After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots’ Beloved
Chapter 456: Do You Believe in Reincarnation Through Borrowing a Corpse

Chapter 456: Chapter 456: Do You Believe in Reincarnation Through Borrowing a Corpse

... Bai Wei.

From the moment Bai Wei stepped into the Great Hall alongside Erwin, Lu Sheng saw her.

Lu Sheng came to the Human Realm and was reincarnated using Bai Qiang’s body, inheriting Bai Qiang’s memories and emotions.

In a certain sense, she and Bai Qiang possess a bond beyond blood and worldliness, a soul-deep connection.

And precisely because of this memory fusion, when Bai Wei stood before her, the first name that emerged in Lu Sheng’s mind was sister.

She is Bai Qiang, and Bai Qiang is her.

If Bai Qiang were still alive, she would be thirty-three years old.

When Bai Qiang was five, her mother passed away due to illness. Her father, Bai Fuyu, remarried and took a second wife, who later gave birth to Bai Wei, six years her junior.

But in truth, Bai Qiang knew that before her mother passed away, her father had already been unfaithful and involved with this woman. Thus, she was anguished and numb from her mother’s death and her father’s betrayal, spiraling into depression.

As a result, throughout her life, she was always indifferent to her half-sister.

Yet, even though her elder sister always treated her with coldness, Bai Wei always loved her sister deeply.

In her youth, she tried everything to win her sister’s favor and sought her approval and affection.

Growing older, she viewed her sister as a target to pursue, striving desperately to become as excellent as her sister.

And after her sister disappeared, Bai Wei, just eighteen, took over the Bai Family.

Since then, the young girl curbed her lively nature, becoming increasingly calm and composed.

Much like Bai Qiang in her day, she gradually grew serene and independent, earning the respectful moniker Second Miss Bai.

Yet there was one thing that even the deceased Bai Qiang did not know.

Bai Qiang was blind to it, or perhaps had never considered it, but Lu Sheng uncovered something while merging Bai Qiang’s memories.

Every time Bai Wei looked at Bai Qiang, her gaze held anticipation and intensity. Yet within that gaze, there were also emotions deliberately hidden.

Yes, emotions.

Bai Wei deeply loved her sister.

And this love went beyond mere familial affection.

In any case, Bai Wei is likely the person who loves and cares about Bai Qiang most in this world.

The saying goes, death is not the end of life; forgetting is.

Bai Qiang has been missing for ten years.

In the first week of her disappearance, the major media were reporting extensively, even making the front page of the Beijing Daily, with people speculating her whereabouts everywhere.

In the second week of her disappearance, social circles in Beijing still had people wondering where she might be.

By the fifth week, it was rare to hear her name mentioned at gatherings in the social circles.

By the third year, it seemed that besides her family, others had forgotten her existence.

By the fifth year, the new servants at the Bai Family didn’t even know who Bai Qiang was.

And by the tenth year, her existence seemed to have become merely a topic mentioned when talking about Bai Wei.

The only person who never forgot Bai Qiang during these ten years and tirelessly searched for her was her sister, Bai Wei, whom Bai Qiang had always disliked.

This is why Lu Sheng has so many hidden identities.

Whether it’s Rosy, Panda, or Lan Xing, she used code names for her tasks to avoid exposing Bai Qiang’s traces to Bai Wei.

At that time, she did not understand human emotions, only found involving family and friends to be bothersome.

But over these past ten years, after becoming Lu Sheng and experiencing so much, she has learned something.

Love is the most profound thing in the world, and being loved is actually a very happy thing.

Having hidden for Bai Qiang for ten years, leaving Bai Wei searching in vain, she ought to give Bai Wei some explanation on behalf of Bai Qiang.

So Lu Sheng looked up at the picture of Bai Wei and politely asked, "Hello Miss Bai, is there something you need?"

Bai Wei exerted a great effort trying to find traces of her sister in the young girl before her.

Before coming here, she considered one possibility: Could this Lu Sheng be her sister with a changed appearance, who went missing ten years ago?

But the truth was, the girl standing before her was completely another person with another face, even her height was different. Moreover, if her sister was still around, she would be thirty-three, and could not possibly have the youthful face of a girl.

Yet she could not be wrong.

