72 Have you gone crazy?

Not just Li Lanni and Ji Xiehan, even Qiao Luna, who had just arrived with a new stack of documents, was shocked. 

"Enough!" Ji Xiehan couldn't stand it anymore. Even a fool wouldn't interrogate his friend's wife that way! 

Jiang Xingyu understood that he had crossed the line, and awkwardly apologized, "I'm sorry, I went a little overboard." 

Li Lanni's mouth slightly twitched. A little? CEO Jiang, you are being too humble. You went way too overboard! 

Even so, she smiled modestly to express that it was alright. But, in her brain, she had already killed Jiang Xingyu a thousand times and was concocting a revenge plan. One day when she had the opportunity, she would make him regret interrogating her. 

As she was already done with the negotiation, not wasting any more time, Li Lanni hurriedly slipped away. Damn it! That white-haired pervert was dangerous, but his friends were even more dangerous! 

...

As soon as Li Lanni left, Ji Xiehan sent Qiao Luna away and glared daggers at his friend. "What was all that about?" 

"Don't look at me like that! I was only asking a few questions to confirm my suspicions." Jiang Xingyu urgently defended himself. He felt that if looks could kill anyone, he would have been brutally murdered by his friend.

Ji Xiehan continued glaring at him wordlessly, so Jiang Xingyu could only explain helplessly, "There are too many obscure facts regarding my Little Xia. There are too many coincidences, and your Lanni is tied up with almost all of them." 

Ji Xiehan still stared at him with a blank face, not buying his explanation. Looking at his friend's expression Jing Xingyu understood that he did not believe in him. He awkwardly coughed and revealed. "Ahem, well... Little Xia was Xiao Yu's best friend, and they both disappeared at around the same time." 

Ji Xiehan finally had a reaction. "So, have you proved that Cheng Yu is this Little Xia you speak of? If so, stay away from my Lanni. You have already scared her enough." 

Jiang Xingyu looked extremely troubled then he sighed. "This is where a ticking time bomb lies." 

"What do you mean?" Ji Xiehan felt something terrible coming. 

"I trailed Cheng Yu last night and confirmed that she is Xiao Yu, not little Xia as you think." 

Ji Xiehan's spine went  cold as he stared at Jiang Xingyu with a blank face. "What are you trying to say?" 

Jiang Xingyu didn't want to say this either, but it was real, and the sooner they faced it, the better it would be for them. "I don't know why she doesn't recognize me nor why her temperament has changed, but I just confirmed that Li Lanni is Little Xia." 

The pen in Ji Xiehan's hand snapped in half. "What?!" 

Li Lanni, was that girl? Ji Xiehan didn't usually care about his friends' private matters, but what the heck was this?

His little beauty was Jiang Xingyu's Little Xia? 

"You must have gone crazy from looking for her. There's no way my Lanni can be some Little Xia you lost!" 

Jiang Xingyu looked even more lifeless. "I don't want to believe it either. But can two people have similar characteristics, including their looks? Not even cloning can produce that result. There's only one truth." 

Ji Xiehan was losing it. "Just two days ago, you were looking for Cheng Yu because of her painting. Isn't it because that painting called moonlight was made by this Little Xia you speak of?" 

Jiang Xingyu frowned. "You must have misunderstood something. "Moonlight" was Little Xia's painting, but it was gifted by her best friend Xiao Yu, and it was more important to her than anything else. I only wanted to look for Cheng Yu because I believed that if she is really the same Xiao Yu from back then, she would know where Xia is." 

Thinking of something, he took out his phone and looked for that painting before mumbling. "Eyes like the moon, soul like the stars but a personality like a sun. This statement was Xiao Yu's way of describing Little Xia. Don't you think it matches Lanni?" 

Ji Xiehan's eyes darkened when he thought about it. Eyes like the moon... if that was meant to describe Li Lanni's eye color, then the description was correct. 

But what about the latter two? 

A soul like the stars? A personality like a sun? What the heck was that? 

As though reading his mind, Jiang Xingyu continued, "I don't know what 'soul like the stars' means either. But 'personality like the sun,' surely you have always described her this way too. She can be warm sometimes, but when someone crosses her bottom line, she can be fatally dangerous." 

"I never said Lanni is like that." Ji Xiehan denied. 

"But Xia is." 

"That's Xia. Not Lanni." 

Actually, he was in disbelief too. He would never accept that the girl he had fallen in love with could be his best friend's love who appeared and disappeared mysteriously. 

In actual fact, he had never met that girl. All he knew was that Jiang Xingyu had fallen in love with a girl who he described to be "so beautiful that even angels would die of jealousy." He and Lin Jian didn't believe his nonsense, so they had spent days mocking him and laughing at his insane exaggeration. Out of frustration, he promised to let them see her.

But on the day he was going to introduce her to his friends, that girl simply vanished. Not only that, but Jiang Xingyu also couldn't find anything about her no matter how hard he tried. It was as though the girl didn't exist to begin with. 

He and Lin Jian had then believed that it was all made up. But now... he was claiming that the so-called beauty from another universe was his Lanni? Preposterous! 

He was starting to think that Jiang Xingyu might have a loose screw in his head. 

Jiang Xingyu was pissed off now. Won't you accept it? "Fine. You don't believe me? Then look at this." 

He searched for a long time before finding a picture in one of his social media posts from more than a year ago. 

The man in the picture was Jiang Xingyu, and a girl was clinging onto his arm, she was wearing a cute white dress and looked like a teenager. If he didn't trust his friend's morality, Ji Xiehan would have believed that the girl wasn't legal yet. 

But the most shocking thing was that girl was... 

"Lanni?!"