Zhu Shuangyao stared at him in astonishment. "Why would you think so?"
Huo Qizheng seemed to be fixated on the topic of jealousy. "But why aren't you jealous at all? Don't you feel anything when you see other women approaching me?"
Zhu Shuangyao was so exasperated that she laughed. "Have you given me a chance to be jealous? You're so self - disciplined. Why would I pick a fight for no reason? Besides, you've lost your memory recently. Should I add to your troubles? Do you think our relationship has been going too smoothly and you need to make a fuss to feel important?"
Huo Qizheng's mind was in a whirl after hearing Zhu Shuangyao's words. His face darkened. "How... did you know I lost my memory?"
Zhu Shuangyao was dumbfounded. "Do you want me to remind you how you revealed your memory loss in front of me?"
Something was wrong. Zhu Shuangyao carefully recalled what had happened. Mr. Huo had gently stroked her back, and then she had... inexplicably fallen asleep.
She immediately guessed what the man beside her had done. "Did you hypnotize me? And it didn't work? No, I shouldn't have been able to resist your hypnosis. So did I meet the condition to break the hypnosis? What was the condition?"
The condition was... Zhu Shuangyao would only break the hypnosis when she truly fell in love with him after his memory loss.
- But he didn't dare to say it. If he did, Yaoyao would surely explode with anger.
Just then, they arrived home. Huo Qizheng averted his gaze, trying to change the subject. "Yaoyao, we're home. What would you like to eat? Should we go to the supermarket to buy some groceries first?"
Actually, the refrigerator at home was full, but he wanted an excuse to downplay the impact of this incident. Hearing this, Zhu Shuangyao thought he must be out of his mind. "I just had a big meal. I'm stuffed. Haven't you eaten?"
Huo Qizheng seized the opportunity. "Yes, Yaoyao. I've been busy with work and haven't eaten yet. I'm starving now."
Hearing that he was still hungry, Zhu Shuangyao softened her tone. "Fine. Let's go upstairs to put our things away and then go to the supermarket. You can eat something to tide you over."
Huo Qizheng eagerly picked up Zhu Shuangyao's bag and walked towards home. "Okay."
Fortunately, he had successfully changed the subject. But his relief didn't last long. As soon as they got home, Zhu Shuangyao said menacingly, "Mr. Huo, you still haven't told me what the condition is. Do you think you can get away with it?"
Huo Qizheng pretended not to hear. He went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, blatantly lying while looking at the full refrigerator. "Yaoyao, there's hardly anything to eat in the fridge. Let's go to the supermarket first, okay? I'm really hungry."
"Then have some cookies first." Zhu Shuangyao took a bag of cookies from the cabinet. They didn't like to put snacks like cookies and small cakes in the fridge at home because Zhu Shuangyao didn't like the cold and hard texture after they had been in the fridge for too long.
"Yaoyao, what would you like to eat tonight? Do you want to have small wontons for supper? Should we buy some wonton wrappers?" Huo Qizheng asked while munching on the cookies.
Zhu Shuangyao was afraid that he would change the subject again, so she clung to the original question. "So what exactly is the condition?"
His attempt to change the subject failed again, but Huo Qizheng didn't give up. "Yaoyao, don't you want to know where I bought that necklace? Actually, I made it myself. Isn't it beautiful? If you like, I can make more for you."
Zhu Shuangyao said nothing, just stared at him silently with pursed lips.
Huo Qizheng quickly weighed the pros and cons of telling the truth or not. If he told the truth, Yaoyao might get angry once and then it would be over. If he didn't tell, she would get angry when she found out later. It seemed more cost - effective to let her explode all at once.
As for lying? Sorry, that wasn't an option for him.
Under Zhu Shuangyao's intense gaze, Huo Qizheng slowly, very slowly, voiced his thought. It didn't seem like a big deal when he thought about it in his mind, but when he said it out loud, he suddenly felt that this thought was... extremely embarrassing.
The darker Zhu Shuangyao's face became as she listened. After Huo Qizheng finished speaking, Zhu Shuangyao forced a smile. "Do you still think you're not the same person as before you lost your memory?"
He was indeed the same person, but one was a man who had been reborn more than two thousand times and suffered a great deal, while the other was a lucky guy who met his true love on the second rebirth. They were just from parallel universes. Huo Qizheng always believed that his parallel - universe self was not himself. The one who was in love with Zhu Shuangyao was not the current him.
He wouldn't lie to Zhu Shuangyao, so he could only stay silent.
Zhu Shuangyao laughed again. She angrily threw a pillow at him. "Since you said I'm never jealous, I think you feel our relationship has been going too smoothly. I'm going to give you the cold shoulder today! Go to the supermarket to buy your own food!"
With that, she went into the room. Huo Qizheng followed her, trying to coax her, but the door was slammed in his face. He almost had his high - bridged nose flattened.
