After She Fell for Me, I Lost My Memory (GL) - Chapter 24

Zhao Zhao was just standing at the doorway and hadn’t heard what they were saying inside.

She hesitated for a moment because of Cen Luo’s baffling words and looked at Xu Fengwan next to her.

Xu Fengwan rubbed her forehead and explained to Zhao Zhao, “She must have amnesia. She thinks she’s sixteen now.”

Zhao Zhao: “…”

Cen Luo sensed the weirdness. She asked, confused, “What do you mean, I think I’m sixteen? How old am I otherwise?”

Xu Fengwan thought for a moment and decided to tell Cen Luo the truth. She smiled at her and said, gesturing with her hand, “Twenty-six.”

Cen Luo: “?”

She hadn’t even started high school yet, and she was already twenty-six?

Zhao Zhao didn’t know what to call Cen Luo for a moment and was in a difficult position, while Cen Luo was also silent because of Xu Fengwan’s words.

The ward suddenly fell silent.

When the doctor was halfway through his explanation, Qin Ran came out of the doctor’s office.

It could be short-term selective amnesia, or it could be permanent memory loss.

It’s possible that when she suffered a major impact, Cen Luo selectively forgot some things or was unwilling to remember certain things. So during this week-long sleep, she forgot the things she didn’t want to remember.

In short, Cen Luo had amnesia.

Qin Ran sat on a bench in the hospital hallway for two minutes, thinking for a long time, then went back to the ward.

Cen Luo grabbed onto Qin Ran as if she were a lifesaver and asked, “Xiao Ran, they all say I’m twenty-six. Boo-hoo, please tell me they’re lying.”

Although she didn’t want to make Cen Luo sad, Qin Ran still nodded. “Xiao Luo, we’re all twenty-six.”

She used the word “all” to make Cen Luo feel a sense of companionship.

Cen Luo bit her lip, looked up at the ceiling, and wailed, “Why would you do this to me!”

Qin Ran pursed her lips, then glanced at Zhao Zhao on the side and asked Cen Luo, “Xiao Luo, do you remember anything important or anyone important?”

Zhao Zhao and Xu Fengwan were both stunned. The first person that came to mind was Jian Mu.

In the past, whenever Cen Luo had a fever or a cold, she would think of Jian Mu first.

Sometimes, she would unintentionally sigh, “I wonder if Jian Mu has eaten yet.”

Once, Qin Ran got a little angry and asked her to choose who was the most important person in her heart and who she would remember if she could only remember three people in the world.

At that time, Cen Luo playfully begged for mercy, saying, “Of course you’re the most important. Can I choose five? Five, my parents, you, Xu Fengwan, and Jian Mu, is that okay?”

Cen Luo, who said back then that she would never forget Jian Mu, now thought for a while after hearing Qin Ran’s words and then said, “There’s nothing particularly important. The only important people are you and Xu Fengwan, right?”

Qin Ran continued to ask, “Then do you remember if you ever liked anyone?”

“How could I have ever liked anyone? Didn’t I tell you? I’m going to stay single and go to high school to see pretty older sisters.”

What kind of questions is Qin Ran asking?

Seeing that Cen Luo mentioned “pretty older sisters” in every other sentence, Qin Ran smiled with satisfaction.

She really didn’t remember Jian Mu.

“You don’t remember Jian… Hiss—” Before Xu Fengwan could finish her sentence, she felt her arm being pinched hard by Qin Ran.

“Remember what?” Cen Luo was confused. Why did Qin Ran pinch Xu Fengwan? Is there something she can’t say?

“She just wanted to ask if you remember where you put the shells you picked up?” Qin Ran grinned and looked very happy.

Cen Luo: “…”

When they just graduated from junior high school, Cen Luo, Qin Ran, and Xu Fengwan went to the beach and picked up a few jars of shells.

“Didn’t we each get a jar of the shells we picked up? Do you want mine?” Cen Luo looked at Xu Fengwan with a little hostility.

Qin Ran shrugged. “She’s so mean. I think it’s okay for me to pinch her, right?”

Cen Luo obediently agreed.

Zhao Zhao, who had been silent all this time, had been observing Cen Luo for a long time and found that she had something in common with the Cen Luo in her memories.

She was smart and articulate.

Zhao Zhao also saw what Qin Ran was doing and vaguely understood.

“Xiao Luo, we’ll go out first and not bother you while you rest.”

“Okay.”

After leaving the ward, Qin Ran said to Zhao Zhao as soon as she closed the door, “Can you go get some white rice porridge for Xiao Luo?”

Now that Cen Luo had just woken up, she couldn’t eat solid food. Qin Ran was most likely using the excuse of buying porridge to get rid of her.

Zhao Zhao understood and nodded.

As she was leaving, she heard Qin Ran’s words: “You should understand what I mean. I hope you don’t mention that person to Cen Luo.”

“I’ll tell her when the time is right.”

Everyone knew who “that person” was.

