The sun was burning high. Xi Jingnan was buried in thoughts with his hands in the pockets of his suit trousers; he squinted slightly, clear eyes fixated on the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

"Tao, do you think I can be easily fooled ?"

"What an encounter, Mr. Xi."

I pointed my finger at the luxury store next to the Civil Affairs Bureau then at my car and cooked up, "Look, my car is already parked at the door of the store. I had meant to buy a few bags but saw the line was already outside the Civil Affairs Bureau. I was curious and came over to have a look. They told me it’s Valentine‘s Day, everyone is rushing to get a marriage certificate today."

Jingnan got confused, "Then how can I be here?"

I hold back the nervousness within, smiled, "Mr. Xi must be joking. You got two legs. You can go where ever you’d like to, nobody can stop you!"

Jingnan gave me a sideways look. "You think I’m stupid?"

I shrugged and asked calmly, "What is Mr. Xi trying to say?"

Jingnan made one step closer to me with his long legs. I forced myself to stand still and not to run away. He reached out his hand and grabbed my arm.

His thin lips were just a finger width away from my cheek. I felt quite in trance staring at his fair face. With his cold and thin voice, he asked one word at a time, "Tao, you are always with me, every time when I can’t remember what I did.

You can call it a coincidence for once or twice, but after all these years past, some things can‘t be considered a coincidence. Tell me what is going on!"

He was very close to me, his eyes were deep, his long black eyelashes slightly rippling. I looked down and saw the scar on his neck still clearly visible.

I suddenly asked, "Did Mr. Xi get hurt?"

He realized it, gave a faint yeah. I pretended to ask with care, "then have Mr. Xi seen the doctor?"

Jingnan said impatiently, "Well, don‘t change the topic."

He was hurt last night. This he could remember, but what happened in the car and in the hospital together with me after the accident, he forgot it all.

All his memories eliminated nothing but me.

I shook my head and said with deliberate innocence, "Did I? I truly do not know why Mr. Xi is here."

Jingnan let go of me, a loss his eyes.

he looked at the Civil Affairs Bureau again before turning away. After he left, I hurriedly headed back and returned to the car. I was afraid that Jingnan would investigate later, so I got off and bought a few bags from the store and then I finally drove back to the villa.

After returning to the villa, nervously I went back to my room. Together with me was Tiao’s stupid dog, who came following me at my feet the first sight of my coming back. I locked the door and took out the two marriage certificates in the bag.

I didn‘t know why, staring at the photo of me and him in the marriage certificate, I failed to hold back the sorrow and grief in my heart and cried uncontrollably.

I was married to him as I wished.

In such a way he did not even know it.

I put the certificates in my drawer, but I felt so disturbed. I simply took them out and went to the bank and stored them in the safe.

Out of the bank, I went back to the villa and sent the file I copied from Tiao’s computer to Yang and asked him to send it to Jingnan‘s competitor with a stranger’s ID.

"You are really fast." Yang replied to me.

" When you fight a quick battle, you force a quick decision."

I remembered the text that Yang sent me yesterday and asked him, "How are things going with you? Can Jingnan still acquire your Hu’s family company?"

"Before you have sent me this document, buying our company is just a matter of moving fingers. But now once this document is sent to his competitors, the Xi’s and Mo’s would get hit hard. At that time he won’t have the time and energy to think about me. I owe you a big one,my sweetie Tao ."

I was exhausted, "Well, you go and arrange it."

Once the secret leaked out, getting hit hard was the Xi’s and more, the Mo’s, but I didn’t mind because mom said once that she would drag my father and Tiao into the mire even at the cost of the bankruptcy of the Mo’s.

When my dad asked me to take over the project of the Xi’s, my first thought was to foist it to Tiao, because the documents were confidential, and they were usually kept in the hands of the responsible person. When the two family companies went down, Tiao would have to take full responsibility. Two birds with one stone.

