Extra Chapter: The Rest of My Life Is With You
The finger finally stopped less than an inch from Su Wanqing's cheek.
Suspended in mid-air.
No contact was made.
Su Wanqing could clearly feel the warmth emanating from those fingertips.
It's true.
It wasn't the coldness that should accompany a projection of an illusory memory.
Her breathing became completely disordered.
"you……"
She wanted to ask, but found that she had no idea what to ask.
Who is he?
Ask him why it moved
The question remains: what exactly does he want to do?
The young Lu Zhanting, with his even sharper black eyes than he did now, stared at her intently.
Then he spoke.
The sound was very soft, yet incredibly clear.
"Finally, I've been waiting for you."
boom--
Something seemed to explode in Su Wanqing's mind.
I've finally waited for you!
What's the meaning
That summer, when he caught her, this was what he was thinking.
wrong……
wrong!
Su Wanqing suddenly realized an even more terrifying fact.
The "young Lu Zhanting" in front of me is not a projection of any memory at all.
He was conscious.
He knew who she was.
He even knew that she came from the future.
"You...who exactly are you...?"
Su Wanqing's voice was trembling.
A faint smile appeared on the lips of the young Lu Zhanting.
That smile carried a depth that transcended his age.
"I am him."
He said.
"It's also the one you've always wanted to know the answer to, the one who is him."
Su Wanqing was completely dumbfounded.
She subconsciously turned around, wanting to see Lu Zhanting "now" behind her.
However, there was nothing behind her.
The Lu Zhanting who had always been with her, now in the present, had disappeared without her noticing.
She was all alone.
And this "him" before me, who comes from the past but possesses present consciousness.
"Stop looking."
The young Lu Zhanting withdrew his hand that was hanging in mid-air.
His movements were very natural, as if he had just finished something he had planned long ago.
"He is me, and I am him. It's just a matter of time."
Su Wanqing's heart pounded wildly.
She desperately tried to understand everything that was happening before her eyes.
But the more I think about it, the more absurd it seems.
"You...you mean..."
She struggled to organize her thoughts.
"You knew back then that I would be reborn, that I would go back to the past."
"No."
The young Lu Zhanting shook his head.
"I didn't know you would be reborn back then."
All I know is that you are the person I'm looking for.
He spoke calmly.
It was so calm that it seemed like the most normal thing in the world.
"Ever since I first went to the battlefield at the age of thirteen, I have been looking for someone."
"Someone I've never met, yet I know them all too well."
His gaze fell on Su Wanqing's face.
That look in his eyes carried a complex and indescribable emotion.
"I don't know her name, I don't know what she looks like, and I don't even know if she really exists."
"But I know that as long as I see her, I will definitely recognize her."
Su Wanqing's throat tightened.
She could tell.
This wasn't some romantic love at first sight.
This is something even more mysterious and unbelievable...
Destiny.
"So, the moment you fell from the tree and landed in my arms..."
The young Lu Zhanting's voice became even lower.
"I knew it, I found it."
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding scenery suddenly began to change.
The summer sun, the noise of the training ground, the chirping of cicadas in the trees...
These sounds and images began to spread slowly, like watercolors meeting water.
Then, a new scene unfolded before her eyes.
It was a battlefield filled with the smoke of gunpowder.
The roar of cannons filled the air, and rivers of blood flowed.
A thin, small boy, covered in blood, lay prone in the trench.
In his hand, he tightly gripped a rifle that was out of bullets.
Countless corpses lay around him.
There were enemies and comrades.
The boy's eyes were wide open.
In those eyes, there was no fear, only a calmness and... numbness beyond one's years.
He was waiting to die.
Just then, a shell landed precisely on the trench where he was.
The boy closed his eyes.
However, the expected explosion and death did not occur.
He opened his eyes.
He saw a blurry figure blocking his way.
That was a woman's back view.
Her hair was long and fluttered in the smoke of battle.
She reached out her hand, as if making a "push" motion.
