Chapter 108
Shi Mudan passed away at the age of eighty-three. At that time, she had been bedridden for several years and was in very poor health. She could not even get out of bed, and her mind was sometimes clear and sometimes confused.
But in her final moments, as if she had suddenly seen through life and death, she grasped Qin Su's hand and asked, "Who are you?"
Qin Su said, "I am Qin Su."
Shi Mudan shook her head, her eyes cloudy, her tone firm, and said, "You are not my daughter."
After saying that, she paused for a moment, then changed her words, saying, "No, you are also my daughter."
For so many years, her daughter has always been this Qin Su.
She was confused by her own words, muttering, "No, my daughter, my daughter is Su Su, Su Su, Su Su..."
She suddenly grabbed Qin Su's fingers and asked anxiously, "Su Su, is Su Su alright?"
Everyone else thought Shi Mudan had gone mad again, but Qin Su met her gaze and knew that she was more lucid than ever before.
"How amazing," Qin Su thought to herself. "Is it true that no matter what kind of world it is, parents have a special connection with their children? Is this what they mean by blood being thicker than water?"
Qin Su reassured her by squeezing her hand back and said, "Don't worry, Su Su is fine."
"That's good, that's good." A satisfied smile appeared on Shi Mudan's thin face, and her voice gradually faded, "Su Su is fine, and you are fine too..."
She slowly lost her voice, and after a moment, the hand that was holding Qin Su loosened its grip.
Screams and cries erupted from inside the room. Everyone turned toward the head of the bed, but Qin Su turned back as if sensing something.
She always found it strange that, even though the wish of the person making the wish was to receive lots and lots of love, and Qin Su had already achieved that goal, there was still some lingering resentment in the wisher.
Qin Su hadn't understood what the wishers were resentful about before, but now she seemed to have an epiphany.
Love is an unfair thing; different people's love has different weights.
Perhaps for humanity, all the love in the world combined cannot compare to the love of the person you love.
Shi Mudan had spent decades with Qin Su, yet she still longed for her real daughter until the very last moment of her life, which finally dispelled the wisher's obsession.
After Qin Su and Ye Yan finished handling Shi Mudan's funeral, on their way back, Ye Yan suddenly said, "Can this world let me go first?"
Qin Su turned her head to look at him.
Ye Yan's expression was calm, but his grip on her hand tightened slightly. He said, "Su Su, you know, I've become more and more outrageous over the years."
He always thought that growing old together was the most beautiful thing, but it turns out that's not the case.
Over the years, Ye Yan's temperament has changed considerably. When he was young, he was inherently restrained and introverted, and he would quickly regain his senses even when he was in a frenzy. However, as he grew older, he became extreme, suspicious, and possessive. For a few years, he even reached a terrifying point where he could no longer control himself.
He was afraid of getting old and afraid of dying, because he knew in his heart that Qin Su had a long time and a long life, but he did not.
The most terrifying thing in the world is loss.
Ye Yan felt that he was watching helplessly as he was losing something.
"I told you," Qin Su repeated for the hundredth time, "If you die, I will die with you and try my best to take your soul with me."
Ye Yan asked for the eight hundredth time: "What if we fail as much as possible, and the person dies and their soul is scattered?"
Qin Su rolled her eyes at him and tried to shake off his hand.
Ye Yan wouldn't let go; his palm was stuck to her as if it were glued on.
He said, "I also want a specimen made from that bunch of dried roses, so I can bury it with my ashes, okay?"
Qin Su said, "What kind of specimen do you need? Don't worry, I'll follow you right after you leave."
Ye Yan laughed and said, "Then I'd rather not. I'm afraid I won't look good as a ghost. You should wait until I reincarnate to see me again."
Qin Su: "You just said you were afraid of your soul being scattered."
Ye Yan said, "I've thought about it again. Even if my soul is scattered, I will still come looking for you."
Qin Su ignored him, but after a while, he chased after her again and asked, "Su Su, who was that man who was talking to you downstairs yesterday?"
Qin Su said irritably, "It's a newly appointed property manager."
Before Ye Yan could ask any more questions, she said very skillfully, "I'm not as handsome as you, not as rich as you, not as capable as you, but I love you the most."
Ye Yan was satisfied, but still asked, "Really?"
Qin Su: "It really is, more real than real gold."
The two walked away chatting and laughing.
...
When Qin Su was seventy-two years old, Ye Yan passed away.
Before he closed his eyes, he gazed at Qin Su, unwilling to blink, as if he wanted to etch her image deeply into his mind, never to be forgotten, even in life or death.
Ye Yan asked, "Will we meet again?"
For the first time in her life, Qin Su made a promise to someone about the afterlife, saying, "Yes, you can rest assured."
Ye Yan didn't know whether he believed her or not, but he just smiled and said, "I'll wait for you."
...
Qin Su kept her promise and, after arranging Ye Yan's funeral, did not choose to leave quietly but instead chose to "die" in this world and be buried with Ye Yan.
They were both well-known figures, and their close relationship, with the couple passing away one after the other, has sparked much discussion.
However, none of this mattered to Qin Su anymore.
She frowned as she looked at the cat system and asked, "Didn't find it again?"
The cat system spends most of its time sleeping in this world. It meowed, "How strange, just like in the last world, his soul has disappeared."
Qin Su stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the ever-changing clouds below. After a long silence, he said, "But this time I agreed to his request."
Cat glanced at her and said cautiously, "Su Su, don't worry. He also gave us a lot of luck points this time. I think he might not be an ordinary person either."
Seeing that Qin Su didn't speak, it quickly pulled out the wish it had already chosen.
"Su Su, this person making a wish is a little special. Do you want to hear it?"
Qin Su showed little interest and asked, "Oh? What's so special about it?"
The cat said, "The person who made the wish is a time traveler! She traveled from the modern era to ancient times!"
Qin Su had seen this situation before and understood the concept, saying, "What's so strange about time travel? There are always some spacetime passages from different dimensions that converge in the torrent; she just happened to be there."
Not to mention time travel, she's even encountered people with systems.
It was precisely because she had seen something called a system that the cat named herself "System".
Yes, the cat that has been following Qin Su is named "System," and it thinks that the system is a very cool thing.
Cat: "Not only that, Su Su, this person who made the wish was reborn after time travel."
"Reborn?" Qin Su was slightly surprised. "She encountered time reversal again? Is it also a coincidence?"
This is indeed quite unusual.
For a person to experience both temporal displacement and time reversal within a mere century, what incredible luck that must be!
The cat tilted its head, its whiskers twitching, and said, "I don't know if it's a coincidence or if there are other factors interfering. I didn't investigate carefully, but in any case, she was reborn with the memories of her first life."
"Interesting." Qin Su smiled slightly. "What is her wish?"
The cat said, "This all started with her time travel."
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