Rebirth: Pampered by My Children and Husband

Chapter 229: Chapter 229: Have You Regained Your Memory?

Memories of the past flashed through Lin Xu’s mind as she looked at the height markings on the wall, a nostalgic smile curling at the edges of her lips.

Just as she was about to say something, she caught a glimpse of Xie Changyan, who also had a smile in his eyes.

She didn’t know what he was thinking about, but he chuckled looking at the graffiti on the wall.

Ji Yuqiao looked at him with hopeful eyes, “How does it feel, do you have a sense of familiarity?”

She had heard from her older brother before that the height lines on the wall were drawn by their parents when measuring the height of her eldest brother and second brother as children.

He must remember something.

Xie Changyan just looked at her and smiled, without saying a word.

“Alright…” Ji Yuqiao hung her head.

He didn’t recall anything.

She was disheartened for a few seconds but quickly perked up, clenching her fists to encourage herself.

“Next one, next one,” she murmured, scratching her head in thought.

What next? What else could make him feel familiar, bring back old memories?

“How about we look at some of your old photos?” suggested Lin Xu from the side.

Photos?

Nothing else could evoke memories of the past better than photos.

Ji Yuqiao remembered that Ji Tingyang had an album with many family portraits of all five of them.

She rarely flipped through that album before; it was Ji Tingyang who often browsed it.

Several times, as she passed by the study, she saw Ji Tingyang sighing while looking at the album, his expression sometimes nostalgic, other times melancholic.

“I’ll go get the album right now!” Ji Yuqiao’s heart leaped with excitement and she ran upstairs energetically.

In the backyard, only Xie Changyan and Lin Xu were left.

She approached, her fingers gently tracing the graffiti on the wall, and sighed, “It seems like just recently the three of them were still kids, and in the blink of an eye, they’ve all grown up so much. I wasn’t there for them these twenty years, they have suffered so much…”

After speaking, she stealthily glanced at Xie Changyan, curious about his reaction.

However, Xie Changyan stood casually with his hands in his pockets, a mysterious half-smile on his face, silent.

“Lanyue told me before that when they were kids, they had to shuttle between relatives’ houses, no one wanted to take care of them, they couldn’t even get enough food…”

“I have no idea how they made it through these twenty years,” Lin Xu said, looking at Xie Changyan.

In his eyes, a fleeting shadow of gloominess passed, his gaze becoming darker than before.

Lin Xu carefully probed, “Did you remember something?”

Xie Changyan lifted his gaze to her, his eyes filled with a complex expression. He parted his lips slightly, about to say something, when Ji Yuqiao came running back excitedly, holding a thick photo album in her hands.

“Look, look, it’s all our family portraits,” Ji Yuqiao handed the album to him.

Xie Changyan flipped through a few pages.

Although it was called a family album, it was mostly a record of the three children’s growth.

Pictures of the three kids shortly after birth, their first steps, their first birthdays, Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu’s first day at nursery…

These images were still vivid in Lin Xu’s eyes.

As Xie Changyan continued to flip through the album, he was suddenly confronted by a photo of a kiss.

It was a picture of Lin Xu and Ji Yanli on a date at the amusement park, taken by a passerby.

Lin Xu had forgotten the small incident that sparked their argument, but she remembered being very angry, giving him the silent treatment in the amusement park, refusing to speak a word.

Ji Yanli had coaxed her for a long time, but she hadn’t cooled down.

It wasn’t until she got so angry that she said the word “break up” that his expression darkened, and he pressed her against the wall of the amusement park and began to kiss her.

His kiss was lingering and fiery, leaving her heart in such disarray that she forgot what she had been mad about in the end.

Lin Xu was somewhat surprised when she saw this photograph; she hadn’t expected him to actually have it developed.

“Wow, father and mother’s relationship is really good,” Ji Yuqiao said, holding her cheeks, her eyes twinkling with stars.

If it were the past.

Xie Changyan, seeing Lin Xu and the man in the photograph so intimately close, would probably have become so jealous that he’d question her, asking if she was still hung up on this departed man and would try every possible way to make her throw the photograph away.

But now.

Lin Xu glanced at Xie Changyan without a trace, only to see that his expression was as usual, without any reaction.

This was really too strange.

Lin Xu, lost in thought, involuntarily curled the fingers of her hand at her side, the nail of her thumb pressing hard into the pad of her index finger, turning it white.

When thinking about things, she always liked to press her fingernail into herself.

This kind of pain could keep her clear-headed and thinking.

However, just as the pain began to spread over her hand, Xie Changyan took her hand, unclenching her tightened palm.

“How come this bad habit can never change?” he said with a helpless smile, his fingers sliding through hers, interlocking their digits.

This familiar gesture and tone were exactly like Ji Yanli’s…

Lin Xu looked at his profile, her expression flickered with bewilderment.

She opened her mouth and asked softly, “Have you regained your memory?”

Xie Changyan’s brows lifted slightly, “What memory?”

He looked completely puzzled.

“Then how do you know about this bad habit of mine?” Lin Xu stared at him intently.

Xie Changyan said with a light, joking smile, “Just a guess.”

She could tell right away that this was a lie.

Still pretending!

The anger in Lin Xu’s chest surged immediately, and she resolved to see just how long he intended to keep up this act.

Just as she was pondering how to make Xie Changyan slip up, her gaze flicked to the cookie that Ji Yuqiao had popped into her mouth.

“Where did you get the cookies?” Lin Xu asked casually.

“I was a bit hungry, just went to get the album and passed by the dining room, so I grabbed some peanut cookies,” Ji Yuqiao finished off the cookies in two or three bites and swallowed them down.

Lin Xu was taken aback, shaking her shoulders frantically, “Have you forgotten about your peanut allergy, how could you eat peanut cookies, hurry up and spit them out!”

Her eyes reddened suddenly, looking into Ji Yuqiao’s mouth in a panic.

Xie Changyan’s brows furrowed, his expression also becoming grave, “She’s allergic to peanuts? When did this happen?”

“Lanyue has been allergic to peanuts since she was a child, how could you have forgotten? There was one time when you fed her peanut butter, her face turned so red, and if we hadn’t gone to the emergency room, she might have lost her life,” Lin Xu’s eyes brimmed with uncontrollable tears.

“You’re remembering it wrong; that trip to the hospital was because she choked, not because of an allergy,” Xie Changyan consoled the anxious Lin Xu, “Don’t worry, she’s fine.”

Ji Yuqiao also looked confused.

Is she allergic to peanuts?

How come she didn’t know about it?

Lin Xu wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes, her frantic expression calming down.

She looked at Xie Changyan with a deep gaze, “If you haven’t regained your memory, how would you know it was because she choked?”

Xie Changyan: “…”