As the plan was going underway quietly, Jingnan called me and said, "I‘ll give you an address, you come over."

"sorry, I‘m not busy right now."I subconsciously refused.

"Tao, I have a recording to show you."

From his tone, I figured the video seemed very important. He had something to do when I was driving over, habitually he gave me orders on the phone, "I have a temporary task, you wait for me for forty minutes“.

Now I was sitting in Jingnan‘s apartment, which he bought years ago, and I once lived here for a long time.

We were in love then.

I hadn‘t been here since his sudden change of personality.

I had no idea why he called me today and what recording he wanted to show me. I got a little bit anxious.

I got up and wandered around the apartment. There was no trace that he and I had ever lived here. Everything was all clearly cleaned.

Well, it seemed to have been deliberately handled.

I pushed open the bedroom door of Jingnan’s. The bedding inside was neatly folded. There was a pair of slippers. The curtains were drawn tightly, making the room quite dim. I went and pull open and saw the balcony next door.

Potted roses were in bloom there.

I was stunned. I was so very familiar with that potted roses because it was I who had bought it from the flower market. I chose it because it came into bloom every month and in different colors, and it had been in Jingnan’s apartment since.

How was it next door?!

I pushed open the apartment door, ran out and found myself standing before the neighbor’s door. I knocked but nobody answered.

Staring at the house number, I grew so confused.

I had a strong feeling that I had forgotten something.

Suddenly, it came to me.

I had not been back to this apartment for three years. My attention was only on the house number, but the location was wrong. Although the two apartments were closely next to each other, the one near the stairs was the real apartment of Jingnan.

And, the one next door deliberately handled should be a new house. Someone must have changed the house number of the two apartments, but who would do that?

I went downstairs and asked the property managers about the floor plans and it turned out they were exactly the same. I ran back upstairs to Jingnan’s bedroom. From the French window, except for roses, I could see a wooden sofa and a set of table and chairs on the balcony next door.

Those things could not be more familiar to me. They were all ed by Jingnan himself. I just didn‘t understand, what the hell was going on?

I was trying to figure it out on the sofa till Jingnan pushed the door and went in, said with a cold voice： "Tao, I have a recording here, or technically speaking, audio. Explain it to me after you have listened to it."

Jingnan played it. It was that night when he suddenly switched into another personality. "Where have you been all this year, my Xiang? I have been missing you. You have left me for another whole year."

There was another word, "why are you crying? You left me for a year. I should be the one who cries."

Next was our hard breathing. The space in the car was small, I hit my head and made some loud noises, and he gently comforted me, with sweet words, always calling me his Xiang.

Jingnan listened to the entire recording without much expression, then looked up at me coldly and asked, "Do you like a Xi Jingnan so very gentle as in that?"

"yes, "I licked my lips and suddenly grinned.

"Explain it," he put on his cold face and said.

"what do you what me to explain? You are the one who called me my Xiang, and you are the one who came onto me unexpectedly. If anyone feels wronged now, it should be me."

"Sometimes I am very curious, Jingnan,” I pretended to be pondering, and preempted, "you can become whole another person all at once. Do you have a dual personality? Like schizophrenia, one is very gentle while the other is heartless. Maybe you really need to see a psychiatrist ."

"You shut up," Jingnan’s face fell.

"Who is this Xiang?" Seconds later, he asked.

Xiang was a nickname by my grandfather. Few people knew it. Although my dad knew it, he rarely called me that.

"I don‘t know, YOU‘ve been calling it."

I leaned back on the sofa, wearing only a thin dress on me. From where Jingnan sat, he could see the root of my thighs.

I suddenly realized what the best revenge was.

To completely get him back, I needed to break him down physically and mentally and merged the two sides of him into one, thus he could fully recover.

This way, he could realize how much he had done to me.

He would regret it bitterly then.

In this case, it was necessary to induce him to see a doctor.

Jingnan rumbled, "Xiang."

