Chapter 595 - 291: Another Identity Revealed
Su... Major General? Hearing this familiar yet strange title, Su Jiameng instinctively looked up towards the source of the voice and saw the man standing on the thick tree trunk. A sense of déjà vu surged through her... Had she met this person before?
But... who exactly is this person, and why suddenly address her like this? Su Jiameng felt deeply uneasy, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes narrowed slightly, carrying traces of danger. One stood on the ground, the other on the tall tree trunk, silently locking eyes. Gu Ningyi saw the confusion in Su Jiameng’s eyes and knew that this woman probably hadn’t remembered who he was.
Indeed, their previous encounter wasn’t even a fleeting one, just a tense confrontation in the midst of chaos. As a loser of that chaos, Gu Ningyi laughed at himself; if it were him, he probably wouldn’t remember so clearly either.
"It seems Major General Su truly has many important things to forget, as our encounters from a few years ago didn’t even leave a mark on you." Gu Ningyi’s voice was calm, not cold but filled with a certain confidence and determination, "Allow me to introduce myself again, I am Gu Ningyi."
Hearing the words "a few years ago", Su Jiameng confirmed that this person had no interaction with her past self, but was someone she encountered after her transmigration. Upon first hearing the title "Major General Su", she was surprisingly thinking she ran into an old acquaintance from her previous life.
"Gu Ningyi?" Su Jiameng couldn’t help but want to rub her forehead; she seemed to have covertly plotted against Gu Ningyi before, but now, faced with him standing right in front of her, she clumsily failed to recognize the main character, "So, you’re Gu Ningxuan’s big brother... As his elder brother, you count as half a friend. But what did Brother Gu mean by his earlier words? Major General Su? Are you talking about me?"
"Playing dumb is fun?" Gu Ningyi had already anticipated she would deny it. In fact, that’s the normal reaction one should have. If she had foolishly admitted everything, he would doubt whether his earlier speculations were due to his brain being clogged with crap.
"Playing dumb? I’m a regular person, what am I playing dumb for?" Su Jiameng closed her eyes slightly, gathering all her emotions, then shrugged indifferently and said, "If anything’s strange, it’s Brother Gu’s behavior that’s odd, calling me something peculiar... Haha, I haven’t even reached the minimum age to enter the Military Department yet, how could I have a Major General’s title?"
"Are you really Su Jiameng?" Gu Ningyi, tired of being entangled in this question, felt that if he continued, she would deny it to the death. So, he changed the question, "I mean, six years ago... Su Changdao’s third daughter, Su Jiameng?"
Su Jiameng’s body trembled suddenly, looking up at him in disbelief. However, this emotion flashed fleetingly as she tried her best to regain her composure, showing a puzzled expression and asking, "I’m not Su Jiameng, so who do you say I should be?"
"You are Su Jiameng, yet you cannot possibly be Su Changdao’s third daughter... because that daughter of Su Changdao, long before you came... was already dead." Gu Ningyi bluntly laid it out, finding roundabout words troublesome and time-wasting; furthermore, this woman was not likely to choose to confess, "Do you know the past of the body you are currently using? Haha, do you want me to test you?"
"What do you mean?" Su Jiameng asked back with a cold face. She had naturally investigated the body’s original owner’s situation. But, for some reasons, it eventually stalled. The data of the original owner was tampered with, and to obtain real information, she could only do on-site investigations.
But with so many things on her hands, where would she find the time to spend half a year’s journey to verify on the so-called Rice Leaf Star or Yulin Star!
Gu Ningyi raised an eyebrow slightly, then leapt down from the dozens of meters high tree trunk. Su Jiameng couldn’t help but silently curse, wishing he’d just jump down and get crippled. However, how could he make such a mistake? She was destined to be disappointed; not only was he unharmed, but he landed gracefully and confidently, with his clothes remaining straight without a wrinkle.
"The meaning is simple. If you were Su Changdao’s third daughter, then you should know some things from the past, shouldn’t you? Don’t tell me you had amnesia... I’m not that simple-minded kid from the Qin Family named Qin Mo; I’m not so easily fooled." Gu Ningyi suddenly stared directly into Su Jiameng’s eyes, "I’m already quite clear about your origin, after all... it’s a secret you yourself have disclosed."