“…I told you, I want to marry you in every time and space… In the end, you still chose to sacrifice yourself for your family. I understand, so I won’t stop you… Actually, I shouldn’t have left this message… I wish you could stand before me again, smiling slightly. You don’t know how beautiful your smile is…”
After a while, he heard the girl’s voice: “Who are you?”
Hearing the long message a second time, Meng Qing realized it was a repeatable audio clip, apparently recorded by himself.
The missions mentioned he had indeed completed, but he distinctly remembered doing them alone. How could the audio suggest he did them with someone else, someone he was in love with and married?
If this recording wasn’t fabricated, why couldn’t he remember her? When did he record this message?
Meng Qing’s thoughts were in chaos until a maid’s voice came through the listening device: “Young Mistress, the Marquis has returned.”
The young girl held the jade dragonfly close to her chest, stood up and walked towards the pavilion exit, asking as she walked, “Has Father returned from the capital? What happened to Lord Chen?”
The maidservant replied, “I haven’t heard the Lord mention anything, but he seemed very sad when he returned. After all, Lord Chen was his close friend. Young Miss, you should go see him soon.”
“Ah, it was Father who invited Lord Chen out today. Now that Lord Chen has met with trouble, he must be blaming himself… You take me…” Their voices gradually faded as they moved further away.
She felt her face heat up again, and took a deep breath. She left Chun Yan and Yue Tao where they were and walked towards him as calmly as possible.
When she reached him, she took out the jade dragonfly and said, “Young Master Meng, you’ve probably mistaken me for someone else. This jade dragonfly should have been given to… someone else. Let’s return it to its rightful owner.”
Meng Qing was surprised: “Return it to its rightful owner? This is something I gave to Yu Miss?” He reached out and took the jade dragonfly from her palm. Inside was an audio recording that told a completely different story from his memory.