"I have seen you who mistook my appearance, quite the gentleman.” He looked as if in a loss, so I reminded him, "and since you can not remember everything, you are very likely to have a problem. Seeing a doctor is very necessary. Perhaps you do have dual personalities. It’s only terrifying to think about it.”

Seeing my sincerity, Xi Jingnan softened his look at me. Slowly, his eyes fell on the inside of my thigh.

"Don‘t be such an animal,” I pulled my dress and smiled, “if you really can‘t help it, go find Tiao. Certainly she would like to be fucked by you."

I know Jingnan so well － In his words － he would rather sleep with me than hunting for easy girls outside.

I was just for his sexual needs.

He stood up, undressed my skirt, and looked at me down there sensually. "You want it more than I do," he jested.

We ended up having sex in his living room for hours that day. He was still very bossy and unsympathetic. “Mr. Xi,” I asked him while he was at it. “ do you know your neighbor next door?”

He paused, his eyes fixed on me.

"Why all of a sudden?"

I said with a calm smile, "Just saw potted roses on their balcony from your bedroom window. I think they are quite pretty."

"It‘s my property," said Jingnan.

I was surprised. "you know... That‘s yours?"

Jingnan raised his eyebrows. "Yes, but I don’t live there anymore."

Did he choose to forget, I wondered?

Maybe everything in the apartment remained the same.

Did he know we had memories in it then? !

If nothing had changed inside, Jingnan could understand what was going on between him and me as long as he opened that apartment.

But such a Jingnan, had no feelings for me.

I still wished he could recover from his illness.

I wanted him to taste the excruciating pain inside me.

Jingnan straightened his waist and I was soft on the sofa. After he was satisfied, I got up and dressed to leave when he stopped me, " You come with me to see the doctor."

He really thought me as was a woman at his disposal.

Anyway, as long as he really needed it, I gotta go with him.

"Okay," I smiled.

Jingnan called to find a famous psychiatrist in Mist City. He asked me to wait outside obediently before he entered the doctor’s room.

Dozens of minutes later, he came out, with a face white as a cloth, stunned, just like he couldn’t take the truth.

"Mr. Xi?"I asked softly.

He came to himself and looked at me with burning eyes.

"You already knew that I have a dual personality?"

"No more than a guess,” I shook my head and calmed down. “But after seeing you like this, it should be true now. What did the doctor say?"

Jingnan glanced at me and walked around.

I caught up and said, "I have seen the other side of you, gentle as hell. It is what I like."

Jingnan turned to give me a sharp look. "So what?"

"The other side of you say nice words to me."I smiled.

"That was not me,” Jingnan coldly reminded. “And he made a mistake. He thought you were this Xiang. I don‘t know what you have said or done to convince him, but I warn you, never take advantage of it again."

Sorry, that Xiang was also me.

"Hey! Is Mr. Xi threatening me? Would it be bad for your career if the police knew you were mentally ill... "

"Mo Tao!" Jingnan suddenly turned gloomy and scolded me, "Don’t be so evil. You’d better let it rot in your stomach. If you ever tell a third person, I will definitely destroy you."

"Is Mr. Xi angry from shame?"

I was being very heartless, and it made Jingnan‘s face become very pale. He rumbled some cursing words and walked away without looking back.

I turned and went into the room.

"Miss Mo!" The doctor greeted me warmly as usual.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Chen." I sat down and smiled.

Professor Chen was one old friend of my mother‘s, a famous psychologist in Mist City. I had mentioned to him many times about Jingnan’s condition, but I did not expect Jingnan would come to him today.

“You don’t have to say that between us,”

Professor Chen shook his head and said. "Though I have heard you mention it many times before, this is the first time I have seen him in person, and there is something cold and tyrannical about him."

"Is there anything you can do about it?" I asked hopefully.

"We should find the root cause of his dual personalities."

