This translation is by Pocketrobbin at S h a n g h a i f a n t a s y . c o m

The moment he saw Yu Mian’s face clearly, the young man’s eyes suddenly opened wide and his pupils dilated in extreme shock.

“Yu Mian?!”

Yu Mian instinctively wanted to call out his name, but when she saw the strange look in the other person’s eyes, she immediately calmed down.

She was no longer the orphan Yu Mian and the other party didn’t know her at all, so she couldn’t act like she’s familiar with him.

Otherwise, if such a bizarre thing as reincarnation was exposed, no one knows what the consequences would be.

As for why the other person called her Yu Mian, it should be because her face right now was too similar to her original one. If one didn’t look closely, they could pass off as twins. The young man was obviously mistaken and didn’t react for a while.

This was also the reason Yu Mian concealed this matter from the Yu family.

What if they found out that on the day their daughter entered the emergency room, a similar-looking girl named Yu Mian was also being rescued in the same hospital? And the outcome was that, the orphan Yu Mian failed to be revived and died, however, their daughter who survived changed personality. Anyone would feel suspicious.

Taking this into consideration, Yu Mian buried all her thoughts in her heart and did not tell anyone about it.

Oh that’s not right, she seemed to have mentioned something to Lin Jianshen. However, Lin Jianshen had never seen Yu Mian. He didn’t know that they she and the other Yu Mian looked so much alike. He probably wouldn’t be interested in this matter, so she wasn’t too worried.

Her mind was in a jumble and it seemed as if she had thought a lot of things, but in reality, it was just a fleeting moment.

Yu Mian put away the contemplation in her eyes, smiled and extended her hand. “Hello, I’m here to visit Yu Mian. Are you her neighbor, Mr. Wen Quyi?”

The young woman was wearing thick black clothes. Her petite and thin body was wrapped in a large coat, her small face looked as beautiful as a painting, with delicate facial features and clear eyebrows, and her skin was as white as fine porcelain, without a single blemish.

She wasn’t tall so she had to slightly tilt her face up to look at him. Her eyes were clear and covered with a light layer of moist, reflecting the bright light, as well as his figure.

Wen Quyi slowly recovered from his stupor, his expression mixed with a subtle hint of disappointment.

Staring at the girl’s delicate face, he thought numbly that it wasn’t her, it wasn’t Yu Mian.

Yu Mian was dead and he brought her ashes back with his own hands. The urn wasn’t big but was cold and icy. When he held it in his arms and took it home, it caused him pain. It felt so heavy that he could hardly bear it.

Slowly lowering his head, he looked at the girl’s outstretched hand. It was as small as her, and her fingers appeared extremely soft, with the fair and tender complexion that only comes from living a pampered life.

They were completely different from Yu Mian’s rough and calloused hands from working too many part-time jobs.

The young man had a noble face and there was an innate softness in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. His long eyelashes cast a fan-shaped shadow under his eyes as he stared at her.

He didn’t shake hands with the other person. His confused eyes gradually returned to clarity. Seeming to realize that he had recognized the wrong person, his brows furrowed slightly and a faint self-deprecating gloom appeared between them.

He spoke in a cold and distant voice, devoid of its usual warmth, “Who are you? How do you know Yu Mian?”

Yu Mian was slightly taken aback, unable to hide the surprise in her expression.

In her memory, this childhood friend who grew up with her always had a gentle and polite temperament, but now he looked all depressed, not to mention that he was being this cold to a stranger, which was really a bit strange.

After two years of not seeing him, he had become somewhat unrecognizable to her.

Yu Mian thought so to herself before taking out the words she had prepared beforehand, “I am one of Yu Mian’s online friends. We’ve known each other for several years. We’ve never met in person, however, we’ve always been in contact with each other. This time I heard that she had an accident, so I wanted to come and see her……”

Before she could finish her words, the young man turned his face away, clearly uninterested. He pushed the door open with one hand and said in a sluggish tone, “Oh, come in then.”

He didn’t even doubt her words?

Yu Mian couldn’t help but sigh. He…… had changed too much. If it wasn’t for the fact that his face was the same, she would have doubted whether he was a different person.

The Wen Quyi she met this time was really unlike his previous self.

The Wen family could be said to be a family of musicians. Mother Wen was a violinist and Wen Quyi had been influenced by music since he was born. He had an extremely high talent.

Unlike her mother, however, Wen Quyi wasn’t very fond of the violin despite his sensitivity to music. Mother Wen was a bit disappointed at first, but later she discovered that Wen Quyi was more talented at the piano.

And as everyone knows, the piano was recognized as one of the most elegant musical instrument in the world. Perhaps because he had practiced the piano a lot, Wen Quyi’s character had also been imbued with the gentleness and elegance of the instrument, courteous and upright.

Since childhood, he had been the object of praise of every parent. He has a refined, calm and polite temperament. Not only was he gifted in the arts, his academic performance was also among the best, plus he has a clean and handsome appearance.

It was the first time Yu Mian saw him like this. His eyes were bleak and his expression was full of listlessness, as if he had suffered a huge blow and had closed off his heart.

Was it…… because of her?

As soon as this thought came into her mind, Yu Mian immediately shook her head to clear it off.

She had also secretly watched this handsome young boy like everyone else. In her girlhood dreams, there would always be a boy dressed in a blue and white school uniform that was as tall as a pine, with slender fingers jumping on the black and white keys of the piano, and playing beautiful and dreamy music.

But a dream was just a dream after all. She knew very well that even if they were under the same roof, they would always be in two different worlds.

She felt it when she accepted the present from Mother Wen, when she heard the piano playing every night, when she stood in the Wen family’s living room and saw the elegant and beautiful violin in the window, when she stood in front of the school’s bulletin board while looking up at the high-ranking names on the list, when she got the notice for the college entrance examination, and when she walked with him in the woods downstairs their residential building.

That time, the midsummer wind was mixed with the chirping of cicadas and the heat, just like the burning and restless heart of a young girl.

She had been hiding her thoughts for a long time and hesitated to reveal them.

One step ahead of her, the young boy’s eyes were as clear as morning dew, and his voice was as gentle as ever when he said, “Yu Mian, I’m leaving, I received the admission letter from Mannes School of Music.”

She couldn’t clearly remember what she said afterwards.

Two years later, all that remained of this memory was the mottled light and shadow, the warm wind, and the fresh scent of detergent from the young boy’s clothes.

So when she heard in the hospital that Wen Quyi had come to handle the procedures for her, she was filled with surprise and disbelief.

But then she thought about it, the Wen family had always been warmhearted and courteous. They gave her a lot of help after her parents passed away, so it makes sense that they would come over this time.

Yu Mian, on the contrary, was very ashamed. Never mind bothering others when she was alive, she still had to trouble them even after her death. For a neighbor like her, the Wen family was really extraordinary to be able to collect her body in such a good-natured manner.

After a flurry of thoughts, she came to her senses again and found that she was already standing in the Wen family’s living room.

When the Wen family moved, they took almost nothing with them. The reason why they lived in this old community was because it was the Wen family’s first house. Mother Wen was nostalgic and didn’t want to change places. Later, for Wen Quyi’s studies, their family then moved away.

Looking around, the basic furnishings hadn’t changed much, but there’s a layer of dust on the furniture, which looked a bit old.

Yu Mian found a relatively clean sofa to sit down on and accidentally glanced at the shelves by the wall. Her eyes abruptly stopped.

On the shelf was a black and white photo. The girl in it was wearing a summer school uniform with a light smile on her lovely face. The dark blue collar was open and her slender collarbone was faintly visible from the snow-white fabric.