This Story Makes No Sense at All

The memory jumped again.

Zhong Yi and Qin Li'en's figures appeared on the familiar lighthouse top.

After being tricked by Qin Li'en once, Zhong Yi had reclaimed his dream privileges.

"Now I just need to move to... Whoa, whoa, whoa!!"

Just as he was about to adjust his position and head down the tower, Qin Li'en kicked him from behind.

Fortunately, there was no such thing as injury in dreams, and pain had long been muted; the only downside was the embarrassing way he fell.

"This violent senior sister..."

Zhong Yi dusted himself off and happened to see Gu Yun and Lin Xi standing at the entrance to the lighthouse.

At this time, Gu Yun was in the prime of his life, his hair jet-black, radiating vitality.

Beside him, Lin Xi had short hair just reaching her shoulders, with a somewhat gloomy disposition, but her features were delicate, making her a beauty of a brooding type.

Xiaoxi stared at the notice on the door for a long time before finally voicing a question: "Why have people abandoned her like this?"

Gu Yun replied, "Maybe because she's no longer needed."

Xiaoxi turned around, her beautiful brows furrowing: "No longer needed?"

Gu Yun quickly explained, "I mean, no longer needed by passing ships... You know, recently the Artifact Refining Sect has made a lot of practical gadgets. With the navigation disk, ships don't rely on the lighthouse for direction anymore."

"..."

The light in Lin Xi's eyes instantly dimmed.

Without another word, she simply raised her head and quietly gazed at the lighthouse.

Behind Lin Xi, Gu Yun took a deep breath, as if steeling himself for a decision.

He stepped forward and took Lin Xi's hand.

"Xiaoxi, look..."

"This place is just as important to me."

"We got married here, bowed to heaven and earth, held our wedding feast..."

"I've been thinking, our life is pretty good now. If we tighten our belts a little and I take on more jobs, in a few years we'll have enough savings to build a new house here."

"It might mean a few tough years, but—"

Before he could finish, Lin Xi's eyes suddenly lit up with unprecedented radiance.

"We can open the window and see her!!!"

Lin Xi jumped up excitedly, like a child.

This scene stunned Zhong Yi.

After all, in all the previous memories, Lin Xi had come across as taciturn, reclusive, and stubborn.

At that moment, the background music suddenly turned cheerful.

"Whether it's morning or night, we can be by her side!"

"And... we can come here for walks anytime!"

"She'll never be lonely again, Gu Yun!!"

Lin Xi laughed heartily and threw herself into Gu Yun's arms.

"We can come visit her every day!!"

Caught off guard by the sudden embrace, Gu Yun was taken aback for a moment, then gently patted her back and said softly, "Yes, we can."

Seeing this deeply affectionate scene, Zhong Yi was dumbfounded.

Putting together the previous memories, Zhong Yi had arrived at an unbelievable conclusion.

"So... An Ya is, this lighthouse?"

Zhong Yi pointed above his head in astonishment.

At this moment, the comments in Zhong Yi's live stream were also expressing great confusion.

[It has to be the lighthouse, no doubt about it]

[What does that mean? For the sake of a lighthouse, they threw away their lives??]

[I can't believe it! Old Master Gu treated her so well, how could she bear to leave him to die alone just because of a lighthouse?]

[There's definitely something wrong with that woman's head]

[Isn't this because of the Ice Heart Bloodline? Could it be that bloodline messes with your mind?]

[This makes no sense! The story makes absolutely no sense!]

...

On the road to search for memory fragments, Zhong Yi was distracted, constantly discussing the lighthouse with the comment section.

As if reading his mind, Qin Li'en, walking ahead, suddenly said:

"She's not our employer... Don't bother with her matters. We have only one thing to do: send Old Master to the Moon Realm. Don't think about anything else."

"But..."

Zhong Yi hesitated, then finally gave in.

"Alright."

At the base of the cliff, they found a crumpled yellow paper rabbit.

This was the memory fragment of this recollection.

The memory, once again, jumped backward.

... ...

Zhong Yi and Qin Li'en's figures appeared in Lin Xi's old residence.

That yellow paper rabbit was neatly placed on Gu Yun's desk.

"We're back again."

