Susu feigned extreme panic and fear, hurriedly avoiding him. "Who are you? What are you talking about? Go away, go away!"
Yang Sijie took a few steps back and said, "Okay, okay, I can go away, but do you know who you are? What will you do after I leave?"
"Right, who am I? What should I do?" Susu muttered, clutching her hair, looking utterly lost.
Yang Sijie still didn't quite believe she had amnesia again. He said, "Susu, your name is Gu Susu, and I am your boyfriend. Look carefully and try to remember."
Susu looked at him with feigned daze, trying hard to recall something. Suddenly, she said, "Oh, your face looks a bit familiar, but what's your name?"
"Yang Sijie." He took out his phone, found their old photos together, and intimate pictures of them, then handed them to Susu. "How about this, you look at our photos in the room first and try to recall something. I'm going out for a ride. When you remember something, you'll understand I'm not a bad person."
Susu numbly took his phone and said, "Okay."
He then turned and left, closing the room door.
Susu felt sweat all over her back, wondering if she had fooled him with her amnesia act.
She must have fooled him, or he wouldn't have given her his phone.
She held his phone, but instead of looking at the photos, she wanted to call Su Kangxi. However, she discovered that the phone had no signal at all.
She then tried to open the room door, but it wouldn't open.
She sat down, pressed her temples with her hands, and considered what to do.
They say a cunning rabbit has three burrows. She must have never been here before; this was likely Yang Sijie's new hiding place.
As she calmly contemplated, the house was deathly quiet, so quiet that she could hear her own breathing clearly.
She saw a floor-to-ceiling wooden window by the bed and tried to force it open.
A fresh scent of grass mixed with earth wafted towards her. Outside the window was a balcony.
Standing on the balcony, she looked out and saw nothing but endless grasslands in all directions, with blurred mountain outlines in the distance.
On the grass below the balcony, several horses were leisurely grazing. Where on earth was this place?
Susu thought it was a dream and pinched her finger.
But she wasn't dreaming; she could feel the pain.
She had no interest in admiring the scenery. No matter where this place was, it wasn't where she wanted to be.
Fortunately, the balcony wasn't high from the ground. The room she was in was on the second floor.
She closed her eyes and jumped from the balcony, thinking she should escape while Yang Sijie was away and then find someone to rescue Sophie.
She leaped forward, plunging down...
She landed on the grass below. Apart from a slight pain in her left shoulder, which was the first to contact the thick, soft grass, she was otherwise fine.
She immediately struggled to get up from the grass, spun around, and didn't know which direction to flee.
At that moment, the sound of hurried horse hooves came from not far away. She saw someone riding a tall, white steed galloping towards her.
She no longer had time to discern directions and instinctively fled in the opposite direction of the rider.
But her stumbling pace couldn't match the horse's speed, and she was quickly caught.
The rider galloped ahead of her, reined in the horse, and made it stop sideways in front of her. He glanced at her, then at the balcony above, and asked knowingly, "Did you jump from up there?"
Susu reverted to her dazed and helpless state and said, "I felt so stuffy in the room. I just wanted to stand on the balcony for some fresh air, but I accidentally fell."
Yang Sijie, on horseback, looked down at her and laughed. "You're so muddled. Have you remembered anything?"
Susu smiled at him and said, "Hmm, I think I've remembered a little. We used to be together all the time, right?"
Yang Sijie said noncommittally, "It's a start if you remember a little. As long as you're not afraid of me anymore."
Saying that, he dismounted and walked to her side. "Come, let's change into riding clothes, and I'll teach you how to ride."
Susu didn't move and tentatively asked, "What is this place? Is it a vacation spot? Are we here for a holiday?"
Yang Sijie stared into her eyes and smiled, "You could call it a holiday. Once you learn to ride, I'll take you around this estate."
"An estate? You said this is an estate?" Susu was astonished, took a few steps back, and looked up at the house behind her.
The beige English-style building, covered in ivy, stood in the grassland, completely integrated with nature. The sunlight was also shining on the roof, directly into Susu's eyes.
She covered her eyes with her hands, trying to block out the dazzling sunlight, and asked, "How long will we be staying here?"
Yang Sijie didn't seem to hear what she was saying. He was just gazing at her face, bathed in sunlight, and involuntarily lost his reason, preferring to believe she had truly lost her memory.
Susu didn't hear his response and turned to look at him again, saying, "This house is so beautiful."
"It's alright. The main entrance is around the front," Yang Sijie said, coming back to his senses.
At that moment, Susu's stomach rumbled loudly, clearly indicating hunger.
She covered her stomach with embarrassment and asked, "Is there any food? Let me fill my stomach before you teach me to ride."
"Of course," Yang Sijie said, leading the horse and gesturing for her to walk ahead.
Susu asked inexplicably, "Where are we going?"
"To the house through the main entrance to eat. Do you want to climb back from the balcony?"
"Oh, oh."
They went around to the front entrance. Susu saw the horse troughs not far from the house and wooden fences at intervals.
In front of the main entrance was a dense forest that blotted out the sky, but there were no roads, cars, or other people in sight.
Upon entering the house, Susu walked barefoot on the marble floor, her feet feeling so cold she instinctively tiptoed.
Yang Sijie walked behind her, looking at her delicate figure with a mix of love and hate. She, who had once vowed to be with him forever, now sought his death.
Her seemingly frail body was stubbornly and unyieldingly indestructible, which filled him with despair and coldness whenever he thought of it.
He suddenly stepped forward, grabbed her by the nape of her neck, scooped her up in his arms, and said, "Remember to wear shoes next time."
Susu nervously replied, "Okay."
Yang Sijie carried her into the dining room and placed her on a chair by the dining table. "Wait a few minutes."
Susu sat at the dining table, noticing that the tableware was all in a distinctly Nordic style, and she wondered about their location.
Had Yang Sijie brought her to an estate in Northern Europe?
But then she thought it unlikely. When Yang Sijie had tried to kill her, he was clearly preparing to flee.
That meant she and Su Kangxi had succeeded, successfully providing the foreign police with evidence of Yang Sijie's crimes.
Was he on the run?
If he was on the run, it was unlikely he would bring her to a place as far away as Northern Europe. But where exactly was this place?
She couldn't figure it out in a short time.