Chapter 097 Chapter 97 Another World (An Qing's Parents and An Yiqing)
An Weiguo still remembers that when his wife suddenly fell ill, he hurriedly wanted to hug his wife and asked his daughter to drive them to the hospital, but his daughter in the room did not respond for a long time.
He kicked the door twice in anger, but his daughter still hadn't come out. Suddenly, his wife in his arms bit his neck.
After that his memory became chaotic and vague.
After waking up, he found himself standing in a very bright and luxuriously decorated office.
An Weiguo subconsciously looked for his wife and found her standing beside him, also looking confused.
An Weiguo breathed a sigh of relief. "Xiu Fen, how are you feeling? Are you okay?"
Li Xiufang blinked and hesitated, "What happened just now? Where is this place?"
An Weiguo looked at this unfamiliar place and shook his head: "I don't know either..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw the double doors of the office were pushed open, and a person who seemed somewhat strange but very familiar walked in.
Although she had grown up and become more mature, the couple recognized her at first sight as their daughter An Qing.
Li Xiufang blinked, "Qingqing!"
She walked quickly towards her daughter. "Qingqing, how did you become like this? Also, where is this place? Why are we here?"
Li Xiufang looked at the woman in front of her. It was only a blink of an eye, but she felt as if she had missed her daughter for many years.
An Weiguo wanted to hold his wife back but failed. He looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar woman in front of him and felt a little doubtful. He vaguely felt that this was not their daughter.
"Uncle, aunt, hello, my name is An Yiqing, not your daughter An Qing." An Yiqing smiled gently at the two of them and gestured for them to sit down. "Please, let me tell you about the situation."
Li Xiufang was stunned. She stared at An Qing closely. Although there were some changes, this was obviously her daughter.
An Weiguo pulled Li Xiufang and said, "Xiufen, please sit down first."
Li Xiufang was a little confused: "No, no, this is obviously Qingqing... Our daughter Qingqing, why doesn't she recognize me?"
An Weiguo had already pulled Li Xiufang to sit down. He didn't say anything and just looked at An Yiqing in silence.
An Yiqing poured a glass of water for each of them and said with a smile, "Do you remember what happened before?"
Li Xiufang was holding a glass of water in her hand and still looking at An Yiqing. After hearing the question, she recalled what had just happened. She only remembered that she opened the window, and the red mist outside floated in. She felt a little uncomfortable, and then she lost consciousness. When she woke up again, it was now.
So, Li Xiufang looked at An Weiguo.
An Weiguo placed his hand on his neck and said, "Remember."
Looking at the bewildered Li Xiufang, he continued, "Xiufen suddenly became ill for some reason. She lost consciousness and collapsed, convulsing all over. I wanted to take her to the hospital, but she suddenly pounced on me and bit my neck..."
Afraid that his wife might be upset, he omitted asking his daughter to drive them to the hospital, which An Qing ignored.
An Yiqing nodded: "At that time, the end of the world had come. The red fog carried the zombie virus. Some people who inhaled the red fog were fine, but some people turned into zombies."
An Weiguo looked at the person in front of him who was speaking seriously and felt that it was a bit ridiculous, but when he looked at the drastically changed environment around him and his previous real memories, he was speechless.
Li Xiufang tightly grasped An Weiguo's hand and looked at An Qing nervously, "So, we turned into zombies? Then what is our situation now? And what about our daughter?"
"Yes, when the apocalypse came, you two turned into zombies. Now you are alive in the form of souls." The smile on An Qing's face gradually disappeared. "As for your daughter, she is dead."
Boom—this news exploded in the minds of the two people like a bomb.
Li Xiufang suddenly grabbed her collar, feeling like she was almost out of breath. Her vision went black, and her voice trembled: "Dead, dead?"
An Weiguo couldn't accept it either. He swayed and his face turned paler, but he was much calmer than Li Xiufang. He hugged Li Xiufang to comfort her, then looked at An Yiqing: "Has our daughter turned into a zombie too?"
An Yiqing shook her head: "No, she died before the end of the world."
"Impossible!" An Weiguo immediately denied it. "She was fine before we got into trouble. How could she have died before the apocalypse?"
An Yiqing: "Isn't that possible? After you brought An Qing back from the blind date, she went back to her room. Do you know what she did?"
Li Xiufang's breath was choked, and a guess she couldn't accept emerged in her mind. She shook her head: "No, it's impossible, it's impossible. Why, why would she…"
An Yiqing raised her hand and waved, and a screen slowly lowered, and human figures gradually appeared on the screen.
"Actually, I shouldn't be the one telling you this, but she will never tell you because she doesn't want to make you sad."
The screen shows An Qing’s first blind date.
"An Qing really enjoys living with you. She's not against dating or getting married. She has a plan for her own life."
"In her plan, she would meet someone who liked her and she also liked him, and then they would fall in love. If their values matched, they could get married."
"But in your eyes, this is immature, ignorant, and too young. You don't understand her thinking and act according to what you think is best for her."
"Since she was eighteen, you've been forcing her to go on blind dates. Even though she didn't want to, you still coaxed and persuaded her to go."
