It Seems I’m Not The Only One Who Reincarnated

Zhu Lingjie slowly regained consciousness.

When she opened her eyes, she saw a layout identical to her home but mirrored.

Where is this…

She suddenly sat up, realizing where she was.

“Lingling, you’re awake.”

A familiar, gentle voice reached her ears, briefly leaving her dazed.

She instinctively called out.

“Mom…?”

Liu Zhenshan tilted her head, resting a hand on her cheek, smiling.

“Oh my, I’m your Aunt Liu, not your mom.”

“Ah—!”

Zhu Lingjie realized she had addressed her incorrectly and quickly waved her hands to explain.

“I’m sorry… Aunt Liu… I must’ve been groggy…”

“It’s okay. I’ve watched you grow up. It’s no problem if you call me mom.”

“Thank you…”

Seeing Liu Zhenshan upon waking up made Zhu Lingjie feel at ease.

She recalled what happened before she fainted…

Her psychological condition, which she thought was cured, had flared up again.

And it had hit her particularly hard this time.

Even in the past, when she had similar feelings, they never led to her fainting outright.

Could it be that while she had mentally overcome her issues, her body had not fully adapted?

Zhu Lingjie thought of how she gradually got closer to Shi Hai, initially unable to hold hands but eventually becoming comfortable with intimacy, even craving it.

Liu Zhenshan looked at Zhu Lingjie with concern and asked, “Lingling, are you feeling alright? When Shi Hai carried you back, I was really shocked.”

Hearing this, Zhu Lingjie was startled and quickly asked, “Wait, Shi Hai brought me here—?!”

“Yes, you fainted at your door, and it was left open.”

“Uh-huh… So… Aunt Liu, where is Shi Hai now?”

“He’s cleaning your house.”

“Huh…? Cleaning?”

Why would he be in her house? And cleaning?

Zhu Lingjie was full of questions.

Liu Zhenshan explained, “He said you probably fainted from the dust since your house had been vacant for so long. So he’s doing some quick cleaning.”

Though it sounded far-fetched to a regular person that one would faint from dust, Liu Zhenshan knew Zhu Lingjie’s extreme cleanliness, bordering on OCD, so she found Shi Hai’s reasoning plausible.

Zhu Lingjie felt warmth in her heart, realizing that Shi Hai remembered her issues with cleanliness even at this stage.

She had thought Shi Hai didn’t care about her during their university days.

Especially since Shi Hai’s stunned reaction when they first met had already cooled half her heart.

Zhu Lingjie got up from the sofa and said, “I’d like to go see too…”

“No need, Lingling. Just wait here until Shi Hai finishes cleaning. What if you faint again?”

“It’s okay, Aunt Liu… I’m not that obsessed with cleanliness anymore…”

At least her fainting wasn’t due to her cleanliness obsession.

Her psychological issues were multifaceted, but at the root was her distrust and aversion to men.

In other words, she found things ‘dirty’ not because they were inherently unclean, but because she thought ‘this might have been touched by a man,’ thus psychologically deeming it dirty.

So even if her house was covered in dust, she wouldn’t have reacted.

Her real reason for fainting was imagining Shi Hai and Jian Sichun together.

It was just like catching her father cheating…

But this isn’t cheating… This isn’t cheating!

At this time, Shi Hai was free to date anyone—!

She could only blame herself for not acting sooner…

Right, Shi Hai was innocent.