Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 139

Chapter 139: The Story and Reality (Part 2)

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“It was at the villa when I discovered something,” Jiang Ruhua’s gaze suddenly dimmed as she said this.

“When I was about to wake up in the early morning, I found that Xia Ruoming wasn’t in the room, and there was no sign of her anywhere. At that time, I suddenly felt particularly helpless, so I crawled out to look for her everywhere.”

“Finally, I found her in the studio, where she seemed to have been for quite some time.”

“Because she seemed very focused, I just quietly watched from the side without disturbing her.”

Luo Qingxuan seemed surprised by this statement and gave Jiang Ruhua a skeptical look, but Jiang Ruhua didn’t offer any further explanation.

“But soon I noticed something strange, the people in the painting seemed to be me and Xia Ruoming.”

“What’s strange about that? Senior’s favorite thing is impromptu painting, maybe it’s just because you happened to visit senior’s house that day,” Luo Qingxuan said dismissively.

Jiang Ruhua glanced at Luo Qingxuan and showed no displeasure at her interruption, continuing slowly: “Hmm… maybe, I don’t really know her.”

“But what if I tell you that she was painting the future me and her? In the painting, she had blue hair, and it was that particularly eye-catching ice blue, wearing relatively wild makeup compared to now. If you saw it, you absolutely wouldn’t believe that the current bare-faced Xia Ruoming would be that person in the painting.”

“That’s what I thought at first too, I didn’t even notice she was painting herself at first, until I saw the person standing next to her in the painting. That person’s height and physique were different from mine, but I recognized those facial features at first glance, that was definitely me, and that chestnut-colored hair was unmistakable. At that moment, when I came to my senses, I realized that the blue-haired woman on the left had features so similar to Xia Ruoming.”

“Since you know Xia Ruoming so well, by now, you probably know whether what I’m saying is true… there’s no other person around her with natural chestnut-colored hair like mine, right? Not even someone who dyed their hair.”

Although reluctant about this conclusion, Luo Qingxuan nodded slightly, indeed there wasn’t a second person with chestnut-colored hair around senior, and she also knew that senior’s paintings basically all had real-life models, so that person could basically be confirmed as Jiang Ruhua.

Seeing Luo Qingxuan’s reaction, Jiang Ruhua confirmed her investigation and speculation, and also put down the stone in her heart.

“Xia Ruoming said that was the prototype for a character in one of her novels, and I believed it at that time. But somehow, from the moment I realized the person on the right was me, my mind suddenly filled with many strange scenes, and the protagonists in those scenes were always the two people in the painting, the blue-haired person, let’s assume she was Xia Ruoming.”

“Xia Ruoming changed her hair color twice in those scenes, starting with ice blue hair, well, I don’t know how to describe the next two times, but they were also blue shades.”

“It was misty blue and lake blue, you don’t even know that, how dare you look at paintings, do you even understand what you’re looking at, young lady,” Luo Qingxuan interjected.

“How did you know?” Jiang Ruhua raised an eyebrow and asked puzzled.

“Just a guess, those are senior’s favorite colors, if we believe you, and that person really is her, then she would only dye her hair these colors.” Luo Qingxuan of course knew the hair colors of Xia Ruoming in the previous life, but having accidentally let it slip, she could only make up a reason.

After hearing Luo Qingxuan’s words, Jiang Ruhua’s lips curved up again slightly, already having an answer in her heart.

“In that story, Xia Ruoming and I seemed very much in love, but later for some reason, Xia Ruoming’s career plummeted. Xia Ruoming locked herself in her room and cried for a long time, and I was wondering at the time, if she really was with me, I would absolutely never let her cry like that.”

You would, of course you would, isn’t this exactly what you did with your own hands, how dare you say you would absolutely never let senior cry, Luo Qingxuan sneered inwardly, all those scandals were bought by you, if it wasn’t for you, how could senior have so many false scandals exposed that she never did, if senior hadn’t trusted you so much, how could she have ended up like this.

You ruined senior’s reputation so badly and just walked away, and senior’s innocence was only proven half a year after her death.

If she hadn’t met An Jinrou, senior would still be lying in that cold tomb, with the words “The Tomb of Beloved Wife Xia Ruoming” carved by the person who killed her with their own hands, it’s truly disgusting.

“After Xia Ruoming told me those were characters from a novel, I thought it was just stress-induced hallucination, because my body was feeling so unwell and after seeing Xia Ruoming’s painting, I subconsciously imagined some strange things, after all, I had experienced this kind of thing before.”

“But even though it was a hallucination, when I saw Xia Ruoming severely injured and passing away in the vision, unable to open her eyes one last time to look at me, I felt particularly heartbroken.”

“If these stories are true, of course you should feel heartbroken.” Luo Qingxuan looked at her coldly, with no kindness in her tone.

Jiang Ruhua didn’t retort to Luo Qingxuan, just continued telling her story on her own.

“I took that as my own delusional hallucination for a long time. Until that crazy woman, I don’t know what got into her again, went to Xia Ruoming’s company and became an executive director, she clearly had her own family business, could live peacefully just idling at home all her life, yet she had to go do something that was destined to be troublesome.”

“That crazy woman is also a green tea bitch, even asking me things like whether I would be angry if she pursued Xia Ruoming and such.”

“Crazy woman? Who’s the crazy woman?” Luo Qingxuan asked puzzled, there didn’t seem to be any crazy women around senior.

“Didn’t you serve her a cup of coffee?” Jiang Ruhua chuckled lightly, even tapping the spot where Ye Han had sat before.

Luo Qingxuan: “…”

Compared to her, I still think you’re crazier, Jiang Ruhua.

“Today, that crazy woman sent me a photo, it was a picture of her with Xia Ruoming, normally this wouldn’t be anything special, she’s sent many photos like this before.”

“But that photo gave me a very familiar feeling… in my memory, it seemed like two people walking in an identical corridor, even standing in exactly the same positions, and that painful feeling of having hallucinations appeared again.”

“And those visions also reappeared before my eyes, much clearer than the last time.”