Chapter 168: The Genius Ai Xiaomei

"Right now?"
"Don't you think it would be much more thrilling in the car?" Lin Ruo said.
"But we're on the highway!"
"What? You keep saying you love me, but you don't dare to die with me?" Lin Ruo sneered.
Yang Fan now thought that Lin Ruo was truly crazy.
"I dare, of course I dare, but you wouldn't want your younger sister to become a young widow, would you!" Yang Fan said.
"If you don't dare, just say you don't dare, stop making excuses! Fine, then you tell me, should we go to the grove? Or halfway up the mountain, or a hotel, or some desolate wasteland!"
"Then let's go to our usual spot!"
"Deal!"
Lin Ruo slammed her foot on the gas pedal, and Yang Fan's heart leapt into his throat instantly.
"Hey, drive slower! We don't need to rush so much even if we're going to have a baby!"
Lin Ruo ignored him completely. Only with a high-performance, fully-equipped luxury car on this highway could one truly prove what expensive meant!
An hour later, by nine o'clock, they had exited the highway. Instead of heading straight to their destination, they stopped at a pharmacy in the city.
Lin Ruo got out of the car. When she came out of the pharmacy, she was holding a small box, which she tossed directly to Yang Fan.
Yang Fan was stunned. She actually bought it!
"Are you sure you're serious about this?"
"Of course I'm serious!" Lin Ruo said, and then went into a supermarket to buy a large bag of snacks.
She was entirely calm, while Yang Fan's heart was filled with apprehension!
Halfway up the mountain, at their usual spot...
Lin Ruo skillfully set up the tent and went inside first!
Yang Fan stood in place, still holding that small box in his hand.
"We're really doing this!"
If it comes to this, what difference would it make from a mere one-night stand? What I love is Lin Ruo herself, not just her body.
What he wanted was for the two of them to have no barriers between them, to truly become husband and wife!
At that moment, Yang Fan felt as though he could see into his own heart; he knew clearly what he wanted!
He raised the box high and hurled it down to the base of the mountain.
Unzipping the tent, he went in too!
"Come here!"
"Lin Ruo, let's not do this anymore!" Yang Fan said.
"What, you don't want it anymore?" Lin Ruo sneered.
"What I love is Lin Ruo, not Lin Ruo's body. Just now, I saw my own heart, and I clearly know what I want! Even if we are destined to stay like this for the rest of our lives, I accept it!"

Yang Fan turned his head, only to see that the space behind him was completely empty...
"Lin Ruo!" Yang Fan cried out in shock!
"Are you looking for me?" A voice came from his right! The voice was so familiar. He jerked his head around and saw a girl whose face was covered in blood...
With a sudden start, Yang Fan jolted awake!
"What's wrong?" Lin Ruo's voice sounded by his ear once again!
As his vision cleared, he realized that he and Lin Ruo were in the car!
And they had already entered Tianning!
Yang Fan let out a long sigh of relief. It turned out to have been a dream. No wonder, how could Lin Ruo ever dress like that!
"I had a dream! I dreamed that you were going to give yourself to me!"
Suddenly, a slap landed squarely on his head!
"Are you awake from your dream yet?"
"I've been awake for a long time, Big Sis!"
"You get what you think about by day and dream about by night. Every day you don't focus on proper business, and all you think about is how to get my body!" Lin Ruo said.
"You're wrong. I'm just afraid you'll leave me! Just like I said in my dream, what I love is Lin Ruo, not just Lin Ruo's body!"
"So now you're a gentleman?" Lin Ruo laughed.
"I said I love you!"
"You love plenty of people. How would I know how your so-called love for me is any different from your love for others? Just like how you can sleep with anyone else, your love for me is probably just a desire to get me into bed! Because you can't have it, you call it love, but this isn't love—it's an obsession!"
"Then do you dare say you don't love me?" Yang Fan asked.
"I love you, sure, but so what?"
Yang Fan was left utterly speechless by her retort...
Yet, what about that woman who appeared at the very end?
"Lin Ruo, why do you think I've been having nightmares lately?"
"What have you been dreaming about?" Lin Ruo asked.
"I dreamed that you disappeared, and when I turned around, I saw a woman with a bloody face."
"Then you'd better seriously think about what kind of monstrous thing you did to make her come back to claim your life!" Lin Ruo said.
"I promise you this time, I really didn't do anything! Besides, what happened that day was genuinely strange. It was the day you returned to Tianning, and I was trapped at the summit of MoWang Mountain!"
"And then?"
"That day, it was clearly a designated driver girl who was trapped with me, but why did it turn out to be Zhao Jing? If it were just a dream, my dream couldn't possibly have lasted continuously from that afternoon until the next morning!"
"You must be going crazy wanting a woman!" Lin Ruo scolded.
"I'm talking about serious business here, Sis, can't you be a little more serious?"
"Go on then, I'm listening!"

"If it really was Zhao Jing from beginning to end that day, why do I have zero impression of it?"
"Maybe the trace of the dream was too deep and covered up the actual reality," Lin Ruo explained.
"Is that really so?"
"You'll have to ask yourself that."
"But from that afternoon until the next morning, I have no memory of Zhao Jing at all. Not a single shred of memory!"
Lin Ruo remained silent...
"You aren't hiding something from me, are you?"
"What could I possibly be hiding from you!"
"Then why did you suddenly initiate a vote the next morning?" Yang Fan suddenly remembered this detail.
"I just felt like we no longer held any hostility toward Zhao Jing, so I called it off!"
"But isn't that just a bit too coincidental?" Yang Fan stared at Lin Ruo, trying to catch a flaw in her expression.
"There are plenty of coincidences in this world!"
"Hmph!" Yang Fan curled his lip...
"Tell me then, on what grounds do you prove that the designated driver girl you imagine actually existed? Have you found any trace of her existence?"
"For an Esper, isn't hiding their tracks a piece of cake?"
"Then erasing your memory is equally a piece of cake."
"No, I'm different. Because of Ai Xiaomei's existence, my memory cannot be erased! Therefore, I believe that girl truly existed!"
"At this point, you don't even believe me or Zhao Jing anymore! Why don't you just fly up to the heavens?"
"Who knows what kind of conspiracy you women were plotting behind the scenes? And besides, wasn't there that group chat? I didn't even know about it."
"You sure take a lot of interest in women's secrets, don't you?"
"Don't change the subject!"
"Fine, go ahead and continue."
"I need to think it through from the beginning again."
Lin Ruo sighed and remained silent...
"Look here, Xiaoyu and I went downstairs, then Young Master Song came and picked Xiaoyu up, and then I called Zhao Jing to come over, and then I waited for Zhao Jing at the stairway landing with Liang He. After Zhao Jing came up, I arranged for Zhao Jing to wait in another private room, while Liang He and I went off to talk business..."
Yang Fan suddenly paused. He finally realized where the wrongness he had sensed lay.
"What is it?"
"Lin Ruo, if it really was Zhao Jing back then, why would I have her wait in a private room? That doesn't make any sense. Zhao Jing and I are husband and wife; why would I need to avoid her when discussing business?"