The moment Ye Moxuan saw her tears, he immediately understood that he had done something wrong this time around. So, he could only hold her and comfort her, apologizing endlessly. There was nobody else in the silent room. There was only his apologetic voice, sounding extremely gentle as if he was afraid of frightening her, and occasionally some sobbing sounds echoing throughout the room.
Despite comforting her for a long time, he still couldn’t calm her down; he started feeling like killing himself for doing this to her. “It’s all my fault. When we get back, I’ll do everything you say, alright? You can do whatever you want with me, alright?”
Han Muzi had not intended to cry, however, her emotions had gotten the better of her at that moment, and she lost control of herself. Moreover, the more he talked, the more her heart seemed to hurt. It felt like she had suffered a great grievance. That was how people were—when they had nobody to care for them, they would simply hide in a corner to lick their wounds, but if the situation was reversed, they would become vulnerable and prone to crying easily.
Right now, she was in the latter situation. Before she saw him, she had been cold and calm, but after meeting him, she became as fragile as glass. Taking a deep breath, she was about to stem the flow of tears when he suddenly leaned down and kissed her. She was stunned, but it was too late to push him away.
Her lips were taken by his while her salty tears slid down her cheeks then into her mouth. As such, the flavor of the kiss changed. She came back to her senses and reached out to push him away. But, he caught both her hands and held them behind her back, then deepening the kiss. One second, two seconds…
“Mmph…” Her tears had stopped without her knowing it. Perhaps it had stopped due to the kiss that came out of the blue, or she had simply cried enough.
After a long while, Ye Moxuan released her. Resting his forehead against hers, his eyes were gloomy and his pale, thin lips trembled. “Sorry, I won’t do anything like that ever again. Can you please forgive me?”
His kiss had left her reeling in confusion. She lifted her eyes to look at him and saw that he had dark circles under his eyes, indicating that he had not been sleeping well. There was a dense five o’clock shadow on his chin, and his complexion was terrible too. One glance and anyone could tell that he had been having a hard time over the past few days.
She bit down on her lower lip. “Next time, if you ever do something like this again, I will never forgive you. I’ll also take Little Bean and the baby in my womb with me and disappear far, far away.”
At her words, he narrowed his eyes slightly. “You can’t!”
“I was talking about what-ifs; if you ever pull something like this again—”
“I won’t,” he cut off her words and firmly said. “Since you don’t like it, I won’t do it anymore.” Finishing his sentence, he looked at Han Muzi, who stood mere inches away from him and couldn’t resist leaning over to kiss the corner of her mouth. His movements were light, loving, and tender. After kissing the corner of her mouth, he seemed slightly unsatisfied. Then, he held her hand and placed his thin lips on her forehead. His voice was hoarse as he said, “Never again. In the future, I will always listen to you.”
In truth, when a guy kisses a girl’s forehead, it was a very romantic thing to do. In the past, Ye Moxuan rarely did that to her. She didn’t expect him to apologize while kissing her forehead today—it made her heart melt into a puddle. Her body became less stiff as she nestled warmly in his embrace. “Those are your words.”
“Yes, I promise.”
Closing her eyes, she lay in his arms, recharging herself after a painful yearning for him all week. After a while, she asked, “Do you really… want to regain your memories?”
Of course, he thought. If he didn’t want to recover his memories, why would he put himself through all that suffering? Unfortunately, she didn’t want him to go through all these sufferings. Right now, there was only one answer he could give. “You said it yourself; the past isn’t that important. It doesn’t matter whether I get them back or not.”
Han Muzi lifted her head. “Does it not matter to you? I was going to say, if you want to get back your memories… I may be able to help you.”
“Huh?” Ye Moxuan stared at her, confused about what she meant.
She wiggled out of his embrace and looked him seriously in the eyes as she said, “Go back to our home country with me.”
Back to our home country?
“Back home is where we experienced many things together. If you go back with me, I’ll bring you to all the places we’ve been together, to all the paths we’ve taken, and to do all the things we used to do together. One day, you’ll remember everything.”
Jason had mentioned this method before, but at that time, he felt that it was an unreliable method as he did not know how long it would take for him to recover his memories. However, now that she mentioned it, he found that it was not a bad idea. Not only could he stay by her side and develop their relationship further, but he also had the chance to recover his memories too. Why wouldn’t he do it?
“Sure.” He agreed easily after giving it some thought.
Han Muzi was stunned as if she had not expected him to agree so easily, so she asked suspiciously, “A-Are you really willing to go back with me?” She had only intended to casually bring it up and make a suggestion, but unexpectedly, he…
“But your grandfather…” The status of the Yuchi Family was so high that it would be better for him to stay here compared to going back. Moreover, his grandfather would not allow her to bring him back.
“I will handle all the external factors; you don’t have to worry about it.”
However, she still seemed hesitant. “But…”
“When you were asking me to go back with you, you were so adamant about it. So why are you beginning to waver now?”
“That’s because… I didn’t expect you to agree so quickly. I assumed… you wouldn’t want to go back to our home country with me.”
He fell silent, but his brows furrowed tightly together and his lips pressed into a tight line. I see… She’s afraid of me. No, it’s probably because, in a deep corner of her heart, she can’t trust me enough right now, so she didn’t believe that I would go back with her. At that thought, he grabbed her hand and his eyes gradually darkened. “You don’t have to be suspicious of me, or worry about it. I will do whatever you say. I tried to keep the incident this time from you, not on purpose, but simply because I didn’t want to add to your worries. I had no other intentions.”
Han Muzi also knew that the reason he kept everything from her and acted alone was that he didn’t want her to worry about him. Furthermore, he was probably worried that she would stop him, so he had insisted on doing it all by himself. She frowned. “You were fine before, why would you suddenly want to recover your memories so quickly?” He had acted far too desperately, so it felt like something was amiss. “Did someone say something to you?”
Ye Moxuan recalled what Little Bean had said to him and his heart seemed to bleed as if it was being sliced apart again. Naturally, he couldn’t tell her about that, so he could only deny it. “No. I just felt that having lost a huge part of my memories was unfair to you.”
Hearing his words, she glared at him resentfully. “What is so unfair about it? I, myself, have never said anything of the sort, so why would you be bothered about it? Don’t you know what the most important thing to me is right now?”
What?
“It’s you.” Han Muzi reached out to hold his arm and chewed on her lip for a bit before she slowly said, “Ever since your accident, up until now, I have only wished for you to be safe and sound. I used to wish that you would regain your memories, but that was when you had no feelings for me. Later… when we became a couple again, I realized that it didn’t matter whether you remember the past or not. It wasn’t that important anymore.”
