Chapter 306: Su Yan is a Fake

Regarding the address "Brother Gu Yang," every cell in Gu Yang's body radiated a sense of resistance and discomfort.

"Miss Kong, could I please ask you not to call me that? We are not that close."

The expression on Kong Nian's face froze instantly. She hadn't expected that in just a few short days, the feeling between them would have become so distant.

"Who says we aren't close?"

A furrow formed between Gu Yang's brows, shaped like the character "Chuan."

Kong Nian continued, "The reason I asked Brother Gu Yang to come here is because I want to tell you exactly who I am!"

Gu Yang's heart skipped a beat, and he actually felt a momentary sense of suffocation.

"No matter who you are, we don't have..."

Without even waiting for him to finish his sentence, Kong Nian interrupted him with full confidence. "Brother Gu Yang, can you really not recognize me? You personally promised my mother that you would take care of me for the rest of our lives. Have you forgotten everything?"

Gu Yang felt a buzzing in his brain, rendering him unable to think normally.

Kong Nian seemed to have anticipated this reaction; the gaze she directed at him grew even more intense.

"Who exactly are you?" Reason told Gu Yang that it was absolutely impossible for him to be mistaken. And it wasn't just him—there were also his parents and Su Jianguo. Even if he couldn't recognize Su Yan, how could Su Jianguo possibly mistake his own biological daughter?!

Yet, Kong Nian's words just now were telling him with absolute certainty that she was the Su Yan from their childhood!

As if exerting great effort to suppress her surging emotions, Kong Nian rose slowly and walked up to Gu Yang.

Her eyes brimmed with crystalline tears, looking at Gu Yang as if he were her closest kin.

"Brother Gu Yang, who else could I be? I am your Yan Yan."

As the words fell, tears flowed. Though they blurred her vision, her heart felt deathly cold.

Su Yan had stolen her energy, and she was going to steal everything that belonged to Su Yan!

Ever since the day she learned that Gu Yang and Su Yan were engaged, she had been unable to sleep.

The memories buried deep in her mind surged forth incessantly, until she arrived at an incredibly shocking realization.

She knew full well who those memories originally belonged to. For all these years, she had chosen to ignore them, until she met Gu Yang and recognized him as the boy from her memories. Only then did she dig those memories up again.

Originally, she hadn't cared much about Gu Yang, because she knew very well what she wanted; how could she be influenced by someone else's memories?

But as so many strange things had happened lately, her thoughts had begun to change.

Suddenly, a Su Yan appeared, and this Su Yan was actually Gu Yang's fiancée.

In her memories, Gu Yang would absolutely never marry anyone other than that girl.

At first, she hadn't linked Su Yan to that girl, but in the dungeon, Su Yan had seized her energy!

Su Yan was not a member of the Feng family, so even if she spoke out, even Kong Xiang wouldn't believe her.

But what if Su Yan was that child from their childhood?

What if that energy originally belonged to Su Yan?

Then wouldn't everything make sense?

And it wasn't until that moment that she truly noticed the child in her memories was called "Yan Yan."

Yan Yan, Su Yan.

Su Yan, Yan Yan.

Everything became crystal clear, yet Kong Nian's heart sank completely.

She finally knew Su Yan's true identity, but she also felt an unprecedented sense of crisis and rage.

She did not intend to tell anyone about this, and she would absolutely never let the Kong family know that Su Yan was Kong Xiangrou's daughter.

Although Su Yan's supernatural abilities had been extracted by the family since she was a child, she had still become an Exorcist. She would take this secret to her grave.

In the Kong family, no one could replace her position. Absolutely no one!

Compared to Kong Nian's hidden hatred, Gu Yang's heart was experiencing a violent storm.

His chest heaved heavily, and he still felt as though he were suffocating.

"How could you possibly be Yan Yan?"

"But I am your Yan Yan! I remember that when we were little, my favorite thing to do was to follow you around. You climbed trees to pick wild fruit for me, waded into the river to catch small fish for me, and brought delicious candies to me at the school gate. I remember every single thing you did and every word you said!"

Kong Nian's tears continued to fall, her emotions intense and her devotion profound.

Gu Yang, however, felt as if he had been struck by a bolt of lightning.

Everything she just said was true!

Looking at his shocked and pale face, Kong Nian gave him no chance to react. "Brother Gu Yang, I really am Yan Yan. I thought I would never see you again in this lifetime; it is as if Heaven itself is helping us reunite."

"No, that's impossible... absolutely impossible..." Gu Yang felt waves of dizziness. No matter what, he could not accept this fact.

Seeing his resistance through her tear-filled eyes, Kong Nian's heart was shrouded in gloom.

She let out a cold sneer; no matter what he thought, she would not change her mind.

"Brother Gu Yang, I know you must be frightened. I can wait, no matter how long it takes."

Gu Yang felt like he was suffocating; there was nothing in his wavering eyes but doubt.

"Yan Yan is by my side right now. I don't care how you know our memories, but you are not her!"

Compared to the Kong Nian in front of him, he trusted his own feelings more!

Kong Nian was overcome with grief. "Brother Gu Yang, even if you have changed your heart and fallen for that impostor, I won't blame you. But you cannot deny my identity. I am the real Su Yan. If you don't believe me, you can go ask that impostor; she absolutely cannot know everything we experienced in the past."

The Second Elder had told her with certainty that because an accident had occurred while they were extracting that child's abilities, her memories had been extracted along with them. Therefore, she could not possibly remember anything from before.

This was exactly where her confidence in impersonating Su Yan came from!

"Do you think Uncle Su and I are fools? That we wouldn't recognize her?" This was the only reason Gu Yang could use to argue back with conviction.

Kong Nian had already thought of this, and she wept bitterly. "At that time, my mother and I returned to her maternal home, but they wouldn't allow me to go back with her. So, they found a child who looked very much like me to take my place. I was so small back then; I only knew that my mother had abandoned me with that child."

Gu Yang slumped into his chair, unable to think normally anymore. He couldn't even hear what Kong Nian said after that.

"Gu Yang, are you okay? Don't scare me like this!"

As evening approached, Lu Feng and Gu Yang returned to the publishing house.

Seeing Gu Yang looking as if he had lost his soul, Lu Feng was so anxious he broke into a sweat, constantly trying to snap him out of his vacant stare.

The two had worked together for many years, and based on his understanding of Gu Yang, he knew that something monumental must have happened.

(End of Chapter)