Chapter 383: She Never Left
"What do you mean, are you saying that Lin Xi only regained her memories when she was in Qianye Mausoleum?" Gu Fan furrowed his brows, slightly incredulous, and asked again: "But you clearly told me that Lin Xi had regained her memories before entering the outer regions. I thought she had ulterior motives and was secretly hiding beside me, using me to find Qianye Country."
To this, Du Jun shook his head and sighed: "That’s because you had already decided in your heart that Lin Xi was exploiting you, and Lin Xi didn’t want to explain, because explanations would be useless, isn’t it?"
Hearing these words, Gu Fan felt a chill in his heart, and he began to regret hastily jumping to conclusions.
Du Jun added, "After Lin Xi regained her memory, her thoughts were somewhat chaotic. She didn’t know how to proceed and could only move with us. Several times I saw her by the seaside, looking worried. She would pick up her cell phone and then put it down several times. Gu Fan, Lin Xi didn’t deliberately ignore your messages, she didn’t even know how to accept her new self, how do you expect her to face you?"
Qin Jia also interrupted: "Gu Fan, do you know why Lin Xi gave the map to you for safekeeping? Think about that time when the boss wanted to kill you. What did Lin Xi say that saved you from death?"
Gu Fan was surprised. He remembered how they had all united against the boss in the warehouse. He nearly died at the boss’s hands, but Lin Xi had said that Gu Fan had the map, and if Gu Fan was killed, they wouldn’t know where the map was, and that’s why the boss spared Gu Fan.
Gu Fan always thought Lin Xi handed him the map to make him the scapegoat, but that was not the case. Even without the map, considering their circumstances, Gu Fan would have inevitably collided with the boss, and the map was Gu Fan’s survival ticket.
"So Lin Xi gave me the map for my own good." Gu Fan gave a bitter smile, a sense of guilt welling up within him.
Du Jun patted Gu Fan’s shoulder: "When Lin Xi came back, the first thing she did was to find you, but you already had a new girlfriend. It broke Lin Xi’s heart, but she knew she couldn’t blame you for it, and she didn’t want to disturb your life, so she didn’t bother explaining anything. Yet, she couldn’t help but care, which is why she returned to school, hoping to know immediately if you and Leng Le broke up, perhaps there might still be hope for the two of you."