Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

Chapter 740 IF·0·12
Hearing the familiar voice, Hu Mengdie suddenly looked up: "Mom!"

The next moment, the door opened.

"Mengdie, you're awake? You child, why did you get up so late?"

Mrs. Hu walked into the room with a smile.

Upon seeing her mother and hearing her gentle words, Hu Mengdie couldn't hold back her tears.

She threw herself into her mother's arms and cried incessantly, as if she wanted to vent all the grievances in her heart.

"What's wrong with you?" Hu's mother touched Hu Mengdie's face. "Did you quarrel with Zhuang Sheng? I heard about your sister's situation from her. Sigh, Mengke has really had a hard time. She's not an outsider, and she can't have any more children, so she won't pose a threat to you. You should take care of her..."

"Mother……"

Hu Mengdie didn't listen to what her mother was saying at all; she just kept crying her eyes out.

"Alright, alright, you're the older sister, and I know you've always cared about Mengke, but what's done is done, and you've been wronged... Here's what we'll do: call Zhuang Sheng over tonight, and I'll finalize your relationship. You'll be the older sister, and that will never change. You two should hurry up and try to conceive. Once you have a son, what else can you say?"

Hu Mengdie cried out, "Mommy, I don't remember anything! I don't remember anything at all!"

Mrs. Hu was taken aback: "What did you say? You don't remember anything?"

"Mom, I think I've lost my memory! I don't know what happened, I don't remember anything, I only remember that I was in my second year of high school... I don't know why it suddenly became ten years in the future! Why, why did it turn out like this!"

"Mengdie, what are you talking about? What happened? Tell me slowly!"

Hu Mengdie tearfully recounted what had happened the previous night, omitting the fact that Li Zhuangsheng had brought her back.

Upon hearing this, Hu's mother was shocked: "So, Zhuang Sheng, like you, remembers nothing?"

Hu Mengdie nodded, crying uncontrollably, "Mommy, I'm so scared!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..." Hu's mother hugged Hu Mengdie and gently patted her back. "Mom will take you to the hospital now... Hmm, I'll call Zhuang Sheng and ask him how he is."

"mom!"

Hu Mengdie felt wronged and said, "I'm your daughter! Why are you thinking about Li Zhuangsheng all the time?"

"Oh dear, I was wondering why Zhuang Sheng didn't come. Turns out he has amnesia... Right, right, we should call the police first!" Hu's mother turned to look at Hu Mengdie, "You really don't remember what you did last night?"

"I don't remember! I don't remember!"

Hu Mengdie clutched her head and screamed in frustration. She hadn't received the gentleness and complete acceptance she had imagined from her mother, which made her feel uneasy and anxious.

"elder sister."

A soft, gentle voice rang out.

Hu Mengdie looked up at the person who had come in; it was a woman holding a baby.

"You are... Meng Ke?"

"Hmm, sister. You really don't remember anything?" Hu Mengke asked calmly, her eyes wide.

"Mengke... um, I don't remember anything!" Hu Mengdie forced back her tears and managed a weak smile. "I didn't expect you to be so grown up. This child is..."

“It’s okay, sister. Even if you don’t remember anything, I will still help you. You will always be my sister.” Hu Mengke smiled and looked down at her. “It’s better not to remember some things. Forget the past, just pretend you never did it, and then start over.”

"What...what did I do?"

"Let's not talk about this for now, sister." Hu Mengke glanced at her mother, who seemed to have something difficult to say, and changed the subject. "Let's go to the police station together. Brother-in-law may have already filed a report."

"Brother-in-law, does that mean Li Zhuangsheng? It sounds so natural to call him that..." Hu Mengdie grew increasingly agitated.

Mrs. Hu nodded in agreement: "That's right, Zhuang Sheng might have already reported it to the police. Let's go find him in a bit and have a more detailed discussion..."

"I do not want!"

Hu Mengdie suddenly screamed.

Why is it always Li Zhuangsheng, Li Zhuangsheng? Why is this taken for granted? I don't know him! I don't want this! He's not my husband! Why are you suddenly forcing me to have a husband I don't even know?

"What don't you want?" Mrs. Hu looked incredulous. "Zhuang Sheng is your husband! You two have a great relationship. Even if you lose your memories, it won't change!"

"Mom! I, I..." Hu Mengdie felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of cold water. Her brief outburst seemed to have exhausted all her temper. Her spirits waned, and she bit her lip, her voice low and unwilling, "But I, I don't want to see him right now!"

"Mengdie, you're already married."

"But Mom, I'm scared... Mom, I'm really scared!"

Mother Hu said firmly, "Zhuang Sheng is a very good man, you don't need to be afraid!"

Hu Mengdie pounded the bed in despair: "But I don't know him at all!"

"Then you two will get to know each other again as you get to know each other!" Hu's mother grabbed Hu Mengdie's hand. "Don't think about it too much for now. Get dressed and get up. I'll call your father and see how to contact Zhuang Sheng!"

