She asked for leave from school and sat alone in the living room waiting for them to come back.

Xiang Wanning couldn't remember how long she had been waiting, she only knew that she had been sleepless for several whole nights. When she was too sleepy during the day, she lay on the sofa for a nap, but was awakened by the uneasiness and pain in her dreams.

When she opened her eyes again, her forehead was covered in sweat, and she seemed to have just been pulled out of the water. She looked at the empty living room in a daze, and then fixed her eyes on the door.

No one.

No one came back.

When will they come back? Xiang Wanning held her phone tightly and opened it over and over again, but still got no reply. She was upset. The housekeeper brought the food to her, but she couldn't eat a single bite.

Finally, she heard the door creak open, and she stood up almost instantly and went to greet him.

Xiang Wanning had a lot of questions she wanted to ask, but she was stunned when she saw everyone. Everyone looked tired and their hair was messy. She saw that her parents seemed to be hunched over a bit, and that her brother had stubble on his usually neat chin. Even Yu Quezhou, who always loved to tease her, became more and more silent.

They seemed to be stuck in something. Xiang Wanning tried to share some of their worries, but she only asked, "I know you guys were lying to me on the phone... Where did my sister go?"

"If my sister really went abroad, there's no way she wouldn't reply to my text messages." She said, tears in her eyes, but she forced a smile, tugged at the corner of Mo Yin's clothes, and said to her like she used to, "Mom, where is my sister? Why can't you tell me?"

Xiang Wanning was no longer the three-year-old child she was when she just returned home, and Mo Yin no longer had to squat to touch her head. She looked at her daughter who was as tall as her shoulders, smiled, and reached out to pinch her face.

"Wan Ning is still young, this matter is too complicated, it's not convenient to tell you." Mo Yin stretched out her hand to her and coaxed her, "When Wan Ning becomes an adult, gets admitted to her ideal university, and grows up... Mom will tell you the reason for this matter, and we'll make a pinky promise."

Xiang Wanning looked up and asked, "Is my sister okay?"

"She is safe now." Mo Yin nodded at her and said, "No one will be safer than her."

Xiang Wanning seemed to understand something and obediently stretched out her hand. Her fingers were long and slender, and her little finger trembled slightly: "Let's make a pinky promise, let's make a pinky promise...Mom, when I grow up, don't hide it from me anymore, don't abandon me anymore, okay?"

She had already been abandoned once.

She finally saw the light through the clouds and finally had a family who truly loved her. She didn't want all this to be just an illusion. She didn't want to stay alone when her family was in crisis. She wanted to face it together with everyone and she also wanted to protect everyone.

Grow up, Xiang Wanning chewed these two words between her lips and teeth, and couldn't wait to grow up. She thought to herself: Will she know everything when she grows up? Will she be able to protect everyone when she grows up?

"Okay." Mo Yin promised her, they hooked their hands and stamped it with their thumbs.

——

Xiang Wanning never filmed another movie afterwards, and the rising star who once amazed everyone upon her debut gradually faded into obscurity.

The loyal fans on Weibo gradually withdrew from the circle and started following other people. No one remembered the girl who was nominated for the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 14. The hot searches became higher and higher, and Xiang Wanning, who was once ranked first in the hot searches, had already been swallowed up.

But she didn't have time to pay attention to these things.

Xiang Wan Ning studied late into the night, often staring at the red circle on the test paper at four in the morning, feeling that she was too stupid. Thinking of the agreement with her family, she forced herself to refill her coffee, patted her face, and continued to check the calculations under the dim light.

Every time she answered a question correctly, she couldn't help but smile, as if she was one step closer to Zhinian.

The three members of the Xiang family took turns to persuade Xiang Wanning, but they did not get the results they wanted. As they became increasingly busy, they handed the task of "comforting" and "consoling" Xiang Wanning to Yu Quezhou.

Yu Quezhou stopped at her door more than once, reaching out his hand to knock, but withdrew his hand when it was still suspended in the air. Many words were stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them to her.

What could he do by knocking on the door?

Since he couldn't tell her the truth, he lost the right to comfort her. Yu Quezhou couldn't do the condescending thing to comfort her, because he knew that Xiang Wanning didn't feel hard at the moment, she just wanted to find the answer, to know why everyone kept it from her, why they couldn't take her sister back.