"She's resistant, and every blind date she goes on doesn't work out. You didn't say anything at first, thinking there's always another one. But when she's 21 and still hasn't found a single match, you start to get anxious..."
The picture shows the scenes of An Qing being forced to go on blind dates every time. She resists and feels helpless, but she really can't get rid of her parents.
It can be seen that she becomes more and more resistant day by day, and every blind date she goes on is embarrassing and painful.
The scene gradually moves to the time when An Qing was twenty-one years old.
After a failed blind date, Li Xiufang exploded, pointing at An Qing's nose and scolding her, "What the hell are you thinking about writing about all day? What's wrong with this boy? Your aunt introduced him to you. He has a car, a house, a good personality, a good job, and his looks may not be as good as those celebrities, but he's not bad, right? Who wouldn't call him handsome when they see him? Tell me, what is it about him that's not good enough for you that makes you so unhappy?"
An Qing sat on the sofa: "Anyway, it's just not suitable."
Li Xiufang was furious: "What's wrong with it? You haven't even thought about it and tried it, so how do you know it's not suitable? You must have a keen eye and can see it's not suitable at a glance?"
An Qing: "Mom, I really don't want to go on a blind date. Who still goes on blind dates these days? Isn't it better to just let things take their own course?"
"You're already 21, and you're still letting things take their course? Your cousin's getting married next month, how much longer are you going to let things take their course?" Li Xiufang angrily said, "If you keep procrastinating, all the good guys will be picked up, and then you'll only be left with some ugly ones!"
"Qingqing, I'm not saying anything bad to you, but a woman of her age should go on blind dates, fall in love, and get married."
"I know you want to say that many people marry late these days, but they're still studying. Look at yourself. You're not good at studying, and your brain isn't that smart. At best, you just have a pretty face, but there are so many pretty girls these days, so this isn't really an advantage..."
Li Xiufang watched the screen and saw herself nagging in front of her daughter, listing her shortcomings one by one and belittling her daughter as worthless.
"No, it's not like that..." Li Xiufang saw An Qing's eyes getting dimmer and dimmer as she was scolded by her. Tears gathered in her eyes and she hurriedly shook her head: "I, I didn't mean that... Qingqing!"
An Yiqing looked at the somewhat collapsed Li Xiufang and An Weiguo beside her: "You belittled her, denied her, and caused her great hurt."
In the picture, in order to avoid continuing the blind date, An Qing finally reluctantly agreed to be with a boy.
But she couldn't get along with people at all. When they talked, she would be distracted. She tried for a long time but couldn't think of anything to talk to them about. Every time they met, it felt like torture.
She didn't want to waste time with the other party and proposed to break up, but her parents came to urge her to get married because the boy's parents came to propose marriage.
An Qing couldn't accept it at all. They had only been together for a short time, and the more they got along, the more she felt they were not suitable. How could they possibly get married?
She had a big fight with Li Xiufang and An Weiguo, broke up with the boy, and never wanted to go on a blind date again.
No matter what Li Xiufang said, it was useless. She brought photos of several boys, but An Qing didn't even look at them. She even locked the door and hid in the room.
Li Xiufang was so angry that she kept crying. She cried because her daughter was stubborn and didn't listen to her. She cried because when she and An Weiguo were gone, An Qing would be alone and have no one to take care of her. She cried because An Qing would be alone when she got old...
An Qing was helpless and came out to communicate with Li Xiufang and An Weiguo.
But her ideas seemed childish and ridiculous to Li Xiufang and An Weiguo. They thought she was just a child and not sensible. They had to worry about her and plan her future.
As a result, communication between the two sides failed.
Because of this incident, there was constant quarreling at home. An Qing became more and more tired and quiet. The light in her eyes gradually disappeared, and she gradually began to suffer from insomnia.
Someone introduced a date to An Qing again. Li Xiufang asked An Qing to go, but An Qing refused. Li Xiufang was so anxious that no matter what she said, he wouldn't listen. She was so angry that she hit An Qing a few times.
From childhood to adulthood, Li Xiufang has never been willing to hit her daughter. This is the first time.
But even after being beaten, An Qing still refused to go and was determined not to go. She even went back to her room and locked the door to express her determination.
Afterwards, Li Xiufang stood at the door of the room, holding a kitchen knife to her neck and threatening to commit suicide.
An Qing came out, but the last bit of light in her eyes was gone.
She was like a walking corpse, no longer refusing her parents' requests for blind dates, but she would only go to meet them and would not leave her phone number or contact them.
An Qing was 25 years old. An Weiguo and Li Xiufang were extremely anxious but they could do nothing about their daughter, so they could only ask people for help to find a marriage for her.
This blind date was also An Qing’s last one, and it happened during the day when the end of the world came.
An Qing rejected the other party as usual and locked herself in the room when she got home.
In the living room, Li Xiufang was so angry that she burst into tears and said to An Weiguo, "Tell me, what is this girl thinking? She doesn't even like such a good boy, what kind of man does she want to find? She doesn't even look at her own conditions. There are better ones, but can she be worthy of him?"
