Chapter 401: Not Her

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Xu Ji placed the report he had just picked up from the testing center on the passenger seat.

He didn't open that report.

Instead, he unlocked his phone screen and accessed the notes in his memo.

Black coffee.

Welfare institute, volunteer, mother-in-law, alcohol.

Panic.

Insomnia.

Suicide, nightmare.

Fiancé, password.

Shang Hui.

The few lines of words linked together, what had happened last night, and Shang Hui holding Gu Xi tightly in the morning, they were tugging back and forth in his mind.

One voice was telling him to let it be.

But another voice was urging him to seek out the answers.

Upon first seeing Gu Xi, Xu Ji knew it was the person he had been waiting for who had come back.

She had returned in a way he never could have anticipated.

He was glad that she came back.

Yet at the same time, a different kind of fear was also arising spontaneously.