Soul Patch

Chapter 258 Friday is here, is the weekend far away?

After dinner, driver Xiao Wang came to pick up Wenjie.

The car slowly drove out of the Hanlin Villa area and turned onto Jinxiu Road. Wenjie looked at the trees receding outside the car window and temporarily put aside the matter of the notebook in his mind.

He was about to arrive at the company and needed to focus on his work.

That's what he was planning in his mind, but his brain wouldn't cooperate. Every time he corrected his life trajectory, the aftereffects came: he felt his thoughts were chaotic and he couldn't make sense of them.

When Cheng Xiaohui was spouting nonsense at the police station, he was already thinking that once the matter was over, he would definitely fire her.

Huahai would never dare to retain someone with questionable character.

But after searching his mind thoroughly, he found no recent information about "Cheng Xiaohui." Only memories of the past remained: killing Lin Yufei, framing Qin Fen, and taking advantage of Li Shiman's misfortune…

Those memories went from being complete and coherent to being fragmented, like a gemstone being smashed into pieces and scattered on the beach. Once released, they fell into the fine sand and could never be pieced together into a complete memory again.

Wenjie looked at the face reflected in the car window; the face was radiant and looked to be in good spirits.
He stared at his reflection for a moment, realizing that he had indeed slept very soundly last night, and the nightmares that had been tormenting him had disappeared.

Previously, the butterfly rope knot kept infiltrating his dreams, causing him great torment; even after the butterfly rope knot issue was resolved, he would occasionally dream of Jia Nan's resentful gaze. Sometimes, those eyes would suddenly transform into a cross-dressing pervert, wearing flamboyant and exaggerated eyeshadow…

Suddenly, he slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Oh, I get it!"

Those memories that are slowly fading are the result of the correction of one's life trajectory.

Driver Xiao Wang glanced hurriedly at the rearview mirror and asked in surprise, "Mr. Wen, what's wrong?"

Wenjie stared blankly at Xiao Wang, then waved his hand with a smile and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing!"

He said that, but he couldn't suppress the excitement and joy in his heart.

He stared blankly at his reflection in the car window, a smile unconsciously spreading across his lips and brows. He raised his hand and touched his face.

He then touched his forehead with his hand, pondering deeply: How did she do that?
How exactly did Andy manage to correct this trajectory of her life?
At that time, he had just obtained the system. After the reshaping patch was released, the part of Zhao Xiaolong's life experience that caused him to suffer from personality split was added to him, and he became a murderer being hunted by the police.

Looking back now, he wasn't truly himself back then, and his thoughts and actions weren't controlled by his primary personality.

However, Jia Nan did witness Jia Song's murder, which led to Jia Nan's distorted personality, and this extreme personality affected those around her.

Fortunately, during a single-player mission, he altered Jia Nan's life trajectory, causing her to target him instead, thus saving Wang Fan, Hao Shuai, and Bai Yu from harm.
(Currently, only these three are known. Jia Nan mostly used probability to kill people, and some of the murders may have been defined as suicides or accidental deaths, which did not attract much attention.)

Now that the truth about Jia Song's murder has been corrected, Jia Nan has completely gotten rid of his personality distortion. Does that mean his entanglement with Cheng Xiaohui has also disappeared?

Thinking of this, Wenjie took out his phone and quickly dialed a number.

The phone rang a few times before Zhang Yang's nasal voice came through: "Wenjie, you're in too much of a hurry! Test results don't come that quickly!"

Zhang Yang also woke up very late in the morning and had to ask Professor Liang for leave.

Last night I indulged in revelry at the Immortal Pavilion until very late. Sigh, I can't blame anyone but the girls there; they were just too alluring.

He immediately contacted his junior colleague who was interning at a pharmaceutical factory and sent her the pills via local courier. She readily agreed, said she would test the sample upon receipt, and expected the results before the end of the workday.

Upon hearing this, Wenjie laughed and said, "No, I didn't ask about the testing. I wanted to ask you, how is Professor Liang from your department... lately?"

When asked if he had abandoned his wife and children to marry a scheming woman, Wenjie simply couldn't bring himself to say it.

If it's something like Professor Liang taking a second marriage leave, Zhang Yang and the others would definitely have a lot of gossip behind his back, so Zhang Yang would probably understand why he asked that question.

Zhang Yang was taken aback upon hearing this, and asked blankly, "What? How have you been lately?"

Wenjie was a bit speechless, so he could only say, "...I'm asking if he divorced and remarried?"

A series of coughs came through the phone. Zhang Yang threw down his cigarette butt and yelled into the phone, "Wenjie, can't you talk to me? Are you trying to choke me to death? I was smoking, and you come up here with this question and make me choke. Are you crazy?"

Wenjie was overjoyed; it seemed they hadn't gotten divorced!

He recalled visiting Qin Fen in prison. Qin Fen, such a voluptuous woman, was now so thin that she was just skin and bones. Her collarbones were sticking out so prominently that it felt uncomfortable.

"No? Then is his wife Qin Fen?" Wenjie didn't respond to Zhang Yang's question and pressed on.

Zhang Yang paused for a moment and said, "Wenjie, what's wrong with you today? Why are you so gossipy? Don't you remember? Professor Liang got divorced a long time ago and is raising her child alone... Sigh, why bring this up? It's actually quite difficult for Professor Liang on her own."

"Divorce? Because of what?"

As soon as he asked, Wenjie regretted it; he seemed to know why.

Qin Fen said she smoked her first cigarette because of harassment from her former boss. A sexy and alluring woman like Qin Fen probably relies on more than just professional skills to thrive in the education system.

"Wenjie, I think you really need to take your medicine. Have you forgotten everything?" Zhang Yang scolded, "When we were in college, there were rumors about this. It was said that Professor Liang's wife was with the former director of the school's teaching affairs office, named Wang something, or maybe a leader in the education system... Sigh, rumors get weirder and weirder as they spread. Nobody really knows what's going on."

I think it's just a matter of improper private life. Professor Liang is a university professor, a respected figure standing on the podium, how could he tolerate such a thing... so they got a divorce.

"Oh"

Wenjie responded softly, feeling a tightness in his chest.

He still remembered the last time he saw Qin Fen, when he asked her if there was anything he could do to help her.

Qin Fen said: The children refuse to visit her. If you have the chance to see her children, please tell them to stay away from scumbags... There are always some hypocritical people who try every means to drag others down with them.

Qin Fen was not the kind of person who would abandon her child; she was willing to drown herself to save her child.

I thought that with her life trajectory corrected, Qin Fen's life had returned to normal.

Dear readers, Brother Chao has pinned a character relationship diagram at the top of the book review section. You can refer to it while reading this chapter.

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