Rubbing the arrow’s tail with her thumb before Blindfolded Shooting is a habit her sister never changed over many years.

It was identical to the small gesture made by the girl when she shot a wild rabbit blindfolded before.

It should be difficult to find someone who can shoot blindfolded with the same small habitual gesture as her sister.

If this was simply a coincidence, Bai Wei would not believe it.

But...

The person in front of her was really not her sister.

Since entering the Great Hall, Bai Wei’s heart had been hanging high, only to fall into disappointment, and a sourness spread in its depths.

Bai Wei realized she was too wishful.

Bai Wei suppressed her sadness and steadied herself, saying, "... Miss Lu, could we speak in private?"

Observing the chaotic and noisy scene around them, it indeed wasn’t a suitable place for conversation.

Thus, Lu Sheng nodded and walked out through the side door of the Great Hall with Bai Wei.

A few steps down the corridor, there just happened to be a storeroom with several tables and chairs, and so the two people entered the room and sat facing each other.

Once seated, Bai Wei paused and then spoke, "Miss Lu, actually the reason I came to Qingmang TV today was to find you."

"Erwin told me that you were elevated to a 6-star based on being a 1-star member in a field named Rose K.A Shooting."

"He said back then you contacted her, saying Rose was your late sister, and you wished to inherit the code name ’Rose’ and elevate it."

"Actually, what I want to ask is, my sister naturally had the talent for Blindfolded Shooting, though I’m unaware if she was a K.A member, but..."

"Miss Bai,"

Lu Sheng suddenly interrupted Bai Wei, looking up, "I know what you want to ask, you want to ask if the Rose before me was Bai Qiang."

Upon hearing the girl mention her sister’s name, Bai Wei’s eyes widened suddenly.

"...Do you know my sister?" Her lips trembled, then she asked, "The deceased sister you mentioned, is it her?"

Hearing this, Lu Sheng suddenly fell silent for a moment.

Then she raised her eyes again and spoke calmly.

"... Bai Wei, actually before we came into this room, I thought of several stories to avoid your suspicion."

"I could say Bai Qiang didn’t die after jumping into the sea, she was rescued, met me in the Y country, and took me as a sister."

"Later she passed away, I then inherited her name and went to K.A to elevate the star in her stead, becoming Rose, which seems reasonable."

"But now, seeing you, I feel, I don’t want to lie to you anymore."

"In those years living with you, Bai Qiang was always indifferent to you, even deliberately hurting you."

"But truly, she knew she shouldn’t vent her hatred on you; you were innocent. Yet, she couldn’t manage those emotions."

"So in the last second before her life slipped away, she realized that in her life, the person she wronged most was you."

"You’ve been searching for her traces for so many years. Regardless, I feel I should let you know the truth."

"Bai Qiang is dead. Ten years ago, she was diagnosed with depression. She claimed she was going to Y country for travel and relief, but she’d actually decided to commit suicide by jumping into the sea before she left. When that kind-hearted person rescued her ashore, she was already gone."

"So don’t keep searching for her anymore, let go of this obsession."

Lu Sheng said.

This indeed was Bai Wei’s obsession.

All these years, so many people around her, overtly and covertly, advised her to stop searching—her sister was likely no longer alive, yet she never gave up.

As long as they hadn’t found her sister’s body, as long as no one told her definitively that her sister was dead, she would continue searching forever.

But now...

This obsession has no meaning to exist anymore.

Her sister is dead.

Her sister is truly dead.

Bai Wei felt as if she suddenly lost all her strength. The beliefs that had supported her through living well and managing the family business over the years suddenly collapsed.

She was almost dazed, enduring the pain and asking Lu Sheng, "...Were these things told by my sister before she jumped into the sea? I mean, her guilt toward me."

Bai Wei hadn’t noticed that Lu Sheng had suddenly called her Bai Wei.

Nor had she noticed that Lu Sheng was not referring to Bai Qiang having told others about her guilt towards her sister before suicide, but about realizing it in the last moment of life.

If it was told to someone before jumping into the sea, how could that person know her feelings in the last second of life?

"No." Lu Sheng denied Bai Wei’s question, then raised her eyes to look at Bai Wei.

"Bai Wei, do you believe in reincarnation," Lu Sheng softly asked, "it’s not that Bai Qiang used to know me, it’s that I used to become her."