Zhong Yi shrugged, feeling a pang of nostalgia as he thought of Lin Xi decades later, frail and lying on her deathbed.

There was no sign of Gu Yun and Lin Xi in the second-floor bedroom.

The two went down the stairs to the first floor and saw the familiar seven-stringed zither again.

Beside the strings, there was not yet the sheet music for "Remembering Lin Xi."

Zhong Yi's curiosity and desire to explore grew stronger; now he would look even at a stray dog on the street to see if it was male or female. Seeing the wooden chest in the house, he immediately opened it to check.

Inside the chest were stacks upon stacks of paper.

"I think I know what these are for now..."

Zhong Yi murmured.

It was probably around this time that Lin Xi began folding paper rabbits day and night, filling every corner of the room.

Just then, from the adjacent room, Gu Yun's voice came.

"You went out early this morning to get a haircut?"

Zhong Yi and Qin Li'en quickly pushed the door open to search for clues.

The moment the door swung open, they saw about twenty paper rabbits scattered on the floor.

At that moment, Lin Xi stood silently at the wooden table, meticulously folding paper rabbits.

One sheet after another, as if she would never stop.

"What's wrong with you? What are you doing?"

Seeing Lin Xi not responding for a long time, Gu Yun grew anxious.

"...Rabbits."

Lin Xi parted her lips, her hands never pausing.

"Did you see the rabbit I left for you?"

Gu Yun was stunned for a moment: "Yes, I saw it."

"Tell me about it."

"Huh?"

"Describe... that rabbit."

"Uh... it's, yellow?"

"And?"

"Well... it's a bit chubby."

"And?"

Lin Xi looked at Gu Yun, her gaze as deep as a still pool.

Something seemed to flicker in the depths of her dark pupils.

Gu Yun clenched his fists, hesitated for a long time, then shook his head.

"It's just a paper rabbit. I don't know how to describe it."

"..."

Lin Xi's hands paused for an instant, the last glimmer of light in her eyes devoured by darkness.

She closed her eyes, and another paper rabbit took shape in her hands.

"You're acting so strange today... Did something happen, Xiaoxi?"

Gu Yun was utterly bewildered, pressing for answers.

Lin Xi lowered her head, silently folding her rabbits, not a single word.

"I can't take it anymore!"

Zhong Yi felt like a million ants were crawling in his heart.

This scene was not just familiar—it was almost identical to the previous memory!

Back then, when Gu Yun wanted to cure Lin Xi's illness and was refused, nearly the same conversation had unfolded.

The live stream comments were also expressing their bewilderment.

Are they crazy?

Why doesn't she care about her own life, only about the lighthouse and the paper rabbit?

Even if she doesn't care about herself, she could at least care about Old Master Gu...

Old Demon Lu's illusion really is about love... it's about staying away from love.

...

"No way! I have to ask—"

Zhong Yi was about to deactivate his "observer" status to confront Lin Xi face to face, when he suddenly found himself completely unable to move.

Clearly, Senior Sister Qin Lien had "frozen" him.

"Senior Sister, aren't you curious at all!?"

Zhong Yi demanded angrily.

"I told you, Lin Xi isn't our mission target... Her business has nothing to do with us."

Qin Lien shook her head, walked over to Lin Xi, and took the platypus plushie she had with her.

"Besides, this is a world born from Old Master Gu's memories."

"Do you really think you could ask something and get an answer, when even Old Master Gu himself doesn't know it?"

Hearing this, Zhong Yi fell silent.

Indeed, as Qin Lien had said, if even Old Master Gu didn't know the answer, asking would be pointless.

It would most likely just cause the dream to collapse.

"Come on. Time to move on to the next memory."

[Today's two chapters total nearly 6,000 characters, equivalent to three normal chapters—no splitting to keep the story's flow intact. We really want to tell this story well, which is why we've been so meticulous with the buildup.]

[This afternoon, I reorganized the outline for the part set in the Moon Realm, which led to an entirely new ending. No matter how many game design novels you've read, you've never seen an ending like this. Allow me to boast a little: every bit of buildup up to now has been worth it for the sake of that ending. It's fine to save the chapters for later, but if anyone skips this game, it would truly be a pity.]