Rebirth: Professional Substitute

Chapter 66 - LanXiRong's Doubts

LanXiRong returned to the country.

He didn't plan on returning till at least next month, but YanMingXiu's phone call had made him so angry that he changed his schedule. He pushed his work back for a month and came back early.

Because YanMingXiu questioned what happened that night, and hearing from his tone, he seem to be implying that LanXiRong self-directed and self-acted the scene from the beginning, making it sound as if he was the actual "thief." Although he refuted loudly with a bunch of reasons but he couldn't hide the fact that he really was the first person to discover the burglary that night. Both CaiWei and YanMingXiu merely heard it from his perspective.

Because it was too late that night and most people were already sleeping; even the neighbors couldn't tell if they heard movements from next door. The thief himself didn't leave any concrete traces. All in all, LanXiRong really didn't have anything substantial that he could use to refute YanMingXiu's claims.

When YanMingXiu asked him why he went to ZhouXiang's home, he was honest enough to admit that he was coincidently passing by and just wanted to go and see. YanMingXiu was even less convinced with this explanation but that is the fact.

That day he was just driving past on that road; the streets were clean and clear, letting him see the view of the street from his memory. He could recall the many times that he and Xiang Ge bought the (food) ingredients from the supermarket, chatting along the way as they walked step by step on the old floor tiles to ZhouXiang's home, each of these steps were deeply imprinted in his heart.

When he regained his senses, he had already unconsciously driven to the neighborhood.

He still remembered the longing and sorrow he felt as he looked up at the windows of ZhouXiang's home from downstairs. He hoped that the light would be on so that he could just go up and knock on the door. The man would appear in front of him as usual, gently smiling and calling him "XiRong."

This relationship (T/N) of his that is filled with ignorance and unsettling factors had never even started. Even he himself had his doubts and confusion (about the relationship). But all this had completely ended with ZhouXiang's accident.

T/N: the relationship LanXiRong is referring to is the romantic "love" relationship he wanted with ZhouXiang.

He would never forget how he felt that day when he received the call (of ZhouXiang's accident) from CaiWei. The pain was so excruciating that he didn't know what to do. He cried for a long time, locking himself in his room refusing to see anyone for several days. He really couldn't accept it. This person was perfectly fine. He had just talked to him on the phone and now he's gone.

He had completely disappeared from this world; even his body couldn't be found.

In the beginning, he still held onto the delusion, hoping that the search and rescue team could find ZhouXiang. Maybe he was just trapped and still alive. But a week passed. Then two weeks passed. Under YanMingXiu's frantic persistence, the search and rescue team searched for more than a month but still could not find a trace.

In the end, everyone gave up hope. Only YanMingXiu madly and stubbornly insisted that ZhouXiang is not dead. Because his body is not found; he must still be alive.

At that time, LanXiRong felt for the first time that there really were true feelings between YanMingXiu and ZhouXiang. Moreover, it was much deeper than he imagined, so deep that it devastated YanMingXiu to the point that he (YanMingXiu) changed completely. It was as if his former self has been completely destroyed by this accident.

He (LanXiRong) couldn't hate anyone. He could only frantically leave to hide abroad; or else he'd reminisced of their past memories (between him and ZhouXiang).