I sighed with disappointment because I still had no idea why Xi Jingnan became so. "Don‘t be discouraged,” Professor Chen said, “he should come to me later. I will find a way to convince him into hypnosis."

"Hypnosis can help find the cause?" I asked amazingly.

Professor Chen adjusted his own rimless glasses with a hand, and said with a gentle smile, "Not that simple. Hypnosis is just a therapy, maybe it could wake up something he has forgotten before, like what happened between you and him, but it’s hard to say. It all depends on fate.”

Everything was about fate.

I got quite disappointed and returned to the villa. After having handled all the mess in my company, I called Jiang Ci.

I submitted my resignation.

“So suddenly?” He was surprised.

Not too suddenly. I would leave Mist City and settle in Finland after everything was resolved. It was all settled before.

"Well, I’ve settled down to be my Manager Mo."

Ci gave a mild smile. “OK, approved. Are you free now? Come over and have some drink with me. It’s on me.”

Ci had just helped me blocked Jingnan’s cell phone number Last night and I hadn’t thanked him yet. So it was a good deal to give him a treat.

"Well, give me the address."

I found he was not alone When I drove there.

Jingnan was also there, with several rich guys for some aristocratic families.

I frowned. CI grabbed my wrist and seated me beside him, laughing, "It’s our manager Mo’s treat today, so don’t be shy everyone."

I guessed Jingnan was quite shocked earlier today. He was not in a good mood, sitting there alone quietly, drinking.

I withdrew my sight. Ci handed me a drink, and I took it and had a sip. Ci asked unexpectedly, "is that your boyfriend?"

I looked up questioningly, and along the direction of Ci, i saw Yang, he was holding a pretty girl.

"Yes," I admitted.

Ci waved and shouted, "Yang."

Yang heard someone calling his name, looked over and saw me. He took his hands off the girl immediately and walked towards me, asked pleasingly, “ How is my baby girl here?”

"Who is she?" I shook the glass of wine in my hand and asked.

My tone was very light. Nominally they all knew Yang was my boyfriend, so I had to act like I caught him red－handed.

Yang blinked and said, "that was my sister."

"You’ve got two sisters huh?” Ci interrupted, “I saw you holding a different girl yesterday.”

My face clouded so Yang hastened to sit with me and meant to kiss me, but he was caught by the collar. He turned to find it was Xi Jingnan."I didn‘t cheat," he said, "it really WAS my sister."

I was afraid they would get into some trouble, so I quickly took Yang by the hand and stood up, and said to Ci, “ This one is on me, we should get going.”

I took off with Yang in a hurry, passing Jingnan only to see his cold face, and I didn’t know why.

Outside the bar, I hit Yang in his chest and asked bluntly, "I am still your girlfriend anyway, it can be such a slap in my face of you hooking up around like this?"

Yang bantered, put his arms around my waist and said, "Honey, I am sorry. It will never happen again. Hit me again if you like! ”

I noticed something strange at Yang’s sudden disgusting words. I turned around and saw Jingnan behind me. “Let go of her!” he ordered Yang with indifference.

Yang was my nominal boyfriend, it would be freaking cowardice if he let go now. I thought he would uphold his dignity of a man, but he actually let go of me at once, “ Oh right, I forgot my wallet.”

I sighed, and Yang slipped away in one second.

Hands in his pockets, Jingnan and asked, "And that was your man?"

"You hooked up with other women when I was with you,” I reminded him, “I can put up with you, and why can’t I put up with him?”

Tonight in Mist City was overcast, and it was likely to rain. I closed my eyes and heard Jingnan suddenly asked in a low voice, "you say you love me, Tao, how much of your love is real?"

I was stunned. I felt strange.

This seemed the first time Jingnan had ever asked me this question.

How much of my love is real?

Once, all.

Now, none.

"Mr. Xi is asking this question because you seek true love from me, in other words, is Mr. Xi growing feelings for me?"

