---"
Lydia Shu's eyes soon turned red: "We didn't get married for love, did we?"
Ethan Jiang's expression remained unchanged, and he just said, "No."
"Can't you feel whether you love me or not? You have never really cared about me these past few days. You are not what a husband should be. You make me feel like I have been bitten by a poisonous snake."
How does he want Lydia Shu to understand this marriage?
Ethan Jiang refused to reveal anything, and all Lydia Shu could see was Ethan Jiang's loveless eyes.
She turned to leave, but Ethan Jiang suddenly stood up, grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him. Lydia Shu's heart skipped a beat with fright. She quickly raised the hand that was not trapped by Ethan Jiang and pressed it against her chest, then tried to push Ethan Jiang away, but Ethan Jiang held her tightly.
Lydia Shu's face turned pale and his fear rose rapidly.
Ethan Jiang was much stronger than Lydia Shu. He only exerted a little force and Lydia Shu was held in his arms and dared not move. Except for the night when they slept in each other's arms, this was the first time they were so close to each other while awake. He gently touched Lydia Shu's long hair and said in a rare gentle tone: "Stop making trouble, Li Li, let's live a good life."
Lydia Shu felt chilled to the bone.
This isn't what she wanted.
The marriage she wants should not be just these few words.
When Ethan Jiang let go of her hand, she quickly pushed Ethan Jiang away, rushed into the room and locked the door.
She locked herself in the room, checking her phone over and over again, looking for clues in the social media apps where she had registered her account, but there was no trace. All traces of her past life were erased along with her memory as her phone was broken into pieces.
She couldn't find anything, couldn't see anything. Her breathing became rapid, her hands trembled uncontrollably, her fingertips were cold when they touched the screen, and her heart was shaking and shattered to the ground.
Just when she was close to despair, Ethan Jiang's words suddenly rang in her mind---"A girl named Sophie Lu said that your good personality was just an act, and she also said that your father had a lover outside. You were very angry, had a big fight with Sophie Lu, and then ran away."
Sophie Lu. He mentioned this person.
This person was the fuse that led to her and Ethan Jiang’s acquaintance.
Lydia Shu quickly grasped this clue. She wanted to find a way to verify what Ethan Jiang said about the "first meeting".
Ethan Jiang said it was an "accidental encounter", Clara Ye said "he had planned it a long time ago", Lydia Shu had to find a way to verify it.
She looked through her WeChat friends but didn't find Sophie Lu. It seemed that they had broken up a long time ago.
Through Clara Ye, she added Sophie Lu back on WeChat.
Unexpectedly, Sophie Lu let bygones be bygones and quickly passed her friend verification. Lydia Shu was unprepared and was a little hesitant for a moment. She thought for a long time before opening the chat box.
Lydia Shu: [Hello, how are you doing recently?]
Sophie Lu got straight to the point: [I heard you lost your memory.]
Lydia Shu took a deep breath and didn't beat around the bush.
Lydia Shu: [Excuse me for a few minutes. I want to ask you a question. We went to Qingyan Mountain together two years ago, right?]
Sophie Lu: [Yes.]
Lydia Shu: [One night I had an argument with you and then I ran out alone?]
Sophie Lu: [Yes, we did have a fight. It was very late, and you ran out alone without your phone.]
Lydia Shu: [How did I get back that day?]
Sophie Lu: [Your husband sent you back. He carried you on his back and you were talking and laughing. I heard from the resort staff that your husband often flirts with wealthy single girls in the resort. Oh, Lydia Shu, I thought you were so smart.]
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