The Moon Shines on Me (GL) - Chapter 30

Shen Yuan frowned, her face cold, and asked Xie Tingxin, “Is Mom’s illness fake?”

“It’s real, but it’s not the real reason I asked you to come back,” Xie Tingxin said with a smile.

Shen Yuan’s expression suddenly turned very unpleasant: “Then what exactly are you planning…”

Xie Tingxin’s smile deepened: “I’ve given you a chance, Mingyue.”

Shen Yuan: “?”

“Three times.”

Shen Yuan seemed to realize something and suddenly stepped back: “Xie Tingxin, are you crazy?”

“I’ve been crazy for a long time, ever since you left the Shen family.”

Sensing Shen Yuan’s attempt to distance herself, Xie Tingxin suddenly dropped the smile.

In that instant, Xie Tingxin finally took off her mask, revealing her true self.

“Mingyue, I thought I would be very happy and have a good life after shedding my ordinary identity and becoming the eldest daughter of the Shen family, but I was wrong. The Shen family isn’t good without you; I can’t be happy at all.”

“The moment you left, I regretted it. The reason I haven’t agreed to change my name until now is because I hoped you would come back.”

“I’m willing to give Dad and Mom back to you. Can you please not leave?”

“Xie Tingxin, you should go see a doctor, I’m serious.” Shen Yuan felt that Xie Tingxin might have psychological issues, just like she did initially. This obsessive Xie Tingxin was no longer the person she knew before.

She had become a bit terrifying.

“You also think I’m sick?”

In fact, Xie Tingxin had long realized that her mental state was problematic. Ever since Mingyue left the Shen family, an obsession had taken root.

An obsession to bring Mingyue back to the Shen family.

Initially, she interfered with Mingyue’s part-time jobs, thinking Mingyue would compromise, but Mingyue didn’t. To survive, she found even lower-paying work.

Mingyue was unwilling to return to the Shen family, even working outside, she refused the privileged life there.

Mingyue was too stubborn. Later, Xie Tingxin had to stop for a period. During that time, she studied hard, attempted to take over the Shen family’s company, and after a few years, finally gained influence in the Mingyue Group.

At that time, Mingyue was working as a concept artist at Qiuyu Group.

Xie Tingxin learned that Mingyue was doing well and was about to be promoted. She knew that if she didn’t act soon, Mingyue would never return, so she orchestrated the S.Y. plagiarism incident.

Things unfolded as she had imagined: Mingyue was burdened with a huge debt, dismissed from her company, and completely lost her source of income.

Xie Tingxin felt the time was right, so she approached Mingyue and suggested she return to the Shen family. However, to her surprise, Mingyue refused her aid.

Xie Tingxin couldn’t understand why. They used to be so close, so why had things come to this point?

It was from that moment that Xie Tingxin deeply felt that Mingyue completely regarded her as a stranger.

Xie Tingxin regretted it. If she hadn’t taken out the contents of that iron box back then, if Mingyue was still the eldest daughter of the Shen family, would their ending be different?

If she hadn’t rejected Mingyue becoming the adopted daughter of the Shen family due to her own selfish desires, would Mingyue have treated her the same as before?

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“Buzz…”

Shen Yuan’s phone, which was on the bed, suddenly vibrated. She grabbed it and saw it was a voice call from Gu Shiwei.

“Don’t answer.”

“You don’t want her to know we’re in the same room right now, do you?”

Xie Tingxin finished speaking and walked over, taking the phone from Shen Yuan’s hand.

In the quiet room, the vibration sound was especially noticeable. Shen Yuan’s phone vibrated in Xie Tingxin’s hand for a full three minutes before stopping.

When Shen Yuan left Jinghai, she indeed hadn’t told Gu Shiwei that she was returning with Xie Tingxin. She didn’t want Gu Shiwei to know about her relationship with Xie Tingxin.

The incident eight years ago was ultimately too much of a blow to her. Stealing someone else’s life for twenty years made her feel too guilty, and she was afraid for Gu Shiwei to find out.

Last time, Gu Shiwei said she only investigated matters from three years ago, and Shen Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it wasn’t eight years ago.

If one day Gu Shiwei found out that she still had this kind of connection with Xie Tingxin, what would happen?

Shen Yuan didn’t dare to think further.

“Mingyue, your complexion isn’t good. Are you nervous?” Xie Tingxin suddenly walked over and brushed Shen Yuan’s cheek with her knuckle.

