Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 319 Hindsight
noon.

The hotel where Han Zhou and others were staying was not only shrouded in the heavy rain, but also Lincheng University, which had been without power for two hours.

Today is Sunday, there are not many people in the dormitory, and Xiao Xiaoxiao is the only one in the dormitory. The desk lamp emits a faint light, and the petite girl sits alone in front of the desk, staring at the rainstorm outside the balcony in a daze.

The balcony was filled with splashing rainwater, which pooled all over the floor. The water rippled and reflected the broken, dark sky.

Xiao Xiaoxiao secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, she had put away her clothes early, otherwise she would have been like those people downstairs holding umbrellas and running around on the lawn looking for clothes.

However, it was raining so heavily that she couldn't go to the cafeteria to eat. In addition, she lived very frugally and never bought snacks to put in the dormitory, so she was still hungry.

If you're hungry, just be hungry. It's not like you've never been hungry before. Compared with hunger, Xiao Xiaoxiao hates this depressing loneliness even more.

The combination of gloomy sky, violent heavy rain, and empty dormitory will always give people a sense of loss and emptiness, as if they are the only one left in the world and cannot even say a word. Keep your voice high, otherwise it will be drowned out by the sound of rain.

Xiao Xiaoxiao thought of his home that leaked every time it rained. If we encountered this kind of weather, I'm afraid everything in the house would float on the water before long.

Including her.

It's just that she doesn't know why, except for her own empty and dilapidated home, another 'home' always appears in her memory recently.

That home didn't seem to be much better, it was small and old, and it didn't seem to have any other advantages except that it didn't leak when it rained.

But perhaps because of its small size, the place seemed surprisingly lively.

Xiao Xiaoxiao didn't know if she was dreaming. She wanted to tell Han Zhou about it, but the bastard hadn't responded yet.

"Dong dong dong."

While thoughts were swirling, there was a sudden knock on the bedroom door.

Xiao Xiaoxiao was shocked. It was raining so heavily. Her roommate would never go back to the dormitory in this weather. The dormitory aunt had just checked the dormitory. It shouldn't be her. So who was knocking? Door?

The dormitory in the heavy rain seemed extremely dark due to the power outage, which immediately made this timid girl have many associations.

"Xiaoxiao, are you there?"

At this moment, along with a knock on the door, a strong and clear female voice sounded outside the door. Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and quickly remembered whose voice it was - guzheng.

She picked up the lamp and plucked up the courage to walk to the door and open the door.

The dormitory door opened, and what stood outside was not a ghost that could simulate sounds, but a real guzheng. This girl looked very cute when she smiled, and her eyes curved into beautiful crescents.

"How did you come?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was a little surprised. Because of Han Zhou, she had a pretty good relationship with Gu Zheng, but they didn't interact much on weekdays, so why did they contact her? It seemed like the other party came specifically to see her.

"I have something to ask you. Can I come in?" Gu Zheng said.

Xiao Xiaoxiao nodded: "Okay, come in and sit down, it might be a little dark inside."

"It doesn't matter, our dormitory is about the same. It rained too much today."

Gu Zheng didn't care. He walked into the dormitory and picked up the self-heating rice in his hand. "I brought food. Have you eaten?"

"Eat." Xiao Xiaoxiao was embarrassed to say that he hadn't eaten.

Gu Zheng heard Han Zhou mention Xiao Xiaoxiao's character, glanced at the trash can in the dormitory, looked at the other person's pretending to be calm, and said, "Eat more, I can't finish it by myself."

She handed the other person a box of self-heating rice.

Gu Zheng knew Xiao Xiaoxiao's character, and Xiao Xiaoxiao also knew her appetite, so she naturally understood that the other party was lying. She probably noticed that she hadn't eaten, so she took the self-heating rice hesitantly after thinking about it.

"Thank you."

Xiao Xiaoxiao had never eaten self-heating rice. Fortunately, there were diagrams on the lunch box, so he quickly opened the lunch box, poured the rice and vegetable buns into the box, and heated it with a heating pack.

Seeing the hot air coming out of the hole in the lid and the aroma gradually entering her nose, she swallowed and suddenly remembered the business and asked, "By the way, Gu Zheng, what do you want to see me for?"

Gu Zheng got straight to the point: "I want to know what happened that night when you and Han Zhou were live broadcasting together. I always feel that you didn't fall down the stairs. At least the injury on Han Zhou's eye was not caused by a fall."

"Why do you say that?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was shocked. She thought that only she and Han Zhou knew the truth of that day in the world, but she didn't expect that Gu Zheng actually noticed something was wrong.

"Didn't Han Zhou tell you? I used to hit people a lot, and I also punched others in the eyes. The injuries on Han Zhou's eyes were obviously caused by fists."

