Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 141

Chapter 141: Do You Think I Would Make the Same Mistake Again?

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“Is that so? If only I were really as you described.” Luo Qingxuan still had no intention of speaking.

“I’ve already told you my biggest secret, are you still not going to speak?” Jiang Ruhua looked at Luo Qingxuan, who showed no reaction, and said helplessly. She had already revealed everything, was Luo Qingxuan still not trusting her?

“If you really think I’m someone who has returned from rebirth, then shouldn’t you tell me why you think so?” Luo Qingxuan continued smiling as she spoke, “At least from your story, I haven’t heard why you would think this way. Although I believe your story is true, I haven’t felt any possibility of rebirth myself, so how can I explain anything to you?”

“Ah…” Jiang Ruhua shook her head again and sighed deeply, “Fine, since you still don’t want to speak, let me continue.”

“When I saw that reality didn’t match the story, I had a thought. Xia Ruoming was the person who returned from the future through rebirth, which is why she changed the original storyline, just like those female protagonists who traverse into novels. Because they’re not from this world, the world wouldn’t operate according to its predetermined form.”

“But I’ve always been confused about one thing. Xia Ruoming clearly still cared about me in the end, if she really had been reborn, how could she deliberately avoid me? Doesn’t she want to make up for and change the regrets of her previous life?”

“It wasn’t until I met you again today that I finally understood something. Xia Ruoming isn’t the one who was reborn, the person who was reborn is someone else.”

Is senior a person who was reborn? Luo Qingxuan frowned, she had never thought about this question before.

After hearing Jiang Ruhua’s analysis, she started paying attention to this matter. An Jinrou had indeed said things like “you and I will both lose our memories,” but never said everyone would be like this. She had interpreted this ‘you and I’ as a virtual word referring to everyone, just like how three can represent infinity.

Thinking about it this way, something seemed off. She clearly had retained part of her memories, even if it really referred to her and An Jinrou, then why would she remember things from before?

Perhaps there was a problem with The World card, but now she had no way to get answers. Luo Qingxuan had been to the magic house where An Jinrou had taken her, but now it was just a doll shop. If she couldn’t find An Jinrou, then the answer itself wouldn’t exist.

Senior also seemed to show signs of being reborn. She directly gave up on Xu Fengwu before the college entrance exam and pursued Chu Suhe, who had been good to her in her previous life. When no one knew where Chu Suhe was, senior suddenly ran in the heavy rain to take Chu Suhe to the hospital, and mysteriously had a lot of money.

Even though her academic performance wasn’t very good, and in her previous life she had barely made it to Sichuan University, she suddenly became the top scorer.

Everything developed differently from the previous life…

It’s just that she had always been concerned about whether she could be with senior, and if not, at least prevent senior from being with Jiang Ruhua. Because of this, she had overlooked these things.

“If Xia Ruoming isn’t the one who was reborn, then there’s only one possibility. Someone around her is the one who was reborn and told her some important things, like staying away from me… and such. This way, everything from before makes sense, why she seemed to know the future, yet deliberately stayed away from me.” Jiang Ruhua looked deeply at Luo Qingxuan and continued meaningfully, “Because the future she knew wasn’t the complete picture, but just a small part, a cut version of the future, right? The person who was reborn by her side is you, Luo Qingxuan.”

Luo Qingxuan really wanted to laugh out loud right there, but she still forcefully held it back.

She hadn’t expected Jiang Ruhua to arrive at the correct answer through an incorrect guess.

“Now, do you still want to stick to your previous answer?”

“Fine, at this point, it doesn’t matter if I tell you.” Luo Qingxuan sighed, “Anyway, even if I don’t tell you, you’ll still think I’m the one who was reborn, right?”

“Of course, even if you avoid this question, I would still think you’re the one who was reborn. It seems my analysis wasn’t wrong, was it?” Jiang Ruhua replied.

“Yes… but not entirely.” Luo Qingxuan hesitated for a long time before continuing, “You’re not wrong in thinking that I am indeed someone who came back from the future, but… the person who told senior about the future wasn’t me. If you really think your analysis is correct, then the person who told senior about the future must be someone else.”

“Someone else?” Jiang Ruhua was clearly stunned. She had thought Luo Qingxuan would continue to deny anything about the future, or tell her why she made Xia Ruoming act that way, but what Jiang Ruhua hadn’t expected at all was that Luo Qingxuan would admit she came from the future, yet tell her that the person trying to change history wasn’t her.

“Although I successfully came back from the future, I didn’t think that far ahead.”

“All I thought about was preventing your and senior’s painful future, I didn’t think about interfering with other things much. Just as that person said, reversing time requires paying a price. I, who should have forgotten the past, remembered those things, and what I remembered were all things about you and senior. I think fate let me remember all this to prevent these things from happening.”

“So, you only told Xia Ruoming about things concerning her and me?” Jiang Ruhua asked puzzledly.

“Haven’t I said it already? I was only preventing you and senior’s predetermined fate, I didn’t tell senior anything.” Luo Qingxuan shook her head, “So that’s why I asked, do you still think you’re right? That there’s another person who was reborn around senior? At least that person wasn’t me.”

For Luo Qingxuan, whether Xia Ruoming was reborn or not didn’t matter at all. If senior had inherited memories from her previous life, that would be really great.

Even without her help, senior could change her own fate by herself.

Jiang Ruhua suddenly fell silent. She, who had been so confident before, began to hesitate. What Luo Qingxuan said to her didn’t seem like a lie. She had even directly threatened her with death before; if these things were really done by her, she had absolutely no need to make up a lie to conceal it now.

But if it wasn’t Luo Qingxuan, then who could it be?

“You should go… I’ve told you what I needed to tell you, I’m closing the shop now.” Luo Qingxuan’s voice sounded as if all strength had been drained from it, much gentler than her previous tone.

Jiang Ruhua nodded; having gotten the answer she wanted, she indeed had no reason to stay any longer.

At the doorway as she was leaving, Jiang Ruhua suddenly turned back and asked Luo Qingxuan a question: “Luo Qingxuan, after today, will you still hate me this much? Do you still want to continue preventing Xia Ruoming and my story?”

“What else? You know the future yourself, don’t you?” Luo Qingxuan gave a light laugh and said with resignation.

“Yes… Then do you think I would make the same mistake again? Luo Qingxuan, what I want has never slipped through my fingers, not in the past, and it won’t in the future either.” After saying this, Jiang Ruhua never looked back at the coffee shop again, her figure gradually disappearing under the stars.

“Then you haven’t changed at all from your previous life.”

As Luo Qingxuan’s words faded away, an imperceptible bitter laugh echoed in the coffee shop.