A familiar sense of darkness enveloped her entire body, Lin Yang's eyelids drooped, and she collapsed onto the dressing table, unconscious.

"Yangyang." Someone was calling her; it was a voice from another world.

She lifted her heavy eyelids, and what greeted her eyes was not the pitch blackness she had seen before, but rather a warm, yellowish light.

Not far away, in this space of consciousness, there was another person.

Lin Yang rubbed her eyes, and the person's appearance came into clear view.

It had been a long time since I'd seen him. He had grown stubble and his hair was quite long, making him look somewhat颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a sense of listlessness, apathy, or even a sense of being worn out).

But when he looked at Lin Yang, his eyes lit up again, and he looked both dejected and cheerful.

He was Mr. Ex, who had been imprisoned for more than two months. He was the Mr. Ex who had just called Xu Chengzhi and was talking about, who had disappeared from prison and was likely to come looking for her.

Sure enough, he appeared before her now.

He came to find her.

Using the system, they appeared before her in an ideological manner.

Or rather, he was originally a wisp of consciousness.

"What do you want to do?" Lin Yang looked at him warily and quietly backed away.

"Yangyang, don't be afraid, I didn't mean to do anything." Mr. Ex forced a smile that didn't suit him, trying to ease Lin Yang's tension.

"If you didn't intend to do anything, then why did you bring me here like this?" Lin Yang scoffed, then added, "Don't call me Yangyang, you don't deserve it!"

She was deeply resentful of Mr. Axe's affection for her.

He's a madman. If you get too close to him, how many lives do you have left?

He's so ruthless that he'd even kill himself!

Although... he said it was all because he didn't want her to disappear...

However, a deep scar on Lin Yang's abdomen reminded her that she must never get close to this person.

"I heard you're getting married to Xu Chengzhi soon, congratulations." Mr. Ex kept a safe distance from Lin Yang and sincerely wished her happiness.

Hearing these words of congratulations from Mr. Ex, Lin Yang found them utterly strange.

Logically speaking, he was originally a part of Xu Chengzhi.

Congratulating yourself? If you think about it carefully, isn't that a bit strange?

"Thank you," Lin Yang politely said in a low voice.

He doesn't seem to have any ill intentions?

“Yang…” Mr. Ex was about to call her affectionately, but then stopped and changed his words, “Does it still hurt? That wound.”

Lin Yang lowered her head and touched the tip of her nose. "It's almost healed."

“That’s good, that’s good,” Mr. Ex murmured.

"Hmm." Lin Yang didn't know what to say in response, so she just gave a soft "hmm."

An awkward silence fell between them.

The person in front of me looks exactly like Xu Chengzhi, or even is a part of Xu Chengzhi.

But Lin Yang didn't know what to say when facing Mr. Ex.

Unlike when I'm with Xu Chengzhi, we don't have endless topics to talk about.

"Is there anything else? If not, send me back to the real world." Lin Yang finally spoke up, breaking the silence.

She looked up and was surprised to find that Mr. Ex had been staring at her the whole time.

His eyes were filled with reluctance, as if he were afraid he would never see her again.

“Okay,” Mr. Ex agreed.

The long-unseen system body floated up in the air. Mr. Ex entered a string of code, his hand hovering in the air, hesitant to press the Enter key to implement the program.

"Lin Yang, I'm sorry." Mr. Ex spoke again, apologizing to Lin Yang solemnly.

It's because of the wound on her abdomen.

Lin Yang remained silent and did not respond to him.

As Lin Yang pressed the Enter key, he felt his body being slowly drawn in by a force.

Mr. Ex's hands did not stop; he typed another string of incomprehensible code on the huge screen and finally pressed the Enter key.

A crack appeared behind him, slowly widening, with electric current flowing within the vortex.

Lin Yang knew that it was a time vortex that could travel through time.

"Lin Yang, I wish you a happy marriage in advance. Here's a gift for you: as I leave this world, I hope you can rest in peace forever."

"However, I will wait for you in the future."

Mr. Ex's face became increasingly blurry, leaving only these two sentences.