Gu Zheng did not shy away from his "dark history" and was a little puzzled when he said this, "But it's strange that I realized this only belatedly. I originally wanted to ask Han Zhou directly, but he didn't answer the phone. I I really couldn’t figure it out, so I came over to ask you.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for two seconds. She didn't expect that Gu Zheng was so cute and she was actually a girl who advocated violence. If she knew that Han Zhou was a playboy, Han Zhou would definitely die miserably...

She muttered in her heart, hesitated for a while and said, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's mainly that I don't remember what happened that night."

She was telling the truth. Like Han Zhou, her memory only limited to punching Han Zhou, and she had no memory of what happened after that.

"It doesn't matter if you can't remember. Just tell me who inflicted the injury on Han Zhou's eye." Gu Zheng's face sank and he said viciously.

Xiao Xiaoxiao was excited: "What do you want to do?"

"Of course I wanted to avenge him." Gu Zheng said murderously, "Tell me, was it someone who participated in the live broadcast that day who beat him?"

"Yes." Xiao Xiaoxiao nodded hesitantly.

"Who is it? Is it that hippie..."

"I……"

"It really is him...what? You?"

Gu Zheng was stunned for a moment, as if he doubted his own ears, and frowned, "Why did you hit him when you had nothing to do?"

Feeling the pressure coming from the other party, Xiao Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "There is a bit of misunderstanding here."

She was very angry when facing Han Zhou, but she was much more docile when facing Gu Zheng. She quickly told Gu Zheng everything about that night, but she did not mention that Han Zhou had been sending messages to people.

"It sounds incredible..."

Gu Zheng listened carefully and gave this evaluation.

"I also find it incredible." Xiao Xiaoxiao said worriedly, "Many times I suspected that I was actually having a dream. What everyone said was the truth about falling down the stairs, but Han Zhou said it was true. The two of us The memory of each is indeed correct."

Gu Zheng frowned, but she was not thinking about whether this matter was true or not, but said dissatisfiedly: "Why didn't Han Zhou tell me?"

Although he usually calls himself a "bastard" and "a piece of shit", Xiao Xiaoxiao still explained to Han Zhou: "He said that even if he told you, you might not be able to accept it so quickly. He planned to see the situation first. If you can detect it yourself, Questions, even if we don’t ask them, you will take the initiative to ask them.”

Han Zhou's worry is not unnecessary, not to mention that this matter is beyond ordinary people's understanding. Even if we take an example of what may happen in the real world, such as a father suddenly telling his son with a serious face that he is actually a billionaire. The rich man is about to inherit hundreds of millions of assets. Without any evidence, the son may find it difficult to believe his father's words. He will only think that he is joking, or even suspect that the other person is crazy. As for why he chose to tell Mo Yixia, it was because the latter had an extraordinary ability to accept and could quickly judge the authenticity of the matter and provide him with certain ideas.

In Mo Yixia's words, Han Zhou's attitude towards Gu Zheng is different from his attitude towards her.

The former is protection woven with lies and concealment.

The latter is cruelty constructed with truth and calmness.

Han Zhou did not deny this.

But this is a helpless move. Faced with Mo Yixia's "mind-reading skills", the wisest choice is to tell the other party honestly, even if telling the other party calmly "I just want to have two boats" is a kind of trouble for this girl. cruel.

The same is true for guzheng.

Of course, Gu Zheng obviously didn't think that this was a kind of protection for herself. She felt resentful about what Han Zhou had hidden from her, and wanted to call Han Zhou to question him. However, after making several calls, the other party never answered.

Nothing will happen?

Her depression suddenly turned into worry. She thought about Han Zhou going to the zoo with senior Zhong Ling today, so she tried calling Zhong Ling a few more times, but still no one answered.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was sitting opposite, asked.

"Han Zhou didn't answer my call."

Gu Zheng looked worried. It was raining so heavily outside, and she didn't know if Han Zhou had caught a cold.

"Maybe the signal is not good." Xiao Xiaoxiao said.

"Ah."

Gu Zheng also felt that there should be no accidents and there was no need to worry. He sent a Fetion message to Han Zhou, telling him to call him back as soon as he saw the message, and then put away his phone.

"The food is ready, let's eat first." She looked at the self-heating rice on the table.

"it is good."

The fragrance had been wafting in the dormitory just now, and Xiao Xiaoxiao had been hungry for a long time. The two of them opened the lid and mixed the rice.

At this moment, Gu Zheng suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, you just said that Han Zhou wanted to study you, so you punched him?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao felt a little guilty and explained: "His expression and tone at that time were too obscene. I thought he wanted to do something bad to me, so..."