Hu Mengdie bit her lip, a trace of resentment rising in her heart towards Li Zhuang. And resentment was like dry grass, burning fiercely once it was ignited.

She refused to have her life's most important event decided so hastily, and she refused the husband forced upon her by "others"! From childhood, she had endured all her parents' arrangements, passively accepting everything. But why was her mother so heartless? Why couldn't she understand her?
She felt hatred, but she didn't know who to hate except Li Zhuangsheng. She knew this was displaced anger, but that was all she could do.

……

"What rare guests!" Zhang Qixiang greeted Li Zhuangsheng and his sister with a smile. "I haven't seen the two of you come here together much lately. Please have a seat. Let me pour you some tea. This tea is very expensive, you know, over 2000 yuan a pound!"

"Oh... thank you." Li Zhuangsheng was a little reserved.

"Huh?" Zhang Qixiang was stunned and looked at Li Zhuangsheng in confusion.

Li Zhuangsheng nervously glanced at the wine shop.

"What's wrong with your brother?" Zhang Qixiang asked.

“It seems he has amnesia; he only remembers things before his second year of high school,” Li Xiuyu said calmly.

"What?" Zhang Qixiang exclaimed in surprise, "You've lost your memory?"

Li Zhuangsheng scratched his head: "Yeah, I lost my memory last night in Shanshui Park... I don't know what happened."

Have you been to the hospital for a checkup?

Li Xiuyu said calmly, "I've had the tests done. The MRI will be done this afternoon, and the EEG this morning was all normal."

A puzzled look appeared on Zhang Qixiang's face. He said worriedly, "Could it be because of that incident? Is he under too much pressure? Wow, that's too much. But he's always been the type to overthink things..."

“So you do know something.” Li Xiuyu frowned slightly. “Now, tell me everything you know.”

Zhang Qixiang glanced at Li Zhuangsheng with a strange look in his eyes, and hesitated slightly. This matter was Li Zhuangsheng's privacy. Although he had already told Hu Mengdie, it was because she was the person involved, and it would be better to let her know about such a thing in order to solve the problem.

However, Li Xiuyu was clearly not involved in this matter, and since Li Zhuangsheng had never told Li Xiuyu, it proved that he did not want him to know.

Li Xiuyu coldly retorted, "Is there anything we can't say? Li Zhuangsheng has amnesia. If you want what's best for him, you should let us know the truth so we can address the problem effectively!"

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Qixiang sighed. He couldn't help but agree with Li Xiuyu's point of view. "Okay... actually, I'm not sure if that matter is definitely related to his amnesia... but he hasn't been in a good mood these past few days, and it's definitely because of that matter..."

Li Xiuyu frowned slightly: "Did something happen at your class reunion?"

"You guessed really accurately..." Zhang Qixiang glanced at Li Zhuangsheng again, hesitating whether to let the current Li Zhuangsheng know.

But then he thought again, Li Zhuangsheng might have lost his memory because of this, so watching it again might stimulate him to regain his memory!
Thinking of this, Zhang Qixiang turned on his computer: "Actually, it was at the last gathering, we watched a video together... He was probably unhappy about it."

He searched for a while and finally found the video again.

“Here it is!” Zhang Qixiang said.

Li Zhuangsheng and Li Xiuyu both moved closer, and Zhang Qixiang tactfully offered them his chair.

The two watched the video in silence, Li Zhuangsheng's face and heart remaining completely calm.

The campus scenery in the video was something he was tired of seeing all the time. At this moment, he was still a high school student at Xingpeng High School, so he didn't find anything about these scenes to be nostalgic about; he just felt extremely bored.

Li Xiuyu watched for a while and couldn't help but frown: "Isn't this just a documentary? What's so sad about this?"

"Cough cough cough, please keep watching!" Zhang Qixiang coughed lightly.

Li Xiuyu adjusted the speed to double.

Before long, the scenery of the campus ended, and the scene shifted to the noisy teaching building. It seemed to be after the college entrance examination, and familiar or unfamiliar figures entered the frame one after another.

Li Zhuangsheng finally perked up: "Hey, I know this guy... Isn't he my classmate from the first year of high school? I think I've seen him before, he copied my math answers during the monthly exam... Hey, how did they end up together... This guy even got into university... Wow, have they even graduated from high school yet? This feeling of being both in the future and the past is really strange..."

Suddenly, Hu Mengdie appeared in the frame, and Li Zhuangsheng's voice abruptly stopped.

Off-screen, the photographer smiled and pointed at Hu Mengdie: "School beauty, school beauty, is there anything you want to say?"

Before Hu Mengdie could speak, a tall, thin boy next to her forcefully pulled her into his arms.

"Hi everyone, this is my wife!" the boy grinned.

"I want to be with Brother Qi forever!"

