120: Ye Xiyang's Heart

The aunt knocked on her door just then, coming in to say she was heading out to shop for groceries.

Xiao Qi, pretending to have just woken up, acknowledged her.

Once the aunt left, Xiao Qi immediately told Xiao Bai with a triumphant and radiant smile, "Xiao Bai, let me tell you, although the drugging failed yesterday, my stunning beauty has stimulated President Lin enough to make him remember me."

Xiao Bai asked in shock, "Really?"

"More real than solid gold." Thinking of today's kiss, Xiao Qi felt even more smug, though a hint of shyness mingled with her pride. "Oh my, my beauty is such that once people see it, they can't help but linger!"

Xiao Bai looked at her with disdain. "Xiao Qi, can you not be so narcissistic? Back on the home planet, nobody even wanted you."

"..."

Xiao Qi rolled up her sleeves with a forced smile. "Xiao Bai, I think you've been eating too well lately, leading to an overabundance of cat fur. I think I need to pluck some of it for you."

"..."

Xiao Bai immediately jumped to the safest spot. "Xiao Qi, you should take it easy. That Lin Yichen likes you so much—be careful, or he might just swallow you into his heart, and then you'll end up losing both your person and your assets."

"..."

"Even if he swallowed me, I'd just end up in his stomach, wouldn't I?" Xiao Qi scoffed, then suddenly paused. Lin Yichen likes me?

"Xiao Bai, do you remember five years ago, when my heart was failing? You were all helpless, and I thought I was a goner, but suddenly a perfect heart appeared, and I survived. Back then, I asked the home planet where the heart came from, but they refused to say. Now, I think I might know."

Hearing this, Xiao Bai immediately jumped to her side. "You mean you know whose heart it is?"

"Ever since Lin Yichen lost his memory and forgot me, I've been prone to bouts of melancholy," Xiao Qi said, touching her chest. "And it hurts so much, especially when I'm on the receiving end of his cold sarcasm; it feels like I'm about to die. So, I suspect the reason they wouldn't say where the heart came from was that it belonged to an Earthling, and it was very likely stolen by our home planet."

Xiao Bai listened, dumbfounded, but eventually grasped the point.

"You mean your heart belongs to Ye Xiyang?"

"It's very possible," Xiao Qi said, recalling her time with Yichen. "That time Lin Yichen found out I had the sapphire and confronted me, I blurted out things I couldn't even understand myself. And a few days ago, I had a dream about Ye Xiyang five years ago—all the things she went through with Lin Yichen, why she left him, and how she missed him after she was gone..."

"God," Xiao Bai found it incredible and unbelievable. "You're an alien, and Ye Xiyang was an Earthling. An Earthling's heart being suitable for an alien is unheard of."

"But I did survive because of her heart," Xiao Qi said, collapsing onto the bed, looking distressed. "If my heart is one hundred percent Ye Xiyang's, it means she died five years ago. If she died because the home planet took her heart, then my future with Lin Yichen will be..."

"Xiao Qi," Xiao Bai suggested, "you could ask Ye Xiyang's aunt indirectly. She should know about Ye Xiyang's past."

"That's right!" Xiao Qi immediately ran out.

Fang Yun had just returned from shopping. Xiao Qi walked in with a sad look on her face. "Aunt, I just dreamed about my parents."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yun immediately grew tense. "Xiyang, didn't you lose your memory? How could you dream of your parents?"

Xiao Qi hugged Fang Yun. "Aunt, even though I have amnesia, I always feel so sad in my heart, as if my parents' passing had something to do with me."

Xiao Qi was naturally making it up, but Fang Yun felt a jolt of alarm and instinctively comforted her. "Xiyang, your parents' car accident five years ago had nothing to do with you. That you survived was due to your parents watching over you from heaven. So you must be happy and live a good life."

So, Ye Xiyang had been in a car accident five years ago.

That meant her heart wasn't taken by the home planet; it was because she was dying anyway...

Thinking about it, that didn't feel right either.

A person who is about to die wouldn't have a usable heart!

Mentioning her sister and brother-in-law made Fang Yun inevitably sad. Xiao Qi blamed herself for bringing them up in front of her aunt.

She ended up comforting Fang Yun instead, and half an hour later, she returned to her room.

She immediately told Xiao Bai what Fang Yun had said.

Xiao Bai was also completely baffled.

"Is it possible that your heart isn't Ye Xiyang's after all?"

"It couldn't be anyone else's," Xiao Qi said decisively. "With these inexplicable feelings in my heart, it must be hers."

Xiao Bai paced the bed, hypothesizing and deducing. "The home planet wouldn't harm Earthlings, so maybe the heart was donated voluntarily, or perhaps the accident rendered it useless to her... the home planet discovered it matched you and took it to save you. But since it was an Earthling's heart, they didn't want to talk about it, which is why they kept quiet..."

