I have fulfilled the promise I made to you before, that we will grow old together.

Because the moment you came into this world, I was destined to go step by step towards destruction.

You have asked me more than once why I didn't touch you, and I said I wanted to wait until you thought it through and really loved me, but I know that day will never come, so please forgive me for the biggest blasphemy against you, which is kissing you.

I can't bear to hate you for abandoning me, but I can't bear to touch you either.

During the eight years I waited for you, I thought about selfishly keeping you in this world forever, and I also wanted to ask you why you abandoned me. But in the end, when I saw you wake up and look at me, it didn't matter anymore.

Those five hundred and twenty-two years of waiting don’t matter anymore, I just want you to remember me.

From the moment I expended a great deal of spiritual energy to transform this world, I knew that the moment I met you would be the countdown to my life, but I have no regrets. I refined the energy of this world and those conquerors, and attached it to one of the tokens of love I gave you.

A rib.

That rib is the one closest to the tip of the heart and is also the fifth rib.

I know you only care about profit, and you probably don't just want to conquer everyone in this world. Maybe you've met many people who love you because you're so kind. But only I win. No matter who you meet, conquer, or even fall in love with in the future, I will always be the winner by your side.

Because I am useful and can become your sharpest weapon.

This is my selfish desire. The living can never defeat the dead, especially the dead who are beneficial to you.

The other token of love is the last piece of sycamore branch I saved. With the nourishment of this world, it will never rot and can grow on the barren land of the underworld.

I also lied to you about that meteor shower. It was not something I dreamed of, but I mobilized the control of this world to fall down for you. That time, the sycamore tree bloomed for you for the last time.

The paulownia tree has only bloomed twice in this life, once for you when you were 19, and once for you when you were 27.

I said at that time, "Awu, I love you."

And you replied, “I love you too.”

Then I said, "I know."

I know, I've always known, that you don't love me.

Awu, don’t forget me this time.

May 22, 1963.

There are actually eight lines of poetry behind the marriage certificate that says "The person getting married: Chen Guiwu, Shengwu".

White tea brings me joy, I have nothing else to do, I am waiting for the wind and you. Bitter wine and willow branches, today we are parting, there is no wind, no moon and no you.

Three miles of breeze, three miles of land, every step of the wind no longer contains you. Drinking sake alone is boring, I dream of flowers when drunk and you at night.

The land of the underworld cannot grow flowers, but if you like, the sycamore tree can.

This grand and rotten dream will never end. It will take root and sprout in the underworld along with the paulownia tree.

I am a part of you, you love yourself but not me.

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There are three reasons for Chen Guiwu's death countdown. First, he used his power to create Shen Qinghuan and the other two to maintain this world. However, after Shen Qinghuan and the others were captured by Sheng Wu, the plot was doomed to collapse, and their original purpose was no longer relevant. Second, Chen Guiwu altered the memories and fates of Shen Junsheng and the others, reversing the original trajectory of this world and suffering backlash. Third, Chen Guiwu used all the power he had gained from strangling those tasked with him over the years to refine that rib, giving the best of it to Sheng Wu.

So from the moment Sheng Wu woke up, Chen Guiwu knew that her appearance foreshadowed his own death.

The reason why Chen Guiwu gathered all his strength on the fifth rib was, firstly, because it was the closest to the tip of the heart, and secondly, the "five" in the fifth rib was homophonic to "wu".