They are all vertical arches, practically enlarged versions of the pictures.
Liang Shi found the room too dimly lit, so he turned on a flashlight and pointed it at the ceiling. To his surprise, he discovered a string of characters behind the light.
It's not very clear.
She suddenly remembered something in the original owner's phone's notes app, one of which read: "[Sacrifice. Ha.]"
It's hard not to associate such a room with rituals.
Coincidentally, this worldview also discourages feudal superstition.
Liang Shi was completely baffled.
Just as she was deep in thought, she suddenly felt a headache.
It felt like being bitten by tens of thousands of ants, but the headache only lasted a few seconds.
What followed was an unfamiliar memory.
Students in school uniforms, people wandering around the campus, tall buildings, all sorts of people, and lecture halls.
There are too many scenarios to possibly organize them all.
Having gone through what happened before, Liang Shi has a strong ability to adapt.
She quickly sorted through this memory.
To be precise, it's two memories.
One story is about Xu Qingzhu, and the other is about Zhou Yi'an.
The original owner noticed Xu Qingzhu during her university years.
Xu Qingzhu attends Qingyi University, one of the best universities in the country, which is three streets away from the original owner's worthless university.
The original owner bumped into Xu Qingzhu and Bai Weiwei on a street corner and immediately became interested in Xu Qingzhu, but unlike his previous flirting, he was not bold and instead adopted a very subtle approach.
She got hold of Xu Qingzhu's class schedule and went to that university to audit classes.
I went to the library and cafeteria of Qingyi University to see Xu Qingzhu in every possible place, but I never had a direct conversation with her.
It's hard to call this a liking.
But the scenes in my memory do indeed revolve around Xu Qingzhu.
Then came the night the original owner graduated. Everyone went on a picnic at the beach, and she shouted to the sea, "I really want to get married."
Everyone laughed it off, and the matter was dropped.
In the year after she graduated, her second brother arranged a job for her, but she didn't go.
After that, they gave her the title of deputy director of the human resources department, but she lost interest after a few days and spent all her time fooling around with Cheng Ran, living a wild and dissolute life.
But one day, upon hearing about the crisis facing the Xu family business, she went to talk to Xu Qingzhu without hesitation.
In order to marry Xu Qingzhu, she talked to Liang's father, talked to Qiu Zimin, and even humbled herself to beg Liang Xinhe.
It was Liang Xinhe and Qiu Zimin who mediated the situation, which allowed her to marry Xu Qingzhu.
But even after marrying Xu Qingzhu, she still lived a very wild life.
Staying out all night is the norm.
After failing to meet Xu Qingzhu on their wedding night, she tried to touch her later, but Xu Qingzhu wouldn't let her, and as a result, she was bossed around and ordered around by her.
What happened next was exactly as she had known.
With this memory, Liang Shi became increasingly unable to understand the original owner's behavior. Why would someone who clearly liked Xu Qingzhu treat her in that way?
If you don't like her and it's just possessiveness, then why go to such great lengths to marry her?
Do you enjoy the feeling of getting something and then destroying it?
This is probably the most extreme conjecture.
She has no way to find the original owner and ask her, "Why did you do this?"
All I can say is that the original owner's ideas were too strange.
It's worth mentioning his past relationship with Zhou Yi'an.
It turns out that when Zhou Yi'an saw her, she said "We meet again" because they had interacted before, and their relationship was quite close.
The original owner and Zhou Yi'an were in the same high school, before they were separated.
Compared to the original owner's arrogant behavior, Zhou Yi'an was no less so.
However, the Zhou family did not have such a family background at that time. Zhou's father was working in another place, and no matter how far his influence reached, it could not reach Haizhou. Therefore, even if Zhou Yi'an was arrogant, she did not dare to bully her classmates. Instead, she extended her evil claws to junior high school students. Coincidentally, the person she liked to bully the most was the original owner's younger sister, Liang Wanwan.
The original owner was unaware of this at first, and Liang Wanwan didn't dare to tell her either.
Later, when someone mocked her about this incident, she found out. That same day, she went to find Zhou Yi'an and discovered that Zhou Yi'an was bullying Liang Wanwan. Without saying a word, she punched Zhou Yi'an.
She beat Zhou Yi'an severely that day.
After that, Zhou Yi'an stopped bullying Liang Wanwan and instead turned her attention to the original owner of the body.
Zhou Yi'an often said back then, "Baby, you have piqued my interest."
The original owner had a fiery temper, and the two often fought, but the more they fought, the brighter Zhou Yi'an's eyes became.
But not long after, Zhou Yi'an transferred to a high school abroad.
Who would have thought that after so many years, Zhou's father would be promoted smoothly, while the Liang family would decline and their positions would be completely reversed.
Zhou Yi'an no longer needs to fear the Liang family; on the contrary, the Liang family has to be mindful of the Zhou family's feelings and get benefits from them, so Zhou Yi'an acts recklessly.