"Your reasoning makes sense," Xiao Qi said thoughtfully, "but under what circumstances would a heart become 'useless'?"

After two minutes of silence, they both realized it at the same time: "Brain death."

Xiao Qi said, "If Ye Xiyang really was brain-dead from the car accident, then her heart wasn't donated voluntarily. It was taken by the home planet..."

Xiao Qi looked even more troubled. "Xiao Bai, if that's really the case, then Lin Yichen..."

"Don't overthink it," Xiao Bai said, lying on the bed. "A brain-dead person is no different from a corpse, so I think if Lin Yichen found out, he wouldn't blame you. Besides, you look exactly like Ye Xiyang, and now that her heart is in your chest, it means you've continued her life. I actually think you saved her heart!"

Xiao Bai's words didn't provide much comfort to Xiao Qi.

However, she decided to just let things be.

Thinking too much was useless, and Xiao Qi wasn't the type of alien to worry needlessly. She checked the time—eight o'clock—got up, changed her clothes, and headed to TC for work.

...

At the villa, Yichen changed into a suit. Less than half an hour after arriving at the company, Fang Li knocked and entered, handing his iPhone to Yichen. "President Lin, look. Every media outlet is reporting that you and Miss Qiao are in a relationship."

Yichen glanced at the screen, where various reporters were scrambling to interview Joanna, asking about the depth of their relationship, when they started dating, and if there was any chance of marriage.

Yichen's brows furrowed coldly. He didn't speak, but his dark eyes were shrouded in gloom.

Seeing his silence, Fang Li tentatively suggested, "President Lin, I think because you didn't show up for your date yesterday, Miss Qiao came up with this. You could go talk to her and clear things up, so Miss Ye doesn't misunderstand."

As soon as he finished, Yichen looked up, his gaze like a sharp blade piercing through Fang Li, making him shudder.

"In the future, just do as I say regarding my affairs. Get out."

His voice was like the ice and snow of the north, cold enough to freeze.

Fang Li froze. He felt that the President was becoming colder by the day. He bowed respectfully and retreated.

Yichen picked up his charging phone, turned it on, and dialed a number. Before it connected, he hung up. He narrowed his dark eyes and stood up to leave the office.

Watching him go, Fang Li prayed silently: *I hope Miss Ye can make him remember her soon. A President without a shred of emotion in his eyes is really not very likable.*

As Yichen drove his car out of the garage, he saw a figure skipping toward him.

Xiao Qi was wearing light green wide-legged pants and a matching sleeveless chiffon top. Her arms were slender, looking like fresh sprouts—full of youthful energy.

The car stopped beside her involuntarily, and the window rolled down. His dark eyes watched the skipping Xiao Qi, and his thin lips curled slightly without him realizing it.

Xiao Qi seemed to notice him and turned her head.

At a glance, amidst the shade of the green trees, Yichen's car was parked there. The light from the sun, dappled through the leaves, cast a bewitching glow on his slightly curled lips, making him look dangerously alluring.

*Wow, this capitalist is becoming more and more to my taste.*

Xiao Qi touched her heart and told herself: *Hey, this heart is Ye Xiyang's, which means she is me and I am her, so her boyfriend is mine too.*

Xiao Qi dropped her hand.

*If I told him all this, would he accept it?*

*Sigh! I was a bean sprout hidden from the light, and now I'm just a budding sprout. What does a bud mean? It means I'm even less able to see the light; if I see the light, I'll die immediately!*

*So, I still can't tell him.*

*Whatever, I'll go say hello first.*

Watching her running toward him, Yichen’s nerves suddenly tightened, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

When Xiao Qi ran over, all she saw were beads of cold sweat sliding down his features... He looked extremely uncomfortable.

"President Lin, what's wrong?"

Yichen looked up, his eyes softening at the sight of her. He opened the car door and pulled her into the passenger seat. "I'm fine. Get in, I'll take you for breakfast."

"Ah? Breakfast?" Xiao Qi was a bit confused, though she hadn't eaten yet. However... "President Lin, it's almost work time..."

Yichen started the engine and said, "I am the boss, so the words 'work time' to me are like going home."

"..."

But she wasn't the boss.

Yichen knew what this little money-grubber cared about. "This time, you're allowed to eat for free and get paid for it."

The implication was: he was treating her to breakfast, and her salary would remain untouched.

Xiao Qi curled her lips.

*The President who has regained his memory is really quite likable, haha!*

After Yichen took her for breakfast, he didn't head to the company but instead took her for a walk down the street.

As for Xiao Qi, she particularly enjoyed being alone with him.

Anyway, as the President said, it was a freebie.

The two walked down the street, the sun shining on them, casting two long shadows.

Xiao Qi glanced at the person beside her, wondering if she should take advantage of this good atmosphere to tell him everything!