Wei Xiaoqing remained motionless. Zhou Xuan even wondered if she had cried herself to sleep. He gently helped her up, and when he looked at her face, he saw that Wei Xiaoqing's face was covered in tears, and she was staring blankly with her eyes open.
Zhou Xuan suddenly felt a dull ache in his heart. It wasn't that he had fallen in love with Wei Xiaoqing, but these two sisters had been loyal to him through thick and thin, completely abandoning their pride and status, yet he couldn't offer them any promises or affection.
He felt in his pocket but found no tissues. He then gently wiped Wei Xiaoqing's tears with his sleeve, and sighed, unsure how to comfort her.
After a long pause, Wei Xiaoqing asked in a low voice, "Zhou Xuan, were you scared just now?"
Zhou Xuan said calmly, "What's there to be afraid of? Life and death are predestined; there's no use in being afraid."
As Wei Xiaoqing gazed at the reservoir below the cliff, her face grew increasingly pale. Her hands, gripping the steering wheel, began to tremble. It took her a while to calm down, but two streams of tears still flowed down her pretty face.
“Zhou Xuan, do you know, just now I thought about driving the car off the cliff and dying,” Wei Xiaoqing said to Zhou Xuan while crying.
Zhou Xuan reached out and touched Wei Xiaoqing's hair, sighing, "Xiaoqing, life is full of helplessness. There are bound to be many disappointments in life. Everyone has their own troubles. You keep driving, I'll just sit in the car."
Zhou Xuan's words were filled with emotion. He owed Wei Xiaoqing, and now he owed Wei Xiaoyu even more. Meanwhile, the Fu Ying he deeply loved had become the Fu Ying of a year ago. Although Fu Ying had agreed to marry him, Zhou Xuan clearly sensed that she only believed it to be true, and because of their life-and-death companionship at the bottom of the skylight cave. Deep down, Zhou Xuan still felt that Fu Ying didn't truly love him.
This is what Zhou Xuan finds most unbearable. He was with Fu Ying because they had both gone through life-and-death trials, loved each other, and were truly willing to give everything for one another. But now they are like strangers. Although Fu Ying has agreed to marry him, Zhou Xuan feels no joy. Since returning, the thought of this has caused him excruciating pain.
That's why Zhou Xuan wasn't scared at all when Wei Xiaoqing was driving recklessly fast. He even thought somewhat pessimistically that it would be better to just die.
Wei Xiaoqing, however, pressed her arms against Zhou Xuan's chest and cried, "Why aren't you scared? Why didn't you stop me? Why didn't you scold me? If you had done it, I would have thought you were hateful, I would have liked you less, and I would have been able to forget you more easily. But what can I do...? Doing this will only make me miss you more."
Zhou Xuan remained silent for a long while before whispering, "Xiao Qing, all I can say is I'm sorry."
Wei Xiaoqing cried again, "What should I do? What should I do? You bad person... You not only harmed me, but now you've harmed my sister too. What grudge has our Wei family ever against you that you would do this to us?"
Zhou Xuan was taken aback. Did Wei Xiaoqing know about her sister Wei Xiaoyu?
Wei Xiaoqing wiped away her tears and said, "My sister thought I didn't know. She used to talk in her sleep and always called out your name. That's when I knew. But this time after my sister came back, she woke up in the middle of the night and secretly cried. Zhou Xuan, I know she went out with you this time. What did you do to her?"
Zhou Xuan was taken aback by this. After thinking for a moment, he replied, "Xiaoqing, I didn't do anything to your sister. I just went through something very dangerous and almost died in that place. Do you believe me?"
"I hate you, so how can I not believe you?" Wei Xiaoqing replied softly.
After a while, Wei Xiaoqing finally stopped crying and sobbing. She stood there stunned for a long time, then brought her bag to her front, opened the brocade box, took out the women's diamond ring, put it on her finger, thought for a moment, closed the box, handed it to Zhou Xuan, and softly said, "Zhou Xuan, I'm giving you this diamond ring. I just want you to know that you are the only one in my heart, but I won't put any pressure on you. This diamond ring is our engagement ring. I'm wearing it today. As for what you do with yours, that's your business."
After a moment of blank staring, Wei Xiaoqing silently started the car, turned around, and drove back. On the way back, she drove much slower, dropping Zhou Xuan off at the square of Hongcheng Garden before stopping the car.
Zhou Xuan got out of the car, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything. Given their relationship, it wouldn't be appropriate to invite her to his home, would it? He decided it was best to say nothing at all.
Wei Xiaoqing looked at Zhou Xuan, bit her lip, and then said, "Zhou Xuan, you won't object, will you? I'll be your bridesmaid at your wedding."
Although it was a question, Wei Xiaoqing drove off before Zhou Xuan could answer.
Zhou Xuan was lost in thought for a long while, then turned to walk back. After taking a dozen steps, he saw someone blocking his way. Looking up, he saw an incomparably beautiful face, seemingly expressionless—it was Fu Ying.