Then, just like that, the shell stopped in mid-air.
Then, it changed its trajectory.
It fell into the distance.
boom--
An explosion was heard.
But the boy survived.
He stared blankly at the woman's retreating figure.
I want to speak.
However, the figure turned into specks of light and vanished into the smoke in the next second.
It was as if she had never existed.
The boy stood there stunned for a long time.
Then he climbed out of the trench.
He picked up his comrade's gun from the ground and reloaded it.
His eyes changed.
No longer numb.
Instead, it ignited an almost obstinate brilliance.
He wanted to live.
He needs to find that woman.
The scene ends abruptly here.
Su Wanqing felt ice-cold all over.
She looked at the young Lu Zhanting, whose vision had cleared again.
It felt like something was blocking my throat.
"That person... was me."
Her voice was so soft it was almost inaudible.
The young Lu Zhanting nodded.
"I don't know if that's really you."
"Perhaps it's a hallucination, or perhaps it's my delusion before I die."
"But ever since then, I've always remembered that figure."
He paused.
"So when you fell from the tree, I caught you, and the moment I saw your face..."
"I knew it, it was you."
Su Wanqing's eyes welled up with tears.
She never imagined that her relationship with Lu Zhanting would begin like this.
It wasn't a romantic encounter.
It was a life-or-death rescue that transcended time and space.
But she clearly doesn't have this memory.
She had never been to any battlefield.
It was even more impossible for her to appear in front of Lu Zhanting when he was thirteen years old.
"But I...I didn't..."
She wanted to deny it.
However, the young Lu Zhanting interrupted her.
"You don't have it now."
He said.
"But that doesn't mean you won't have it in the future."
What's the meaning
Su Wanqing was completely dumbfounded.
"Time is not linear."
The young Lu Zhanting looked at her, his eyes as deep as a bottomless well.
"At least for us, no."
"You have been reborn and returned to the past."
"And I..."
He didn't finish speaking.
But Su Wanqing suddenly understood.
Her heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to burst out of her chest.
"You also possess a certain... ability."
The young Lu Zhanting smiled.
That smile carried a hint of bitterness.
"It's less of a power and more of a curse."
He raised his head and looked into the unknown distance.
"I can see things that I shouldn't see."
"The past, the future, and even... things that should never have existed."
"And you, Su Wanqing."
His gaze fell on her again.
"You are the one who shouldn't exist, yet you happened to appear in my life."
Su Wanqing's mind was in complete chaos.
She had so many questions to ask.
But she didn't know where to begin asking.
Just then, the surrounding scenery began to collapse again.
The young Lu Zhanting's figure also began to become transparent.
"Time is up."
He said.
"You should go back now."
"etc!"
Su Wanqing subconsciously reached out, wanting to grab him.
However, her hand passed right through his body.
"Don't rush."
The young Lu Zhanting's voice grew softer and softer.
"We will meet again."
"Next time..."
A meaningful smile appeared on his lips.
"You will understand that everything is predetermined."
The words fell.
He has completely disappeared.
Su Wanqing felt a sudden darkness before her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying in a warm embrace.
It's Lu Zhanting.
That Lu Zhanting who belongs to the "present".
His chin rested on the top of her head.
His arms were wrapped tightly around her.
It was as if they were afraid she would disappear.
"woke up"
His voice came from above.
There was a barely perceptible tension in his voice.
Su Wanqing was stunned for a moment.
Then she suddenly raised her head and looked at him.
"Just now... just now those..."
"It's all true."
Lu Zhanting interrupted her.
He lowered his head and met her astonished eyes.
What you see is all real.
Su Wanqing opened her mouth.
But he found himself unable to say anything.
Lu Zhanting raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears that had unknowingly slipped down her cheeks.
"Now you know."
He said.
"Why did I decide to marry you the first time I saw you?"
"Because I waited for you for fifteen years."
Su Wanqing could no longer stop her tears.
She suddenly understood.
