Zhong Yi had originally thought that since Gu Yun missed his deceased wife so much, the two of them must have had an inseparable relationship.
But to his surprise, the first thing he and Qin Li'en heard upon arriving was the sound of arguing between Gu Yun and Lin Xi.
Lin Xi was sick, very sick.
Gu Yun wanted to sell off everything they owned to find medicine and doctors for her.
Lin Xi refused simply, decisively, and resolutely.
Just the tone alone made it clear she was a stubborn one.
“I need that money... to save you, Lin Xi!”
Gu Yun’s face was flushed with anxiety.
“I know An Ya is very important to you, but... you’re taking this too far.”
As he spoke, Gu Yun hesitated.
“She’s even... even not...”
Lin Xi sat on the bed, her deep eyes seemingly devouring Gu Yun.
“Gu Yun,” she said slowly, enunciating each word with calm deliberation:
“Do you know what can make me happy?”
“What?”
“You know, don’t you?”
“...”
Seeing the confusion on Gu Yun’s face, Lin Xi slowly closed her eyes and answered to herself: “But I know.”
Zhong Yi was completely baffled by this dialogue.
Because every word Lin Xi said was nonsense—he couldn’t understand it at all.
“Just say it already!! He’d get it if you did!!!”
Zhong Yi felt like tearing his hair out.
Beside him, Qin Li'en frowned, clearly just as perplexed.
After waiting a long time, Lin Xi never said what exactly could make her happy—only insisting that Gu Yun would surely fulfill it for her.
To cut off Gu Yun’s hopes, Lin Xi firmly declared that she would never allow any physician to take her pulse or diagnose her.
“How we use our money is your decision. But if you want to fulfill my wish, I hope you’ll use it to build that house.”
“I hope you’ll live there every day... watching over her, being with her, comforting her.”
“I hope she won’t be alone anymore.”
Hearing this, Zhong Yi began to sense some clues.
Based on the timeline, Gu Yun must have sold this house and moved into the new home built on that cliff?
But there was still too much he couldn’t grasp.
For instance:
Who is An Ya?
Why did Lin Xi value her more than her own life?
Why did the house have to be built in such a dangerous place?
Why...
By now, Zhong Yi had even forgotten that this was supposed to be a love-themed illusion.
His mind was filled with questions, and he was eager to uncover the truth.
“Ah! Forget it, I’ll just...” Just as Zhong Yi was about to deactivate the “observer” mode and ask them directly,
he realized his skill bar was grayed out.
“Senior Sister, what are you doing...” he said reproachfully, glancing at Qin Li'en.
This illusion world was constructed by Qin Li'en, and her cultivation level was above his—she had clearly disabled many of his permissions.
“I know you have a lot of questions... but this isn’t relevant to our mission,” Qin Li'en reminded him.
“In our Dream Weaving Sect, we are destined to witness endless partings between life and death... so you need to get used to it.”
“But you just now—” Before he could finish, a bird’s beak suddenly grew over his mouth, making him squawk like a crow.
Just then:
“I made this, Gu Yun.”
Lin Xi suddenly pulled out a blue-and-yellow folded paper rabbit from under her pillow and handed it to Gu Yun.
“Tell me, what is it?”
“Huh?”
“I want you to tell me what it is.”
“A... rabbit?”
Gu Yun frowned, glancing at the countless other paper rabbits scattered on the floor.
Clearly, this wasn’t the first time he’d been asked such a question.
“Just like those rabbits—all made by you.”
“And then?”
Lin Xi’s eyes were deep and unfathomable.
“Made of paper.”
“And then?”
Lin Xi’s pace quickened, as if she’d heard some kind of expected answer.
“Its body is yellow, and its limbs and head are blue?”
“Very good. Anything else?”
“Uh...”
Faced with Lin Xi’s relentless questioning, Gu Yun looked flustered. After a long pause, he changed the subject.
“Lin Xi, I composed a piece for you. Want to hear it?”
Lin Xi lowered her head slightly, a flash of disappointment in her eyes, before finally nodding: “Yes.”
“Then I’ll play it for you!”
The mention of playing the zither excited Gu Yun; he sat down at the seven-string instrument.
He had specially brought it upstairs for Lin Xi.
“The piece is called, ‘Remembering Lin Xi.’”
“What a cheesy name,” Lin Xi commented.
Gu Yun didn’t take offense. He closed his eyes and began to play the strings seriously.
Golden sunlight poured through the window, falling on Lin Xi’s cheeks.
As the melodious tune rose, everything felt full of life.
“This woman... is so confusing!” Zhong Yi grumbled indignantly.
He was currently livestreaming, and as time passed, more and more viewers joined.
His comment resonated with the audience, earning a flood of agreement.
[Exactly, exactly!]
[That’s just unreasonable.]
"Isn't it just a paper rabbit? Seems pretty dissatisfied with Old Master's answer."
"Gu Yun wrote such a great piece of music, and the first comment is that the name is too plain... Brilliant!"
"What's Old Demon Lu's deal in creating this couple?"
"Feels like he deliberately made a bad couple to make the Senior Sister seem not so bad?"
...
Prompted by the barrage of comments, Zhong Yi really did start to feel that way.
Compared to the Lin Xi on the bed, who was stubborn and loved speaking in riddles, his Senior Sister Qin Li'en seemed more agreeable the more he looked at her.
"Wait..."
Zhong Yi suddenly realized something was wrong.
"The biggest problem in this illusion is still Elder Guo Yunfeng..."
"This trick might work a little on us, but will it actually be effective against Elder Guo Yunfeng?"
...
...
Inside Guo Yunfeng's illusion world.
"Who is this An Ya?"
"If she's that important, why hasn't she ever appeared in the memories??"
"Could it be that Gu Yun didn't keep that promise... Bah, bah! How could a good man like Gu Yun ever break a promise!"
"Junior Sister, you're a woman too. Help your Senior Brother analyze what Lin Xi is thinking, will you?"
...
Guo Yunfeng's ears were filled with Senior Brother Xu Ci's endless chatter.
'Trying to make me think more highly of this waste by comparing him to someone worse?'
Guo Yunfeng sneered inwardly.
In her view, no matter how Old Demon Lu wrote the storyline, an existence like Xu Ci could never earn her respect, let alone make her experience "love"!
No matter how she looked at it, Old Demon Lu had no chance of winning this challenge.
Even if it wasn't her, if you called in Saintess Liu Mengli, it probably wouldn't stir the slightest ripple.
Guo Yunfeng ignored Xu Ci and focused on gathering dream power, searching for memory fragments.
"Senior Brother, Old Master doesn't have much time left."
Guo Yunfeng reminded him, pouring all her dream power into the task.
This memory fragment was of that blue-violet wildflower.
"I'm updating with all my might, writing four chapters and releasing them together."
"I've racked my brains cutting out content that can be described without harming the story—definitely not padding."
"This game has been nothing but buildup so far, so the first read will definitely feel dull... I'll hurry up and write to the twist part. Anyone who finds it confusing can binge-read it in a few days."
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
lanned to earn money steadily and take life at a slower pace. But he never expected... his father's remarriage, and the stepmother bringing along a dependent, would completely disrupt his life's plans...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