It turns out that even wealthy families are divided into different classes.
The Liang family's position is only considered decent, but it doesn't quite qualify them as the top of the food chain.
Liang Shi sighed inwardly.
I never expected that the original owner and Zhou Yi'an would have such an intersection.
However, she was puzzled as to why new memories would be instilled into her when she stayed in the original owner's room.
Could it be that some mechanism has been triggered? Or is it due to accumulated time?
She tried both methods and found nothing special about them, and no new memories came in.
After gathering his thoughts in the room, Liang Shi left the place.
It's gloomy and oppressive.
//
When Liang Shi went downstairs, he saw Lingdang, who was curled up on the sofa watching TV.
Seeing her come down, she smiled and called out, "Auntie."
Liang adjusted to her voice and then watched TV with her for a while.
Soon, the Liang family came down together.
Dinner was even more lavish than lunch, with a cake in the center, but no one played with it or frosted it; they just ate the cake quietly, as if it were part of a routine.
The atmosphere in the evening was even more oppressive than at lunchtime.
Liang Shi still didn't eat much, and then took care of Lingdang.
After dinner, Lingdang started clinging to her.
I snuggled in her arms and played little games with her.
Around 8 o'clock, Liang Shi got up to leave.
She went out the door, but before she could get into the car, Qiu Zimin called out to her, "Ashi, wait a minute."
Liang Shi turned around, his brow furrowed slightly, and said coldly, "What is it?"
She didn't think she had anything left to say to Qiu Zimin.
"Did you read all the text messages your mother sent you?" Qiu Zimin asked, her tone tinged with a hint of probing. "Why didn't you reply to your mother? Haven't you forgiven her yet?"
A breeze was picking up outside. Liang Shi adjusted his white suit and tucked his disheveled hair behind his ears. "What do you want to say?"
"No," Qiu Zimin said heavily. "Mom didn't mean it. The family has such a heavy burden; your father's hair has turned gray more. That piece of land in the south of the city is crucial to our family. Whether we can restore our former glory depends on this. Yi'an truly loves you; didn't you also want to divorce that Xu family man..."
“When did I say I wanted a divorce?” Liang Shi interrupted her. “When I married Xu Qingzhu, I made it clear that you only needed to take care of me that one time, and you didn’t need to worry about anything after that.”
Having regained some of his memories, Liang Shi spoke with more confidence.
“Then you and Yi-an…” Qiu Zimin paused.
Liang Shi firmly replied, "No way."
“But Liang Shi, have you forgotten who fed you, clothed you, and supported you all these years?” Qiu Zimin’s expression changed immediately. There was no trace of guilt in her eyes. Liang Shi’s previous timidity seemed to be just his imagination.
“Even you have no right to interfere in my marriage,” Liang Shi said. “I can’t believe you even thought of making me have surgery and be with Zhou Yi’an.”
Qiu Zimin snorted coldly, "There are plenty of people doing this now, how am I harming you? With the Zhou family as your support in the future, it won't be a waste of all these years of raising you, and you can live a better life than you do now."
“There’s no need for us to discuss this issue,” Liang Shi said. “I won’t do it, and you’d better stay away from Zhou Yi’an; that person is dangerous.”
It's actually quite sinister.
Because you never know what a psychopath might do.
“I’ve seen more of the world than you have, and I’m a better judge of character than you are. That Xu Qingzhu is no ordinary person; she’ll definitely cause you a lot of trouble in the future.” Qiu Zimin said, “What’s wrong with Zhou Yi’an?”
“You’re just after the Zhou family,” Liang Shi exposed her lie.
Liang Shi stared intently at her, then suddenly asked in a low voice, "Are you still my mother?"
Qiu Zimin's eyes darted around, then she said firmly, "You came out of my belly, how could I not be your mother? Liang Shi, I'm doing all this for your sake. If you don't want to listen, then so be it. Even though the Liang family has always done everything to your liking, and I've spoiled and pampered you, everyone says my daughter is useless and not a good person, but I've never believed it. I know my daughter is good, my daughter is very obedient, it's just that they can't see it. Now that I think about it, I must have been wrong."
"It's your choice no matter what, and I'm just offering a suggestion. If you don't like it, I won't say anything more." Qiu Zimin said, "The downfall of the Liang family was inevitable. Who told me not to raise good children? When I die, I won't be able to face the ancestors of the Liang family."
Liang Shi: "..."
These lines sound so familiar.
Liang Shi once took on a role in a drama series about PUA (Pick-Up Artist) techniques.
The boy pays to take classes specifically to manipulate rich and beautiful women, undermining their confidence, making them dependent on him, spending money on him, finding them jobs, and having them obsequiously coax him.
Qiu Zimin's current rhetoric is exactly the same as PUA's.