After She Fell for Me, I Lost My Memory (GL) - Chapter 42

“The person standing in front of you just now looks familiar?”

As soon as they entered the restaurant and sat down at the reserved table, Xu Yanyan asked curiously.

Jian Mu had her back to Xu Yanyan at the time, so her face wasn’t visible, but her figure looked familiar.

“It was Jian Mu.”

While answering, Cen Luo reached for the teapot on the table, preparing to pour tea for herself and Xu Yanyan.

Xu Yanyan was closer to the teapot, so she proactively reached out and took it.

She paused the hand holding the teapot when she heard Cen Luo’s reply, then continued pouring the tea, asking at the same time:

“Are you two still in contact?”

Xu Yanyan had seen Cen Luo’s attitude toward Jian Mu at the hospital before. She originally thought the two wouldn’t have any contact anymore, but it seemed she was wrong.

Xu Yanyan handed the poured tea to Cen Luo. Cen Luo took it, pouted, and replied:

“No, it was just a chance encounter.”

It couldn’t be considered contact, could it?

Xu Yanyan gently hummed in acknowledgement, then smiled: “I felt Luo Luo really didn’t like her when you were at the hospital. I thought you wouldn’t talk to her again.”

“Yeah, I didn’t talk to her just now,” Cen Luo took a sip of tea. “We’re just strangers.”

Xu Yanyan smiled, and her gaze suddenly fixed on Cen Luo’s face.

Cen Luo looked around, making sure Xu Yanyan’s gaze was indeed focused on her. Her eyes darted around, feeling a little confused.

Did she have something dirty on her face?

Why was Sister Xu suddenly staring at her?

Cen Luo raised her hand, ready to grab the phone on the table to check her face.

Who knew that Xu Yanyan would move suddenly?

Cen Luo only saw a fair, jade-like hand appear in front of her. The fingers were slender, and the pink and purple gradient nails had many small embellishments.

Perhaps she was captivated by the beauty, or perhaps she was certain that Xu Yanyan wouldn’t harm her.

Cen Luo didn’t move away, and her gaze didn’t waver at all.

Xu Yanyan’s eyes were beautiful, especially with her pretty eye makeup. Whenever she looked intently at Cen Luo, Cen Luo would often freeze in place for a long time.

Cen Luo just felt warmth at the corner of her mouth.

Xu Yanyan’s thumb was gently stroking the corner of her mouth.

She also heard a gentle murmur in her ear: “How could this tea stain stay on the corner of your mouth?”

Cen Luo instinctively pursed her lips, feeling a sudden heat on her face.

It turned out that when she took a sip of tea just now, the corner of her mouth touched the rim of the cup, leaving a faint watermark.

But, wasn’t this angle and posture a little too intimate?

Xu Yanyan would occasionally touch her before. Sometimes it was an encouraging pat on the head or a tap on the shoulder. It was rarely like this.

However, Cen Luo didn’t mind this feeling.

Cen Luo lightly cleared her throat, then took a clean napkin from the table and wiped the corner of her mouth.

Before she could speak, she heard Xu Yanyan’s voice again: “Luo Luo, what flavor of lip gloss are you wearing today?”

Cen Luo instinctively touched her lips with her tongue when she heard that, then said: “It seems to be sweet orange flavor.”

“Let me try it next time.”

“Hmm?”

Did she mean she wanted the lip gloss shade?

Xu Yanyan found Cen Luo’s dazed expression adorable and couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Luo Luo, you’re so cute! I really want to hide you away and have only me by your side.”

Cen Luo had heard similar words from Qin Ran, saying things like, You have too many friends. I really wish I was your only best friend.

So, Cen Luo didn’t take Xu Yanyan’s words to heart and countered by asking Xu Yanyan: “Then wouldn’t Sister Xu also only have me by her side?”

Xu Yanyan looked at her, nodded, and hummed in agreement, saying:

“So, Luo Luo, please don’t contact Jian Mu anymore, okay?”

The topic changed too quickly. Cen Luo let out an “ah” and then came back to her senses. She hesitated, then nodded: “We don’t really have any contact anyway.”

No contact.

Vaguely, Xu Yanyan felt that Cen Luo was not telling the truth. Her eyes deepened, and she smiled along with her: “Luo Luo is so good.”

Cen Luo felt a little embarrassed under Xu Yanyan’s gaze. The former Xu Yanyan was already very gentle, but today’s gentleness was several times stronger.

It was hard to resist.

Cen Luo had wanted to tell her a few times that Jian Mu lived next door to her, but she felt it was unnecessary.

It would seem too deliberate.

Regardless of who she told.

Besides, her and Xu Yanyan’s current relationship felt a little strange. Sometimes, Cen Luo would have the illusion that Xu Yanyan was testing her.

Testing? Testing what?

However, during this time, the more she interacted with Xu Yanyan, the more curious Cen Luo became about her past relationship with Xu Yanyan.

Why did she give up on someone as good as Xu Yanyan when she was about to win her over?

What did “controlling” mean?

From their interactions over the past few days, Xu Yanyan seemed to respect her in every way.

After returning home, Cen Luo called Qin Ran and asked her about Xu Yanyan.

Qin Ran told her what happened the day Cen Luo and Xu Yanyan met.

“One day you were happily telling us that you were going on a date with the campus beauty tomorrow. The next day, you blocked me and Xu Fengwan.”