Zhao Zhao was silent for a few seconds, then she hummed in response and left.

It wasn’t that Qin Ran hadn’t given Jian Mu a chance. When Cen Luo was first sent to the hospital, she called Jian Mu, and it wasn’t just once.

The phone was off.

She didn’t have her as a friend and couldn’t find any other contact information.

At that moment, Qin Ran finally truly understood the sadness Cen Luo felt when she told her that Jian Mu’s phone was often turned off and she couldn’t reach her.

Qin Ran was sad for Cen Luo. She guessed that the first person Cen Luo would want to see when she woke up would be Jian Mu, so she put aside their past grievances and tried to find a way to contact her.

In the end, Qin Ran had no choice but to try to find the customer service hotline for Jian Yi Technology everywhere.

However, when she said she was looking for Jian Mu, the customer service representative treated her like a crazy woman, went in circles with her, and finally hung up the phone.

Jian Mu didn’t have many friends. At least, Qin Ran couldn’t find any friends who could contact Jian Mu.

Just as Qin Ran was wondering if she should go to her company, Cen Luo’s surgery was over.

She was taken to the hospital in time, so there was no danger. She just hit her head, and she might be in a deep sleep for a long time.

The doctor wasn’t sure exactly how long “a long time” was.

At that time, Qin Ran wished she could drag Jian Mu out and beat her up.

Cen Luo’s phone was being repaired at the time, so Qin Ran used her own phone to make the call.

In short, Jian Mu never called back.

At that time, Qin Ran had already made up her mind. From now on, she would never let Jian Mu and Cen Luo have any contact again.

Qin Ran and Xu Fengwan sat on the bench in the hospital hallway, both silent.

Nurses pushing medicine carts and patients in hospital gowns slowly walked past them.

After a long time, Qin Ran seemed to have made up her mind and said to Xu Fengwan next to her, “You saw it too. Xiao Luo doesn’t remember Jian Mu.”

Xu Fengwan hummed in agreement.

“Do you know where their most precious memories are for Xiao Luo?”

Xu Fengwan had been abroad for the past few years, so she knew much less about their relationship than Qin Ran did.

“Right here.” Qin Ran took out a phone from her bag.

Xu Fengwan glanced at it. It was Cen Luo’s phone.

Qin Ran let out a sigh of relief, unlocked Cen Luo’s phone, and went into Cen Luo’s photo album.

There were two special albums inside. One was for Jian Mu’s solo photos, and the other was for their photos together.

There were far fewer photos of them together compared to the solo photos.

And most of Jian Mu’s solo photos were taken by Cen Luo from a sneaky angle.

Qin Ran selected all the photos in the album and deleted them without a second of hesitation.

She did the same for the other album.

After she finished deleting, she even double-checked the album to make sure there was no evidence of Jian Mu left before she was satisfied.

Then she opened the text messages and filtered them one by one, deleting all the messages related to Jian Mu.

Cen Luo wasn’t a person who liked to post about her private life on social media, so Qin Ran didn’t worry about whether the apps involved Jian Mu.

Finally, it was the social media app.

Cen Luo didn’t remember Jian Mu at all now. Qin Ran suddenly remembered what Cen Luo had said to her before:

“If I break up with her, she’ll definitely agree instantly.”

She also remembered Jian Mu’s attitude when Cen Luo made her wish that day.

She clicked into Cen Luo’s WeChat.

Jian Mu’s name was very noticeable. It was at the top, and there were five unread messages.

Cen Luo’s phone had been in Qin Ran’s hands after it was repaired, but she had never opened it.

Most of the messages were sent in the last three days.

Qin Ran sneered. “What were you doing for the first four days?”

Xu Fengwan had been watching Qin Ran’s actions the whole time. Her not stopping her meant that she was on the same side as Qin Ran.

They would bear the consequences of what Qin Ran was doing together.

When she first heard the news that Cen Luo and Jian Mu were together, she was on vacation abroad. At first, she thought that Cen Luo had gotten what she wanted and should be very happy.

Later, Xu Fengwan found out that wasn’t the case.

Qin Ran didn’t scroll up to look at Cen Luo and Jian Mu’s chat history. The messages Jian Mu had sent to Cen Luo in the past few days were mostly “Where are you?”, “Want to talk?”, and “Are you there?”.

It could be said that these words made people have no desire to reply at all.

Qin Ran thought about it and asked Xu Fengwan, “How can we break up in a way that will make that person sad?”

Although Qin Ran didn’t think a person like Jian Mu would be sad, she just wanted Jian Mu to know that Cen Luo was the one who didn’t want her anymore.

Xu Fengwan hesitated for a moment, then opened her search app.

She read the content she found to Qin Ran.

Yang Qing noticed that CEO Jian had been a little off these past few days. Every time she asked her to sign something, she would zone out for a long time.

She had also been a little absent-minded at work recently. The last time, she stopped in the middle of a meeting and sat in her seat, thinking about who knows what, leaving the employees to look at each other. She only continued after a long time.

