Recognized by My Ex After Being Reborn
Chapter 374 It’s such a coincidence, I’ve only cried for you too.

Chapter 374: 374 It’s such a coincidence, I’ve only cried for you too.

Shi Lan, "Then, husband and wife with one heart?"

Yan Shixiu let out a soft chuckle and replied with a little red-lipped emoji.

Shi Lan closed her phone, then continued to look at various photos from the dance party three years ago where she had met Yan Shixiu.

Last night she had accompanied Uncle Yan to the hospital. Although she didn’t enter the ward, she had overheard Yan Shixiu’s conversation with his parents.

Yan Shixiu clearly harbored great doubts about his father’s attitude towards him and Ziqing.

He must have sensed something, but he didn’t want to uncover the secrets behind it.

Shi Lan didn’t ask, although she wished Yan Shixiu would tell her everything. However, she understood that it wasn’t that Yan Shixiu wanted to keep it from her; he just didn’t know how to start or face it.

Shi Lan remembered that when Yan Shixiu had chased her to the desert, he had mentioned something to her.

At that party three years ago, besides her interest in Yan Shixiu, there was another person who had shown intentions towards him.

At that time, Yan Shixiu had used the word "rescue"; he said Shi Lan had rescued him.

Shi Lan wouldn’t ask Yan Shixiu directly who that person was, but she intended to find out in other ways.

Yan Shixiu, a man who wouldn’t kneel even with a knife at his throat, must have felt extremely humiliated to use the word "rescue."

Shi Lan felt that digging into these matters was like cutting flesh from her own body.

But no matter how deep he hid it, no matter how well he concealed it, Shi Lan intended to find those festering spots in his heart and help them heal.

"If I could save you once, I can save you again."

Shi Lan spent the morning gathering old documents and combining them with her own memories, finally pinpointing a real estate tycoon. During the entire party, he was the only one who had actively sought out Yan Shixiu, and he was the only one who had looked at Yan Shixiu with the same gaze as hers. Thus, she now wished she could gouge his eyes out.

However, when she investigated this Mr. Huang further, she discovered that he had gone bankrupt last year.

Last year’s news of his imprisonment had been sensational.

Shi Lan stopped there and didn’t pursue further.

Only in the evening, she asked the housekeeper to prepare steak and a candlelit dinner.

...

Just past eight, Yan Shixiu opened the front door and saw Shi Lan curled up on the sofa, having drunk quite a bit of red wine, and immediately carried her effortlessly from the couch.

He was about to lay her down in bed, but Shi Lan woke up midway and silently clung tightly to Yan Shixiu, without saying a word.

Yan Shixiu sensed Shi Lan’s mood, asked in a low voice, "What’s wrong?"

"Thought about some things concerning you, so I drank a bit."

Yan Shixiu laid her on the bed, then sat beside her, saying, "Is your current hobby digging up three-year-old accounts?"

Shi Lan wrapped her arms around him, saying, "Mr. Huang’s downfall was your doing, right?"

Yan Shixiu stiffened, his entire body tensing up.

"If I had known his filthy intentions back then, I would have made him beg for death."

Yan Shixiu relaxed slightly, gently patting Shi Lan’s back, "He really didn’t have much chance to do anything to me."

"Just the thought of it isn’t allowed."

"His original target was not me," Yan Shixiu said. "He was interested in Yan Ziqing and even proposed a marriage alliance with my father. It was Yan Ziqing who refused and pushed me out instead..."

After listening, Shi Lan leaned on Yan Shixiu’s shoulder without moving.

After a while, when Yan Shixiu wanted to see her, he felt a wet spot on his shoulder.

"Wife, although it’s for me, I don’t want to see you cry."

"Who said I was crying..." Shi Lan stubbornly said.

"Then let me see?"

"I won’t." Shi Lan remained on Yan Shixiu’s shoulder, refusing, but she had already started crying audibly, "I’ve been ruthless since I was a teenager, so many people hate me and want to deal with me. No matter the outcome, I think I and those people deserve it because, just like fighting, it doesn’t matter who starts, both parties deserve their fate. But you’re different, your life is like a blank sheet; your existence doesn’t hinder anyone. Why then should you have to endure so much?"

"Why are there people in this world who don’t want to live well themselves, nor do they let others live well?"

"Whenever I think about these things, my heart feels as if it’s splitting in pain, so painful that I can’t breathe."

After she finished venting, Yan Shixiu straightened her body and, looking into her moist eyes, said, "Miss has never been one to cry."

"After Miss falls in love with someone, she feels like she’s become an idiot," Shi Lan said with a sobbing voice.

Yan Shixiu stretched out his hand to wipe away her tears and continued, "I have you now, so the pain is also in the past."

"What would you have done if I had been foolish at that time and chosen freedom over you?"

"Actually, I knew you had feelings for me then, regardless of your choice. Keeping the thought that I was the closest person to you, I could live a lifetime," he said.

"Idiot!" Shi Lan cursed. "Is there anything else hidden in your heart?"

Yan Shixiu cradled Shi Lan’s face, smiled with difficulty, and said, "You’ve almost dug everything out."

"Really nothing else? If there is, I’ll cry for you to see."

"Don’t cry anymore." Yan Shixiu approached her brows and kissed, "I can’t handle it, you’ve about taken half my soul."

"Let me tell you, Yan Shixiu, I’ve endured all sorts of hardships, been through all sorts of filth, and even if someone were to put a knife on my head, I wouldn’t feel scared. But you... just the name Yan Shixiu alone can change my way of breathing, my heart rate, so I can’t bear to see you suffer any harm, not even a tiny bit of discomfort."

Yan Shixiu’s eyes also reddened with emotion, and he said, "Don’t cry anymore, okay?"

That voice, impossibly soft.

Shi Lan stopped her crying, wiped her own tears, and continued, "I’ve given you the tears of two lifetimes."

"That’s quite a coincidence, because I’ve only ever cried for you."

They had only ever cared deeply for each other and shed tears for each other.

Yan Shixiu’s love had always been hidden in the deepest place, where, if necessary, he could even sacrifice himself.

As for Shi Lan’s love, it was realized later on. Yet, once she recognized it, it was overwhelming like a flood and beyond containment.

"Before, I always thought, being a man and an elder brother, it was normal for our family to dote more on my sister. It was only three years ago that I started to feel the difference. For so long, I had never doubted my true identity, but these things never seemed that important to me. Digging deeper might just mean the start of another tragedy."

"Shi Lan, sometimes I am really afraid that being with me will tire you out."