After the al, the Jiangs went back to their ho. After spending a little more ti with Lanni, Xiehan had to go back and complete his work so he left too. Now it was just Li Yuming and her daughters again.
Lanni went to her room and tried to call Cheng Yu again. Although the latter had given a false statent and fled, Lanni still felt there was more to it. That didn’t look like sothing Cheng Yu could do. She wanted to get to the bottom of it.
Who knew, perhaps Cheng Yu had been forced to give that statent by soone. If there was anyone who could force people into giving false statents against Xia Luna, there was no one aside from Li Xiyan who could be responsible for that. Just what lengths could that woman go just to fra Luna?
Lanni clenched her fists. If Li Xiyan could go to impossible lengths just to get rid of Luna, then she was no different. It didn’t matter what she would have to do. She would do what it took to get the truth out of Cheng Yu’s mouth.
Thinking about this, sothing surfaced in Lanni’s mind. She seed to have made a similar declaration before. She sat on the bed and cald down, making the mory more clear.
She was facing a white-haired elderly man as she boldly inquired, "What’s the aning of this? Why did you instruct us to lie about completing the investigation for this case when it is still unsolved? Are we just going to go with the flow and accuse the innocent like other people are? The purpose of this agency is to reveal the truth to the public and to the police. We help people get justice and expose evil. Why would you ask us to lie to the police then? If we lie, then what’s the purpose of this agency’s existence to begin with?"
"Little girl, stop asking questions and do as you have been told." He scoffed in annoyance at her irritating questions.
"No." Lanni firmly refused. "I will not be part of this. I stand for the truth no matter what. Even if it ans defying you, big boss, I’m not going to lie to the police or anyone. I am going to continue investigating this matter."
The mory fragnt ca to a stop, and Lanni was just as puzzled as she was proud.
She knew that sotis, being so bold was just the recipe for trouble. But recalling how decisive the past her was in standing for the truth, she felt like it was a good thing. She still couldn’t recall what case they were investigating or which innocent person was being accused. But it eased her mind a little. She had always feared that she might turn out to be a spy of sorts. But now that she had rembered this, she knew that she had been a good person.
Now that she rembered this, she wondered why Xia Luna didn’t want her to recover her mory. Wasn’t she a good person?
"Why ask myself questions when Luna is just a wall away?" Lanni thought out aloud. She stood up and went to Luna’s room.
"Co in," Luna said when she heard the soft knock on her door. When she saw Lanni, she looked at her curiously. "Why are you here? It’s already so late."
"I just wanted to have a small chat." Lanni walked in and sat on Luna’s bed.
"What is it, should I be anxious?" Luna half-joked.
"You don’t need to be anxious, silly. Can’t I just chat casually with my sister?" Lanni laughed although it was not just a casual chat. Luna sat next to her on the bed. As soon as Luna was more relaxed, Lanni asked, "Why didn’t you want to recover my mory?"
Luna remained silent for a while. They had been sweeping this under the mat for too long and it looked like it was ti to pull it right out and address it. "Well..."
"Well?" Lanni looked at her. Was it a long story?
Luna smiled. "It’s kind of... a complicated story."
When Xia Luna went into hiding, one of the things she did was thoroughly investigate Lanni. It took a long while and she was about to give up when she t soone. She had been sneaking to Lanni’s ward to visit her and one day while she was at it, she bumped into a man. She interrogated him and found out that his na was Flynn.
"So you t Flynn. Who is he anyway?" Lanni was even more curious when she heard this piece.
"Just listen, okay?" Luna said and continued narrating. After eting Flynn and finding out that Lanni was his trainee, she wanted to know what Lanni had been doing in secret. Flynn told her the truth but that was only because if he didn’t, Luna would use him as a clue and go seek the truth anyway. And the truth was that Lanni was an undercover journalist.
The agency they were working for was a newsgroup on the surface but secretly, they did investigations. They had managed to uncover the truth in many instances that people had played tricks. They would report the truth on the news and let it gain the attention of the police or the governnt.
"So that is what I was. An undercover journalist." Lanni didn’t know how to react to this news. "Why did you not want to recall my past then? Isn’t it a good thing?"
Luna facepald. "It was dangerous. Can’t you tell? You were just a rookie in that agency and were exposed to so much potential danger. Besides, you were asked to investigate Li Xiyan. That is how you got into so much trouble and guess who was responsible for your accident?" Luna took her hand. "Lanni, I knew you would want to go back to that place once you woke up. So in collaboration with Flynn, we found syrup that would make you forget everything.
That was how you lost your mory. Once you woke up, we knew that we couldn’t expel the possibility of you recovering your mory so I gave you those pills."
Lanni massaged her temples. She had not expected the truth to be like this. On several occasions, she had even assud that she was a bad person and that was why Luna didn’t want her to rember it, fearing that she would feel guilty.
"I’m sorry Lanni. I shouldn’t have made this decision for you." Luna apologized.
"You finally realize this." Lanni pouted, surprised that she wasn’t as angry as she had expected to be upon finding out the truth. Perhaps it was because she had learnt from the ti that they had spent together that Luna might have had reasons for doing what she did.
"Now I know the truth. I don’t know how to react." Lanni smiled, mocking herself for not knowing what to do.
"It’s understandable that you don’t." Luna breathed out a sigh. She felt much better now that the truth was already out of her mouth. It was no longer pent up inside her heart. "Don’t bla Xiao Yu. She remained silent about it because of the sa reason as mine. That, and the fact that I asked her to shut her mouth."
"Of course I don’t bla Xiao Yu." Lanni smiled. She had already guessed that her reason would be the sa as Luna’s. "How is she anyway? I’m worried about her. I think Li Xiyan might have hidden her sowhere."
"That’s what happened." Luna was disgusted just thinking about it. "Li Xiyan kept her captive."
Lanni stood up in shock. "What?! Why didn’t you tell anyone about it? Xiao Yu must be in danger!"
"Calm down, okay?" Luna pulled her back down. "I didn’t have a choice. Besides, this is just my speculation. Co, I’ll show you sothing."
Luna showed Lanni sothing on her laptop. She had found that Cheng Yu had been in the sa location and had not moved ever since the day she reportedly left B City. Li Xiyan had been to that place twice.
"That’s the only proof I have that Li Xiyan has sothing to do with her disappearance. I cannot report this to the police because it is at most coincidental. Do you get it now?"
Lanni sighed helplessly. "But your hearing is tomorrow. Who knows what Li Xiyan is planning? We should try to save her before then."
"I cannot leave the city, rember?" Luna was just as helpless.
"Luna, why didn’t you tell us? We could have thought of sothing." Lanni wanted nothing more than to strangle her sister. How could she keep such an important thing from them?
"I only found out a while ago," Luna explained. "All these days, I have been mad at Xiao Yu. I didn’t think of the possibility that she could have been forced. It only occurred to a while ago so I tried to look for her."
"Great. Just when I thought everything was going well."
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