Chapter 214: There Are No Enemies of Yours Here

An Qing froze first. 

After the words left her mouth, before An Yu could even react, she never expected she would ask something like that.

It had come almost on instinct. It was also what she truly wanted to know.

Even though An Yu had no memories of their previous life and didn’t know what had happened between them back then, An Qing still wanted to know how An Yu saw her.

She subconsciously averted her gaze, almost afraid to look at the girl beneath her.

Despite the fear in her heart, An Qing didn’t pull away. She maintained this position.

She wanted to hear the answer from An Yu’s own lips.

Even if that answer wasn’t what she wanted to hear.

At the same time, An Qing wasn’t the only one stunned.

An Yu lay on the sofa, a trace of surprise appearing in her eyes for the first time.

By rights, she had already asked everything she wanted to. Why add a question like this at the last minute?

She didn’t understand why An Qing would ask something like that.

Actually, An Qing was also part of the An family, wasn’t she? So what exactly did An Qing mean to An Yu?

An Yu blinked expressionlessly, looking at the girl in front of her whose expression seemed a little strange. Her small mouth parted slightly, but no words came out.

It feels… so familiar?

An Yu blinked blankly again. A strange sense of familiarity surged in her heart.

But she quickly pushed that feeling aside. An Qing… was just An Qing.

To her, An Qing was merely a stranger. She had no way to give her any kind of evaluation.

If Ning Wanciu had asked her this question, she would have answered that she was an important friend, an indispensable big pillow.

But An Qing was different.

Whatever An Qing was had nothing to do with her.

From the very beginning, An Yu had decided she didn’t want any relationship with her.

“What… that…”

An Qing turned her head away, refusing to look at An Yu.

Yet her tone made it clear she didn’t accept An Yu’s answer.

Even though they could only be considered strangers now, she still sought this one answer.

“I don’t know anything more.”

Seeing An Qing’s somewhat aggrieved expression, An Yu subconsciously reached out and gently poked her cheek with a finger.

Ever since she got to know Ning Dongli, she had grown more and more fond of doing this.

“But I know we are not enemies.”

An Yu’s gaze was incredibly serious. She didn’t know what An Qing was trying to get from her.

The only thing she could do was answer honestly.

From beginning to end, they had never been enemies.

No matter who An Qing held a grudge against, it had nothing to do with her.

She hadn’t done anything, and nothing had happened between her and An Qing.

As for what the original An Yu had done to An Qing, that was beyond her control.

An Yu wouldn’t take responsibility for things she hadn’t done.

That said, she didn’t really dislike An Qing.

They were simply strangers, not actual enemies.

“An Yu…”

An Qing gritted her teeth. Getting the answer did nothing to ease the irritation in her heart.

An Yu’s eyes were filled with sincerity, but it was that very sincerity that stung An Qing.

She was telling the truth. She had never seen herself as an enemy and had never thought about fighting over anything.

Everything had been An Qing’s one-woman show all along.

From start to finish…

What was she supposed to do now? An Yu had never responded to her, not even once! Now she had gotten a clear answer, but it had only pushed her deeper into the abyss.

Revenge?

An Yu didn’t care at all. What was there for her to take revenge for?

Investigation?

Even An Yu herself likely wouldn’t know why things had turned out that way in the previous life. How was she supposed to investigate?

There was no one she could rely on. The only one who had come back through rebirth was herself.

Because of her own actions, she had even lost the last person she could depend on.

An Qing stared straight at An Yu, wanting to say something, but the words wouldn’t come out in the end.

“My questions… are done.”

An Qing’s voice trembled. Using the last shred of her sanity, she moved away from An Yu.

Her crimson eyes held only near-desperate emptiness and unresolvable confusion.

She now knew what An Yu thought, but the number of things she couldn’t figure out had only grown.

“You can go, An Yu.”

With that, An Qing made way and let An Yu leave.

[Host, An Qing’s hatred value has dropped significantly!]

The System Lady reminded An Yu in her mind. An Yu showed no particular reaction. She nodded without responding to the System and slowly walked up to An Qing. Then she poked her cheek with her finger once more.

What she didn’t say was that An Qing’s expression… looked very pained.

It felt like An Qing was about to break.

“Don’t be sad. Here, there are no enemies of yours.”

This was An Yu’s final reminder.

She was reminding An Qing that she wasn’t her enemy. Even while touching her like this, she wouldn’t hurt her.

The scheming An Yu no longer existed. Now there was only the slacking An Yu.

An Qing’s delicate body trembled lightly, her heartbeat growing faster and faster.

Looking at the dazed girl before her, she really wanted to forget all of it, grab her, and pin her down again.

But An Qing couldn’t do that. She no longer had the right, and she had even lost the reason known as revenge.

She reached out, wanting to grasp the girl’s finger that touched her cheek, but ultimately couldn’t bring herself to do it.

“Go… away…”

An Qing spoke with difficulty, wanting to drive the girl in front of her away.

An Yu had wanted to return to her room from the start. Hearing An Qing’s words now, she paused in obvious surprise, tilting her head in confusion. But she quickly nodded again.

“Oh.”

After responding with an extremely indifferent “Oh,” An Yu turned and left without any hesitation or reluctance.

An Qing probably didn’t need her anymore, so it was time to make her escape.

What An Yu didn’t notice was that the moment she turned to leave, An Qing subconsciously reached out to grab the hand that had poked her cheek.

Unfortunately, she hadn’t been able to hold it earlier, and now she was even less able to.

That finger slipped easily from her grasp, with no intention of returning.

Just like An Yu herself.

Watching An Yu’s departing back, An Qing had no strength left.

She collapsed onto the sofa, her eyes filled with confusion.

“What’s the point of all this…?”

As a reborn person, An Qing didn’t feel even the slightest advantage.

Instead, she felt like her rebirth had ruined everything.

She would rather not have any memories of her previous life right now.

At least… that way she could be fooled by An Yu one more time.

An Qing gently touched her own cheek, repeating the words An Yu had just said.

“Don’t be sad. Here, there are no enemies of yours…”

In her previous life… she had said the same thing.

She had said the same thing in her previous life.