Li Qiyu said seriously with a straight face, "Xiaoxuan, can I trust you?"
"Of course. I'm your best friend. We've known each other for so many years. Don't you know what kind of person I am?" Ming Yuexuan patted her chest and promised.
"What I mean is, if I'm not Li Xiyu, can you still keep the content of our conversation today a secret and still let me trust you?"
Hearing this, Ming Yuexuan realized the seriousness of the matter. She chased after the question, "What's going on? Xiaoyu, don't be like this. Don't scare me."
But before Ming Yuexuan agreed to Li Qiyu's condition, Li Qiyu kept her own affairs to herself and just kept asking if she could trust her.
Ming Yuexuan could only raise her hand and swear, "I won't breathe a single word of what I've heard here today to anyone."
Seeing Ming Yuexuan swear, Li Qiyu then said seriously, "Actually, I'm not Li Xiyu."
Ming Yuexuan was so nervous that her heart was in her throat. She asked, "Then who are you?"
"My name is Li Qiyu. I've traveled through time."
Hearing this, Ming Yuexuan only felt her mood rising and falling. The heart that had been hanging in the air instantly settled down. She waved her hand and said speechlessly, "What time - travel? And Qiyu? Xiaoyu, stop kidding me."
When Ming Yuexuan was accompanying Li Qiyu in Xiyu Manor before, she vaguely heard words like "time - travel" from Li Qiyu's mouth, but Ming Yuexuan didn't take it seriously at that time.
Of course, she didn't take it seriously now either.
Time - travel? How absurd.
Ming Yuexuan listened to it like a joke. But while she was laughing out loud, when she looked up and saw the person opposite looking at her seriously with a solemn expression, she felt embarrassed to laugh anymore.
She felt a chill down her spine. "Xiaoyu... Are you serious?"
"Every word is serious. There's no falsehood."
Ming Yuexuan reached out and touched Li Qiyu's head.
"You don't have a fever," she murmured to herself. "Could it be that you're really crazy? Suffering from some kind of delusional disorder?"
Ming Yuexuan's elder sister is a psychologist, so Ming Yuexuan knows a thing or two about this aspect.
Li Qiyu knew that it would be hard for Ming Yuexuan to accept what she said for the time being.
She said, "You don't have to believe me. You can listen to me finish and then judge whether I'm really crazy."
As Li Qiyu said, she truthfully told Ming Yuexuan everything that had happened to her in ancient times one by one.
Ming Yuexuan was stunned. At first, she was repulsed and didn't believe it, but gradually, she thought the protagonist of this story, the empress, was quite pitiful.
By the end, she couldn't help but grab Li Qiyu's hand and ask.
"What happened later? Did the emperor admit his mistake to the empress?"
"If he had admitted his mistake, how would I have come to this world?"
Ming Yuexuan let go of Li Qiyu's hand. She only felt a creepy sensation now. "Are you really... from thousands of years ago in ancient times?"
Ming Yuexuan muttered to herself. "This is so fantastic. Shouldn't this kind of thing only happen in TV dramas? But... if you're a delusional person, your ability to make up stories is good enough to be a TV drama screenwriter."
Ming Yuexuan knew well about her best friend's capabilities. Even if Li Xiyu was crazy, she couldn't be so good at making up such a logically - structured and heart - wrenching story.
Li Qiyu didn't want to explain anymore whether what she said was true or not. She continued, "I felt that life was meaningless, so I wanted to end my life. I jumped off a building. When I opened my eyes again, I became Li Xiyu."
Now, Ming Yuexuan believed Li Qiyu. Because Li Qiyu's state didn't seem like that of a crazy person at all. She was logically clear and behaved normally.
If she was a crazy person, then there would be no normal people in this world.
Moreover, there were many contradictions about Li Qiyu. Maybe time - travel could explain them better than amnesia or madness.
For example, Li Qiyu was so inexperienced that she didn't even know how to use a toothbrush or put on underwear, but she could comb very complicated ancient hair buns, write excellent Chinese calligraphy, and read complex ancient texts like heavenly scriptures.
Now that she thought about it, her performance really seemed like what an ancient person who suddenly fell into the modern world might be like.
Because when Li Qiyu was telling these stories, she was really different from Li Xiyu. Moreover, after looking at her for a long time, Ming Yuexuan even felt that she didn't recognize Li Xiyu's face.
Ming Yuexuan was a drama - chasing girl. She was familiar with the plot that Li Qiyu was talking about.
"So, you had a soul - travel? Then what about Xiyu? Where is Xiyu?"
Ming Yuexuan suddenly thought of a key question.
Li Qiyu shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either.
But Ming Yuexuan realized a very serious fact.
"Could it be that... Xiyu...?"
In those TV dramas and novels, the original owners of the people who had soul - traveled were always dead. Now the person in front of her said she was Li Qiyu, which meant that Li Xiyu had died in that drowning accident a few months ago.
This realization stunned Ming Yuexuan.
She sat there in a daze in the booth and didn't say a word for a long time. Now it was Li Qiyu's turn to comfort her. As soon as Li Qiyu opened her mouth, Ming Yuexuan suddenly burst into tears.
"I shouldn't have left. I shouldn't have left at that time. If I could have accompanied her, she wouldn't have had an accident."
Ming Yuexuan cried through a pack of tissues. Li Qiyu could only silently accompany her. She had experienced the pain of losing someone she cared about and valued, and she was still experiencing it now.
No one understood Ming Yuexuan better than her.
After Ming Yuexuan had cried enough, she then remembered that Li Qiyu must have come to her with something important to ask for help after telling her so much. So she grabbed Li Qiyu and asked.
"So you tell me all these. What do you want me to do for you?"
"I want to divorce Song Jiaye."
"Divorce? Didn't you say that you and Song Jiaye were already in the process of a negotiated divorce? And now the Li Corporation is preparing to go public. Have you calculated how much you, the major shareholder, will lose if you divorce at this time?"
"Can't I divorce?" Li Qiyu asked.
"Why do you have to divorce Song Jiaye? I think your relationship is quite good. Moreover, Song Jiaye takes very good care of you."
Actually, after staying in Xiyu Manor for a while, Ming Yuexuan even began to support Song Jiaye a bit. She wanted to persuade Li Xiyu to accept Song Jiaye.
Although the person in front of her was no longer Li Xiyu, she still regarded her as a friend. She hoped that she could be happy.
Moreover, if she was really Li Qiyu instead of Li Xiyu, and there was no complicated past between her and Song Jiaye, Ming Yuexuan thought that they were more likely to be together.
Li Qiyu said seriously,
"Because the emperor I told you about is also named Song Jiaye."
"Ah? Is it just a coincidence of the name?"
"Not only that. They look exactly the same."
"My goodness! What a karmic relationship!"