Huo Qizheng had no choice but to go to the kitchen dejectedly and make himself a bowl of noodles. He planned to bother his secretary to see if there was any way to make Zhu Shuangyao less angry.
Zhu Shuangyao changed into her home clothes. As she took off her clothes, she heard the jingling of keys in her pocket. Keys? She took out the jingling thing from her pocket and found it was a small USB flash drive with a beautiful pendant hanging from it. It looked like a girl's thing.
Who had accidentally put this on her? She had only had a meal with her senior sister today, but they hadn't had any physical contact. She had had physical contact with that actress surnamed Zhang. Could it be hers?
She'd better call her senior sister first. Just as she was about to get her phone, she noticed that there seemed to be something engraved on the pendant, like a line of text. She brought it closer to her eyes and examined it carefully.
It seemed to be... something like a password?
She instinctively went to find Huo Qizheng with the USB flash drive. "Mr. Huo, there's a USB flash drive in my clothes for some reason. Do you think the characters on this pendant are a password?"
Hearing Zhu Shuangyao take the initiative to talk to him, Huo Qizheng immediately put down his noodles and eagerly took the USB flash drive from Zhu Shuangyao. He only glanced at it and realized that this was a password invented by a very niche password enthusiast. It was so complicated that not many people used it.
This short string of symbols was already quadruple - encrypted, and each encryption method was different, containing a great deal of thought. But Huo Qizheng had powerful computing ability and a good memory. He only took one look and cracked this short password.
Huo Qizheng played with the pendant in his hand and said slowly, "It is indeed a password. This USB flash drive contains evidence of the Gong family's crimes. It's specifically meant for you. The password is... Zheng Lirong's birthday?"
Who was Zheng Lirong?
Evidence of the Gong family's crimes? That was just what they needed! Zhu Shuangyao handed the USB flash drive to him. "Here you go. Aren't you fighting against the Gong family recently? This should be very useful."
Huo Qizheng smiled. "Okay, but I don't know the password of the USB flash drive. Would you be willing to help me find it?"
Zheng Lirong was the top - notch movie star in their country. He had won numerous awards and had been nominated for the best actor in the top - level movie awards. He was extremely well - known. Almost everyone, from octogenarian grandmas to three - year - old kids, had heard of him. His birthday could be easily found on the Internet, and fans celebrated his birthday every year.
Even Zhu Shuangyao was a fan of his. She was about to speak, but then she remembered that she was still angry with Huo Qizheng. She threw the USB flash drive down. "Find it yourself. This is your business. It has nothing to do with me!"
Huo Qizheng quickly grabbed Zhu Shuangyao and pleaded, "Don't, Yaoyao. Have mercy on me. You said I lost my memory and don't know anything. Do you have the heart to let me look for it alone?"
He had lost his memory, not his wits. How... how could he be so good at playing the pitiful card?
In the end, Zhu Shuangyao couldn't resist his pleading. She said coldly, "You can easily find Zheng Lirong's birthday on the Internet. Why don't you look it up yourself?"
Then, she couldn't help but ask, "Have you never watched TV shows or movies? You don't even know Zheng Lirong?"
Huo Qizheng spouted sweet nothings. "I'm not interested in TV shows or movies. I'm only interested in Yaoyao."
It was all fake. She didn't know who had been suspecting that she didn't love him just now. No, maybe... she really should think about their relationship carefully?
She sized up Mr. Huo and suddenly realized that she was still in his arms. She struggled. "Let go of me. Don't be so touchy - feely all the time."
Mr. Huo had lost his usual air of being in control. He clung to Zhu Shuangyao shamelessly and even pulled her down so that she sat on his lap. "Yaoyao... Can I apologize? I just couldn't think things through this time."
"I don't think you'll be able to think things through anytime soon." She said angrily, "You apologize sincerely, but you never change your ways."
Huo Qizheng stroked the fingers of the treasure in his arms and asked anxiously, "But Yaoyao, do you really love me?"
Zhu Shuangyao had also been thinking about this question. Did she really love him? Their relationship had been going very smoothly. It had only taken a short time from love at first sight to deep affection.
But Zhu Shuangyao was sure that she did love him. She remembered the day she had escaped from that unknown space. She had thought she had lost him, and she had felt as if she had fallen into hell. She had wished she could turn back time. Her heart had been empty. The person she had lost was an indispensable part of her life.
- But she definitely wouldn't tell Huo Qizheng this at this moment.
Even if she told him, he wouldn't believe her. He might even think she was just敷衍 him. So Zhu Shuangyao sneered and only said two words, "Guess?"
Huo Qizheng was momentarily speechless. He scratched his nose. This reaction meant he had definitely angered her again. Oh well, he had already confirmed it before, hadn't he? It was just that the person she loved wasn't the current him.
He chose to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, absolutely refusing to admit that he was the same person before and after his memory loss.
Zhu Shuangyao and Huo Qizheng would never have thought that one day they would have a big fight because of jealousy.