Jingnan shut his eyes fiercely and said, "Nonsense."

I smiled undisguised, "In that case, Mr. Xi shouldn‘t ask me this question. If you have to ask for an answer, then yes, I like you. I like you, Jingnan. I, Mo Tao, like you.”

"Honey... "

It was Yang.

"Baby, are you betraying me?"

I was like "... "

Jingnan gave him a sideways glance, came grabbing my wrist in a few steps and left. He took me walking, till to the nearby river.

The cold wind blew in the body, I didn‘t wear much and shivered subconsciously. Jingnan stood still, took her suit off and draped it on me. I looked at him, surprised, asking, "Is Mr. Xi caring about me?"

Jingnan gave me a hard look, "Do go too far."

I silenced myself cleverly. We strolled along the river, my hand in his hand, like an ordinary young couple. Feeling the rare warmth from him, I hold his palm tight, sighed, "Oh how they say you never knew."

Hearing this, Jingnan asked curiously, "Knew what?"

I waved my right hand to him and explained with a smile, "Some years ago, a man proposed to me and gave me a one－carat pink diamond. I accepted but never thought that......"

Jingnan disdained to say, "You were too young then."

That year, I just turned eighteen, it was Christmas. Jingnan took me to Iceland on a trip. In a world of ice and snow, he d an empire of flowers for me with ninety nine hundred and ninety－nine roses delivered from Italy by air, on which he spent a fortune. He proposed to me before the local residents and promised to love me for the rest of his life, always and forever.

Remembering the past, I said with a satisfactory smile, "I just came of age that year and barely knew romance, and I pledged my whole life to him just like that."

The other side Jingnan, the gentle one would remember this.

"Where is he?" Jingnan asked with his cold voice.

Jingnan did not let go of my hand, he gently held it, his palm so hot, I loosened my palm and said, "died of an accident."

"what accident?" Jingnan kept asking.

"Are you sure you want to open my wounds?" I asked him with a smile.

Jingnan‘s face had always been cold. It was hard to imagine what it would be like for a person like him when he was gentle, charming.

That night was the very time I had ever seen a cold Jingnan in his best temper; he neither mocked me nor insulted me; he took me around the bank and drove me back home.

At the door, seeing Jingnan had driven me back, Tiao got angry, while her puppy ran to my feet at the sight of me with enthusiasm, at which Lu Tiao got even angrier. "Ungrateful beast."

Me： "... "

Was she making an oblique accusation of Jingnan?

I turned to look at Jingnan’s pale face. Tiao immediately realized her improper words, hurried to Jingnan‘s side, asked in a coaxing voice, "Jingnan, how come you drove Tao back?"

I sneered, stooped to hug Tiao’s dog and headed to the villa. At the door, I turned to stick out my tongue at Jingnan before entering.

Then, I heard Tiao questioned curiously, "Why are you smiling, Jingnan?”

"Nothing, it‘s quite late."

"Why don’t you come in for a cup of tea?" Tiao urged.

"I got business in my company tomorrow, and the police station is also busy."

Jingnan thus turned Tiao away. I sat on the garden swing holding her dog and watched her walk in with frustration. "Sonny,” seeing her dog on my lamp, she berated, “what are you doing there curling in her arms?!"

The dog was very good at taking hints, so he quickly jumped off my arms and ran into the villa. I asked her with a smile, "It was Jingnan who turned you down, why do you take it on the dog? Let me tell you another secret. Jingnan just said he would marry me, and being with you was just to piss you.”

I liked to make things up to make her mad.

Hearing this, Tiao went outrageous and shrieked, "Nonsense! Jingnan is MY fiance, and he will marry me only! Stop your idiot’s daydreams! He doesn‘t even care what you are."

I raised my eyebrows and said, "oh, really?"

Tiao could not help with her expressions, and with a stern voice he interrupted me, "Mo Tao, what nonsense are you talking about?"