Peach-Orange! – Chapter 391 – The Truth Draws Closer

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

“030824.”

The moment the password was confirmed correct, a warmth blossomed in Su Tao’s heart.

This was her birthday.

“Xiaocheng’s phone password has always been this since she was little….”

She sighed softly, though she also knew this wasn’t her real birthday. The elderly woman who had raised her had told her before passing away.

When she was found, it was in the first half of the year. At that time, she was undocumented, with no information except for the two characters “Su Tao” on the jade pendant.

When applying for her ID card, they simply made up a date for her.

Even though it wasn’t real, Su Tao had treated it as her birthday for her entire life.

With the phone unlocked, Su Tao pushed aside the faint memories stirred in her mind.

Right now, the most important thing was confirming the relationship between Xiaocheng and Chengcheng.

Su Tao first clicked into Chi Xiaocheng’s WeChat. It was her main account, and Su Tao didn’t look further before exiting.

Then, she scanned the screen a few times.

Immediately, she spotted another, somewhat glaring green icon.

WeChat Dual App!

Xiaocheng really did have a secondary account!

For some reason, as Su Tao stared at this WeChat Dual App, a sense of absurdity rose in her heart, leaving a sour taste.

If Xiaocheng was Chengcheng….

Didn’t that mean she had been deceiving her all along?

Even guiding her to act according to her own plans?

The feeling of betrayal was unbearable.

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But Su Tao truly loved Chi Xiaocheng and couldn’t leave her. Even if betrayed like this, she wouldn’t abandon her.

Precisely because of this, the feeling was even harder to bear.

Summoning her courage, her slender fingertips tapped on the green app icon.

Instantly, Su Tao’s expression shifted from conflicted to stunned.

Instead of a chat page, what popped up was a login screen.

There was no default account displayed. It was as if this was a purely new, freshly created dual app.

“This….”

‘Xiaocheng isn’t Chengcheng?’

This thought suddenly surfaced in Su Tao’s mind.

For some reason, she felt a little relieved.

But this simple confirmation wasn’t enough.

Would Xiaocheng create a WeChat Dual App for no reason?

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

This app clone was completely unnecessary.

Existence itself was unreasonable.

Su Tao was meticulous. She long-pressed the WeChat Dual App and clicked into “App Info.”

Storage Usage: 11.4 GB.

Monthly Data Consumption: 51.4 MB.

Su Tao narrowed her eyes and took a deep breath.

“This clone is frequently used!”

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The high storage usage meant it had definitely been in use for a long time!

Su Tao’s momentarily eased heart tensed up again.

This still couldn’t confirm whether Xiaocheng was Chengcheng.

But one thing was certain: Xiaocheng had secrets she didn’t want Su Tao to know.

“Dongfang Yang….”

Su Tao thought of this name and suddenly remembered something.

She clicked back into Chi Xiaocheng’s main WeChat account. There was only one pinned and special contact: her own WeChat ID.

Below that, Si Chen and Dongfang Yang were frequent contacts, their chats appearing higher due to frequent interactions.

Snooping through someone’s phone was already shameful, and Su Tao didn’t want to stoop even lower by reading Chi Xiaocheng’s chat logs 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, Xiaocheng. I won’t look further.”

She clicked into the chat history with Dongfang Yang, not out of a desire to pry, but to verify.

When she had first called Chengcheng, Chi Xiaocheng’s phone had rung simultaneously. That was the first time she had felt suspicious.

When Chi Xiaocheng rejected the call, Chengcheng had also hung up at the same time.

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

She had even sent a voice message.

So, there should at least be call records, right?

Su Tao scrolled up slightly, her pupils contracting.

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“No call records….”

Had she misread?

“No, I didn’t misread. There are no records!”

In fact, it wasn’t even Dongfang Yang who had initiated the conversation. It was Chi Xiaocheng who had first asked if Dongfang Yang wanted to hang out the next day.

Only then had Dongfang Yang sent that silly voice message.

Everything seemed to point to the truth.

But that empty, unlogged WeChat Dual App left one last shred of doubt.

Her suspended heart couldn’t escape the suffocating weight.

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

Her heart felt heavy.

She didn’t want to acknowledge this reality, nor face it.

If Xiaocheng was Chengcheng, didn’t that mean she had been deceiving and manipulating her all along?

Why would she do that?

To toy with her feelings?

Or was her affection for her also fake?

Su Tao’s suspicions had grown heavier after being pressured so many times. The stress had even given her a mild case of paranoia. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she had an intermediatel overthinking skill.

Even if Chi Xiaocheng didn’t pressure her, she would overthink and pressure herself.

She knew doubting Xiaocheng’s feelings was wrong.

But the facts were right in front of her, with only a flimsy veil left to tear away.

At this moment, Su Tao felt as if Chi Xiaocheng were standing before her, calling a deer a horse.

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She wanted to believe, but found it hard to do so.

Yet she loved Xiaocheng too much to abandon her just because of deceit. So what should she do?

Force Xiaocheng to confess, then simply forgive her?

No…. That wouldn’t do!

She would just deceive herself again….

Wait, no, if Xiaocheng was Chengcheng, then she knew everything about her and had been giving her advice all along.

If she disregarded the bizarre fact that she could still see her after death….

Then did that mean…. Xiaocheng had never lost her memories at all?

Su Tao’s eyes widened unconsciously, her pupils contracting slightly.

She froze in place, as if falling into a daze.

“Meow~”

A sudden cat’s cry snapped Su Tao out of her thoughts. She turned to the half-open window and saw that King had returned with Xiao Ran after going out to pick up trash…. no, to play outside.

As usual, she preferred entering and exiting through the fifth-floor window.

Su Tao patted her cheeks and forced a weak smile.

“Really, why overthink things? Xiaocheng might not even be Chengcheng. Chat logs don’t prove anything.

“Calling it deception is too harsh. Everyone has their own secrets, like how I only just found out Xiaocheng knows how to fight.

“Su Tao, if you love Xiaocheng, you should trust her.”

She took a deep breath and began tidying the bed as she had originally planned.

But the forced self-reassurance was still hard to conceal.