Zhang Qixiang turned his face away, thinking to himself, "What the hell have I done to deserve this? I've looked at it three times in a row."

Li Xiuyu was also slightly taken aback, then turned off the speed control and pulled back the progress bar.

Hi everyone, this is my wife!

"I want to be with Brother Qi forever!"

"Kiss me! Kiss me!"

This is the fourth time. It's really not my fault, Zhang Qixiang thought to himself.

He lowered his head awkwardly, but couldn't help stealing glances at Li Zhuangsheng's expression, only to see the other scratching his head in confusion.

Li Xiuyu paused the video and then closed it.

"Is that all?" Li Xiuyu asked.

"Okay, that's it!" Zhang Qixiang nodded quickly.

He thought Li Xiuyu might be asking whether the two of them actually kissed later, but he had no idea. Although he was forced to watch it several times, that was all he got to this point.

In any case, Li Zhuangsheng probably only read this much. Although it's possible he secretly read it alone after going home... based on Zhang Qixiang's understanding of Li Zhuangsheng, the other party doesn't have that particular hobby.

Zhang Qixiang looked at Li Xiuyu, but his peripheral vision remained fixed on Li Zhuangsheng. Li Xiuyu looked at Li Zhuangsheng and asked, "Have you remembered anything?"

"That man, it wasn't me, was it..."

Li Zhuangsheng's face was burning hot, and he felt an itch on his back.

"He's Qi Haoyu, which class is he in again?" Li Xiuyu raised an eyebrow.

"I can't remember either," Zhang Qixiang said, shaking his head repeatedly.

Li Zhuangsheng picked up his teacup, took a sip of tea, and then spat it all out the next second:
"Holy crap, it's so hot!"

"Let the tea cool down before drinking it," Zhang Qixiang said, quickly wiping the water stains with tissues.

Li Zhuangsheng hurriedly put down his teacup and began fanning himself with his hand.

Li Xiuyu and Zhang Qixiang exchanged a glance but said nothing.

It seems that Li Zhuangsheng couldn't remember anything.

"Is there anything else?" Li Xiuyu asked.

“No…” Zhang Qixiang shook his head, thought for a moment, then gestured for Li Xiuyu to move aside with his eyes, and said softly, “But two days ago Li Zhuangsheng said he wanted a divorce.”

Li Xiuyu remained silent for a moment, then asked, "Did he mention Hu Mengdie's affair?"

Zhang Qixiang exclaimed in surprise: "Hu Mengdie cheated on me? That can't be right, can it? He didn't tell me!"

“I didn’t say Hu Mengdie cheated, I was just… giving an example.” Li Xiuyu lowered her eyes. “But even if she really did cheat, he probably wouldn’t tell you.”

Zhang Qixiang shook his head: "Based on my understanding of him... if the other party makes a mistake, he doesn't need to cover it up or feel ashamed. He doesn't care about that kind of face."

Li Xiuyu chuckled: "You know him quite well. He won't feel ashamed of this kind of thing, after all, he's not the one who did something wrong. But this kind of good-natured person will definitely cover for Hu Mengdie, and might even take the blame for it in front of others... Oh, I didn't say that Hu Mengdie definitely cheated on him."

"That makes sense... So, do you think Li Zhuangsheng... is he faking amnesia?"

"He certainly wouldn't choose to run away from this kind of question. He really doesn't remember anything. Do you know what he did yesterday?"

"Wasn't yesterday Monday? He should have been at work..."

What happens after get off work?

"I don't know... but we were together a couple of days ago, and he shared a lot of his thoughts with me... Do you want to know?"

"No need, I roughly know what he's thinking." Li Xiuyu waved his hand, turned around, and said, "I'm leaving now, I have some tests to do at the hospital this afternoon!"

Li Xiuyu dragged Li Zhuangsheng away and got into the car. Li Zhuangsheng sat in the passenger seat, silently fiddling with his phone.

"What, you've been silenced? Hu Mengdie and Qi Haoyu dated for a long time in high school, everyone in Xingpeng knew that. But they still couldn't be together, everyone says you're the one who laughed last."

“She dated in high school…but that’s normal.” Li Zhuangsheng’s eyes gradually cleared from their daze, and he smiled. “Who didn’t date in high school? She had so many suitors. Speaking of which, I dated in high school too!”

Li Xiuyu asked curiously, "When did you start dating in high school?"

"Haha, I didn't tell you, did I?" Li Zhuangsheng put on a smug look. "I met her online. Her name is Lonely Little Moon. Let me tell you, online dating can actually be quite reliable. We've even video chatted. She's incredibly beautiful, a campus beauty queen! She even said she wanted to come visit me and called me 'Brother Zhuangsheng'! Sigh, I don't know how to brag anymore. I guess I broke up with her first because of my studies. Let me check if she's still a friend on QQ..."

Li Xiuyu listened silently to his rambling boasting without calling him out.

(End of this chapter)