Why is he so assertive?
Why was he so certain?
Why could he speak to a stranger in an almost commanding tone, saying, "Marry me"?
Because to him, she was never a stranger.
She was his only light in his most desperate moment.
It was his destiny, which he had been searching for for fifteen years.
"But I..."
Su Wanqing spoke, her voice choked with emotion.
"I really don't remember ever being on that battlefield..."
"I know."
Lu Zhanting's voice was unusually gentle.
"Because for you, that thing hasn't happened yet."
"But it will happen someday, won't it?"
Su Wanqing was taken aback.
She suddenly remembered a sentence that the young Lu Zhanting had said.
"Time is not linear."
She was reborn.
Lu Zhanting also seems to possess some kind of ability that transcends common sense.
so……
Perhaps one day, she will really return to that battlefield.
It really will; it will save that thirteen-year-old boy.
"This is absurd..."
She murmured to herself.
"It's absurd."
Lu Zhanting lowered his head and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead.
"But our very existence is absurd enough, isn't it?"
Su Wanqing was stunned.
Then, she suddenly laughed.
yes.
She was reborn, and she also brought with her a personal space.
And he is someone who can see the past and the future.
Which of them isn't absurd?
"so……"
She looked up at Lu Zhanting.
"Where did you get that ability?"
Lu Zhanting's eyes darkened.
"The answer to this question..."
He paused.
"I'm afraid you'll have to go find it yourself."
Su Wanqing frowned.
"What's the meaning"
Lu Zhanting did not answer.
He simply held her tighter.
Then, in a very, very low voice, he said in her ear:
"Wanqing, promise me one thing."
"What"
"No matter what happens in the future, don't leave me."
His voice carried a hint of vulnerability she had never heard before.
"Because if I lose you..."
"I don't know if I can keep going."
Su Wanqing's heart clenched tightly.
She realized it for the first time.
This man appears to be incredibly powerful and invincible.
Actually, he also has his weaknesses.
And that weakness is her.
"I will not leave."
She reached out and hugged him tightly.
I promise you.
Lu Zhanting's body stiffened slightly.
Then, he hugged her even tighter.
The two of them just hugged each other like that.
No one spoke.
Only the sound of each other's heartbeats intertwined in the silent space, creating a silent melody.
I don't know how much time passed.
Su Wanqing suddenly remembered something.
"Oh right, you just said that I'll be going to that battlefield someday..."
"How do I get there, and when do I need to go?"
Lu Zhanting released her.
Looking at her earnest little face, a smile crept onto my lips.
"No need to rush."
He said.
"When the time comes, you will naturally know."
"and……"
He then changed the subject.
"Don't you have more important things to do right now?"
Su Wanqing was taken aback.
"What's up"
Lu Zhanting raised an eyebrow.
"Forget about tomorrow's engagement banquet for Li Juan and Zhao Jianhe."
Su Wanqing snapped back to her senses instantly.
right!
She almost forgot!
Tomorrow is that scumbag couple's engagement party!
But she had prepared a "big gift" for them!
Thinking of this, Su Wanqing's eyes lit up instantly.
The light carried a hint of eager excitement.
Lu Zhanting looked at her like this and shook his head helplessly.
"Let's go home."
"I'll go with you tomorrow."
Su Wanqing raised her head and looked at him.
You should go too.
"certainly."
Lu Zhanting said it as a matter of course.
"I need to let everyone know that you are my woman, Lu Zhanting's woman."
"Anyone who dares to touch you is going against me."
A warm feeling welled up in Su Wanqing's heart.
She suddenly realized.
Marry this man.
It was truly the best decision she ever made in her life.
The two walked hand in hand out of that mysterious space.
However, just as they were about to leave completely.
Su Wanqing suddenly heard this.
A very soft voice came from behind me.
It sounded like a sigh, yet also like a warning.
"Time is almost up..."
She turned around abruptly.
But I didn't see anything.
There was only an empty void.
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