In fact, Han Zhou's expression and tone were normal at that time, but she misunderstood the meaning of this sentence.

"Han Zhou is not such a person."

Gu Zheng defended Han Zhou seriously, and then said, "He probably thinks there is something special about you. It is this thing that causes your insomnia and is also the key to making the dormitory 'haunted'."

Xiao Xiaoxiao took a hard bite of rice and nodded: "That guy did say that. You really know him, and even what he said is exactly the same."

Gu Zheng rolled his eyes, quickly straightened his face, thought for a while and continued: "Did you re-check your belongings after that?"

Since Han Zhou wanted to hide it from her and felt that she couldn't help, she had to find the truth.

Thinking of this, Gu Zheng didn't even bother to eat, and carefully considered various possibilities.

"Of course." Xiao Xiaoxiao said dissatisfied, "But there is nothing special about me. The guy also said he wanted to take the zipper of my coat and study it, so I scolded him severely."

"Coat zipper?" Gu Zheng was stunned.

"Well, it's not a strange thing at all. Instead of being suspicious of a zipper, you might as well be suspicious of the jewelry on my body."

Xiao Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes, put down his chopsticks, took a sip of water, and continued, "But I never wear any jewelry, so I think the problem is not with the things on my body, but with me."

Gu Zheng was slightly stunned. She subconsciously felt that something was wrong, as if she had forgotten something important, but she could never remember it.

"By the way." Xiao Xiaoxiao continued, "I often dream these days... No, I don't know if it's a dream. In the dream, I was in a medium-sized room, and there was a tree outside the window. The room has a fan, a refrigerator, a medical record, a big box... and a lot of people.”

At this point, Gu Zheng didn't think it was a big deal. After all, Xiao Xiaoxiao's narrative was fragmented and there was nothing worth paying attention to, until she heard the other person's next sentence——

"When you go out and walk down the stairs to the left, you can see a very long ramp. There is a very old tree at the end of the ramp..."

Guzheng gradually fell into sluggishness.

Although she had only been to Han Zhou's home once, out of interest in Han Zhou's living environment since he was a child, she still asked Han Zhou a lot about his childhood and walked around his house several times.

Therefore, she remembered very clearly that when she went out from Han Zhou's house and went downstairs to the left for a short distance, she happened to see a very low slope with a huge banyan tree directly above it. She remembered that Han Zhou told her that the other party's third The first time I met Teacher Ouyang was on that ramp.

She said in disbelief: "Could the room you mentioned be Han Zhou's house?"

"Han Zhou's family?" Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned.

"Yes, what you just said is very consistent with the situation of Han Zhou's family." Gu Zheng took a deep breath and asked doubtfully, "Have you been near Han Zhou's family before? Or did he show you photos of his family?"

"without……"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was about to shake her head in denial when she suddenly remembered the room model she had seen in the woods near her home. She suddenly realized that the layout of the model was exactly the same as the scene she had seen in her "dream", and she couldn't help but hesitate for a moment. He said, "No, I should have been there, but I have no impression."

"It's normal. After all, you don't remember Han Zhou. It's not surprising that you went to his house and forgot..." Gu Zheng's eyes lit up, as if he had caught a glimmer of inspiration, but soon turned into confusion, "But it's not right. I’ve never been to Han Zhou’s house before, why would you show up at his house?”

This sentence has no other meaning. Gu Zheng just thinks it is unreasonable. You must know that Han Zhou is not someone who will take a strange girl home casually, let alone a strange girl. Even she only went there on the day of moving. once.

But since Xiao Xiaoxiao can recall the appearance of Han Zhou's house, it means that the other party has indeed been to Han Zhou's house...

But why didn't she know anything about it?
The more Gu Zheng thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out. Even if the memory could be erased, all traces would not disappear. Unless Xiao Xiaoxiao appeared and disappeared out of thin air, how could he be completely forgotten by everyone?

Gu Zheng lowered her head and fell into deep thought, and began to recall all the things that happened when she met Xiao Xiaoxiao. She didn't have much interaction with Xiao Xiaoxiao, and the most time they spent together was when they went to Beicheng.

Speaking of those two days...

At this moment, Gu Zheng was suddenly startled, and suddenly realized what the important thing he had forgotten was-

She looked up at Xiao Xiaoxiao's empty earlobes. The rose earrings that she had never left or replaced in the past were missing. She didn't know if she forgot to wear them or lost them.

"Xiaoxiao, where are your earrings?"

"Earrings?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously touched his earlobe. A trace of confusion first flashed in his eyes, and then turned to confusion and shock.

"Yeah, why did I forget...my earrings were taken away by that guy Han Zhou!"

(End of this chapter)