But he could also understand the feelings of Xiang Chisong and the others. Xiang Wanning had endured a thousand times more pain in her previous life, and in this life they both wanted to make each other live a happier and easier life... even if this was not the life Xiang Wanning wanted.

Yu Quezhou was caught in the middle and had no choice. Thinking of this, he could only find ways to give her special treatment to improve Xiang Wanning's efficiency during the day so that she could rest earlier at night.

And all this hard work has paid off.

Xiang Wanning was admitted to a key high school and then a key university. She once asked Xiang Zhinian what major he wanted to study in the future, and he said, "Finance, so I can help my brother when the time comes."

"A-film is still better." Xiang Wanning yelled at the time: "Wow, I don't want to study finance, I want to study mathematics which I hate the most."

But this time, when Xiang Wanning was filling out her application, she told her family about Aying, but she secretly changed her application from Aying to the Finance Department of A University.

She thought that when her sister came back, she would take out the admission letter to scare her, and then tell her proudly that she actually had great potential and could help her brother.

Xiang Wanning held the admission letter and felt more relaxed than ever on her way home, because she knew...she could finally know the truth.

But the moment she pushed open the door of the villa, she found that everyone was gone.

When the housekeeper saw Xiang Wanning coming back, he stopped wiping the antique vase and said to her, "Madam said they have to go abroad for something, and asked me to tell Miss that they will be back in a week, and then they will tell Miss everything she wants to know."

Xiang Wanning felt relieved. She casually placed the admission letter on the shoe cabinet, changed her shoes and walked into the living room. She found that everyone had prepared gifts for her, filling the entire living room, as if they knew she would definitely be admitted to her ideal school.

She curled the corners of her mouth, finally letting go of the last bit of worry, revealing a happy and joyful smile that was typical for her age, and ran over happily to open the presents.

When she sees something she likes, her eyes light up, the corners of her mouth turn up, and she says to herself: "As expected of a mother, you have good taste. This is what I like~"

"Save this for my sister, we'll wear sister outfits~"

When she saw something that didn't suit her taste, she hummed and asked the butler about the golden apple in her hand: "Who gave this to you?"

"It should be Mr. Yu." The butler said uncertainly.

"Who gives an apple as a gift?" She complained a little, but still put it away carefully, saying, "But considering it is gold, I reluctantly accept it."

The housekeeper looked at her with a smile and said nothing.

"Then what is this?" Xiang Wanning found a letter from a pile of gifts puzzledly. When she was wondering who sent it to her, she suddenly saw that the recipient's name was not her own, but Xiang Zhinian's.

"This, this was put into the mailbox by the courier. It was a scheduled letter that was forgotten by the courier for many years and was delivered only now." The housekeeper said, "I saw Miss Chinen's name on it, so I took it back."

Xiang Wanning was stunned when she heard the housekeeper's words. She was about to put the letter aside and keep it for her sister later. But when she glanced at the lower right corner inadvertently, she realized that she didn't know the sender, but his name made her feel familiar.

——Ning Weiyan.

Ning Weiyan, Ning Weiyan...

She stared at the three words, stroking the letter paper with her hand. In a trance, something in her mind suddenly broke, smashing the wooden box that contained countless memories of hers, and releasing the pain and helplessness that were like ferocious beasts.

Countless images played in her mind, like a movie, but the movie was fast and urgent. Every time Xiang Wanning wanted to grasp a clue, it slipped through her fingers like sunshine.

No, that's not right.

There must be something wrong with this letter!

Xiang Wanning hesitated for a long time. This was a letter from her sister. Should she open it? But the fragment that just flashed by, the uneasiness and anxiety in her heart, made her more determined that there must be something she didn't know! Maybe it could tell her sister's whereabouts.

She opened it with trembling hands, and the moment she unfolded the letter, she subconsciously closed her eyes, fearing that she would see a scene that she could not accept.

Xiang Wanning prepared herself mentally for a long time before she slowly exhaled and opened her eyes.

But when she saw the contents of the letter, her brain buzzed. She read it over and over again in disbelief, and finally forced herself to stand up. When the feeling of suffocation came over her, she walked out of the house step by step.

The letter said: [Dear Master, when you receive this letter, the struggle between us will be over. It is a pity to think that my life has become a sacrifice.]

