Meng Xue's Curiosity

Zhang Xin'ai was stunned when she heard that!

She really had been thinking about buying a home, but when had she ever told Zhang Yang? Yet he sounded so certain as he pushed her forward to speak.

In fact, it was a ploy. Zhang Yang wanted to lure someone out—ideally, someone who would point a finger in his face and challenge him. That someone was the eldest daughter of the Meng Family.

And after Zhang Yang had brought Zhang Xin'ai in, Cheng Jiali had told Meng Xue that he was visiting the Azure Brown Sea.

Zhang Yang and Meng Xue went back a long way. They didn't just live in the same city; they had been classmates.

They hadn't been ordinary classmates, either. Meng Xue came from Gong City's prominent Meng Family, with a powerful background to match. She was also strikingly beautiful in a cool, aloof way. For a time, Zhang Yang had been infatuated with her and tried to pursue her, only to fail miserably.

The last time Zhang Yang had gone house-hunting, he had looked at the Azure Brown Sea first. None of its homes appealed to him, though Cheng Jiali had been exceptionally enthusiastic. Then Meng Xue appeared, and Zhang Yang gave up on buying a place there altogether.

Meng Xue had mocked him, too.

But during those strange days when Zhang Yang had been trapped in the same day for a thousand years, he had deliberately sought her out—and succeeded. Even a woman as cold and proud as Meng Xue had once rested tenderly in his arms.

Only Zhang Yang remembered that past. Meng Xue had long since forgotten it.

In fact, besides Zhang Yang, perhaps only Lin Xiaofei knew of that past. He had told her about it, and she had witnessed him break