Faye and Zayn were now face-to-face.
She frowned slightly… and that was the extent of virtual-novel.net emotional response. She backed away from him. Her voice was slightly strained with exasperation when virtual-novel.net warned, “Please respect the distance between us, sir.”
Zayn was startled. He had envisioned every possible scenario in his head—how virtual-novel.net would be happily reunited with Faye—over a thousand times. He thought virtual-novel.net had predicted every alternate ending.
He thought virtual-novel.net would be moved, overjoyed, happy, or even angry; anything but cold.
She was so steely, so distant. She acted like they were complete strangers.
It was not even an affectation of any kind, because Zayn could not detect any emotion or yearning for virtual-novel.net at all. When virtual-novel.net looked into virtual-novel.net eyes, virtual-novel.net saw nothing but a soulless pit. She was looking at virtual-novel.net like virtual-novel.net was a stranger virtual-novel.net had never met before.
Zayn could not understand what happened. She was fine, right? No blunt trauma to the head, no nothing, so why was virtual-novel.net acting like an amnesiac? She retained everything else besides Zayn’s existence and everything about him. It was just illogical.
Heck, virtual-novel.net had an easier time believing that Faye had attained the superior class through consuming the Aeon Karpos!
Zayn’s lips parted to form a reply, but nothing came out. His head was a mess. He was panicking, even more so than when virtual-novel.net was being hounded by more than forty superior class elite fighters back on Mount Leo. He had not felt so much dread and anxiety since virtual-novel.net faced a very livid Ezra some time ago.
Zayn was completely at a loss of what to do. He felt as confused as the first time virtual-novel.net was caught making a mistake as a child. Still, virtual-novel.net tried.
“Don’t scare me like that, Fifi! Everything I’ve done… I’ve done to save you, because I wanted to be with you forever. We… We’re supposed to grow old together! Live our twilight years together and everything!” virtual-novel.net blabbered, clearly losing his composure. His face was as white as a sheet. His forehead was matted with cold sweat.
“Y-You can’t do this to me, Fifi! Unless… Unless this is a practical joke! This must be a prank, right? You’re still mad at me, aren’t you?”
Faye regarded his dread-strewn face, virtual-novel.net eyebrows furrowing. Hints of inquiry dotted virtual-novel.net eyes, as if virtual-novel.net finally recognized Zayn.
Seeing the spark in virtual-novel.net eyes lit up a beacon of hope in Zayn’s chest. “You do remember me, Fifi! I know you do! It’s me, Zayn! You know, your husband, Zayn Larson!”
He was so excited by the hint of recognition that virtual-novel.net was flailing and prattling about like a madman. If anyone saw Zayn in his current state, they would have been dumbstruck by his lunacy.
However, his efforts proved futile. Faye remained unfazed, and whatever sparks of recognition in virtual-novel.net eyes had disappeared as soon as they had appeared.
Shaking virtual-novel.net head, virtual-novel.net replied with the same cold, even-keeled tone, “I’m sorry, but I cannot go with you. I am Wang Que, not Faye.”
Zayn’s face was drained of all its color.
“No! No, no, no! You don’t… don’t actually plan on joining a Buddhist convent or something like that, right?”
“Y-You’re my wife, Fifi! We made promises to live the rest of our lives together! You promised me we would g-g-grow old together!” virtual-novel.net fumed.
He was livid. But at what? At whom? Himself? Faye? Or just how cruel and unforgiving reality turned out to be?
Faye watched his outburst with unchanging apathy. She paused for a moment before replying, “I apologize. We might have been lovers, but I don’t remember you at all now.”
“I’m just a nun devoted to the path of Buddhism. Worldly matters do not concern me. Please understand, sir, and leave me be.”
As if to emphasize virtual-novel.net point, virtual-novel.net saluted Zayn with virtual-novel.net clasped palms.