"Yingying, you... what are you doing here?" Zhou Xuan asked in surprise, then turned to look behind him. Wei Xiaoqing's red car was still in the traffic and had not completely disappeared.
Fu Ying said calmly, "I was feeling stuffy inside, so I came out for a walk. Why don't you invite Miss Xiaoyu to come in and sit for a while?"
Zhou Xuan looked a little flustered, rubbed his hands together, and then said, "Yingying, let's go back."
The two walked back side by side. Along the tree-lined road was an artificial stream with very clear water.
After taking a few steps, Fu Ying casually asked, "It's only been a day, but Xiaoyu seems to have lost a lot of weight?"
“Yingying, this is not Xiaoyu.” Zhou Xuan thought that this matter could not be kept from Fu Ying. When she got married, Fu Ying was going to leave from the Wei family. Once she arrived at the Wei family, how could she not know?
"That's Xiaoyu's twin sister, Wei Xiaoqing. The two sisters really do look exactly alike; it would be hard to tell them apart if you weren't very familiar with them."
After saying that, he added, "Even relatives or acquaintances can sometimes get confused because two people look so alike."
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Volume 1, Chapter 412: The Difference Between the Nine-Star Bead and Crystals
Chapter 412 The Difference Between the Nine-Star Bead and Crystals
Fu Ying was taken aback: "What? Twin sisters?"
He paused, then asked, "I don't really know many people who are twins. They look so alike, I can't even tell them apart."
Fu Ying couldn't tell the difference, but one sentence she said left Zhou Xuan feeling confused: "Xiao Yu has lost weight in just one day."
You can tell from this sentence that Wei Xiaoqing lost weight because of him.
The two walked in silence for a while. Zhou Xuan felt a sense of boundless emptiness in his heart. Fu Ying was still Fu Ying, but she was no longer the Fu Ying who loved and cared for him. In the past, Fu Ying would definitely have been jealous about Wei Xiaoqing, but now, she didn't say a word.
Fu Ying's expression was also quite bewildered. The arrival of her aunt completely confirmed that everything Zhou Xuan had told her was true. Although it was unbelievable, it was indeed true. Moreover, she could feel the depth of Zhou Xuan's love for her at the bottom of the skylight cave, and she could also confirm that Zhou Xuan was truly a good person to her. But she just couldn't imagine that Zhou Xuan was the same person she was going to spend her whole life with.
The secret between Zhou Xuan and Fu Ying was known only to him, Fu Ying, and Wei Xiaoyu. No one in his family or other friends knew about it. Therefore, Zhou Xuan's family was busy preparing for the wedding, as were the Wei family. The two brothers, Wei Haihe and Wei Haihong, and the old man were all preparing as if they were marrying off their own daughter.
At home, Jin Xiumei also moved Zhou Xuan to another room, and vacated the largest master bedroom to decorate it to an extremely luxurious standard. A wedding photo of Zhou Xuan and Fu Ying, more than three meters wide, was already hanging on the large wall in the living room.
Fu Ying's awkwardness, Zhou Xuan's heartache, and the family's enthusiasm—it seems that both Zhou Xuan and Fu Ying have fallen into this quagmire and are getting deeper and deeper into it.
The next afternoon, Fu Yuanshan called again, this time about Jiang Yu'e and Zhao Chengzhi. The two of them had actually gotten in touch with the technical department of the Xicheng branch of the Public Security Bureau to have their handwriting analyzed the day before. Fu Yuanshan had made the arrangements in advance, and the two of them were completely unaware that they had fallen into a trap.
With the two detained, Fu Yuanshan obtained evidence and clues about Zhou Xuan, giving him confidence. Needless to say, the police's methods were superb. Two experienced criminal investigation and interrogation experts used a combination of intimidation and coaxing to terrify Zhao Chengzhi and Jiang Yu'e, and they got the truth out of them in no time.
Zhao Chengzhi initially remained defiant, but the evidence provided by Zhou Xuan was so astonishing, as if they had witnessed it firsthand. Then, the intimidation from Fu Yuanshan's men, with their pronouncements about the legal limits of several years' imprisonment and even the death penalty for amounts exceeding a certain sum, caused Zhao Chengzhi and Jiang Yu'e to completely break down.
Fu Yuanshan called Zhou Xuan to deliver good news: Zhao Chengzhi and the other man were directly submitted to the detention center, and then the case was handed over to the procuratorate for investigation.
Zhou Xuan called ** and Lao Wu again to report the good news and explained the situation. Lao Wu breathed a sigh of relief and was extremely grateful to Zhou Xuan. The mystery surrounding Zhou Xuan deepened in Lao Wu's mind. What seemed like an extremely troublesome matter to him and ** was solved effortlessly by Zhou Xuan, as naturally and simply as taking off and putting on clothes.
Even now that Zhou Xuan has called and told Lao Wu, Lao Wu still can't understand how Zhou Xuan is so sure that Zhao Chengzhi and Jiang Yu'e are a couple or that they are in cahoots.