Yesterday, she brought her a cup of hot coffee and reminded her that the water was a little hot. The second before, she had nodded to show that she knew, and the next second, she chugged it down in one gulp.

She sat in the secretary’s office outside the office and looked up ten times, and seven of those times, she saw her zoning out. The other three times, she was on her phone.

You have to know that CEO Jian rarely zoned out during work hours, let alone played on her phone.

Especially sometimes, when she looked at her phone, her expression was a little weird.

Lost, sad, helpless.

Yang Qing couldn’t describe it. It was just very strange.

What’s wrong with CEO Jian?

Today, Yang Qing brought another contract to Jian Mu. This time, Jian Mu didn’t zone out. She signed her name very quickly.

As she was about to leave the CEO’s office, she heard Jian Mu’s hesitant voice:

“If a person doesn’t reply to messages or answer calls, what’s the reason?”

Is this why CEO Jian has been zoning out recently?

Yang Qing thought for a moment and said, “It depends on the relationship. If it’s a very good friend, they either forgot to reply or want to cut ties. If it’s a couple…”

Yang Qing hesitated for a moment, thinking that Jian Mu didn’t seem to have a partner, so she boldly said:

“Couples are most likely waiting for a breakup.”

Worried that Jian Mu wouldn’t understand, Yang Qing explained further, “It’s probably like, I’m not replying to your messages anymore, so you should know what I mean, right? Hurry up and break up. It’s probably a form of emotional abuse, forcing the other person to break up.”

After saying that, Yang Qing sighed, forgetting where she was for a moment because of her own experience, and said angrily, “People who use emotional abuse are scumbags. If there’s something wrong, why can’t they just sit down and talk about it instead of using emotional abuse? Trash.”

Jian Mu originally wanted to get some answers from Yang Qing about why Cen Luo wasn’t replying to her messages, but she didn’t expect to hear this from Yang Qing.

Compared to Cen Luo’s actions, Jian Mu first thought of herself.

Sometimes she would forget to charge her phone, sometimes she couldn’t be disturbed because of certain things, or sometimes she would turn off her phone when she was in a situation where it wasn’t appropriate to answer calls.

Sometimes, when she saw Cen Luo’s messages too late, or when she didn’t know how to reply, Jian Mu would sometimes choose not to reply.

Or she would pick a few messages that she could reply to.

“Maybe that’s just her habit?”

Yang Qing didn’t expect Jian Mu, who usually didn’t talk much, to discuss this with her.

Although she was facing the CEO, to her, emotional abuse was one of the most disgusting things in the world!

“CEO Jian, don’t make excuses for that kind of trash. Let’s put it this way, emotional abuse is second only to cheating.”

Because of her experience, Yang Qing’s eyes were filled with hatred when she talked about this.

If it weren’t for this hatred, Yang Qing wouldn’t have lost her composure in front of a CEO.

Jian Mu’s heart suddenly fluttered because of her words.

“Get me a cup of coffee and bring it in.”

Yang Qing, who was about to lecture Jian Mu on how disgusting emotional abuse was, suddenly shut up. She remembered that she was still at work. She hummed in response and left the office.

After Yang Qing left, Jian Mu opened her chat history with Cen Luo. When she saw Cen Luo’s messages one after another, she suddenly pursed her lips and closed her eyes.

Most of them were messages asking what she was doing.

Yang Qing placed the coffee on Jian Mu’s desk and unintentionally saw the words “emotional abuse” on Jian Mu’s phone’s search page and Jian Mu’s slightly pale face.

She felt a little sentimental.

She wondered what was going on with CEO Jian.

However, just as Yang Qing was about to leave the office, she heard a “clatter.”

She turned around and saw that the coffee she had just made was spilled all over the table, from the table to Jian Mu’s clothes.

There were also broken pieces of glass on the floor.

Yang Qing rushed over and asked:

“CEO Jian, are you okay?”

But she saw that Jian Mu was holding her phone tightly, her eyes fixed on the screen. From Yang Qing’s angle, she didn’t know what was written on it, but Jian Mu’s lips were tightly pursed, almost forming a straight line.

Her usually indifferent eyes were now full of helplessness and sadness.

Yang Qing had been Jian Mu’s secretary for several years and felt that she hadn’t guessed wrong.

Jian Mu was sad.

Jian Mu looked at the words on the chat page—

[I’ve been thinking about what kind of feelings I have for you these past few days. I thought about it, and it must be pity. It’s definitely not love, because I recently met a pretty older sister I like and was surprised to find that this is what love feels like. So, let’s officially break up like this. I hope we can each find happiness and not bother each other anymore.]

After a long time, Jian Mu came back to her senses and sent a message:

[Where are you?]

However, the red exclamation mark was exceptionally noticeable.

—You are no longer friends with this user.

Jian Mu felt as if the world had suddenly gone quiet. At this moment, her eyes could only see this line of text.

Cen Luo had deleted her as a friend.