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But the next moment, Xie Huaizheng opened his eyes. He hugged Su Zhaozhao tightly and asked her, “What truth? Zhaozhao, have you finally decided to tell me?”

Su Zhaozhao hadn’t expected Xie Huaizheng to wake up so quickly.

‘So he’d been pretending to be asleep all along.’

‘Letting me think he was asleep so I’d lower my guard.’

But it didn’t matter. Su Zhaozhao had already made up her mind to tell him the truth anyway.

A little earlier or a little later made no difference.

“Okay, I’ll tell you. Just… please don’t think I’m crazy.”

Su Zhaozhao took a deep breath and began.

“I won’t, Zhaozhao. I know you.” Xie Huaizheng looked at the girl’s somewhat pale face and felt her cold hands.

He wrapped his large hands tightly around Su Zhaozhao’s, hoping it would help her relax.

“The thing is… I’m not from this world,” Su Zhaozhao told him.

“What do you mean?” Xie Huaizheng frowned, his gaze turning serious.

Seeing that Xie Huaizheng wasn’t looking at her like she was crazy, Su Zhaozhao let out a small sigh of relief.

She continued, “I come from another world. This world of yours is actually a novel I was reading. I don’t know why, but I somehow crossed over into it. And then… I met all of you.”

“Our world… is a novel?”

Xie Huaizheng was stunned. He’d always had a strong heart and was usually unflappable in the face of most things.

But what Su Zhaozhao had just said was truly shocking.

“Is that really true? But… everyone around me feels so real.”

‘Can the world of a novel be this moving?’

‘Everyone around him was real. They cried and they laughed.’

“Yes, but you can also just disregard that concept. You’re not the main character of the novel, so your life probably isn’t too affected by the plot,” Su Zhaozhao tried her best to explain.

“So your world is the real world?”

“Maybe, maybe not. Who knows if I’m not just living in another novel myself?” Su Zhaozhao smiled. She, for one, had accepted this concept rather quickly.

‘A novel is a novel. So what? I can still control my own happiness, can’t I?’

“What’s your world like?”

“You believe me?” Su Zhaozhao blinked, looking at Xie Huaizheng. She hadn’t expected him to accept all this so much faster than she’d imagined.

“I believe you, Zhaozhao. It’s just… a little hard to process all at once. You’re not going to leave me, are you?” As he said this, a hint of panic crept into his voice, as if he couldn’t bear the thought of Su Zhaozhao leaving him.

Hearing his words, Su Zhaozhao’s heart grew heavy. This was exactly what she’d been agonizing over for the past two days.

She snuggled deeper into Xie Huaizheng’s embrace, listening to the steady beat of his heart against his chest.

She felt her own emotions start to settle a little.

“This is actually the other thing I had to confess. I originally thought I could hide this from you for a lifetime. I know it’s wrong to deceive you, but I was really doing it for your own good. Honey, please don’t blame me. But I can’t hide it anymore. The truth is, these two worlds are about to separate. They’re making me choose—to stay in this world, or to go back to the real world.”

The moment Su Zhaozhao finished speaking, the man’s arm around her waist tightened uncontrollably.

“So, Zhaozhao, what did you choose?”

His voice carried a barely perceptible tremor.

As if he was terrified of losing Su Zhaozhao forever.

“I haven’t chosen yet,” Su Zhaozhao reassured him. “I can’t bear to leave you either, which is why I decided to tell you the truth… If you’re scared of me, if you don’t love me anymore, then I’ll make my decision.”

“Su Zhaozhao.”

Xie Huaizheng suddenly let go of her and sat up. His expression turned incredibly cold.

His sudden stern and frigid demeanor startled Su Zhaozhao.

He even used her full name. He seemed furious.

Su Zhaozhao quickly said, “I’m sorry… You’re angry after all. Or… are you really scared of me?” ‘So, in the end, Xie Huaizheng is scared of her after all?’

A sharp pain suddenly pierced Su Zhaozhao’s heart, so intense that she couldn’t bring herself to look at Xie Huaizheng.

Deep down, she had subconsciously believed that even after knowing the truth, Xie Huaizheng would still choose her.

But now that he had made his choice, Su Zhaozhao felt she couldn’t blame him.

He hadn’t really done anything wrong.

She was the one who had kept it from him, who hadn’t told him. So, if Xie Huaizheng ultimately couldn’t accept it and wanted to leave her, she would have to accept that outcome.

It’s just that, inevitably, her heart ached terribly.

She had thought she could spend the rest of her life with Xie Huaizheng.

But now, it had come to this.

“I am angry,” Xie Huaizheng said with a cold laugh.

His chest felt tight, and he had the urge to smoke a cigarette.

But then he remembered he’d been trying to quit lately and didn’t have any on him. He could only bite his lip and clench his fists, restraining his emotions.

He looked at Su Zhaozhao, who had buried her small, frightened face in the blankets, looking pitiful.

In that instant, Xie Huaizheng’s heart softened again.

“Zhaozhao, I am angry. But I’m not angry that you’re not from this world, and I’m not angry that you hid it from me. I’m just angry that you don’t trust me enough. That you actually thought I would leave you after finding out the truth.”

‘Is that the kind of person I am in your eyes?’

That was the source of Xie Huaizheng’s anger.

‘But thinking about it, she really hasn’t trusted me enough, has she?’

Otherwise, after being so depressed for so long, she wouldn’t have waited until now to tell him the truth.

As he felt his anger, he also felt a pang of guilt.

Thinking back on all the little moments he’d shared with Su Zhaozhao, he realized he had actually been suspicious for a long time.

How could a family like Su Zhaozhao’s raise such a capable and well-rounded girl?

She seemed to know everything, was poised and graceful in her interactions, and was full of life and vitality.

It was a complete mismatch with her background of having an unloving father and stepmother.

Now, it seemed, Xie Huaizheng was beginning to understand.

Hearing Xie Huaizheng’s words, Su Zhaozhao froze. She looked up at him. “That’s what you’re angry about?”

‘Not because I’m from another world?’

‘He doesn’t think I’m some kind of monster?’

‘He doesn’t think there’s something wrong with my head?’

‘He actually believed everything? And he’s still willing to be with me?’

Meeting the man’s pained and worried gaze, Su Zhaozhao’s tears suddenly began to fall.

It was as if she no longer had to bear all of this alone.