After She Fell for Me, I Lost My Memory (GL) - Chapter 19

The original half-month business trip was extended for a few days due to a sudden notice from the company. Cen Luo and Jiang Ting didn’t return to Yun City until the end of November.

That night, Cen Luo made more than thirty calls to Jian Mu. It was only after hearing the cold, robotic female voice over and over again that Cen Luo slowly came back to her senses.

On the third day after the incident, Jian Mu replied to her message, asking her why she had suddenly made so many calls.

She must have just turned on her phone, so she just received the missed call notifications now.

By the third day, Cen Luo’s emotions had improved, but she was still sad about not being able to reach Jian Mu.

[I was bored, so I just called a bunch of times.]

After that, Jian Mu didn’t reply to her.

Cen Luo had always known that Jian Mu was busy and not good at expressing herself.

That’s why she had always been the one to reach out to her.

But this time, Cen Luo suddenly felt exhausted.

Cen Luo was not a negative or pessimistic person, but she felt that her negative emotions were too strong during this time.

She even started to think about the future.

Her and Jian Mu’s future seemed to have no end in sight.

For the rest of the business trip, Cen Luo didn’t take the initiative to contact Jian Mu again.

One reason was because she was busy with work, and the other was that Cen Luo wanted to see if Jian Mu would take the initiative to contact her.

The facts proved that Jian Mu would not.

For Cen Luo, twenty days was an unbearable torment. Fortunately, the busyness of work made Cen Luo forget some of her sadness.

The next time she heard about Jian Mu was on the trending topics.

The topic of Jian Mu Ding Yue Hotel quickly rose to the top of the trending list.

Jian Mu’s popularity was no less than that of a popular celebrity. Once, a paparazzo thought Jian Mu was just faking her coldness and that she must have a different personality in private. He swore to expose her.

So, a paparazzo followed Jian Mu for almost half a month and found that her life only consisted of going to work and going home.

Coincidentally, during that time, Jian Mu was busy with the research and development of a new product for her company, and Cen Luo was also on a business trip. The paparazzo didn’t find out about their relationship.

After waiting for half a month, the paparazzo became impatient, but he still trusted his instincts and believed that Jian Mu might be in an office romance.

So he disguised himself as a janitor and stayed at Jianyi Technology for half a month.

He found nothing. It was all for nothing.

The paparazzo was devastated.

This incident also became a joke in the paparazzi community.

Cen Luo only heard about this from her colleagues after she returned. She was scared and reminded Jian Mu about it.

Perhaps it was because the paparazzo’s actions had reminded other colleagues, or perhaps it was because Jian Mu had become more cautious.

After that, no one intentionally followed Jian Mu again.

When the trending topic appeared, Cen Luo and Jiang Ting were at the airport, waiting to board their flight.

Unlike Cen Luo’s sadness and disappointment, Jiang Ting was excited about this trending topic.

Thinking that Cen Luo and Jian Mu were friends, she thought they might be able to get an exclusive interview.

Cen Luo couldn’t hear what Jiang Ting was saying. Her mind was filled with the trending topics and the popular blog posts related to them.

The blog post said the two of them were in a relationship, with solid evidence. It also included a GIF of the two of them entering and exiting the same hotel one after another.

Not only the hotel, but also a GIF of the two of them entering and exiting a hospital one after another twenty days ago.

There were also messages from anonymous people who said they had seen the two of them in the check-up room. Jian Mu was smiling gently at Ding Yue, and Ding Yue was leaning on her. The two of them looked very close.

Smiling gently…

The GIF also had the date and time. Jian Mu entered the hospital at 9:57 p.m. on November 10th.

Cen Luo looked at her call history from twenty days ago.

The time of her first call was 10:31 p.m. on November 10th.

In that instant, Cen Luo felt as if something had collapsed in her heart. The sound of something breaking pierced her mental defenses.

—Can you not meet with Ding Yue in the future?

—Okay.

But now, the two of them had not only seen each other, but there were also rumors that they were in a relationship.

What was she?

What did all these years mean?

The airport broadcast suddenly sounded. Jiang Ting saw that Cen Luo was not moving, so she nudged her with her hand:

“Team leader, we should…”

Cen Luo’s eyes were red, and her head was slightly lowered. Her lips were tightly pursed as if she was desperately holding back her emotions.