Shen Yuan instantly snapped out of her daze. She dodged Xie Tingxin’s finger, frowned, and asked her, “What exactly do you want to do?”

“I like you. Can’t you tell?” Xie Tingxin stared intently at her, her expression neither crying nor smiling, looking both sad and joyful.

She finally said it, the secret she had hidden in her heart for so many years was finally brought to light.

Hearing this, Shen Yuan froze on the spot.

She opened her mouth but couldn’t utter a word.

“Why, don’t you believe it? Or do you think I’m lying to you?”

“Are you thinking that since we’ve been apart for eight years, even a little bit of liking I had for you would have vanished during these eight years?”

“But unfortunately, it hasn’t, on the contrary, it’s grown even more fervent, like wild grass, reviving with the spring breeze.”

“Who wants to be friends with you, Shen Mingyue?”

“I approached you from the very beginning because I liked you. Even now that you’re no longer the eldest daughter, I still can’t help but want to be close to you.”

“Liking you once made me feel very inferior. I didn’t even dare to tell you I liked you, only silently keeping it inside, approaching you under the guise of friendship.”

“Do you know? Eight years ago, you were truly dazzling. I was in the dark, and you lit up my path. The study materials you gave me helped me get into university. Your occasional care soothed the loneliness of being ignored by my parents. You forcefully burst into my dark life with a ray of light, and then turned to leave without any hesitation.”

“You cut off all those years of feelings just like that.”

“You walked away completely on your own.”

“But Shen Mingyue, even so, I still can’t control myself. Liking you runs through my entire youth. Every time I think of the past, I always think of you as you were in my eyes then.”

“My thoughts are out of my control. My memory is filled with your shadow everywhere.”

“How can I bear to hand over the sunshine that belongs to me to someone else?”

Xie Tingxin finished speaking and glanced down at the phone screen. Seeing the three characters of Gu Shiwei, her eyes suddenly darkened a little: “I met you earlier than her, so since you can accept a woman, why can’t you accept me?”

With every sentence Xie Tingxin spoke, Shen Yuan’s face grew paler. Hearing the end, Shen Yuan’s brain nearly shut down—Xie Tingxin actually said she liked her?

So, everything she did was just to force herself back to the Shen family to be reunited with her? Not to retaliate against her for stealing her identity?

“Mingyue, are you listening to me?” Xie Tingxin asked.

Shen Yuan frowned: “Can you stop calling me that? I’m not the Shen Mingyue from eight years ago.”

She had already changed her name. The former eldest daughter of the Shen family, Shen Mingyue, was dead; she was now just Shen Yuan.

The past was the past.

Regarding Xie Tingxin’s feelings—her liking for her—Shen Yuan had no way to reciprocate.

Having Gu Shiwei was enough for her.

Xie Tingxin nodded indifferently: “Fine, I’ll call you Shen Yuan from now on.”

She finished speaking and handed the phone to Shen Yuan.

After receiving the phone, Shen Yuan didn’t unlock it immediately. She glanced at Xie Tingxin, warily retreated a few steps, and only stopped when the back of her knees hit the edge of the bed.

“Aren’t you going to message her back?” Xie Tingxin acted as if she hadn’t noticed Shen Yuan avoiding her, and even took a few steps closer, sitting on the edge of the bed.

Seeing that she wouldn’t easily leave, Shen Yuan quickly unlocked the screen with her fingerprint.

Gu Shiwei had sent her a total of three messages and one voice call.

Zhao: Yuan Yuan, are you feeling unwell? Zhao: [Image] Zhao: It shows your bl00d pressure is a little low. Zhao: Missed call

Shen Yuan turned sideways, avoiding Xie Tingxin’s gaze, and quickly typed a few words and sent them. While she was looking down and typing, Xie Tingxin stared at her with interest.

Her calm demeanor made it seem as if the person who had just been hysterically accusing someone wasn’t her.

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About two minutes later, Xie Tingxin suddenly stood up and asked, “Are you done sending the message?”

Shen Yuan was startled and immediately turned off the screen: “What do you want to do?”

“Nothing, I just want you to spend more time with me,” Xie Tingxin said.

Shen Yuan’s motion of hiding the phone paused, and the expression on her face became extremely complicated, like she had swallowed a hundred flies.

After a long while, Shen Yuan finally said, “Don’t… avoid seeking medical attention.”

Xie Tingxin laughed out of anger. She found it hard to imagine how Gu Shiwei managed to woo Shen Yuan. This person… is straighter than a ruler.