Falling For The Contract Bride

Falling For The Contract Bride Chapter 302

Chapter 302 She Doesn’t Know Xie Xiu at All

The butler instructed the other servants to clean up the acrylic paints and antiques in several organized batches. He stopped his motions as soon as he heard what Mu Zhi had to ask.

He asked Mu Zhi in confusion, “Madam, what do you mean by that?” Mu Zhi became reluctant. She too, had no idea why the question slipped her tongue, and she couldn’t explain it to the butler.

Her rational mind told her that she shouldn’t believe in what a strange woman had to say about Xie Xiu’s past.

After all, he was her husband. Although she had lost her memories, through Xie Xiu’s description of their love story in the past, she could understand that they were deeply in love.

Moreover, Mu Zhi had seen how Xie Xiu treated her in the past five years.

The Xie Xiu whom the woman described was someone she had zero knowledge of and someone she would not trust.

Mu Zhi figured that their relationship should be built upon a foundation of trust.

Thus, she swiftly shook her head and said to the butler, “Nah, nothing. I’m just asking. I’m tired, let me head back into the room for some rest.”

Following that, she stood up and headed upstairs, straight towards the bedroom.

She only came out of her room for a few bites of food during mealtimes and spent the rest of her time hiding in her room.

…

Meanwhile, after receiving news of Rao Xue, Xie Xiu sent his men to follow up with the information. He rushed to the location when the subordinates came back to report to him of her whereabouts.

At last, when he arrived at the scene, Rao Xue was nowhere to be found.

Xie Xiu snapped at the secretary who brought the information to him, “Is this all you have?”

His tone was shockingly old. The secretary’s knees buckled upon hearing his words, explaining to him, “Apologies, this is the intel we were given. I was following Secretary Rao Xue, but someone lost her in the process. It is my fault!”

The secretary uttered Rao Xue’s title in the past due to anxiousness, which angered Xie Xiu further. He glared at the secretary with furrowed brows, “Find her at once, if you fail to locate her, just take your own life before I do!”

In between his wrathful words, Xie Xiu hastily entered his car, disregarding the secretary completely.

“Mr. Xie, please calm down.”

The woman on the driver’s seat comforted him.

But it did not alleviate his agonizing headache. Xie Xiu had never driven himself, having had numerous servants to handle the chores for him.

However, in this instance, he thought he needed some fresh air. Glancing at the driver, he muttered, “Get lost.”

The woman looked at him through the rearview mirror, not knowing what he meant.

However, upon a closer look at Xie Xiu’s contemptuous expression, she did not dare slight his command for another second and swiftly left the car.

Xie Xiu then took the wheels and set off with an engine rev.

Rao Xue tricked Xie Xiu’s subordinate into bringing him to the neighboring city. It was where Xie Xiu used as a base to train them and was a distance away from where he lived.

Xie Xiu accommodated Mu Zhi in another city so he could take care of her.

On the journey home, Xie Xiu had a bad hunch. He somehow felt that Mu Zhi was slowly drifting away from him.

Mu Zhi had a mental block which subsequently prevented her from experiencing intimacy. Despite not consummating their marriage, Xie Xiu had never felt uncomfortable. But now… For some reason, he felt an indescribable fear.

Xie Xiu despised losing control of his emotions. He sped all the way from the neighboring city towards home.

As soon as he arrived at home, he asked the butler if he noticed any abnormally in Mu Zhi during the day.

The butler replied honestly, including the question she asked about Xie Xiu and how she appeared drowsy the entire day. After listening to the butler’s recollection, Xie Xiu slowly moved upstairs.

Mu Zhi was not asleep. She was lying in bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Her mind was blank. She had tried to recall her past using the methods taught by the psychologist. She had several different methods, but to no avail.

Instead, her headache grew sharper.

She was supposed to have countless pleasant memories with Xie Xiu, but why could she not recall a single thing about it? The harder Mu Zhi tried, the stronger the disappointment felt.

There was a period when she thought that the memories weren’t too important. She figured that she could make new memories with Xie Xiu and that the most important thing was they were in love.

But she suddenly became eager to retrieve her lost memories.

With that said, her efforts were in vain.

At this moment, she heard a series of footsteps approaching the room. Mu Zhi frowned at the sound of it. Upon ascertaining that they belonged to Xie Xiu, Mu Zhi instantly shut her eyes, and the next thing she could hear was Xie Xiu opening the door with a click.

Mu Zhi did not greet him. She was pretending to be sleeping soundly.

Xie Xiu glimpsed at Mu Zhi before turning back out.

He was assured that Mu Zhi had fallen asleep.

When Xie Xiu had left the room, she opened her eyes once again, staring at the already-shut door, feeling oddly unfamiliar.

It was the first time she felt that everything about her surrounding was strange.

She slowly took out her phone and keyed into the search bar, ‘behavioral disorder amnesia’.

A flurry of advertisements popped up at the search.

Mu Zhi ignored the advertisements, and suddenly, an article caught her attention.

It was a narrative-style article by a doctor, providing a fresh perspective on the behavioral disorder.

In the past, Mu Zhi’s doctor had only attempted to cure her disorder through encouraging interactions between her and Xie Xiu, hoping to crack her mental block using her subconscious emotions.

But the key principle of this article described every behavioral disorder as a form of flight response – to protect the individual.

Mu Zhi was startled. None of the doctors she saw over the years mentioned such a point.

Thus, she tapped into the article out of curiosity.

It was not difficult to understand. The introduction was a succinct explanation of the concept of memories embedded in every human being. When one had experienced amnesia, despite losing the memories, one would have certain conditional reflexes that triggered the nervous system’s protective response.

Mu Zhi finished the 3000-word article before she could realize it.

Then, she promptly researched other articles that the same doctor had published.

The doctor was currently the top-ranked doctor in Germany.