Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 328 Similar Doubts

When Xiao Xiaoxiao woke up, it was still raining heavily outside the dormitory. The sky was gloomy, and the rain was pouring down like a waterfall, showing no signs of stopping.

Thankfully, the power finally came back on.

It took Xiao Xiao a few seconds to adjust to the slightly glaring light. She twisted her sore neck and rubbed her aching arms. However, after a full half minute, she still couldn't calm the turbulent emotions in her heart, and she couldn't quite grasp the source of these emotions.

Her last memory told her that she had accidentally fallen asleep on the table not long ago and seemed to have had a rather long dream, but when she woke up, she had forgotten everything about the dream.

She had experienced this feeling of loss and melancholy after waking up because of a dream before, but this time the sense of melancholy was more profound than ever before, making her eager to recall it.

Just then, Xiao Xiaoxiao suddenly heard a yawn. Turning her head, she saw Gu Zheng stretching, looking sleepy, and was slightly taken aback.

"Guzheng? What are you still doing here?"

"What do you mean 'still here'? I didn't leave at all!" Gu Zheng kept rubbing her cheeks to try and wake herself up. "I don't know why I suddenly felt so sleepy, I just couldn't help but fall asleep... Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Because I fell asleep too."

Xiao Xiaoxiao looked down at her two perfectly intact legs, and the strange feeling in her heart grew stronger. She sighed dejectedly.

Guzheng noticed her unusual behavior and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just felt like I remembered something, but then I quickly forgot it."

"Strange... I think I have that feeling too."

Gu Zheng thought about it carefully, but couldn't remember anything, so she had to put it out of her mind and shook her head, saying, "It must have been a dream. Never mind, I don't want to think about it anymore. By the way, what were we talking about before we fell asleep?"

She remembered it as something very important.

"Rose earrings!"

"Rose earrings".

The next second she remembered what had happened before she fell asleep, and she and Xiao Xiaoxiao said the words "rose earrings" in unison.

"Quickly check if your phone has a signal."

The two exchanged a glance, then immediately picked up their phones to check the signal and see if Han Zhou had replied to their messages or made a call.

However, they quickly showed disappointment because the cell phone signal had not been restored, and without a signal, they could not see Han Zhou's messages and calls.

Gu Zheng was a little worried. It was already 5 p.m., and she had slept for almost five hours. So much time had passed, and she didn't know if Han Zhou had returned to school yet.

With the rain pouring down, she couldn't go to the boys' dormitory to inquire, and she knew absolutely nothing about Han Zhou's situation. She couldn't help but worry about his safety.

"I wonder if Han Zhou still remembers taking your earring," she said worriedly.

"I don't know." Xiao Xiaoxiao shook her head. "But if you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have remembered this at all. That guy might be in the same state."

"But why would this happen?" Gu Zheng frowned. "Could it be that your memories were really erased that night, that you could completely forget even losing or gaining things?"

"I don't know." Xiao Xiaoxiao shook her head again. "Up to now, all I can remember is that my earring was taken by that guy. I can't remember anything else at all."

"It's a pity we can't get in touch with Han Zhou; he must know something..."

Gu Zheng was completely baffled. What had happened between the two of them was beyond her comprehension. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she said, "That's right, the reason Han Zhou took your earring must be because he thought the problem lay with your earring. Who gave you your earring?"

She remembered that when she went to Beicheng before, Xiao Xiaoxiao had mentioned that her earring was given to her by someone more important than her family, but she didn't say who that person was.

Xiao Xiaoxiao was taken aback. She touched her empty earlobe, about to speak, but then realized she couldn't remember who had given her the earring at all; her mind went completely blank. "I don't remember..."

"How could that be? Didn't you say it was given to you by someone very important? How could you not remember?" Gu Zheng was bewildered.

"I really can't remember."

Xiao Xiaoxiao looked bewildered, her hands unconsciously clenching as she stared blankly at the heavy rain outside the balcony.

“I remember it very clearly before…”

……

Meanwhile, Han Zhou and the others in the hotel room had just woken up from their sleep.

However, compared to Xiao Xiaoxiao and Guzheng, the fact that so many people in the same room fell asleep at the same time without any warning made everyone suspicious.

"Why are you all looking at me like that?"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Han Zhou explained repeatedly, "Teacher Ouyang, senior sisters, please believe me, I really didn't put any drugs in the water. And didn't you all see that I was the last person to wake up? Who would drug themselves?"

In most people's understanding, the only reasonable way to put so many people to sleep at the same time is to drug them, especially since everyone here except him is a woman.

Seeing that this guy had naturally skipped over her in his explanation, Zhang Xinyue was furious: "Can you stop treating me like I'm invisible!"

Before Han Zhou could speak, Mo Yixia said calmly, "No one suspects that you drugged them. Besides, Teacher Ouyang and her friend didn't even drink a drop of water after entering the room. Even if you did drug them, you couldn't have done it to them. Yet they all fell asleep together, which means the problem wasn't with the drugs."

"What's wrong with that?" Zhang Xinyue's attention was immediately diverted, and everyone looked over as well.

"Who knows."

Mo Yixia shook her head. Of course she knew the problem lay with the two rose earrings. Everyone had fallen asleep when Han Zhou went into the dressing room to take out the earrings, but it was enough for her and Han Zhou to know this; there was no need to tell anyone else.

Everyone was greatly disappointed. They had thought that Mo Yixia would offer some useful insights, but she only said something pointless.

Mo Yixia didn't care about the gazes of the others, nor did she participate in their discussion about the issue. Instead, she stared at Han Zhou beside her, looking thoughtful.

Han Zhou noticed her gaze and whispered, "Yi Xia, I..."

“I know we fell asleep because of those two rose earrings, and I’m not sure if there were any other reasons, but that’s not what I want to talk about,” Mo Yixia interrupted him. “Do you remember when we first met?”

Han Zhou was taken aback: "Of course, it was on your way to tutoring during summer vacation."

Mo Yixia was the second unlockable character he encountered; how could he possibly forget something like that?

Mo Yixia remained silent for a long time, seemingly disagreeing with his answer. After a while, she said, "I suspect we may have met even earlier, and I was already interested in you back then. This could explain why I chose you as my tutor."

Han Zhou was taken aback: "Are you sure?"

He didn't remember ever having met Mo Yixia before.

"uncertain."

Mo Yixia seemed to be deep in thought. She was quite confident in her memory. If she had met Han Zhou a long time ago and developed an interest in him, she would not have forgotten him. The reason she had such doubts was because a vague impression remained in her mind.

Of course, there was another reason why she said that—

That was when she woke up and saw the same kind of confusion in the eyes of Zhong Ling and Wang Lengqiu as she looked at Han Zhou.

(End of this chapter)