539 The odd woman out
Jun pinched her cheek hard. “I will punish you for this once we get home.”
“What did I do?”
“Don’t act cheeky.”
He held her hand with an expression that soon turned somber. “What did you see in there?”
Ai’s eyelashes trembled. “Mom Dad…”
Without letting her say anything further, Jun pulled her in his hug. He understood that what she saw was similar to what he witnessed in the memories of his family after his death.
“Jun I saw that Mom and Dad were…k-killed in the past.”
His eyes widened in utter shock. “Huh!? Killed? What are you talking about?”
“I couldn’t see it clearly…” she broke down, “It had all s-started to get hazy. But I saw he was dead and Mom…” her eyes reddened, “I heard a gunshot at the end…”
Jun stared at her, aghast.
Murdered?
“It all happened because D-Dad never gave up. He kept fighting for my justice because he never believed that I committed suicide…And that…killed him and Mom.”
Her small face flushed with fury. “Who killed my Mom and Dad?” She stiffened as she realized something. “Is it the same person who killed Xing Bi? Because I was investigating it and Dad would have come across it for sure…What if…”
Jun stayed silent. Long back when they had confessed about their rebirth, he had figured that Ai’s fall was a murder and not an accident. If that was tied up to Xing Bi’s murder then yes, the culprit was the same.
And after yesterday with everything that had transpired, he was sure that whether it was using Guiying and her alter ego, Zixin’s accident, threatening Shui to marry Jin through Guiying, Sky’s collapse and now Ai’s death…
Only one person was behind it all.
He slowly looked up at her and said, “Ai, I want to tell you something.”
“What is it?”
“That-“
The door then suddenly opened and Xing Bi rushed inside, her expression pale and bewildered.
Looking at Ai in a patient’s uniform made her jaw drop. “Ai!”
Ai’s reaction wasn’t anything different. “Xing Bi, why are you-“
Xing Bi pulled her into a tight hug and cried. “How could I not know that you were hurt!? Do you know how shocked I was to know that you were here too!? What happened to my Ai? How did you collapse? And so did Jun?”
Ai was in a daze. “Wa-wait, I don’t understand…Why do you have these bruises on you?” She thought for a moment. “Weren’t you and Nian together last night?”
She looked at Jun for answers and Nian who just stepped inside too.
Jun released a sigh. “I just got to know that too. Last night Jin and Shui had an accident too…” he gave her a meaningful glance which made her understand that what happened to Jin was related to the past too.
“Bro and Xing Bi were in the same area when it happened and she got a little injured…”
Ai was stunned. “When were you going to tell me this?”
He coughed. “J-Just now?”
The cat Jun-cute narrowed his eyes at him and snorted.
Such a lie.
Nian smiled. “How is my sister-in-law?”
Ai pursed her lips. “I am fine but Xing Bi is not.”
Xing Bi complained. “I am fine too.”
“Then why do I see so many bandages?”
“You are just acting more and more like Nian now!”
“Because you definitely don’t seem okay.”
And Xing Bi wasn’t because ever since she had seen those flashes, her heart was filled with unease. She wanted to discard those strange images as some hallucination, but she couldn’t shake them off her mind.
Ai caught her hesitation and so did Jun observe Nian’s odd expression.
He raised his brow at him as if asking, ‘Is anything the matter?’
Nian wasn’t sure how to respond.
Ai held Xing Bi’s hand and with a concerned gaze, she asked, “Are you hiding anything from me Xing Bi?”
Her brow twitched.
How can I tell you about those odd images and especially the part where somebody was talking about your death? You and Jun will think I am crazy…
She laughed it off. “I-I am just still in shock haha.”
Ai frowned. “I am smelling a lie. You only stammer when you lie.”
“…”
She threw urgent glances at Nian to help her out.
“And now you are secretly asking Nian for help.”
“…”
Why does she know me so well?
“Tell me the truth.”
Xing Bi knew it was hopeless to escape once Ai had her suspicions. She decided to skip some parts and said, “Well it’s nothing really hehe…It’s just that something strange happened when I had the near accident.”
Ai blinked. “Strange?”
“Yeah! You won’t believe me, and I don’t want you to worry about me. It was most probably my shock. But when the car was speeding towards me, I suddenly had some strange flashes. It looked like I was at Jin’s place, all bleeding and unconscious on the steering wheel. It felt so real, haha. And what was even weirder was that I heard Zhan Yahui’s voices out of nowhere! So strange! I don’t even want to see the face of someone who never treated you well.”
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“W-what happened? Hey, hey I told you all, it’s nothing serious! I was probably just hallucinating.”
Nian, who would usually keep chatting, was quiet this time.
Ai felt a lump form in her throat.
Xing Bi had died in a car accident in the past and she saw the memories of her own death?
Ai paled and stared at Jun.
They thought that seeing and hearing the past life’s memories was something that only happened to her, Jun and Jin since they were reborn.
But why did Xing Bi experience this phenomenon?
For Jun, if he had any last doubts in his mind also vanquished at this moment.
“…Zhan Yahui’s voices?”