After She Fell for Me, I Lost My Memory (GL) - Chapter 39

Li Xueying looked at the somewhat unfamiliar Jian Mu. After a while, she looked back at the girl not far from them.

She was certain that Jian Mu’s loss of control was related to that girl.

The server heard the noise and brought a new tall glass, pouring half a glass of red wine into it.

Jian Mu looked away and drank the freshly poured red wine.

Li Xueying’s gaze darted back and forth between the two, sensing a strong presence of gossip.

Cen Luo’s attention remained entirely on Xu Yanyan.

Especially her exquisite makeup. Cen Luo was very impressed.

Normally, Cen Luo only wore simple makeup. Fortunately, her base was good, so she was beautiful even without makeup.

However, women doll themselves up for their admirers. Who wouldn’t want to pursue greater beauty?

Just as Cen Luo was about to ask Xu Yanyan about makeup, her phone vibrated.

Cen Luo’s attention was immediately drawn to the phone on the table. Qin Ran’s name flashed across the screen.

Qin Ran had sent her a message.

She must be off work.

Qin Ran: [Xiao Luo, what are you doing? Want to come out for dinner?]

Cen Luo: [Having dinner with Sister Xu.]

Qin Ran: […Are you really planning to eat with her for the whole week?]

Qin Ran: [You said she was very controlling!! Aren’t you scared?]

Cen Luo frowned slightly when she saw this message. Sister Xu isn’t that kind of person, is she?

How controlling could someone as gentle as Sister Xu be?

Cen Luo: [Don’t worry about me. I’m fine.]

Qin Ran on the other end saw this message: “…”

Half of her feelings were worry, and the other half was…

“How is it? Is Xiao Luo coming?” Downstairs from Qin Ran’s office, Xu Fengwan was standing next to her, asking softly.

Qin Ran bared her teeth at her, then shook the phone screen in front of her and said, “Coming? She’s having dinner with Xu Yanyan.”

“I know that. If I didn’t know, would I ask you to call her?” Xu Fengwan pouted, her voice sounding innocent.

Xu Fengwan heard what Xu Yanyan said when Cen Luo was discharged.

Given Cen Luo’s current fondness for Xu Yanyan, she would definitely go to the dinner.

Xu Fengwan guessed that if she asked Cen Luo out, she would be rejected, so she thought of Qin Ran.

Cen Luo listened to Qin Ran more than she listened to her.

Thinking of this, Xu Fengwan couldn’t help but feel annoyed at herself. She shouldn’t have deliberately bullied Cen Luo before.

Now, Cen Luo was not kind to her at all.

Qin Ran rolled her eyes when she heard Xu Fengwan’s words and muttered: “Xiao Luo is completely charmed by Xu Yanyan now. What can I do?”

She said she couldn’t do anything, but Qin Ran still sent Cen Luo a message:

[But I’ll be really busy for the next few days. We might not be able to see each other again until New Year’s Day.]

She also sent a crying emoji at the end.

Qin Ran wasn’t lying about being busy. Work was indeed very busy towards the end of the year.

[But, New Year’s Day is only a few days away! Don’t be sad. We’ll see each other again soon.]

Cen Luo sent a smiling emoji at the end.

Qin Ran: “…”

Xu Yanyan glanced at Cen Luo, who was constantly looking down at her phone, and asked:

“Luo Luo, do you drink wine?”

Cen Luo looked up and replied:

“Mhm… I can.”

After Cen Luo said that, she didn’t say anything else.

Xu Yanyan poured a small half-glass of red wine for Cen Luo. Just then, the server started serving the food. Xu Yanyan lowered her eyes and asked softly:

“Luo Luo, who are you chatting with? You look so happy.”

“It’s Xiao Ran. She’s chatting with me after work,” Cen Luo replied casually, not mentioning that Qin Ran asked her out for dinner.

Xu Yanyan pushed the glass of red wine she poured toward Cen Luo and said casually: “It seems I’m not good-looking enough today.”

“Huh?” Xu Yanyan’s sudden words confused Cen Luo. She still answered honestly: “Sister Xu is very beautiful! Who said you’re not!”

Xu Yanyan chuckled softly. She clasped her hands and slightly rested her chin on them. She looked at Cen Luo and said: “Then why is Luo Luo only looking at her phone and not at me?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Cen Luo opened her mouth, but not a single word came out. Her face, however, turned red first.

“Luo Luo, aren’t you hungry? Hurry and eat?”

Xu Yanyan’s voice was as soft as a mountain stream.

She was so gentle that Cen Luo subconsciously nodded and put down her phone.

Afterward, no matter how many messages Qin Ran sent, Cen Luo never replied.

During the meal, Cen Luo mostly asked questions, and Xu Yanyan answered.

Ten years can change a lot of things. Cen Luo needed time to slowly understand and adapt.

Xu Yanyan was very patient. No matter how small Cen Luo’s questions were, she answered them one by one. For things she wasn’t sure about, Xu Yanyan would tell her that she would find out when she got back and tell her later.

“Luo Luo, don’t you want to know what happened to you in the past?” Xu Yanyan noticed that most of Cen Luo’s questions were about social changes, but Cen Luo hadn’t asked about herself.

Things that happened in the past.

Hearing these words, Cen Luo, who had been excited, suddenly felt a little discouraged.

She had actually asked Qin Ran, and most of it was related to Jian Mu.

Sometimes, Qin Ran would suddenly stop talking mid-conversation. The reason was none other than that the conversation would eventually circle back to Jian Mu.

She really disliked her former self.

Her, who centered everything around Jian Mu.

“Xiao Ran already told me everything,” Cen Luo replied with a smile.

Xu Yanyan looked away and chuckled softly: “I was careless. Your friends must have told you these basic things.”

