Chapter 398: Chapter 372 She Looked at Ah Xing’s Profile
Ji Sang suddenly turned his head to look at Ah Xing in the courtyard.
It seemed as if Ah Xing sensed it too, and also turned her head to look over.
The tea room had floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing a clear view out from the inside, but from the outside, nothing could be seen.
Yet even so, Ah Xing managed to hold Ji Sang’s gaze.
Instantly, memories of conversations with Fu Zhixing from childhood flooded Ji Sang’s mind.
"Auntie, you are so pretty."
"Thank you, Ah Shang. You’ll be even prettier when you grow up."
"Auntie, what’s that in your sleeve?"
"This? It can take lots of beautiful photos, capturing the world’s beauty. But Ah Shang, you mustn’t tell anyone."
"Why not?"
"Auntie wants only you to know, can you promise Auntie that?"
"Mhm, Auntie, will I also be able to take lots of pretty photos in the future?"
"Of course."
"Then I will definitely take photos of Auntie."
"Good."
....
Ji Sang’s eyes suddenly turned sour with emotion.
She was alive and well but remembered nothing—not the her from her childhood, not herself, not the Fu Family, not... Fu Yisi.
Yong Qi had no idea what had happened back then; he didn’t know there were so many memories between Fu Zhixing and Ji Sang, and interpreted it as her affection for Fu Yisi, feeling sorrow on his behalf.
"Don’t be sad, actually, Ah Xing knows that she lost her memory."
Ji Sang suppressed her emotions and looked at Yong Qi again.
"After the plastic surgery, she had a full medical examination. It was discovered that there had been a heavy blow to the back of her head, likely the cause of her amnesia."
"She underwent treatment afterward, but nothing could be done."
"Moreover, the doctors weren’t eager for her to recall her past, probably due to some unpleasant experiences."
"Later, she gave up and gradually accepted her life in the sanitarium."
"Over the years, she remembered some fragments, but they were minor things, leading nowhere significant."
"So when Fu Yisi’s people came looking, I was taken aback."
"I brought Ah Xing here eight years ago, but Fu Zhixing had been missing for sixteen years; it never occurred to me to connect the two."
"Right now, Ah Xing doesn’t know, nor does Fu Yisi."
After discovering that the people investigating him in secret were related to Fu Yisi, Yong Qi thought a lot about it.
With the mention of the incident in the small town eight years ago and it being related to Fu Yisi’s people, he easily connected it to Fu Zhixing.
However, the situation was unusual, so he didn’t directly respond to Fu Yisi’s people and instead called for Ji Sang.
Yong Qi took a sip of tea, carefully observing Ji Sang’s facial expressions, and after hesitating for a moment, spoke his thoughts.
"I don’t know what Ah Xing is thinking, so I hope the Fu Family won’t be too anxious. What do you think?"
Fu Yisi would eventually find out Ah Xing is Fu Zhixing, and he would certainly come to take her back to the Fu Family. All these were inevitable; they had missed sixteen years.
But he had his own selfish desire—he wanted things to slow down.
Ji Sang was too overwhelmed with emotions to pick up on the subtlety in Chang Li’s words.
"May I go and have a chat with her?"
Yong Qi had no right to refuse.
"Of course."
Ji Sang left the tea room.
The courtyard was small, with just two trees and a small round table.
Ah Xing was sitting at the table, sketching the old tree outside the courtyard.
In autumn, the leaves had turned red and were nearly all fallen.
Ji Sang wasn’t in the mood to appreciate the beauty of the scene.
She looked at Ah Xing’s profile and stopped in her tracks.