Ye Xian: "?" What do you mean, on purpose?
Zhu Shanshan: "Is it because you’re dressed in drag that you’re confused, forgetting your own real gender?"
As the words fell, Ye Xian sprayed all the strawberry juice in her mouth onto her face. Pink droplets mixed with black seeds hung all over the girl’s fair cheeks.
Ye Xian looked at her, stunned as if struck by lightning, her limbs freezing in place for a moment.
She, she knew she was dressed in drag, she... wait, why does she look a bit familiar?
Zhu Shanshan, covered in strawberry juice, suddenly lost it and started furiously wiping herself down with napkins, "Ye Xian, aren’t you disgusting!"
This violent state, this familiar tone, gave her a sense of déjà vu from the depths of her memory, yet she couldn’t recall it, exactly not her own memory, but the original owner’s memory.
Ye Xian quickly pulled out a Little Strawberry handkerchief to wipe her down.
"Don’t put on a pretense with me!"
Zhu Shanshan just about to push her away, was grabbed by Ye Xian, who cautiously looked around. Fortunately, everyone had been diverted.
"Zhu Shanshan, how do you know I’m a girl?"
Zhu Shanshan seeing her nervous and flustered look, snorted coldly, "Ye Xian, you’re ruthless, even forgetting who I am!"
Ye Xian: "..." It seemed she and the original owner really knew each other, and their relationship was quite deep. Previously, even Ye Shaowen had been fooled for a long while by her disguise, yet she recognized her at a glance.
"You’re truly a cold-hearted jerk!" NovelHub
Zhu Shanshan angrily pushed her away.
"You just want me to call off my engagement, right? Fine, I’ll do as you wish! It’s not like you haven’t messed up my relationships once or twice before!"
She took out her phone, typed a few words, then grabbed her bag and left. Stopping at the door, she paused and said each word distinctly, "Ye Xian, the biggest regret of my life, is meeting you!"
No, no, what the hell? Who exactly is she? What is her relationship with the original owner? How deep is their grudge? Knowing her identity and hating the original owner so much, why didn’t she expose her identity?
While Ye Xian was puzzling over this, she noticed an old Crystal Strawberry Pendant under the triangular chair Zhu Shanshan had been sitting on.
She bent down to pick it up, and when she saw the names ’Ye Xian’ and ’Shanshan’ engraved on the crystal, memories buried deepest in her mind suddenly surged forward.
Zhu Shanshan was the original owner’s best friend!
No, to be precise, her former best friend!
The Ye family had moved every five years since the kidnapping of Ye Juncheng. Zhu Shanshan was someone the original owner met during the third move of the Ye family.
Back then, the Zhu Family’s old house was next to the Ye family’s, but due to the Ye family’s secretive way of conducting themselves, the two families rarely interacted.
For the sake of ensuring the original owner’s safety, Father Ye and Mother Ye never allowed her to wander around unsupervised or make friends freely, resulting in her not having a single friend from childhood, as all her schooling was done through home tutors.
Over time, this led to the original owner becoming reclusive and irritable, inwardly yearning for social interactions while outwardly appearing indifferent.