Chapter 485 A Love Affair Across Three Lifetimes
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Chapter 485 A Love Affair Across Three Lifetimes
Shen Zhixia was stunned: "You saw those words, don't you yearn for your original wife?"
In the original book, Huo Chenzhou's life was happy, so the wife arranged for him must have been a very good person. However, because of her, Huo Chenzhou never met this person.
Would you care about someone I don't even know?
That's not what I meant.
Huo Chenzhou said helplessly, "I really didn't expect you to think so much. When those words appeared, I thought I was hallucinating. Later, I found that those words were floating in front of my eyes every day, and only I could see them, so I didn't take it seriously. Yes, they did say that I would marry someone else in the future, but I just treated these things as a joke."
"Can't I even make my own decisions about my life? Why should I listen to some nonsensical words? Besides, I don't even know if these words are from spirits. When it comes to the unknown, I will definitely trust my wife who is by my side more. You are the person I spend every day with, you are the most important person in my life. Those words are dead things, I will not believe them at all."
Shen Zhixia looked at him quietly, her voice soft: "But what if those words were true? You would have met other people, and you would have had a better life."
"What do you mean by a better life? I think my current life is the best. Your idea of a better life is just your imagination, and it's all unscientific. Even if we really lived in a book where everything was preordained, they could just assign me a wife and that would be it. But if I didn't like her, I would still divorce her."
"Words are dead, people are alive."
"I believe that I choose the life I want to live, and that's how I write my stories, rather than writing stories and then deciding what to do. I am a person with a soul."
Shen Zhixia pursed her lips, unsure of what to say.
"We've known each other for decades, do you think I can't distinguish reality? Do you think I would ignore the people around me and care about those random words that suddenly appeared?"
When Huo Chenzhou saw the words on the document that the two wanted to divorce, he wanted to tear them all to shreds.
What rubbish!
They actually cursed him.
He will never get a divorce. He will live happily ever after with Shen Zhixia, growing old together.
“Don’t you find it strange? Those suddenly appearing words might be trying to tell you something, to awaken you,” Shen Zhixia said.
"snort."
Huo Chenzhou sneered: "I think those words are just people who envy my good life and want to harm me. I know in my heart what kind of life I want to live, and I don't need anyone to tell me what to do. No matter what those words mean, they are not what I want to hear, so I will ignore them."
Shen Zhixia hadn't expected him to think that way.
She murmured, "I thought, I thought you would have doubts, or at least have some suspicions."
After all, anyone who discovers this situation would react the same way as Shen Jinxiu.
They would be suspicious, then surprised, and then they would explore, which is why Shen Jinxiu eventually came to her for advice.
Even Shen Jinxiu guessed that she wasn't the original owner of this body, so what about Huo Chenzhou? He's so smart, did he guess that as well?
Huo Chenzhou said, "There's nothing to doubt. I'll just live my own life. I know what I'm doing. I don't need a few words to change my choice."
He is currently very satisfied with his choice and also very pleased to have Shen Zhixia as his wife.
He feels that his life is at its best right now.
Just as a person knows best whether the water is hot or cold when they drink it.
Everyone lives their own life, and they can experience it for themselves; no one else needs to judge it.
Shen Zhixia's tone was dry: "Then you never doubted me?"
"Are you referring to the fact that you've changed your identity?"
Huo Chenzhou made a startling statement.
Shen Zhixia: "!"
She stared wide-eyed at Huo Chenzhou, her voice stammering, "You, you, you, you..."
She had spent so many years with Huo Chenzhou, and only today did she realize that she might never have truly understood him.
How does he know so much?
Did she give herself away by talking in her sleep? Or was her disguise not good enough?
In fact, she knew what kind of personality the original owner had. The original owner was a spoiled young lady who was arrogant and couldn't stand Huo Chenzhou at all. Initially, she thought she should learn from the original owner's personality so that she wouldn't be suspected by others.
But she's not a professional actress. Besides, even if someone is an actress, they can't act for a lifetime.
Since no one doubted her, she eventually let herself go and just did what she wanted. Over the years, no one has raised any objections, and she has just continued living like that.
Little did they know that Huo Chenzhou seemed to have known all along.
Huo Chenzhou said, "Actually, I just thought you were strange at the time. I haven't spent much time with Shen Zhixia, but her personality is completely different from yours. You could say that your personalities are worlds apart. I can't possibly consider you the same person."
“At first, I thought you just wanted to leave me, so you pretended to be someone else. When you were going back to Shanghai, I thought you would never come back. But you came back later. I found it very strange at the time, and I even asked a doctor what could cause a person’s personality to change so drastically.”
Shen Zhixia: "...You actually asked the doctor, I had no idea."
She thought Huo Chenzhou didn't know her very well and that she had managed to fool him. Little did she know that while she was acting, Huo Chenzhou had already guessed her identity time and time again.
This guy is really a cunning old fox.
Huo Chenzhou laughed and said, "The doctor said there is a disease that can drastically change a person's personality, turning them into another person, called dissociative identity disorder. But I've observed you, and you don't seem to have dissociative identity disorder."
This disease requires stimulation to develop, but Shen Zhixia didn't experience any stimulation at all, and her behavior was just like that of a normal person.
Furthermore, she has some of her own behavioral habits.
So Huo Chenzhou started thinking in superstitious directions, such as possession by another body or something like that.
Although he didn't show it very obviously, he was a believer in metaphysics and felt a great respect for things that couldn't be explained.
In the past, he would read some novels about spirits and monsters. He thought it didn't matter if Shen Zhixia was a spirit or monster, as long as she stayed with him for the rest of her life.
Shen Zhixia felt completely bewildered. In her mind, Huo Chenzhou had always been an honest man. She had no idea that he had so many secrets hidden in his heart, and that he had even guessed her identity long ago.
It turns out that from the very beginning, she was the one who was kept in the dark.
Huo Chenzhou had a slight smile on his face.
Shen Zhixia got angry and punched Huo Chenzhou: "Why didn't you tell me sooner? You deliberately plotted against me behind my back, did you find it interesting?"
Huo Chenzhou protested his innocence, saying, "I didn't scheme against you. I just found it strange, so I investigated you. After all, you are completely different from before, and it would be easy to be discovered. Later, I gradually fell in love with you, so I never investigated these things again."
This was his honest opinion. He felt that no matter who Shen Zhixia was or what she was, it didn't matter. Anyway, she was his wife, and she would be for life. She couldn't escape him.
Shen Zhixia snorted and said with dissatisfaction, "Don't think that just because you say nice things now, this matter will be over."
She originally thought she was the smartest, controlling too many things, and was very lonely. Little did she know that she would eventually discover that someone was actually acting alongside her.
If she hadn't asked him directly, Huo Chenzhou would never have said it in his entire life. Huo Chenzhou really is a scheming person.
Huo Chenzhou smiled and asked, "Wife, so what's the story behind this? How did you come to be by my side?"
He suddenly asked curiously, "Do we have some kind of predestined relationship spanning three lifetimes, or perhaps I saved you in a past life, and you've come to repay that debt?"
Shen Zhixia: "?"