Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s Chapter 2982 - 2918: Not Alone Back Then

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Previously on Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s...
Jiang Shiheng reveals his dream involves a near-thirty Jiang Xiao falling down stairs, with both Meng Xinian and himself present but unable to save her. The dream's accuracy is questioned due to Jiang Xiao's current age and Meng Xinian's presence, and the fact that Jiang Shiheng and Jiang Xiao appear as strangers in the dream.

"What’s that supposed to mean?" Meng Xinian’s tone even sounded a little stiff.

"Like we don’t know each other at all."

Hearing that, Meng Xinian’s brows lifted; instead he actually felt there was a bit of hope.

"Then that’s even more unreasonable. If your dream is precognitive, then ten years from now we’d only be more familiar with each other—how could we possibly not know one another?"

Jiang Shiheng nodded as well.

He was thinking the same thing, and also felt this whole business didn’t add up.

Seeing them both fall into thought at the same time, Jiang Xiao opened her mouth, but then didn’t know where to start.

Say that she died and was reborn?

Too horrifying—she didn’t know if they could accept it.

Maybe they could, but she didn’t want the way they looked at her to change in the future.

Whether it was pitying the suffering she’d been through, resenting how foolish she’d been, or worrying she had some psychological shadow, or even hurting and hating on her behalf those people from before.

She didn’t want them to have any of those feelings.

So she hesitated again and again, and still couldn’t bring herself to tell the truth.

After Meng Xinian and Jiang Shiheng discussed a few more lines, they both turned to look at her, and their gazes were actually identical.

Worried, tenderly pained.

"Little, we’re talking to you about this because we know you’re strong enough, and we don’t want to hide anything from you. But promise Dad, don’t take this too much to heart. You know this dream is a bit different from the ones I had before, because there are too many unreasonable points, so apart from being extra careful in the future, don’t treat it as such a big deal."

As Jiang Shiheng spoke he reached out and ruffled Jiang Xiao’s hair.

Jiang Xiao nodded, quickly beaming them an extremely radiant smile.

"I know, I know, I won’t make a big deal of it. Dad, Brother Xinian, same goes for you—don’t keep it in mind, just forget about it. Dad, even though your dreams do have a certain degree of foresight, they’re not one hundred percent, right? Maybe this is just a dream that doesn’t really mean anything."

Forget it, forget it.

Now she already knew what had happened after her death in her previous life.

Back then she’d thought she just fell off that building and died all alone, but now she knew that on that day Meng Xinian and Jiang Shiheng had both been rushing over, risking everything to try to save her.

Back then they’d been in that same building.

Back then she hadn’t been as alone as she’d thought.

Knowing all this, she felt a lot more at peace inside.

Even though they still hadn’t managed to save her that time.

But that already made her feel very good—at least now, when she thought back on that day, she wouldn’t be as tormented and cold as before.

These two men had actually already been by her side back then.

Seeing that she really didn’t show even the slightest trace of worry or fear, Meng Xinian and Jiang Shiheng both genuinely felt their hearts loosen.

The main reason they’d been worried was also that they were afraid she wouldn’t be able to handle it, afraid she’d be scared.

Otherwise, with how resolute they both were inside, they would definitely find a way to choke this kind of thing off at the source, never give it a chance to happen—it really wouldn’t be enough to send them into a panic.

Meng Xinian also reached out and touched Jiang Xiao’s head, praising, "I knew Little wouldn’t be afraid."

Snort.

Jiang Shiheng very much wanted to puncture his son-in-law’s lie.

"Who was it whose face just changed color?" he said mildly.

Meng Xinian shot him a look and added, "Dad’s face hasn’t looked too good this whole time."

His changed only when he heard it just now—but what about him?

He’d been dreaming about this for so long, and even now his face still looked bad; obviously he’d been worried the whole time.