Hospital 444
Chapter 483 - 10: Li Zhixiao (5)

Chapter 483: Chapter 10: Li Zhixiao (5)

After Li Zhixiao finished his call with Liu Gang, his meal was served completely.

He put down his phone and had just taken a few bites when he saw his phone light up again.

He picked up his phone and saw, to his surprise, the caller was...

Lin Lu?

Why was it her?

Li Zhixiao answered the call.

"Hello?"

"Li Zhixiao, why did you call me so many times?"

Lin Lu had blocked Li Zhixiao from her friend circle, but hadn’t yet added his number to her blacklist. On his way to the police station, Li Zhixiao had called her several times, but she hadn’t picked up.

He had not expected her to call him now.

"I..."

He felt that even if he asked her if she was already dead, she would most likely call him crazy, right?

But what Lin Lu said next was far beyond his expectation.

"Today is Mange’s death anniversary, do you have something you want to tell me?"

At the mention of the "death anniversary," Li Zhixiao was completely shaken!

He...

He wasn’t crazy!

It wasn’t just his memory where Lu Mange had died!

"Say that again... death anniversary, right? Mange’s death anniversary! That term is used to commemorate someone’s death, correct?"

"What’s wrong with you, are you out of your mind? Do you have a problem in your head?"

"Where are you? I’m coming to find you right now! I have something important about Mange to tell you!"

He quickly called the waiter over, had the meal packed up, and then dashed out of the mall.

An hour later, he arrived at an open-air café in a sunken plaza.

Lin Lu was sitting there.

He rushed up to Lin Lu, gasping for breath, and showed her the photo of "Lu Mange" on his phone.

Now, his phone was filled with countless photos of this "Lu Mange."

"Who is this?" Lin Lu asked suspiciously, looking at the photo: "Did you come just to show me this?"

"You don’t recognize this person, right? You don’t know her, do you?"

"Should I know her?" Lin Lu asked, moving closer to examine the phone carefully. Then she shook her head and said, "I absolutely don’t recognize this person. Did Mange know her before she died?"

Li Zhixiao had not expected...

Lin Lu was still in a "normal state"! She was still normal!

"Now, let me tell you something." He sat down and said, "This morning..."

"Make it short," said Lin Lu. "I don’t have time for a drawn-out story."

"It’s hard to make it short..."

"So let’s keep it simple, who is this woman? Why are you showing me her photo?"

Li Zhixiao clenched his teeth and said, "This woman, she’s impersonating Mang Ge. But, in the police station, Mang Ge’s household registration file belongs to this person. Even Mang Ge’s parents recognize her as Mang Ge!"

Well, to make a long story short.

Lin Lu was completely stunned.

"What did you say?"

"This woman has essentially turned into Mang Ge. She even has the keys to my house, and all the photos I took with Mang Ge in my phone have been replaced with her. Even all of Mang Ge’s social media accounts have changed to her!"

Lin Lu immediately picked up her phone to check the content Lu Mange had posted on Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and TikTok.

As she carefully scrutinized that content, her face changed color.

"Who exactly is this person!" She stood up quickly and said, "She even stole Mang Ge’s social media accounts... Ah, wait, that’s not right. What’s going on here? This photo?"

She saw a photo posted on Lu Mange’s Xiaohongshu account that shockingly included both Lin Lu herself and this "Lu Mange"!

"The most critical point is, Mang Ge’s parents! They too..."

With that, he recounted to Lin Lu in front of him the whole experience from that morning.

Lin Lu’s face grew uglier by the minute.

"Are you kidding me? Mang Ge’s parents can’t recognize their own daughter?"

"If you don’t believe it, just call Mang Ge’s parents and show them that photo, ask them if that’s their daughter."

Lin Lu scoffed, "What are you playing at, Li Zhixiao? What conspiracy are you plotting?"

Li Zhixiao knew that Lin Lu had never liked him.

She always thought that his pursuit of the well-off Lu Mange was just for money, to climb the social ladder, and never believed it was true love.

However, seeing Li Zhixiao speak so convincingly started to make Lin Lu hesitate. After thinking it over, she picked up her phone and made a call.

"Hello, Auntie?" Lin Lu had always had a good relationship with Lu Mange’s parents, "It’s like this... uh, there’s something about Mang Ge, her social media accounts seem to have been hacked. Yeah, I’m going to send you a photo to see if you recognize this person..."

Not long after, Lin Lu’s face began to look even worse.

"Auntie, are you seeing the photo I sent clearly... You, you’re saying this person is Mang Ge... I haven’t mistaken her, you say she’s Mang Ge, how is that possible... Wait, wait a moment, you’re saying, Mang Ge is at your place now? What, what are you talking about?"

...

Lin Lu held her forehead with both hands, looking at the phone in front of her, at all those chat records between "her" and "Lu Mange."

"What in the world is going on?"

"To put it simply, it seems that only you and I remember that Mang Ge is no longer with us," Li Zhixiao said to Lin Lu, "Now, let’s check our memories and see if our recollection of Mang Ge’s death match up in detail. Mang Ge passed away on the day of our wedding anniversary, when I was driving her..."

"I know the incident better than you do. The drunk driver was named Wang Zhong. He had downed a bottle of baijiu and took to the road, so drunk that he could barely hold onto the steering wheel. Then, he crashed straight into your car. Wang Zhong fled the scene of the accident, and since the area was rather remote and lacked surveillance, he wasn’t apprehended until several weeks after the incident."

As the two compared notes, one sentence at a time, they found that their memories matched perfectly.

Li Zhixiao was now completely sure that he absolutely did not have any neurological issues.

It couldn’t possibly be that he and Lin Lu were both suffering delusions with exactly the same details in their memories, right?

"In the whole world, only our memories contain the fact that Lu Mange is dead. But everyone else, including my parents, say that woman is Lu Mange, saying I’ve been married to her up to now. Do you think that’s possible?"

After thinking for a long time, Lin Lu said, "Arrange to meet that woman, I want to confront her face to face. What a joke, for someone to be impersonating the dead Mang Ge!"

"But why even Mang Ge’s parents, and even my parents?"

"So, this must be an earth-shattering conspiracy, with a mastermind plotting everything from behind the scenes! Otherwise, nothing makes sense. Alright, tonight, tonight, give her a call, then arrange to meet her. I’ll bring my ex-boyfriend; he’s a fitness trainer. If she brings people from the criminal gang behind her, we’ll fight back! "