She Lost Memory Before the Divorce-Chapter 199 - 0 Memory Recovery (3)
Chapter 199: Chapter 0199: Memory Recovery (3)
Chapter 199: Chapter 0199: Memory Recovery (3)
Mu Lan was terribly rational, and when she spoke those words, there wasn’t a trace of emotion in her eyes.
Huo Tingxiao felt as if he were dreaming.
Because his heart couldn’t accept reality—the reality that Mu Lan had truly grown cold and no longer loved him.
Only now did he fully grasp the mood with which she had brought the divorce papers to him, she had really grown cold, ready to give up.
At that time, he hadn’t even told her about his business trips.
“Why are you apologizing? What have you done that you need to apologize to me for?”
Did she not know that each of her apologies was more painful than gouging out his heart?
She didn’t know that her sincere apologies, spoken so earnestly, were like knives stabbing his heart, reminding him of how cold-hearted he had been to hurt her into this kind of indifference.
Just yesterday, she was still that carefree, bubbly person, wasn’t she?
Actually, from the beginning, Mu Lan was a charming and sunny person. The chief culprit who turned her into the emotionless person she was now was none other than himself.
Mu Lan didn’t know what Huo Tingxiao was thinking; she only saw the overly complex emotions in his eyes.
She had never seen this version of Huo Tingxiao; he was always aloof and distant, orderly in everything he did, as if there was nothing he couldn’t do.
He was like a flower on a high cliff, and she was merely a mortal.
Day by day, she found the gap between them growing wider, to the point where they no longer even had anything in common.
She just stuck to her little corner of the world, while he roamed the vast universe.
They were people from two different worlds.
Regrettably, it took her seven years to understand this principle, Mu Lan thought.
“I know you must think I am playing hard to get, but I really am not…”
“Do you like Pei Zhao?”
Huo Tingxiao intently watched Mu Lan and finally asked the question that concerned him most.
Mu Lan was silent for a while before answering:
“Our divorce has nothing to do with Mr. Pei.”
Mr. Pei…
This title made Huo Tingxiao secretly breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed their relationship wasn’t that intimate after all.
“Is it not because you found out he is your life-saving benefactor that you chose to divorce me?”
Mu Lan frowned, looking at Huo Tingxiao, feeling hurt by his words.
“Huo Tingxiao, I, Mu Lan, am not one to deny my own actions.
If it really was because of Mr. Pei, I would tell you outright and not pretend to be so innocent.
I just saw things clearly and wanted to let go,” she replied.
Huo Tingxiao’s gaze was intense as he watched her.
“What if I don’t want to let go?”
Mu Lan looked at Huo Tingxiao in surprise, thinking she must have misheard him. Was he insane? Did he know what he was saying?
“Do you know what you are saying?
You don’t want to… let go? Huo Tingxiao, the woman standing before you is Mu Lan, not the girl of your dreams.”
Huo Tingxiao felt he was going mad, driven mad by his own guilt.
“I don’t have any dream girl, Mu Lan, I have only ever loved one person, and that’s you.”
If he hadn’t experienced Mu Lan’s sudden amnesia, he thought he might never have acknowledged his mistakes; he had destroyed a sunflower-like girl with his own hands.
“What did you say?”
Mu Lan’s eyes grew hot as she looked at Huo Tingxiao, finally free from the so-called decent and hypocritical false elegance.
“I said I love you. The reason I don’t want a divorce is because I love you.”
Huo Tingxiao looked at Mu Lan, his eyes gentle, his tone also soft and tender, this side of Huo Tingxiao was too unfamiliar to Mu Lan.
She subconsciously chose not to believe.
“You love me? How is that possible?”
Huo Tingxiao embraced Mu Lan tightly, his heart almost breaking with pain. He wondered what he could do to bring back the girl he used to know, to make her smile again, be vibrant, and not like this, like a lifeless product on a conveyor belt.
“Everything in the past was my fault.
I know I am a bastard, cold and selfish, squandering all your love and trust.
You just said I wasn’t wrong, that I simply didn’t love you, but no, Lanlan, that’s not true…
I love you, I actually fell for you a long time ago, you don’t know how adorable and lively you were when we first got married.
It was me who destroyed you, you did nothing wrong, it was completely my fault from beginning to end.
I am such a complete idiot!”
Mu Lan was incredulous that Huo Tingxiao would swear like this.
She felt bewildered, as if she had never expected things to develop this way.
In Mu Lan’s expectation, Huo Tingxiao would sign the divorce papers quickly and regain his freedom.
But this man, who hadn’t looked at her properly for seven years, was now telling her that he loved her.
“Huo Tingxiao, I think you’re not calm.
You really don’t have to do this, especially since I already know about that person.”
Mu Lan tried to push Huo Tingxiao away, but she had barely moved when Huo Tingxiao held her even tighter, not giving her any chance to break free.
“There is no one else, I only have you.
Mu Lan, I don’t care why you married me initially, but from now on, you are not allowed to have any other man in your heart.
Your eyes, your heart, must only have me.
And I will offer you the same sincerity. My eyes, my heart, will only have you.
I will not miss out on you again.”
Such an important promise, Huo Tingxiao actually made it.
But Mu Lan felt no joy, she just felt that everything was too late.
“Huo Tingxiao, missed… is not a mistake, it’s just past.
We…”
Mu Lan paused, her voice somewhat choked.
Meanwhile, in the guest room on the second floor, Gu Xiaoman was incredibly anxious.
“Yun Xi, do you think they will make up?”
“I don’t know, but after Mu Lan lost her memory, it’s like she became a different person.”
Yun Xi didn’t say outright that she disliked the current Mu Lan, who was like a doll, not a living person.
“Ah, this… is also a historical problem now.
Huo Tingxiao probably feels guilty to death now, after all, it’s because of him that Lanlan turned out this way.
So loving someone, no matter to what extent, should never lose oneself, because once lost, the consequences are severe.
Ah, it was hard enough getting used to the old Lanlan, how did she suddenly regain her memory?
This is too coincidental, isn’t it?”
Gu Xiaoman rambled on, and Yun Xi squinted her eyes as if thinking of something.
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“It’s not a coincidence, it’s man-made.”
Gu Xiaoman’s eyes widened like bells.
“What? Man-made? Yun Xi, do you know something?”
“It’s just my own thought, I haven’t found any proof yet.”
Yun Xi’s words energized Gu Xiaoman significantly.
