Novel Full 201 A mystery
Jun glanced at her and asked, “You figured that all out from my story? You are amazing.”
Ai blinked. “I am not amazing. I think it’s easier to see what is happening from an outsider’s perspective. Also, I know about your obsession for perfection, so I knew it must have something to do with your relationship with Shui.”
He choked. “How does that come in my way? I just wanted to have a relationship like Mom and Dad have,” he defended himself.
“You still didn’t ask your parents about their love story, right?”
He coughed and averted his gaze.
Ai thought back to the time when she met Jinhai and slowly said, “You really should. You will definitely get to hear an interesting story I feel. You will realize that their love story wasn’t perfect either. You see it that way because they have worked to overcome their differences. Once again I am telling you. You are judging their marriage by the result, not the process.”
Jun rested his forehead on her shoulder and exhaled. “How do you understand so many things so easily?”.
“That’s my natural talent,” Ai proudly smiled.
Jun raised his brow. “I didn’t know you were a narcissist.”
“One should appreciate their qualities and what they are blessed with.”
Jun wanted to puke blood. It was similar to what he had said in the book signing event.
With a grim countenance, she looked at him. “But I understand your shock about Jin. He was your closest brother but this time, his words and actions were…”
He faintly smiled. “Of all people, I never thought that Jin would betray me. And today, he even implied that I was cheating on Shui.”
He trembled, thinking of all those childhood memories with him that was in stark contrast with his actions today.
Ai’s brows softly crinkled. “I don’t understand Jin. Honestly, he is a mystery…”
Jun felt irked. “What do you mean? I don’t like the way you call him mysterious.”
She glanced up at him, and a soft smile greeted her lips. “You are really cute when you are jealous.”
His expression turned ugly. “I told you not to call me cute…” he spoke through gritted teeth.
She shook her head. “What I mean is that I don’t understand what he is thinking at all. When I saw him at the library for the first time, he genuinely seemed worried for you. I don’t think his concern was a lie. But then today he spoke such harsh words…
Then in the past life, Jin suggested that you break up with Han Shui. If he did that because he liked Han Shui and wanted to separate you two, then why didn’t he get married to her sooner after she rejected you? He should have been happy that you were gone. There was no reason to wait for those years.”
Jun frowned. “Isn’t it because I was getting in their way?”
Ai couldn’t put a finger on it. “I don’t think so. Maybe for some time because they felt guilty? But their feelings were clear towards each other. They would have gotten married eventually but five years is not a short time, especially when his roadblock was gone…That also…”
Jun narrowed his eyes. “That also what?”
Ai’s gaze turned somber. “That also reminds me of my past life. Gu Yating and I dated for five years and then he…He came up to me one day and said that he wanted to break up with me. When I saw him and Guiying together, I thought they would soon get married because of how they declared their relationship to the world. It was just a matter of time. But until that night I died, it didn’t seem that things hadn’t progressed between them at all.”
Jun stiffened. Hearing her talk about her and Gu Yating and their relationship made him feel sour. But to know more about Ai’s past life, he had to know about Yating too.
“How did you listen to me talk about Shui and me so calmly? I feel like killing that bastard!”
Ai’s lips twitched into an uncontrollable smile. “That’s why you are so cute.”
He glared at her. “I am telling you. If you call me cute one more time, I am gonna severely punish you!”
Then he toned down his expression and growled in a low but alarming voice, “Tell me everything about that night when you…How did you fall from the building’s terrace!? Who pushed you?”
His knuckles cracked dangerously. “Whoever it is, I will…”
Ai lowered her gaze. “It was an accident. Guiying pushed me, and I fell.”
He froze. “Guiying? CherryBlossom?”
Ai slowly nodded and told how that night transpired. The more Jun listened, the more his eyes got darker and murderous.
“The hell!” He exclaimed after Ai was done. “The nerve of her to blame you for snatching everything from her!? Who does she think she is fooling!? She had a great career, and then she seduced that fucker Gu Yating who was your boyfriend and after all this, she dares to blame you!? I will kill her! And I will kill that bastard too for just standing like a Goddamn useless statue when you were falling! What is his problem? Even at the book signing event, he didn’t do anything to catch you and just kept standing!”
His chest heaved restlessly, and he had an urge to let out the bloodthirsty emotions riling within his heart. The thought about Ai suffering by their hands in the past was enough to bring out the villain inside of him.
Ai watched the anger and alarm swirling in his pupils for her sake, making her feel warm by his concern. “Calm down-“
“The hell I will calm down!” Jun narrowed his eyes and asked, “Is that why you are afraid of heights? Because of how you…”
Ai bit her lower lip. “Yes. When I was reborn, I used to get nightmares about that night. I realized I was getting afraid of being at high places because that always reminded me of how I fell. I would get dizzy and scared that I would fall.”
Jun clenched his fists with the green veins popping visible on the back of his hand. That was post traumatic stress disorder. The death at that night instilled the fear of heights in Ai. Nightmares, fear…it was all signs of PTSD.
How dare they…
“Tell me everything from the beginning.”