A few months ago.
"I am not Alix."
Ren Luoyang and Ren Cuifen looked at her, stumped. They were at the hospital to et their daughter who had woken up after a six month long coma. They had expected a teary reunion with her, not a cold, unfeeling expression from her who was looking at them as if they were strangers.
There was no warmth in those eyes and neither recognition.
Ren Cuifen was confused. "We don't understand dear…"
She took a few long monts because she understood their confusion. She also predicted their future reaction.
"It ans that only this body belongs to your daughter. The soul inside it is sobody else's. I am not Ren Alix. I just look like her. I am a different person."
They didn't believe her. It wasn't that difficult, considering Alix's personality changes just before her accident. They surmised that the fall sohow affected sothing in her brain.
Did she develop that…what we call split personality?
"This is not split personality either," she said, reading their gazes like an open book.
"Your daughter died in the fall. Now don't ask how but it's like my soul got fixed in this body. I was also dead at so point."
"We don't understand what you are saying dear," Ren Luoyang tried to be supportive but couldn't hide his hesitation.
"Have you heard of reincarnation? Sa body but different soul. That's what happened with Ren Alix."
"That is just a fictional concept-"
"And it has happened to your daughter in reality. It's not so fictional anymore."
There was a beat of long silence.
"There is nothing wrong with my brain. I rember pretty much everything? Though there are so gaps here and there. But the truth of the matter is that your daughter is gone and I am alive through her body now."
Ren Cuifen trembled. "Please…please don't say such things! I-I can see my daughter right in front of ," tears rimd in her eyes.
"That's just her physical body."
Ren Luoyang was slightly losing his patience. "Enough Alix. You have no right to hurt your mother like that."
Suddenly, a chill settled in her eyes that they had never seen before, even after Alix had changed.
"Then what do you prefer? Play house-house with a dead daughter? Shower your love to so fake person in false beliefs? Yes, it is certainly tempting. It will let you escape the grief of losing your daughter. But do you really want to live a life like that? A life where you never ca to learn that your daughter was long gone this whole ti."
They froze, their faces turning ashen.
Ren Cuifen stared into her eyes for a long ti and in so tiny corner of her heart, a sinking feeling resonated within it.
She really…looks different.
She couldn't point her finger where but her daughter's deanor, her aura, her chilly gaze, her slight tilting of head and the unfamiliarity towards them in her expression - began to dawn the inexplicable reality.
"M-Maybe you have lost so mories so you must be feeling confused."
But she proved her wrong when she recapped so very key events from Alix's life. So mories were hazy and fuzzy but overall, her mories weren't the problem.
Silence.
She leaned back against the pillow. "I told you because as parents, you deserved to know. I am not saying to believe right away. But you will eventually see it and understand it. I understand her a bit from her mories and I am nowhere like Ren Alix. She was strong, confident but not nearly evil enough, unlike who…well, ignorance is bliss."
They shook hard.
Was strong…
Their daughter was already being referred to in the past tense.
Ren Cuifen broke down. She couldn't hold her tears back any longer. The more she talked, the more she could feel it as a mother. She could sense that the daughter she was trying to search in those eyes wasn't anywhere.
But they stopped the conversation there. Then ti passed. She started living at the Ren villa and that was when they began to realize it.
Alix's tastes had changed. The things she liked, the things she disliked, her interests, her mannerisms, everything was starkly different from Alix's. It just ca naturally to her so there was no way that it was any sort of acting.
The inevitable dawned on them.
Her tastes hadn't changed. The person inside had.
"Who…who are you?" Ren Cuifen asked one day during breakfast, her heart crushed and defeated.
Ren Luoyang's tired expression wasn't any different from his wife's.
She raised her gaze and watched them carefully.
"I told you before at the hospital. Ignorance is bliss."
They pressed on. "Please?"
Her eyes looked devoid of any warmth.
"I would rather not utter my old na again. That na is gone and so is that life. But."
She looked back at them.
"What I can certainly say is that I will take good care of Alix's body. I won't let a single harm co to her anymore. From her mories…it is hard to believe her change. I cannot see your daughter ever becoming like the way she did. She was too smart and too good to get this blind and crazy in love. She was not supposed to beco a disappointnt."
They trembled.
"So what I do assure you is that if there is any funny business here, then there is hell lot to pay."
The couple looked stunned. "Funny business? You don't think that A-Alix…"
She smiled. "The world is sotis a very dark place and even darker are people's hearts. But don't worry. I am the perfect person to fight sches and darkness. You better not ss with ."
A sharp shudder shook them and they swallowed a gulp.
My daughter never held this evil look…
Ah she…is really not our Alix anymore…
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At present, Ren Luoyang grabbed Yuze by his collar carrying the fury of a father and the weight of a dead daughter on his shoulders.
"We should have seen it. We should have recognized your true face! It might be late now…but it is not over. You will pay for everything you did, Kang Yuze!"
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