[It seems that I lost the bet. You do have memories of your past lives, but I haven't heard from you about conducting experiments in these years, nor have I seen you re-establish a laboratory. Are you hiding your abilities? ]

[But when a person has nothing, there is no need to hide his incompetence. Who can you rely on? The system you researched in your previous life cannot be completed by you alone... Oh, I see. Did you bring it with you when you were reborn? You are really worthy of it.]

[But...how did Master know that I had no backup plan? ]

[When I created the system in my previous life, I implanted a virus into your system. The core program cannot be detected by it. Master, do you feel that your system is running abnormally and lagging? It's a pity that I'm dead and can't help you eliminate the bug. Will Master be sad? ]

[In its previous life, it chose to bind itself to Yu Quezhou. Well, he is such a pitiful person. He had to get involved in your Xiang family’s affairs.]

[Are you wondering what bug I've implanted? It doesn't matter if I tell you. If the system cannot be unbound, and it stops running due to being overloaded, but continues to receive energy uncontrollably, it will be like an inflated balloon, and finally... bang!]

[I know what you want to say, are you scolding me? But this is clearly the inspiration given to me by my master, I am not that powerful, my virus only "cannot unbind the system" and "gradually trigger the system self-destruct program", but that is the self-destruct mode program you installed yourself! ]

[Hahahahahaha, Master, this is a design that we completed together. Are you happy? Now your hands are not clean either. Why do you hate me? You are the same as me. You are obviously the same as me!]

[I really want to know how many people will be affected after the system explodes. Will it only kill Yu Quezhou who is bound to him, or will it cause a large area of ​​impact? I am very curious, please burn it for me, so that I can know the result of this game.]

…

What is this? What is the content of this letter? Xiang Wanning had a splitting headache and walked out barefoot. She blocked the housekeeper's worried voice outside and could not hear it clearly. Xiang Wanning had only one thought at this time.

She wanted to get out, she wanted to find everyone! Where did they go? Where did everyone go? Xiang Wanning was panicked for a moment, and suddenly quickened her pace and ran out. The uneven ground cut her soles, and blood flowed out as she ran, winding along the way.

Countless memories, those unfamiliar memories that seemed not to belong to her, came flooding in the moment she finished reading the letter, crowding into Xiang Wanning's narrow mind, making her veins pop out. She stopped in pain, covering her head and screaming.

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much..." Xiang Wanning couldn't help but bang her head against the tree next to her, trying to calm herself down, but her brain was playing her old memories frame by frame. No matter how she whispered, "No, I don't want these memories anymore," no matter how she covered her head, sitting on the road like a madman, banging her head, cursing, and crying... it was all useless.

Her past was too long and her memories were too many, so many that they seemed like the lives of hundreds of people, but she went through them all alone.

Xiang Wanning remembered.

She thought of all her past experiences, she remembered her system, and when Xiang Wanning was almost broken and kept calling the system in her mind, she suddenly remembered what it had said to her: "This consumes more energy and cannot support your next retracing."

Why is she the only one left at home again? Why is the system gone? Why is even the system gone? The sense of dislocation in time and space kept rising. At this moment, Xiang Wanning could no longer remember which of her 4 million lives this life was. She suddenly couldn't remember what she was going to do. Who should she find, but who should she find? She wandered anxiously in the same place for a long time. She only remembered that she had something to do, but what should she do? What was her current identity? The clips of "being recognized back to the Xiang family" and "encountering a car accident" kept circulating. Her subconscious told her that she should be kicked out of the house, should be kicked out of the house, must be kicked out of the house!

This is the correct direction of development, this is right, this way everyone will have a good ending...

Finally, Xiang Wanning covered her chest with her hands, finally unable to bear the impact of the returning memories. She felt nauseous and vomited for a long time. Her blood dyed the weeds beside the tree red. Then her eyes went black and she fainted.

I thought I would recover only when the story ends, but then I suddenly realized it was almost over and started to think about the ending remarks in my mind (bushi)

It’s been almost a month since I’ve had any recommendations on QQ. I haven’t been picked up by the smart push notifications, which makes me a little sad. But I also want to thank everyone for their continued support.

With so few new readers, I can't keep going without you. Thank you for your comments, which are a great encouragement to me. Thank you! Good night, babies, and thank you for your votes~ Love you~