This is completely illogical.
It was so outrageous that Gu Qingqiu stopped crying: "Are you serious?"
System 057: [You're unhappy.]
"Do you care a lot about whether I'm happy or not?"
System 057: [...Are you coming or not? I can teleport right now.]
Gu Qingqiu was shocked: "What about my mission? Don't I need to complete it? Aren't I punished by being sent to the punishment world if I fail the mission?"
System 057: [I'll handle this, you don't need to worry about it.]
This domineering statement made Gu Qingqiu's sadness almost instantly disappear. She wiped away her tears with a wry smile and said, "Forget it, how could I let you take responsibility for my mood? I just wanted to vent, I'll be fine in a bit."
Troye looked at Gu Qingqiu with a puzzled expression when she saw that Gu Qingqiu had stopped crying.
Gu Qingqiu sighed and shook her head, then fell back into Troye's arms. Suddenly, she thought of the child she still had left in the standby space station.
This was the world she felt least connected to, and the world she knew least how to navigate. Although she still loved him, she always felt a strange, unnatural feeling about it.
She felt that she was sometimes really strange to like Troyes, who didn't speak her language at all, even though that was the outcome the mission was supposed to achieve.
But Troyes' appearance was exactly what she wanted. His long, silvery-white curly hair was so dazzling, reflecting an undeniable shimmer in the water. His eyes were as deep as the sea and as bright as stars, as if they held endless wisdom and charm. His nose was high and straight, and his lips were well-defined. Everything about him was perfect.
If "love at first sight" truly exists in the world, it would make perfect sense if the object of affection were Troyes.
Troyes seemed to be exactly the embodiment of Gu Qingqiu's aesthetic, bright and alluring, yet exuding a strong sense of grandeur, harmoniously forming a perfect image.
If Gu Qingqiu hadn't secretly gone to the Mermaid Conference and met the other mermaids, she probably would have thought that all mermaids looked this awesome.
But in fact, some other mermaids also look very old, while others look young but have plain appearances. It seems that the legends about mermaids having the power to bewitch people are more about describing the mermaids' "singing voices".
Strangely, when Gu Qingqiu first saw Troye, she felt a strange sense of familiarity. Although she had some guesses about certain things, this "familiarity" seemed to simply come from Troye's appearance.
This is even more illogical! Because Gu Qingqiu was obviously seeing such a stunning appearance for the first time. In other words, if she had seen such a beautiful person before, she should have remembered them very well. How could she just feel a sense of "familiarity"?
No! She does seem to have seen her before! And she was a "mermaid" too!
Upon realizing this, Gu Qingqiu was so shocked that she sat up almost instantly.
Yes, she had seen it.
Before she died in the real world, she was indeed obsessed with an otome game for a while. It was a fantasy game where the male protagonists were anthropomorphic animals like cats and dogs, but the character she was really into at the time was a mermaid.
Gu Qingqiu saw this character while browsing short videos and was immediately attracted, which led her to download the game. Unexpectedly, the mermaid male protagonist didn't appear until much later in the main storyline. In order to see him sooner, Gu Qingqiu even spent several 648 RMB in-game purchases.
At her most obsessed, Gu Qingqiu could spend three or four hours a day playing the game, and she also spent a lot of money to change her little mermaid's clothes and unlock dating storylines. She even changed her phone's screensaver to the mermaid's card image.
However, the game later shut down due to operational difficulties, and Gu Qingqiu could only quit the game with regret and heartache over the money she had spent.
However, the mermaid in the game is not like Troye. Instead, she has blonde hair and blue eyes. It was just that when Gu Qingqiu was submitting her final assignment for her elective art class in college, one of the topics the teacher chose was "ideal type". Gu Qingqiu drew this mermaid image at that time, made some modifications, changed the hair to silver, changed the eye color to dark blue, and made the mermaid more robust than the frail image in the game.
The other students' works were also diverse and beautiful. Some drew celebrities and idols, some drew anime characters, some drew their own pet hamsters, and some even dared to draw the teacher himself. Therefore, Gu Qingqiu's mermaid work was not too outrageous. The teacher was more concerned with the learning results. After this incident, she never came into contact with anything related to "mermaids" again.
Thinking of this, Gu Qingqiu broke out in a cold sweat, and her expression toward Troyes became even stranger.
Troye was puzzled, wondering what he had done this time.
Something's not right... This is all too wrong...
Gu Qingqiu's face turned deathly pale again; the thing she had never dared to think about had finally come to pass.
The world, the missions, the system... everything about her seems strange and full of bugs. She's dead... How did she die?
Having lived through so much time in various worlds, adding up to hundreds of years, "death" was a concept far removed from her own past century and previous life.
But she can still remember things from college and the otome games she played, yet her memory of her "death" doesn't seem particularly vivid. Although the human brain subconsciously ignores scenes it doesn't want to remember, this is just too strange, isn't it?
It seems that the female supporting character system told her about her "death" in the first place.
By the way... how exactly did she die?
Perhaps because he had been lost in thought for too long, Troye grabbed Gu Qingqiu's hand and shook it.
Gu Qingqiu gave Troye a deep look, then kissed him forcefully.
Troye was taken aback for a moment, but quickly returned the kiss passionately.
After the kiss ended, Gu Qingqiu heard Troyes's strong heartbeat.
A smile appeared on Gu Qingqiu's lips as she said, "Troyel, I'm sorry."
What's the meaning?
Troye tilted his head in confusion, feeling a surge of panic and unease. He felt as if the human being so close to him was a distant cloud, about to vanish and disappear from his sight.
He felt a sudden, inexplicable fear and pulled Gu Qingqiu into a tighter embrace again. "N fhg, go maith? Is gr liom t."
"I love you," Gu Qingqiu whispered in Troyes' ear.
Troye felt his eyes well up with tears. Strangely, he was crying... He had never cried before. He didn't know where this feeling of sadness and despair came from, or why he felt so uneasy.
"I've changed my mind, System 057, take me back."
【good. 】
A burst of white light shone on Gu Qingqiu, as if God had showered down his radiance, beckoning her.
Troye's eyes were filled with panic, but in the end he could do nothing. He watched helplessly as the girl in his arms turned into specks of light and drifted away with the current in the ocean. He tried to reach out and grab her, but he couldn't grasp anything.
She really left.
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