Qin Manjiang...
At the thought of him, everyone felt a little dazed.
Zhong Xueran, in particular, looked as though she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Seeing her expression, Shen Hai asked bluntly, "What do you want to say?"
Zhong Xueran shook her head slightly. "I... don't know if it's just my imagination."
"I keep feeling that Qin Manjiang doesn't leave as strong an impression on me now," she said quietly. At this point, seemingly afraid everyone would misunderstand, Zhong Xueran added, "Only compared to when I first met him. Back then, my impression of him was actually stronger. But at some point, Qin Manjiang started finding it very hard to leave a deep impression on people..."
Zhong Xueran's words stunned everyone present for a moment.
Even Shen Hai, who had first brought up Qin Manjiang, was searching his memories and pondering.
Apart from Xi Wutong, the other three-Shen Hai, Zhong Xueran, and Bai Yang-had to admit that the impression Qin Manjiang left on them was indeed fading little by little.
Just like earlier, when he said he was going to do something alone. In the past, Shen Hai would very likely have gone along.
But now, when Shen Hai heard Qin Manjiang mention it, he barely even responded.
"Something is definitely wrong." Shen Hai was the first to agree with Zhong Xueran.
He had been trying to recall when Qin Manjiang's "presence" had started to weaken.
But something like this was truly difficult to pin down. After all, he couldn't possibly think about Qin Manjiang every day. To identify the exact moment it began, they could only gather everyone's impressions and then make a judgment.
"It's pretty impressive that you noticed this at all," Shen Hai said.
Zhong Xueran shook her head. "I asked Qin Manjiang about Xu Yi.