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.]
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.
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."
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