“We had agreed to go to the amusement park that afternoon, but we couldn’t reach you. You only replied that evening, saying she was too controlling and that you two weren’t suitable.”

Cen Luo was still confused, but when she heard Qin Ran’s words, she countered: “Was I heartbroken then?”

Qin Ran on the other end was silent for a while, then replied with a mocking tone: “Not only were you not heartbroken, but you immediately threw yourself into the next reckless pursuit.”

Cen Luo: “…”

She hadn’t expected her younger self to be such a “playgirl.”

“But people change over the years, right? Besides, my judgment must not have been very good ten years ago.”

Cen Luo was unwilling to apply the words she heard from others to Xu Yanyan.

Even if the person who said it was her former self.

However, as soon as she finished speaking, Qin Ran’s mocking voice came through the receiver: “Tsk, tsk. Are you insulting yourself?”

Cen Luo: “…”

Only then did she remember that her current mental age was only sixteen.

“But I remember you told me one day that Xu Yanyan said the same thing I did, roughly that she didn’t want you to have anyone else around.”

“Was I that overbearing? I didn’t chase Xu Fengwan away. After all, we met first, and Xu Fengwan joined us later…”

Cen Luo had asked all the questions she needed to ask. After that, she just listened to Qin Ran ramble on about her behavior over the years.

It wasn’t entirely a reprimand. It seemed more like she was telling her about Xu Fengwan’s childish actions over the years.

“Wait, what did you send in the group chat?” Qin Ran opened the group chat message. It was a voice note where she clearly heard herself calling Xu Fengwan childish.

Before she could reply, she saw a message from Xu Fengwan pop up on the screen, with an angry emoji filling half the screen.

[Qin Ran!!! You’re the silly one!!]

[You guys are calling behind my back. I want to join too.]

Qin Ran: “…”

If it were anyone else, their friendship would have ended right there, but they had grown up together. How could they not understand each other’s feelings?

So, the three of them happily started a video call in the group chat.

Qin Ran rarely got off work early and had time to chat.

The video call was twenty minutes long, with fifteen minutes dedicated to Xu Fengwan and Qin Ran arguing.

Both of them had a lot of unreasonable arguments, and neither would back down.

Cen Luo laughed in front of the screen and even took out the snacks she bought from the supermarket at noon.

The empty room became lively with the sound of their arguing.

Cen Luo knew the outcome without even listening. Xu Fengwan would definitely lose.

Their “food chain” was: Xu Fengwan would bully Cen Luo, and Qin Ran would help Cen Luo get revenge.

In the end, Xu Fengwan would end up worse than Cen Luo.

Cen Luo cracked sunflower seeds and occasionally played the mediator, urging the two to be harmonious.

She completely forgot who deliberately started the argument.

Xu Fengwan’s face was red from being argued down by Qin Ran. Cen Luo chuckled:

“Why don’t you two just settle for each other? Look, neither of you has dated anyone, and you’re already very familiar with each other.”

The scene was silent for a few seconds. Then Qin Ran in the video rolled her eyes and muttered: “Who’s familiar with her.”

Xu Fengwan didn’t want to show weakness: “I haven’t dated anyone, but she might have.”

Qin Ran: “What do you mean?”

Xu Fengwan: “I wonder who used to secretly fold stars every day in high school, folding them during class and after class, and even writing things inside the paper.”

Cen Luo naturally didn’t know about high school events. She countered by asking Qin Ran: “Is that true, Xiao Ran?”

Who knew Qin Ran would be stunned for a moment, then looked hesitant.

Xu Fengwan looked a little smug, her expression saying: I told you so.

Cen Luo was also very curious. She even stopped eating her chips and stared intently at Qin Ran on the screen.

After a long while, Qin Ran gritted her teeth: “Don’t even mention it. It’s bad luck.”

The two thought she was rejected. Cen Luo was about to say something to comfort her, but Xu Fengwan interrupted her.

“Hahaha, did the confession fail, so you didn’t send it out?”

This made Qin Ran glare at her. They only heard her say: “No.”

“That person died halfway.”

She even grinned after saying that.

“…”

Qin Ran wouldn’t be so disrespectful. In Cen Luo’s opinion, the reason why Qin Ran said this was likely not because the person actually died, but because Qin Ran realized something bad about the person halfway and stopped the relationship in time.

The video call was silent for a long time. Cen Luo finally reacted and changed the subject:

“Hahaha, where are we meeting tomorrow?”

Tomorrow was the last day of the year. The three of them agreed to go to ST Bar to celebrate New Year’s Eve together.

“We’ll pick you up at West Street and then go to ST,” Qin Ran said.

“Sounds good,” Cen Luo thought about the atmosphere of the bar, then said, “I’m an adult now. I want to dye my hair a nice color. What do you think of smog blue?”

Cen Luo wasn’t acting on impulse. She had been bored these past few days and had already searched for related videos and pictures online.

After much deliberation, she liked this color the most.

Qin Ran nodded: “Sure. My hair is reddish-brown right now.”

“Xu Fengwan, are we friends?”

Xu Fengwan was confused by Qin Ran’s sudden question. They had experienced fighting one moment and making up the next many times.

So she hummed in agreement: “Of course.”

“Then you should dye yours green. Red, green, and blue. A perfect match.”

Xu Fengwan, who had long black hair: “…”