Chapter 368: Chapter 367 I Never Liked You (3)
Gu Ningyi asked this question, and Dong Xinyan was a little surprised, but it seemed reasonable to her.
He had been probing about her past, so it was not surprising that he found out about her being injured when she fell into the water and lost her memory.
Dong Xinyan glanced at him, nodded, and replied truthfully, "Yes, I once lost my memory and forgot what happened during those two months."
No matter how certain his assumptions were, they couldn’t surpass a single word from Dong Xinyan.
Inwardly ecstatic, Gu Ningyi’s dark eyes suddenly brightened, like stars in a night sky. He abruptly lifted his gaze, looking steadily at her, and said urgently, "Those two months were exactly the months I was blind, and you weren’t earning money as a tutor as you thought—you were taking care of me."
"In those two months, we were together day and night. Perhaps at first, we hated and resented each other, but later our relationship gradually eased, and we even developed feelings. Xinyan, we once..."
Gu Ningyi paused, a faint blush uncontrollably creeping onto his cheeks. He steadied himself and continued to speak earnestly, word by word, "We liked each other."
In his heart, at that time, they indeed liked each other. Her gentleness, her encouragement, her constant companionship, her gentle words and laughter—all were vivid in his mind, every bit unforgettable.
The person she liked should have been him. If she hadn’t lost her memory from falling into the water, perhaps they would have been together long ago, and she wouldn’t have fallen in love with Cheng Ziyang later. Then, all these years, it would have been a journey of love between him and her, not with Cheng Ziyang.
After Gu Ningyi finished speaking, his dark eyes nervously looked at Dong Xinyan, his voice unconsciously trembling slightly, "Xinyan, do you remember anything?"
Dong Xinyan listened quietly until Gu Ningyi finished, tugged at the corner of her lips, and surprisingly let out a laugh. Yet that laugh was filled with thick sarcasm, unabashedly so.
She had guessed correctly; Gu Ningyi knew that she had replaced Zhou Yalin back then, which was why he came to pester her.
She just couldn’t have imagined that he could naturally, without blushing or panting, weave such lies, such ridiculous lies.
She liked him?
Ha.
Seeing the hint of a smile on Dong Xinyan’s lips, Gu Ningyi’s anxious heart didn’t ease even a bit. Instead, it sank little by little. Her reaction didn’t show any surprise at his words, no sign of being startled, as if... she had known all along...
As if wanting to confirm his thoughts, Dong Xinyan lifted her gaze, met his eyes, and with her red lips slightly parted, said, "Mr. Gu, your memory and my memory are not the same."
Gu Ningyi felt a shock in his heart, "You remembered?"
"I did indeed remember. I’ve completely recovered the memory of those two months."
"Then you also remembered me, right?" Unable to suppress the excitement inside, Gu Ningyi’s dark eyes looked at her intently, even unconsciously reaching out, trying to hold her hand.
Dong Xinyan’s hand retreated, avoiding his touch.
There was no joy on her face, only cold detachment and impatience, "Yes, Mr. Gu, I also remembered you, but I’m sorry, I didn’t like you the way you said."
Gu Ningyi’s reaching hand froze abruptly, even the light in his eyes seemed to stagnate slightly.
She said, I didn’t like you?
Dong Xinyan, not noticing his expression, continued speaking to herself, "I don’t know what I did that made you misunderstand, but whatever I did was just because I was paid for it, so I was doing my duty, unrelated to liking you."