Jiang Ting had never seen Cen Luo like this before.

Cen Luo was tightly gripping her phone in her hand.

Jiang Ting saw that her phone screen was on Jian Mu’s trending topic page.

Jiang Ting’s words were suddenly stuck in her throat. She bit her lip. “Team leader…”

“Let’s go.”

Jiang Ting heard a soft sigh. In a daze, she saw a clear tear slide down Cen Luo’s cheek.

During her business trip, Jiang Ting often saw Cen Luo spacing out. Every time she called out to Cen Luo, Cen Luo would pretend that nothing had happened and continue to work.

Jiang Ting looked at Cen Luo, who was walking in front of her with her suitcase, and a wave of heartache suddenly rose in her heart.

She suddenly remembered a cat she had when she was a child.

With the thought of teasing the cat, she and her younger brother prepared its favorite canned fish.

But just as the cat was about to eat, she threw the can somewhere else.

The kitten tried its best to get the can, but after being played with again and again, it seemed to give up and lay on the ground.

Its eyes were full of grievance and pitifulness.

Perhaps she was overthinking it, but she felt as if the kitten’s eyes were saying: I’ve tried so hard, why won’t you let me eat?

Later, when she and her brother placed the can in front of it, the kitten walked away without looking back.

After that, no matter what she and her brother did, the kitten would no longer eat that brand of canned fish. Sometimes, it would even reject her and her brother’s presence.

Some cats are just that stubborn.

It was three hours later when they returned to Yun City.

When she turned her phone back on, Cen Luo’s message list showed two unread messages.

Before opening them, Cen Luo still had hope.

Three hours was enough time to explain everything.

And to solve everything.

But unfortunately, after three hours, nothing had happened.

The trending topic remained on the trending list and was getting more and more popular. The small words next to the topic also changed from “new” to “hot.”

This meant that there were still many people clicking on this trending topic.

Jian Mu, did she not think of removing the trending topic?

Jiang Ting didn’t disturb Cen Luo on the way. After they arrived in Yun City, the two of them said their goodbyes and went to their respective homes.

Cen Luo hailed a taxi to her small apartment.

Only then did she open her unread messages.

It was from Qin Ran, three hours ago.

She asked if she was back from her business trip in Mian City and also told her that they would pick up Xu Fengwan together tomorrow to celebrate her birthday.

Xu Fengwan had been reminding Cen Luo that she was coming back for half a month now, so Cen Luo knew about Xu Fengwan.

Cen Luo: [Just got off the plane. On my way home now.]

Cen Luo: [Okay, let’s go to the airport together tomorrow morning.]

Qin Ran: […]

Qin Ran: [Can I celebrate my birthday with you in jail?]

Cen Luo: [?]

Cen Luo: [What are you talking about?]

The top of the screen showed that the other person was typing. After a long time, Cen Luo received another message from Qin Ran.

Qin Ran: [I fucking want to scatter Jian Mu’s ashes.]

Based on Cen Luo’s understanding of Qin Ran, the long “typing” before was probably a toned-down message she had sent after a lot of editing.

Cen Luo’s fingers tapped on her phone screen for a long time, but not a single word was formed.

Not receiving a reply from Cen Luo, Qin Ran sighed in relief and sent a long message to Cen Luo, trying to comfort her.

She hadn’t expected Cen Luo to reply to her.

But at that moment, Qin Ran received a reply from Cen Luo:

[You asked me why I liked her, right?]

Qin Ran was stunned for a moment. She had always wanted to “treat the symptoms.” Only by finding out why Cen Luo liked Jian Mu could she find a way to make Cen Luo stop liking her.

She had known that Cen Luo was stubborn for a long time.

Cen Luo: [Because she saved me back then.]

Qin Ran: [?]

Cen Luo: [Actually, I can’t blame her now. After all, it was my own choice.]

Qin Ran’s hand clenched into a fist. If Cen Luo said something like that again, she couldn’t guarantee that she wouldn’t go over and beat up Jian Mu.

Cen Luo: [But I want to try now.]

Before Qin Ran could ask, she received another message from Cen Luo:

[I want to try to stop liking Jian Mu.]