Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Chapter 928: Past mystery or golden future?

"Where is your delivery?" Xiao asked, trying to find the delivery man outside.

Shui coughed and felt guilty of lying to her.

"Guess he must have gotten lost. Don't worry, I will handle it from here."

"Nah, I will wait with you," she grinned.

Oops, Shui had a thought.

Xiao scratched her head and asked Shui with a tinge of hesitation. "Liu Jin…doesn't seem to like me, I guess."

Shui stared at her. "Why do you say so?"

"He seems to be an aloof man but really not to everybody. Not even towards Alix, whose sister caused such a huge chaos. But when I came today, he barely even recognized my existence. So I just wonder if I pissed him off somehow haha…"

Shui slightly clasped her fingers together. She knew the past life was like a thorn in Jin's heart and seeing Xiao reminded him of his heartlessness and cruelty.

"It's nothing like that Xiao. Jin is always grumpy like that."

"Are you sure? Or maybe it's because I am Bro's sister? He doesn't like me-"

"Nope," she grinned and patted her shoulders. "That's not the case at all. So cheer up." Enjoy new chapters from mvl

She sighed in relief seeing Shui's bright and confident smile. "That's great then. Anyway, how is Alix doing? Is she cooperating with the sessions?"

Shui frowned. "She acts like it but not really. I am telling her that it's super important to learn the gaps in her past but-"

Shui's gaze that was randomly wandering outside as she talked froze in a particular direction.

"Shui?"

Shui stared at a man who stood at a faraway distance, lifting heavy boxes inside some dilapidated store. Her lips slightly parted in shock.

Xiao shook her shoulder and she snapped out. "Huh?"

"Where did you get lost?" She waved her hand in front of her eyes.

Shui was still reeling in from the confusion and she said, "J-Just wait here for a minute, okay? I will be back!"

"Ah?"

Shui took a dash outside and ran at full speed. A minute later, her chest puffed with breathlessness as she reached the place. She knew the area well as she had passed by it several times. She heard that the previous owner had shut down his cafe to permanently shift with his son and his family abroad. Since then, it lay in dust as the owner refused to sell it to anybody or more precisely, he didn't get the buyer he was looking for.

But now it seems he had.

The man was patiently carrying the cardboard boxes and lining them up neatly inside. He had placed stickers exactly at the center and at the same place on every single box. He laid the boxes side by side in a perfect line with not even a centimeter of a gap difference in the front or back.

How…?

Shui slowly walked, reaching the entrance of the cafe. The man was now neatly opening the third box and carefully checking the contents inside.

She stood in a daze for a moment and then said, "You are…"

The man paused and looked back, his expression filled with surprise and confusion. But shock quickly replaced it.

"You are Hou Lin."

Hou Lin stared at her with particularly no expression, but his fingers were mildly shaking. It was clear that he hadn't expected to see her just as she hadn't.

"You are Hou Lin, right?"

Shui felt stupid to confirm it. It wasn't like she didn't know what he looked like, but it felt too incredulous to believe.

Hou Lin was in jail, right?

So how…

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"Shui is gonna be pissed off once she sees your drawing board still empty. You are not taking this seriously at all, are you?"

When Jin didn't hear a response, he turned his head towards the window with a frown. Alix was standing quietly and staring outside with her hands on her back.

"Is the outside so fun?"

"Sometimes," she hummed mysteriously.

Jin gave it a thought and got up on his feet. With his hands in his pockets, he stood beside her facing the window too. He could see the building's entrance area and lobby they were at. At a distance was a highway road filled with the day's traffic.

"Shui can really help you."

Alix arched her brow and glanced at him.

"I mean with your lost memories. There is a gap in them and you behaved starkly differently. Shui wants you to draw because she and…Kang Xiao feel it's important to learn what happened. But it doesn't seem like you do."

Alix faced the window again and gave a light shrug. "Not really."

"You aren't curious or worried? People's personalities don't just change like that."

A small smile formed on her lips. "It can. When your world crashes down, everything changes. Personality sounds like be a minor issue to be honest."

He raised his brow. "There wasn't any reason for your world to change as you rejected Kang Yuze, not the other way around. Still you did. And you still aren't curious?"

She shrugged. "That was the past. I don't have the time to dwell on it."

"Huh.." he slightly tilted his head. "So let's talk about your future then. You aren't considering taking your parents' offer to run the business?"

She continued to gaze outside. "Mui had the reins till now."

He scoffed. "Please. Don't talk like you care about her losing the CEO's chair. If your parents wouldn't have done it, then I would have."

Alix paused and looked at him. "I am not interested in the CEO's seat."

"So you don't want to solve the mystery of your past nor grab the chance of your golden future. Then what do you want?"

"Untangle the present."

"Yours?"

"Yours," she chuckled evilly.

His brow twitched. "First of all, my present is not entangled."

"Yes because the threads have clamped your view so shut that you cannot even recognize anything is entangled."

He scowled. "Secondly, I don't want you anywhere near me, entangling or untangling anything!"

"And here we are at Shui's art therapy session anyway. Could you do anything about it?"

"..."

She patted his shoulder. "So give it up~"