He frowned when he heard her say this: "Okay, you've gone too far. You can't say such things, it hurts the child too much."
Li Xiufang: "Who am I doing this for? I'm doing this for her. If it weren't for her, why would I do this? She's already 25 years old. Does she really want to stay at home as an old maid forever? Her ambitions are getting higher and higher every day. Every time she points out a lot of shortcomings in others, why doesn't she count her own shortcomings?"
"Okay, stop talking. If you don't like this one, just ask someone to find you another one," said An Weiguo.
"Next? That's easy for you to say. Do you know how many people I've offended by trying to find a partner for her? Now no one dares to talk to her about it. Whenever I bring it up, they change the subject and don't respond!"
"She's dated dozens of men over the years, but none of them are to her liking. She's become so picky! She picks people based on this or that flaw. Is there anyone who's perfect without any flaws? Even if there were, they wouldn't like her!"
In the room, An Qingan, with a pale face, listened quietly to her mother's words outside, tears streaming down her face.
With trembling hands, she picked up the medicine on the table, unscrewed the bottle, poured all the pills into her mouth, swallowed them with water, and slowly lay down on the bed and closed her eyes.
Tears are still falling.
"Qingqing, Qingqing, Mom was wrong, don't do this, don't..." Li Xiufang rushed towards the screen, but at this time, the screen had gone black.
"Qingqing, Qingqing--" Li Xiufang fell to the ground and cried bitterly. She was in a soul state now, with no tears in her eyes, but her whole body was in despair, her soul was trembling and twisted, as if it would collapse in the next moment.
An Weiguo's face was expressionless. He stared at the black screen, seemingly still unable to react. He looked like a stone statue.
An Yiqing looked at the two of them. There was no doubt that they loved An Qing very much, but their way of loving was wrong.
But precisely because they loved An Qing so deeply, and An Qing also loved them, the things they did caused such great harm to An Qing.
Especially when Li Xiufang threatened to commit suicide...
An Yiqing: "Do you know? Actually, after An Qing was forced into a blind date by you, she gradually developed depression. She has attempted suicide many times, but each time she thought of you and pulled herself back from those extreme emotions. The words you said on that last blind date became the last straw that broke her back."
Li Xiufang covered her chest with her hands, her eyes were dull, and her soul was twisted.
An Weiguo covered his face in pain. "Don't blame Xiufen, blame me. I knew Xiufen sometimes went too far, but I couldn't stop her..."
The edges of his soul had already turned into specks of stardust and were dissipating.
An Yiqing reached out and stabilized the souls of the two.
"As parents, you do consider her wholeheartedly, but she is a person, not an object. She has her own thoughts. You should listen to her ideas instead of directly forcing her to act according to your ideas. That's not a human being, that's your puppet."
An Yiqing propped up her chin, her expression still gentle, but her words were cold, "I'm curious, why do you think An Qing is looking for someone else's leftovers later?"
"Back then, there were many people who got married in their thirties or later, right?"
"And does marriage guarantee happiness? There are many happy people, but there are also many who suffer in marriage, right? Those who are unhappy after marriage are better off being happy and single."
"I've always believed that whether to get married or not should be determined by one's heart. Otherwise, you'll never be happy. Dating and marriage should be a natural progression, not a necessary process."
Li Xiufang and An Weiguo had lost all response, their souls were collapsing. If she hadn't been protecting their souls, they would have dissipated.
It was obvious that they simply could not accept or bear the fact that they had forced their own daughter to death.
An Yiqing sighed and swallowed what she wanted to say.
"An Qing is still alive."
With just one sentence, the two people who had just felt hopeless and their souls were about to dissipate immediately looked at An Qing, but no one spoke.
An Yiqing: "After I traveled to this world and came back to life in your daughter's body, she also came to my original world and lived in my body."
Li Xiufang stood up from the ground tremblingly: "What, what do you mean?"
"Travel through time, you know what I mean, right? It means An Qing and I traveled through time. But after she traveled to another world, her soul protected itself and she forgot everything that happened after she turned twenty-one. But this memory is like a time bomb for her. She never knows when she'll remember it, and then it'll drag her into the abyss again."
An Weiguo was anxious when he heard this. "Then, what should we do? Please help us. We don't ask for anything now. We just want Qingqing to live a stable life. As long as she is happy, we will do anything. Can you help us?"
An Weiguo knelt down in front of An Yiqing with a thud.
An Yiqing raised her hand and forced An Weiguo to get up and sit back on the sofa. "Although I am not your daughter, this body is hers. Even though it belongs to me now, you cannot kneel."
"As for An Qing's situation, the person who tied it must untie it." An Qing looked at the two of them. "She loves you both very much, so you have a huge influence on her. That painful memory has become a knot in her heart. If you want to untie it and heal her, it depends on what you do."
Li Xiufang: "I can do anything, as long as she is fine, I can do anything!"
An Yiqing smiled and said, "Then wait, you should be able to meet soon."
Li Xiufang was a little anxious: "When?"
An Yiqing shook her head: "I don't know the details, but you will know when the time comes."
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