Chapter 234: She Knows

’Why is she suddenly calling out to me?’

Gu Qingran rushed over to her and asked, "Where have you been lately?"

’So concerned about me?’

Su Zhaozhao said, "Does where I go have anything to do with you?"

"Of course it does!"

Gu Qingran opened her mouth, about to say something, but after a moment’s thought, she held her tongue.

"I’m just curious what you were doing."

Gu Qingran was getting irritated. She had originally planned to stay for just a few days before heading back.

However, Xie Huaizhen wasn’t interested in her at all. He had even told her explicitly that he wouldn’t even be friends with her.

She came here hoping the "big shot" would notice her, but now she wondered if Su Zhaozhao’s presence was messing with Xie Huaizhen’s state of mind.

Otherwise, a beautiful girl like her, who didn’t even mind his current down-and-out situation and was so good to him—

’Any normal man would be moved by that, right?’

"What I do has nothing to do with you." Su Zhaozhao didn’t want to deal with Gu Qingran and quickened her pace.

Seeing Su Zhaozhao just walk away, Gu Qingran couldn’t help but shout, "Hey, wait a minute! Can you just leave West State and never come back?"

Su Zhaozhao was so angry she laughed. "I’ll stay if I want to and leave if I want to. What gives you the right to make demands of me?"

"Aren’t you already married? Why are you still hanging around here?" Gu Qingran felt like she was about to die from anger.

’It’s because Su Zhaozhao is always hanging around that Xie Huaizhen’s emotions are all messed up. He might start thinking all women are the same.’

’Or maybe... it’s unrequited love for Su Zhaozhao?’

After all, as much as she disliked Su Zhaozhao, she had to admit the girl was gorgeous.

’The type every man would fall for.’

’And even if Xie Huaizhen is a future big shot, he’s still a man at heart. It would be perfectly normal for him to like Su Zhaozhao...’

Su Zhaozhao thought Gu Qingran had lost her mind. "Whether I’m married or not, whether I stay or leave, what does it have to do with you? You should just mind your own business."

"You!" Gu Qingran gritted her teeth. "Don’t you know you’re just hurting people? You don’t even like Xie Huaizhen, so why do you keep stringing him along? Can’t you just let me have him?"

"But I’m already married to him..." Su Zhaozhao didn’t process that for a second.

"No, the person you married isn’t him! I’m talking about Xie Huaizhen, your fiancé from the arranged betrothal," Gu Qingran blurted out, unable to hold back any longer.

She hadn’t wanted to spell it out before. She was worried that if she told Su Zhaozhao she’d gotten the wrong person, Su Zhaozhao might divorce the other guy and immediately get together with the "big shot."

She couldn’t figure out what the "big shot" thought of Su Zhaozhao, but the way he’d looked at her last time—like he was looking at a heartbreaker who’d betrayed him—made her nervous.

But she was out of time. School was about to start, and she couldn’t bear the thought of seeing Xie Huaizhen again only to find him together with Su Zhaozhao.

Hearing Gu Qingran’s words, Su Zhaozhao froze. "What did you say?"

Seeing her dumbfounded expression, Gu Qingran sighed. "Your fiancé from the betrothal is Xie Huaizhen. You don’t know him? He’s that soldier you ran into that night. Su Zhaozhao, you don’t like him, do you? You’re not going to fight me for him, are you?"

Gu Qingran saw Su Zhaozhao’s shocked expression and suddenly felt a pang of regret for telling her.

But since the cat was out of the bag, she could only bite the bullet and continue. "Your husband is actually not bad either, you know. He’s even more capable than Xie Huaizhen and very handsome. Since you’re already married, you two should just live happily together. How about you let me have Xie Huaizhen, okay?"

Su Zhaozhao knew Gu Qingran was reborn and therefore knew about the future.

’So, she must not be lying to me.’

’No wonder she wasn’t clinging to Xie Huaizheng. Back then, seeing Gu Qingran made me a little worried. What if Xie Huaizheng fell for her?’

’What if there was some natural attraction between the male and female leads?’

At the time, Gu Qingran was always getting close to another soldier, which Su Zhaozhao had found a bit strange.

’I thought that since she saw me with Xie Huaizheng, she’d given up and chosen someone else.’

But now, it was clear. ’I’m such an idiot.’

It turned out she had gotten the wrong person from the very beginning.

Su Zhaozhao looked at Gu Qingran. "So, that person’s name is Xie Huaizhen?"

Gu Qingran nodded. "Yes."

’No wonder, no wonder. Every time I saw him before, he would look at me with such an annoyed expression.’

’Back then, I thought it was because I hated Zhou Chengguo, and since he was Zhou Chengguo’s friend, he was holding a grudge for him.’

’Now it seems I had the wrong person from the start!’

’And he most likely recognized me from the beginning, which is why he was so angry.’

Su Zhaozhao felt her mind go blank.

She turned and walked back, not even bothering to buy her groceries anymore.

Gu Qingran called after her, "Hey, so what’s your answer? Do you agree?"

’I’ve already told Su Zhaozhao everything. She wouldn’t just divorce her husband and go after Xie Huaizhen, would she?’

’No way, right? Xie Huaizhen is in such a bad spot right now. In her past life, Su Zhaozhao never sought him out. Now that she’s married the wrong person, she can’t just swap them, can she?!’

Su Zhaozhao had no energy to deal with Gu Qingran. She went back to her house.

She curled up on the sofa.

Her mind replayed everything that had happened since she transmigrated into the book.

’I only listened to the audiobook, so I didn’t remember the exact characters in the protagonist’s name, only how it sounded. Who would have thought there could be such a coincidence in this world?’

’It just so happened that there was someone else named Xie Huaizheng, with a name so similar to the male lead’s.’

’It just so happened that he was also in the Northwest Military Region.’

’And to top it all off, he also had a fiancée?!’

’So, Xie Huaizheng must have gotten the wrong person too!’

’I’m not his childhood betrothal fiancée, and he’s not mine.’

’What am I going to do?’

’What’s done is done!’

Su Zhaozhao buried her head in her knees. ’No wonder Xie Huaizheng’s personality was different from the description in the novel. No wonder Huang Jiqin looked perfectly healthy.’

’And the number of people in his family didn’t match up either.’

’Good heavens, it’s one thing to make me transmigrate into a book, but did you really have to make me mistake the male lead too?!’

Su Zhaozhao’s mind raced, going over the events of the past few months. Only now did she realize there had been so many clues. It was just that she was too dense to think about them that deeply.

’And that one time Xu Jiaming suddenly asked me that question... why didn’t I think more about it then?’

’Xu Jiaming probably investigated and found out a long time ago.’

Su Zhaozhao slapped her own forehead and rubbed her face.

AAAAAH! She couldn’t help but let out a groundhog scream.

’Wrong, wrong, everything was wrong from the very beginning!’

’Does Xie Huaizheng know?’

The question suddenly popped into her head.

She thought about the subtle shifts in his attitude lately, his insecurity, and that faint sense of anxiety he gave off.

’He probably knows too, doesn’t he?’

’And he doesn’t know how to bring it up with me, so he’s been hiding it.’

’Does he want to divorce me?’