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Chapter 393 Chapter 391: The Increasingly Close Truth

Dec 02, 2025 1,278 words

Chapter 391: The Increasingly Close Truth

Su Tao picked up the phone and easily entered the password.

"030824."

The moment the password was correct, Su Tao felt a warmth in her heart.

It was her birthday.

"Xiao Cheng's phone password has always been this, ever since she was little..."

She sighed with emotion, but she also knew that this wasn't her real birthday. The old woman who raised her had told her before she passed away.

When she was found, it was in the first half of the year. At that time, she was an unregistered person. Apart from the words "Su Tao" on the jade pendant, there was no other information.

When they registered her identity, they simply made up a date.

Even though it wasn't real, Su Tao had always considered it her birthday.

The phone unlocked, Su Tao shook off the trace of memories that had been stirred up in her mind.

The most important thing now was to confirm the relationship between Xiao Cheng and Cheng Cheng.

Su Tao first clicked into Chi Xiaocheng's WeChat, which was her personal WeChat. Su Tao didn't look at it for long and exited.

Then she looked at the screen for a few seconds.

She immediately saw another, somewhat glaring, green bubble.

A WeChat clone!

Xiao Cheng really had an alternate account!

For some reason, looking at this WeChat clone, Su Tao felt a sense of absurdity, a feeling that wasn't quite right.

If Xiao Cheng was Cheng Cheng...

Wouldn't that mean she had been deceiving her all along?

Even guiding her to do things in the direction she wanted?

The feeling of being betrayed was very unpleasant.

But it was true that Su Tao liked Chi Xiaocheng, and she couldn't leave her. Even if she was betrayed like this, she wouldn't abandon Chi Xiaocheng.

It was precisely because of this that the feeling was so unpleasant.

She mustered her courage, and her slender fingertip tapped on the green bubble app.

Instantly, Su Tao's expression changed from complicated to astonished.

Instead of a chat page, WeChat displayed a login page.

It didn't show a default login account, as if it was a completely new clone.

"This..."

Xiao Cheng wasn't Cheng Cheng?

This thought suddenly appeared in Su Tao's mind.

For some reason, she felt a sense of relief.

However, such a simple confirmation wasn't enough.

Would Xiao Cheng create a WeChat clone for no reason?

After all, Xiao Cheng only had one SIM card, and only one phone number.

This application clone was completely unnecessary.

Its existence was illogical.

Su Tao was meticulous. She long-pressed the WeChat clone and clicked on "Application Information."

"Storage Usage: 11.4G."

"Monthly Data Consumption: 51.4MB."

Su Tao narrowed her eyes and took a deep breath. "This clone is frequently used!"

The high storage usage meant that the usage time was definitely not short!

Su Tao's previously relieved heart was now suspended again.

This still couldn't confirm the relationship between Xiao Cheng and Cheng Cheng.

But one thing that could be confirmed was that Xiao Cheng had some secrets that she couldn't let her know.

"Dongfang Yang..."

Su Tao thought of this name and immediately remembered something.

She clicked into Chi Xiaocheng's main WeChat account again. There was only one pinned and special concern, which was her WeChat account, Su Tao's.

Below that, Si Chen and Dongfang Yang were frequently contacted people, with a relatively high chat frequency, so they were at the top.

Snooping on phones was already despicable enough. Su Tao didn't want to stoop even lower by peeking at Chi Xiaocheng's chat history with Dongfang Yang and Si Chen.

Just as Fang Ning had said before.

She was willing to give Chi Xiaocheng more trust.

But now...

"Sorry, Xiao Cheng, I definitely won't look at much."

She clicked into the message history with Dongfang Yang, not with the intention of snooping, but to verify something.

The first time she called Cheng Cheng, Chi Xiaocheng's phone rang at the same time. That was the first time she became suspicious.

When Chi Xiaocheng declined the call, Cheng Cheng also hung up.

At that time, Chi Xiaocheng said that it was Dongfang Yang calling her.

And she even sent a voice message.

Then there should be a call history, right?

Su Tao swiped up, and her pupils kept contracting. "No call history..."

Was she mistaken?

"I'm not mistaken, there's no record!"

In fact, it wasn't Dongfang Yang who contacted Chi Xiaocheng in the first place, but Chi Xiaocheng who took the initiative to ask Dongfang Yang if he wanted to hang out tomorrow.

Only then did Dongfang Yang send that very silly voice message.

Everything seemed to be coming to light.

But that blank, unlogged-in WeChat clone left the last trace of suspense.

The suspended heart couldn't escape that suppression after all.

Su Tao put down the phone, not looking at any other chat history.

Her heart felt uneasy.

She didn't want to admit such a reality, nor did she want to face it.

If Xiao Cheng was Cheng Cheng, wouldn't that mean that Xiao Cheng had been deceiving and guiding her all along?

Why was she doing this?

Playing with her feelings?

Or was her affection for her also fake?

Su Tao's suspicion had gradually increased after being stressed many times. Because she had developed a slight delusion from being stressed, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that she had an intermediate-level brain-supplementing skill.

If Chi Xiaocheng didn't put pressure on her, she would always supplement things in her own brain and then put pressure on herself.

She knew it was wrong to question Xiao Cheng's feelings.

But the truth was right in front of her, and all that was missing was that fig leaf that seemed to be able to be torn off at any time.

At this moment, Su Tao had the feeling that Chi Xiaocheng was standing in front of her and calling a deer a horse.

She wanted to believe, but she couldn't quite do it.

But she liked Xiao Cheng very much and couldn't abandon her just because she had been deceived. If not, what should she do?

Force Xiao Cheng to tell the truth, and then simply forgive her?

No... no!

She would deceive herself here...

No, that's not right. If Xiao Cheng was Cheng Cheng, she knew everything about herself and had been giving her advice all along.

If she didn't consider the bizarre thing of being able to see her even when she died...

Then Xiao Cheng... didn't she not lose her memory at all?

Su Tao's eyes widened unconsciously, and her pupils also contracted slightly.

She just stayed there, as if she had fallen into a trance.

"Meow~"

Suddenly, a cat's meow brought Su Tao's thoughts back. She looked sideways at the half-open window. It turned out that Da Wang, who had taken Xiao Ran out to pick up trash... to play outside, had returned.

Still not taking the usual route, it liked to enter and exit from the window on the fifth floor.

Su Tao patted her face and put away her forced smile. "Really, what's the point of thinking so much? It's not even certain that Xiao Cheng is Cheng Cheng. It's just chat history, it doesn't explain anything."

"It's too much to say 'deception.' Who doesn't have their own little secrets? I only just found out that Xiao Cheng can fight."

"Su Tao, ah, Su Tao, since you like Xiao Cheng, you should trust her."

She took a deep breath and began to tidy the bed according to the excuse just now.

But that self-hypnotic force was still difficult to hide.

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