Because I Cannot Hurt You

An Guoting's trembling hand slowly raised to touch her. Previously, he had only seen a blurry image of her standing outside Grandeur which made him misunderstand it for a long time.

But now An Yueqin was standing right in front of him in the flesh. Her face was clearly visible to him. This time, there was no confusion. There was no hesitation to believe her existence.

An Yueqin was alive. The same face. The same features. The same woman who brought him out of the depths of that darkness and gave him another chance to fall in love was here. He looked at her from her head to toe, and nothing had changed. They had been separated for a long time, yet for An Guoting, An Yueqin was ever so beautiful and breathtaking.

"Yueqin…" He whispered her name as a tear slipped out of his eye. "It's really you, Yueqin…I…How?"

His eyes had tears in them, but his lips were lifting into a smile.

"Did God pity me? I still cannot believe that you are really standing in front of me. Y-you were dead, and…" he inhaled and exhaled short breaths as he felt excited. "I-I had seen you buried with my own eyes, and I don't how it is possible that you are…still here. When I lost you, a part of me had died with you…"

Silence.

"The only person keeping me alive all this time was our daughter, Caihong. If not for her, I would have…" he sadly chuckled, "I wouldn't have been able to live, Yueqin. Tell me please. Where were you all this time? It was so hard living without you that I just wished my death to come soon too. W-why didn't you come back to us? Why did we have to live such a painful life when you were alive? And the accident…what happened…"

His fingers tried to touch her shoulders, but she swiftly took two steps back. He froze and stared at her in confusion.

"Yueqin?"

An Yueqin stared back at him and parted her lips as she spoke, "Excuse me, Sir. I have been listening to you for a while now, but I don't understand anything that you are talking about."

He blinked his eyelids.

"Who is An Yueqin? And why are you acting so familiar to me?"

His irises slowly widened in shock. "What are…what are you saying, Yueqin? You know everything, don't you? Don't you know me? Guoting? I am your husband."

She frowned. "Husband? I am sorry, but you have definitely mistaken me for some woman. I am not Yueqin, and I don't know any man named Guoting."

He froze.

"Mistaken? Do you think I can mistake my Yueqin for any random woman?"

An Guoting took out his wallet and showed her a picture from it. "Is this not you?"

An Yueqin impassively glanced at it. It was a picture taken after they had married. It was one of the shots they took at their villa.

"That woman seems to have my face, I admit, but it's not me," she declared.

An Guoting was speechless. He then recalled how in front of Xinyi too, she had denied everything.

Was it real that she had lost her memory?

"It IS you. Who else would it be? Yueqin didn't have any twin sisters. There is only one Yueqin in this world, and it's you. If you are not her, then why are you here at this place?"

"Am I not allowed to come here?"

He clenched his jaw. "This is the place I took you on our first date. S-sort of. And you kissed me too. That was our first kiss. This place holds a very special meaning for both of us. Why would you come here if you don't know who I am? I could see it in your eyes as you sat down. You were recalling our memories, right?"

She narrowed her eyes. "I am sorry, but you are mistaken. I don't come here for the reason you are citing. I am not even married in the first place."

"Huh? I just showed you our picture!"

"I don't understand how that is, but it cannot be that way. I have always remained single. I never had a husband. As for this place, I come here regularly because I have some stress issues. This is the place where I can relax. I…I feel sorry for you, but that woman is not me."

An Guoting gritted his teeth. "Really? Are you saying you don't know about our daughter Caihong either? Will you refuse her too?"

The wind blew past them. An Yueqin stared at him and said, "Yes."

He trembled.

"I see. If you think that I am misunderstanding things, then tell me who you are? What is your name?"

Her voice was cold as she said, "I am not obligated to divulge my personal information to a stranger."

He shook.

Stranger…She called me a stranger…

It hurt. It really hurt. That word was like a harsh slap to his face, and he couldn't retort anything against that.

There was joy in his heart when he met her, but now his chest was enveloped in pain.

A voice came from behind him. "But you are obligated to divulge that information to the police."

Yunru stepped out from behind a tree and stood in front of her. An Yueqin squinted her gaze. Yunru glanced at An Guoting, who seemed to be shaken.

He looked back at her and showed her his police ID. "Chief Soo Yunru."

An Yueqin was calm. "What is this all about? First, he comes before me and claims I am his wife, and now a cop is standing in front of me. I don't know what is happening."

"Is that really so, Mrs. An?"

"I don't have that last name."

"Then what IS your name?"

"I am not-"

"You are obligated to answer. You claim that you are not Mrs. An Yueqin. But seemingly, a woman with your face is behind all the accidents and murder attempts on a man named Han Zhiyuan. Three times. We suspect your involvement, and that's why you have to tell us about yourself. Not necessarily to Mr. An.. But definitely to Chief Soo here," he narrowed his eyes.