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Chapter 450: Obsession During Lifetime (6)_1

Chapter 450: Chapter 450: Obsession During Lifetime (6)_1

Yes.

Ruan Jiaojiao smiled, but her smile was uglier than crying, her eyes brimming with tears.

Her mouth cursed Shu Jiao with hatred, but how much could she really hate her? It was merely an angry retort because she cared too much.

What she felt toward Shu Jiao was never hatred, but resentment.

A resentment that spanned two lifetimes!

When she returned to this body, no one in the entire Ruan Family recognized her. She bore no grudge, no hatred... She remembered everything upon her return, yet she never thought about hating them.

The ruin of the Ruan Family was brought by the imposter.

Not by Shu Jiao.

If she was to hate, it would be the soul that occupied her body.

But Ruan Jiaojiao couldn’t forgive Shu Jiao; the knot in her heart couldn’t be untangled.

It was simply because, in her heart, anyone could fail to recognize her, but it just couldn’t be her.

Memories might fade with time, but feelings do not, just like her affection for the Ruan Family members, which had always naturally flowed like water finding its course.

The ties of blood she shared with the Ruan Family could not be obstructed by loss of memory; the moment she returned to this body, she felt a natural closeness to them, for those ties of blood were unbreakable, forever inseparable.

In the same way, her feelings for Shu Jiao were unchanged.

It was because she cared too much, loved too deeply, loved her more than any other member of the Ruan Family, that she couldn’t accept Shu Jiao’s failure to recognize her, couldn’t accept that she walked away gently cradling the imposter in front of her.

She froze to death in the water, and her Wandering Spirit stayed in that ditch for a year, unwilling to leave. That was an obsession, an obsession she had during her life, and she couldn’t move on after death without resolving it.

So she kept waiting, through the seasons.

Even though it was cold, even though she was lonely, she was unwilling to leave, solely because she was waiting, waiting for her mother, the mother she loved the most.

This was her obsession.

She waited for a year.

And she finally saw her.

But what she saw was Shu Jiao holding the imposter and walking away in front of her, a scene that struck her with unimaginable pain.

She knew that Shu Jiao couldn’t see her.

No one could see her.

Someone else had taken over her body, a concept so unbelievable that no ordinary person would conceive of it. So it wasn’t odd not to be recognized.

She was clear about this, and she was rational.

Yet she still resented her. Why? Because emotions differ from logic.

Rationally, she could understand it. Emotionally, she couldn’t accept it.

Her resentment stemmed from the fact that Shu Jiao was the person she loved the most.

Because she cared too much, resented too profoundly, even upon returning to the starting point of her life, she sealed away all memories related to Shu Jiao, unwilling to recall even the slightest bit.

A single sentence, "So you knew," shattered Shu Jiao’s heart.

Watching Ruan Jiaojiao’s smile was heart-wrenchingly painful for her. She covered her face, and uncontrollable sobs overtook her as she sat there.

Ruan Jiaojiao did not linger by her side but stood up and walked away.

She did not return to the Ruanlin Family’s house but went upstairs to her own room, Xiu Xi following behind her. He wanted to come in with her but was stopped at the door.

Ruan Jiaojiao stood at the doorway, leaning against it, and said to him wearily, "Brother Xiu, I want to be alone for a while, is that okay?"

Xiu Xi looked at her pale face and the tears nearly spilling from her eyes and silently nodded his head.

Ruan Jiaojiao looked down to close the door, and Xiu Xi reached out to stop it again.

Ruan Jiaojiao looked over.

Xiu Xi said, "No matter what you look like, I will always recognize you."

"???" Ruan Jiaojiao.

What does that mean?