Kita Kiyokawa: "Then I can help you."
"What can you do to help me?" Shi Yin said, both amused and exasperated. "You don't have any superpowers anymore, and I'll handle the rest."
Kita Kiyokawa: "But if you don't say something soon, the Commander-in-Chief will come out and drag you away."
"Just don't cause trouble." Shi Yin rested her forehead on her hand and gently shook her head: "Bei Qingchuan, don't stop me anymore. Everything that follows is something I've thought through carefully. I'm about to succeed."
Kita Kiyokawa: "What?"
“Okay, I admit I trust you more and can be honest with you about some things.” Shi Yin said helplessly, “There are just too many uncertainties in this rebirth. I’ve been worried about whether I can make it to the end. I have indeed experienced many things that I could not have predicted, but the result was unexpectedly smooth.”
"Or rather, you guys have been exceptionally obedient yourselves throughout your lives, whether subconsciously or intentionally, but it's undeniable that you've reached this point almost perfectly."
"The Fire Seed Project is only one step away from completion. I'm so glad that the people I want to protect have held on until now. Otherwise, if we had to do it all over again, I would have had a real headache."
"Then, what about Nan Zhu and the others?" Bei Qingchuan was silent for a moment, a strange sadness creeping over him.
"Qingchuan." Shi Yin's expression softened. "You should trust me."
"Of course." This time, Kitakami answered decisively: "I've always believed in you, but I don't want anything to happen to you."
"I'll be fine." Shi Yin's gaze remained unchanged, as if she was only very confident about this matter: "Qingchuan, I won't die, I'll never die."
"Can I be like you?" Kita Kiyokawa asked.
Shi Yin was taken aback. Bei Qingchuan always asked questions that she didn't know how to answer, but it shouldn't be allowed, right?
"You really want to live forever?" Shi Yin sighed.
"I really want to be with you. It's so painful to be able to live forever." Kita Kiyokawa lowered his head silently: "Shiyin, I like you."
The sea's waves drift endlessly, and your sorrow is my sorrow too.
The south wind knows my heart, blowing my dreams to the western continent.
Shi Yin: "?"
"Bei Qingchuan?" Shi Yin frowned slightly.
She's certainly not stupid; on the contrary, she's very perceptive.
However, both she and everyone who liked her tacitly kept quiet about the matter. Everyone knew the cruelty of the apocalypse and also knew that Shi Yin would not respond.
Shi Yin hadn't expected Kitakami to say that so bluntly.
"Sigh, Kita Kiyokawa, I'm not as good as you think. You need to figure out who I really am." Shi Yin sighed, "The me in my first life is completely different from the me now. The person you like has undergone excessive transformation and can hardly be called human. I am overwhelmingly powerful to you. How can you be so sure about your own hearts?"
“When someone overwhelmingly surpasses everyone else in strength, they will have many admirers, but that is not a criterion for judging liking someone.” Shi Yin patiently reasoned with Bei Qingchuan as gently as possible: “It is unfair to talk about love when there is an inequality in status and ability. I am taking advantage of you.”
After all, no one can disobey her if she wants to, so her emotional giving is almost like charity, and others have no say in the matter.
“No, I’ve never felt your strength. Although you are overwhelmingly strong, I’ve always felt that you are someone who needs to be taken care of.” Kita Kiyokawa clutched his chest, his expression calm. “I didn’t expect you to respond to me, Shi Yin. I’m just saying this so you understand that I will do everything I can to help you.”
Kita Kiyokawa recalled that every superhuman who joined the national team had to take an oath under the national flag.
That day, Bei Qingchuan received national recognition, and he could finally work for the country legitimately. He happened to be there during the collective oath-taking ceremony of all the superpowered individuals, and he stood among them, his heart surging with emotion.
That day, Shi Yin was also there, sitting with the Consul General, looking at the national flag with a bored expression, half-closing her eyes, half-asleep, seemingly completely indifferent.
She simply sat there quietly, yet it seemed to make all sounds recede from her surroundings, causing one to unconsciously hold their breath, love rising with the wind, and lingering feelings even after the wind subsided.
Beiqingchuan is not mentioned.
In fact, Bei Qingchuan knew that Nan Zhu also liked it. When Nan Zhu was still around, Bei Qingchuan asked Nan Zhu why she didn't give it a try, since being close to the source would give her an advantage.
Nan Zhu said that Shi Yin was a peerless beauty from heaven and should have seen all the dazzling stars in the world. Why should he ask her to watch the fireworks of the mortal world? People love to see the fall of gods, the collapse of altars and the breaking of high walls, and the bright moon falling into the mud. But Nan Zhu felt that the moon should hang in the sky.
Even Beiqingchuan doesn't like it.
He didn't think Shiyin was the moon in the sky.
Furthermore, Kitakyokawa doesn't think it's wrong to like Tokine.
In chaotic times, liking someone is foolish, and being love-struck is criticized by the world. However, Kita Kiyokawa believes that if this feeling can give people faith and the courage to face everything, then love is a noble emotion.
"Go back. I'll pretend you never said that." Shi Yin turned around and waved wearily. "I can't give love to anyone."
Shi Yin does not deny the nobility of love; she does not belittle any of the three great kinds of friendship: kinship, friendship, and romantic love.
But love is mutual, and mutual love must be genuine. Shi Yin believes that all emotions must be serious, which means that both parties must give up their stubbornness, accept each other, acknowledge their powerlessness, and show their vulnerability in order to meet the real other person.
Shi Yin won't do; she has to be omnipotent.
She won't get hurt, she won't die, she won't cry out in pain, she won't be tripped up by difficulties, she can always get back up, at least in other people's eyes she has to be like that.
“I know,” Kitakami said calmly. “I’m just stating the facts.”
"Bei Qingchuan, I'm not as good as you think. What's so great about you that you like me?" Shi Yin scratched her head.
"I know," Kita Kiyokawa said calmly. "I will definitely help you."
"Ah, I didn't hear you, I didn't hear you." Shi Yin had a headache: "Get out."
Kita Kiyokawa didn't say anything, gave Shi Yin a deep look, and then turned and walked out.
What is this guy even talking about?!
Shi Yin scratched her head in frustration. "Don't talk about this kind of thing," she thought. Shi Yin's feelings were complicated, like a rich person always wondering—does that person love me or my money?
If a person is rich but has no money or power, how many people will love them?
She was the same.
Without that face, without money, power, or strength, she's just an ordinary exiled soldier in the apocalypse. How many people would still look at her with that kind of gaze?
Before the apocalypse, Shi Yin had never received a confession, and no one came to her in the first apocalypse to be with her. Now, however, she likes everyone.
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