Chapter 376

“The Missing Wife (One-star Mission): Find Liu Xianxian before midnight .

“Mission Hint: Perhaps he doesn’t love me .

“Do you wish to accept this mission? Warning: Trial Missions are only available for twenty-four hours . If they are not accepted within these twenty-four hours, the scenario will never be unlocked . “

Naturally, Chen Ge accepted it . Since this was just a one-star mission, he didn’t think it would that difficult . I only need to find Liu Xianxian? There’s no other requirement?

Chen Ge had a feeling that the sentence had another meaning, but temporarily, he had no idea what . After hanging up, Chen Ge returned to New Century Park to grab all of his equipment before rushing to Jiujiang Medical University . At 7:40 pm, Chen Ge arrived at his destination and found Liu Xianxian at a nearby teahouse .

“Why are you here?” Chen Ge was curious . The things there were expensive, and Liu Xianxian did not look like she was much of a tea-drinker .

“He prefers a quiet place . ” Liu Xianxian was embarrassed . She had put quite some effort into her appearance, but she looked rather pale . “I’ve booked the private room for you next door, you can hide in there . “

Chen Ge moved to oblige . From his vantage page, he could look clearly into the room next door . Then it was a long wait . Liu Xianxian asked to meet the man at 8 pm . Combining the time Liu Xianxian waited for Chen Ge, she had been waiting for at least half an hour already .

She checked her appearance again and again as she looked out the window carefully . She was both fearful and excited . The man did not show at 8 pm . She took out her phone to call the man, but when she found the man’s name on the contact list, she hesitated . “Did something happen to him?”

Liu Xianxian was completely different from when she was with her friends . She asked the waitress for a cup of water . She picked the cup up but, worried that it might ruin her lipstick, she put it down again . She wanted to show the man her best . The man still had not arrived at 8:20 pm . Liu Xianxian looked at the food on the table, but she had no appetite .

She held her phone, and after some hesitance, she finally called the man’s number . The call rang, but no one answered .

“Something must have happened to him . ” Liu Xianxian looked out the window . The crowd was starting to thin because it was getting late . She waited until 9 pm, and he was still a no-show .

“Let’s stop waiting, he won’t be coming tonight . ” Chen Ge walked out from the room . “From how he treats you, it looks like he doesn’t care about you that much . “

“Let’s wait a little longer . ” Liu Xianxian waited until the teahouse closed, but the man did not show up . They left the teahouse together, Liu Xianxian looking quite devastated . Due to the mission by the black phone, Chen Ge stuck close to Liu Xianxian . “Can you tell me the story between the both of you? Perhaps I can give you some advice . “

Liu Xianxian shook her head, but it was uncertain whether she did not want to share the story or had something that she could not say .

“If you don’t tell me anything, how am I supposed to help? If you hold something within your heart for too long, it might ‘decay’ . Now you need someone to talk to . Your roommates are a close part of your life—you walk in the same circle—so telling them might affect your friendship, but I’m different . I’m an outsider who has no interaction with your life; you don’t need to worry about me interrupting your normal life . “

Chen Ge kept trying to loosen Liu Xianxian’s lips, and Liu Xianxian was slowly convinced . The stuff in her heart was piling up so high that she had trouble breathing .

“Say it out loud, you’ll feel much better . ” Chen Ge sounded like the boy next door, very warm and friendly .

She paused in thought, and after one last struggle, Liu Xianxian began . “I was brought up by my mother, and I’ve never seen my father . Sometimes, I wonder what my father looks like . Perhaps due to that, when I first saw him, there was a very special feeling .

“With or without the romantic feeling, I just feel safe around him . ” Liu Xianxian looked up at the streetlight, the soft light falling on her pained expression . “I was like a child lost in the field, finding a hunter with a torch and a gun . “

“That’s quite an interesting analogy, what happened next?”

“He is much older than I am and has all the good qualities of a mature man . In my eyes, he is a perfect man, and I cannot prevent my heart from falling in love . However, as our interaction increased, I realized that he is rather different from normal men . “

Liu Xianxian’s eyes were wavering . “Liking someone means knowing everything about him . I heard from his close family that his wife died in a car accident seven years ago . It was because I found out about that news that I started to pursue him . Initially, he rejected me, but with my tireless approach, the distance between us closed . It was also at the time that I found out the biggest secret about him . “

Liu Xianxian paused for a long time before she continued . “He is under the impression that his wife is still alive . There are two sets of everything at his home, and he sometimes talks to the air like his wife is standing there . “

“That’s an obvious sign of trauma . “

When Liu Xianxian heard Chen Ge’s assessment, she shook her head with hesitance . “I don’t think he’s sick . He just loves his wife too much . “

“Your mind is muddled from love—that’s why you’re coming up with all these reasons for him . If you really have his interests at heart, you should bring him to a psychologist . “

“You’ll understand what I mean when you see him . I’m not lying to you . ” Liu Xianxian saw the number on her phone, and she thanked Chen Ge . “Thank you for everything today . I’ll deal with this myself . I hope that you’ll keep this to yourself . “

“Of course, you have my word . ” Seeing Liu Xianxian’s back, the smile on Chen Ge’s face slowly disappeared . He caught a deep hint of despair when she spoke; he had heard the same trace of despair when he interacted with members of the ghost stories society .

“The man Liu Xianxian likes thinks his dead wife is still alive . This is similar to No . 10 . In the Pen Spirit’s ‘will’, she overheard No . 10 calling the body on his back his wife . “

Chen Ge was increasingly curious about Liu Xianxian . While no one was watching, he carried his backpack and sneaked into Jiujiang Medical University .