“But, maybe she didn’t tell you that you got first place in your grade for the bilingual single subject test in the first year of high school?”

“Really?” Cen Luo was a little surprised. Although she knew she must have been very smart to get into Yuncheng University, she didn’t realize she was that smart.

“Mhm, mhm. Luo Luo has always been amazing.”

After that, Xu Yanyan told Cen Luo many things she knew about Cen Luo’s time in high school.

She didn’t mention Jian Mu once during the entire conversation.

This sparked Cen Luo’s interest.

The two stayed in the restaurant for more than two hours.

When they left, there were only a few people left in the restaurant.

When Cen Luo turned her head to look around the restaurant, she saw a woman staring at her from a table far away.

She was very handsome and beautiful. More importantly, her gaze was very friendly. When their eyes met, she even waved at her in a friendly manner.

The chair had been moved, meaning the woman deliberately turned her chair to face her, looking at her with intent.

Why?

Cen Luo was a little confused.

Just then, Xu Yanyan suddenly stood up, blocking the line of sight between her and the woman.

“Luo Luo, I’ll take you home.”

Cen Luo nodded, pushing the thought of the woman to the back of her mind. Then she left the restaurant.

Li Xueying hadn’t expected the person she had been staring at for so long, who finally looked at her, to be immediately blocked by the person opposite her.

She was a little displeased.

When Jian Mu came out of the restroom, she saw Li Xueying’s somewhat gritted-teeth expression.

Jian Mu was momentarily confused. She hadn’t intended to ask, but she suddenly remembered the doctor’s advice to communicate more with people and try to understand others’ emotions.

So she asked:

“What’s wrong? What happened?”

“I was staring at that girl for a long time. I finally got her to look at me, but the person across from her blocked my view. Aiya, my heart.”

After Li Xueying replied, she realized something was off. Did Jian Mu just actively ask her what was wrong?

Jian Mu looked at where Cen Luo had been sitting. It was empty now, with only a few servers cleaning the table.

“But seriously, what is your relationship with that girl? If you don’t have one, I’ll just…”

Before Li Xueying could finish her sentence, she received a cold warning look from Jian Mu: “Don’t touch her.”

Li Xueying’s reputation as a relationship expert had always been well-known. Even someone like Jian Mu, who didn’t pay attention to other people’s lives, had heard about it.

“Tsk. Then hurry up, or don’t blame me for not giving you a chance.” Li Xueying scoffed and reminded Jian Mu.

Jian Mu didn’t say anything after that, but she took Li Xueying’s reminder to heart.

She really should hurry up.

After dinner, Xu Yanyan drove Cen Luo back to West Street.

They agreed to see each other again tomorrow afternoon.

Only after returning to her room did Cen Luo vaguely remember that she had forgotten to reply to Qin Ran’s messages.

She had felt her phone vibrate several times and was about to check it, but she was drawn in by Xu Yanyan’s words, which made her forget to look at the messages.

Looking at the 99+ messages on the screen.

Cen Luo was silent. Maybe she should just pretend to be asleep.

Of course, that thought only flashed through her mind. She still had to face what needed to be faced.

Fortunately, half of the 99+ messages were exclamation points, urging her to reply quickly.

Cen Luo sighed in relief. She carefully read through the messages and finally stopped at one of them.

[We’re going to ST Bar on New Year’s Eve.]

[Mhm, mhm, mhm, okay.]

Cen Luo replied with several “mhm’s” and got an ellipsis reply from Qin Ran immediately.

Qin Ran: [We were out of contact for over three hours.]

Qin Ran: [Why do I take my phone with me even when I shower or go to the restroom to reply to your messages, but you don’t reply to me when you’re having dinner with Xu Yanyan?]

Cen Luo thought for a long time, then came up with a somewhat serious answer.

[Perhaps, she’s too good-looking?]

Qin Ran: “…”

The two chatted for a while longer. Cen Luo was getting sleepy, so she ended the conversation with the excuse of taking a shower.

Perhaps because she had been to several different places today, Cen Luo fell asleep immediately after showering.

She even had a strange dream.

She dreamed that she turned into a big gray wolf and ate a little white rabbit that looked exactly like Jian Mu. Then, she turned into a little white rabbit and was eaten by a big gray wolf that looked exactly like Xu Yanyan.

Before being eaten, she was holding a blade of grass in her hand. Cen Luo looked closely and saw that the blade of grass had a pair of eyes, and under the eyes was a tear mole. It looked exactly like the Jian Mu she had eaten.

This startled Cen Luo awake.

It was already light outside, and the sun was shining through the window into the bedroom.

Cen Luo rubbed her temples. What kind of dream was that?

She checked the time. It was already nine o’clock in the morning.

Cen Luo changed her clothes, left the bedroom, poured a glass of warm water in the kitchen, and was about to sit down on the sofa to order takeout when she heard faint noise outside the door.

She hadn’t run into anyone on this floor since she returned. Why was it suddenly so noisy?

After placing her takeout order, Cen Luo opened the door, ready to see what was happening.

She saw people wearing uniforms from a moving company carrying box after box into the apartment next door.

Besides Cen Luo, the door to the apartment across from her was also open.

Cen Luo looked around curiously, but before she saw anyone, she heard a voice:

“I heard it’s a rich person.”

“If they were rich, why would they live here?”

More than whether the new resident was rich or not, Cen Luo wanted to know if the person was around her age and easy to get along with, so they could become friends and hang out sometime.

Cen Luo, who was thinking about this, ignored the somewhat familiar voice, only to see the person who was just discussing the new neighbor turn around and call out to her:

“Xiao Luo—”

Cen Luo then realized that the voice was somewhat familiar. Wasn’t this Auntie Zhang, who asked her to take her to Nanyang Yulou yesterday?

What a coincidence…