After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved

Chapter 246: Chapter 246 Vague Memories and Real Fear

The moment Juanjuan, or rather Christine, saw the man appearing behind the girl, she froze completely.

Since losing her memory, the people she had seen or the events she had experienced had all become blurred images in her mind.

Sometimes, flashbacks like scenes from a movie would suddenly occur, fleeting glimpses.

But each time those images flashed through her mind, they made Juanjuan feel suffocated and oppressed. Out of some instinctive resistance, she didn’t want to continue recalling.

She felt that ever since coming to Jiang City, since her sister had rescued and brought her to live in the apartment, her daily life had been fulfilling and joyful; she cherished each day.

Therefore, for so long, Juanjuan had not regained her memory.

Yet now, upon seeing the man—

His incredibly familiar face, his dignified and graceful demeanor from above, and the intrinsic terror he provoked within her...

Although she couldn’t remember who he was, her whole body began to tremble.

Juanjuan couldn’t help but close her eyes.

Before her emerged a dark, cold, damp Confinement Room—an array of exquisite dishes laid on the floor, shackles and chains binding her right foot, clanking with each movement.

So cold... so dark... so frightening.

Would anyone come to save her...

In the dim vision, someone with cold hands laid them on her trembling shoulders, as if they were her closest person, speaking softly and sorrowfully.

"Christine, you have to listen to your brother."

"Everything brother does is for your good, you will understand someday."

The voice in the vision sounded exactly like the man standing before her—

"Long time no see, my dear sister... have you missed your brother?"

Upon hearing that, seeing the familiar yet strange gentle smile on the man’s face.

Juanjuan almost screamed out, instinctively stepping back, tremblingly said: "...you, don’t come closer!"

Almost instantly, the girl’s beautiful shallow green eyes, deep as the sea of stars, brimmed with tears, her slender shoulders seemed to tremble as well.

Lu Sheng knew Juanjuan was timid and might be scared upon seeing a stranger at home suddenly, but she didn’t expect Juanjuan to be so terrified.

This should be the person closest to her.

"Juanjuan," Lu Sheng took a deep breath and immediately stepped forward to support her, "Juanjuan, don’t be afraid, sister is here."

"...Sister," Juanjuan instinctively grabbed onto Lu Sheng’s clothes, like a drowning person clutching onto a lifesaver, gasping for air she asked with difficulty, "Sister, he, who is he...?"

"Juanjuan, he’s your brother." Lu Sheng declared directly.

"You haven’t regained your memory all this time, and I have been helping you search for your family, but so far unable to find them."

"Do you remember last time you and I went to school for the carnival? There were photos taken of you there, your brother saw the pictures and recognized you, so he came here to find you."

"Brother..." Hearing this term, Juanjuan opened her mouth almost blankly.

"Yes, brother," said Lu Sheng, "you are not Chinese, your father was the First-class Duke of Suli. However, before you came to Jiang City, your parents had some accidents and died, now your brother has inherited the title."

Juanjuan then barely glanced at Chen Shu.

She really couldn’t recall specific details, but even though this sister told her the man was her brother, his concerned expression worried her significantly.

Juanjuan suddenly sobbing looked towards Lu Sheng and asked in a small voice, "Sister... are you sending me away?"

Lu Sheng was stunned, not expecting Juanjuan to think that way: "... Of course not."

"Juanjuan, you had lost your memory the first time I met you, your past was a blank slate. Now that your brother has found you, I certainly had to bring him over to see you."

"Talking with your brother and having a chat with him might stimulate your memory recovery. Even if it doesn’t, at least you now know your true identity and past."

"If after your conversation with him, you don’t want to go back to Suli with him and would rather stay here in Jiang City with me, then we can discuss that, right?"

Juanjuan knew what Lu Sheng was saying was right, but...

"Don’t be scared," Lu Sheng seeing Juanjuan’s reluctance, patted her hair, "You are your brother’s only family member in this world; he shouldn’t harm you."

"You two talk in the room, I’ll wait in the living room, and if anything happens, just call for me."

Hearing Lu Sheng say this, Juanjuan looked at Chen Shu again and finally gathered the courage to nod: "...Okay, I’ll listen to sister."

Seeing Juanjuan had walked ahead to the bedroom, Chen Shu took long strides, standing beside Lu Sheng.

"Christine trusts you a lot, you must have taken good care of her these past months," Chen Shu’s chiseled jaw slightly clenched, his voice deep and pleasant.

"It’s hardly taking care; most of the time I’m just at home, I just come to see her every week."

Lu Sheng glanced at Chen Shu, "Actually I was quite surprised when you told me Juanjuan’s real identity, because she seems fragile, but is actually very strong, not delicate at all."

At this remark, Chen Shu lightly laughed, as if the sun piercing through the clouds, his good looks striking. Once he went with Juanjuan into the room, Lu Sheng moved into the kitchen.

She came a bit earlier today than she had told Juanjuan yesterday; Juanjuan’s lunch wasn’t ready yet. There were some raw shrimp in the sink that had yet to be processed, probably Juanjuan wanted to make shrimp and scrambled eggs.

So Lu Sheng rolled up her sleeves, stood beside the sink, and began prepping the shrimp.

On the way here, Lu Sheng had discussed with Chen Shu.

Since Chen Shu had already covered up the truth of their parents’ deaths, if Juanjuan did not recover her memory upon seeing him, perhaps it was better to let the past be.

Witnessing their mother stab their father and then cutting her own mother’s throat... it was probably better for Juanjuan not to know. Once she knew, she might live the rest of her life under that shadow.

Lu Sheng in the kitchen with a knife was deveining the shrimp, her fair and slender fingers skillfully maneuvering the kitchen knife.

The next second, however, she suddenly heard a "snap" from the bedroom!

A sound of something shattering on the floor.

Hearing this, Lu Sheng immediately felt something was wrong, her expression tightened as she dropped the knife and ran to the bedroom.

However, the moment she opened the bedroom door, she saw a horrifying scene, and her pupils uncontrollably constricted—