After a while, he looked up at the top of the tomb and slowly raised his hands to cover his face.
Although he covered his face tightly, Zhu Wuhuan and Feng Changye could still feel the sadness emanating from him.
The couple was infected by the sadness and looked at him quietly, grieving with him.
After a long time, the old man finally put his hand down.
His eyes fell on Zhu Wuhuan.
He asked slowly, "So, you are a time traveler who followed her orders to change the history of Daning, right?"
Zhu Wuhuan nodded, "Yes, ancestor."
Feng Nanyu looked at her, then looked at Feng Changye.
Zhu Wuhuan understood immediately. She held Feng Changye's hand tightly and said, "Grandfather, although I traveled to Daning on a mission, I love the emperor. He and I are husband and wife, and we already have children."
Feng Nanyu looked at the two of them with complicated eyes and said softly, "The way you two are so affectionate is just like how she and I were back then..."
He looked at the night-shining pearl hanging on the ceiling of the cave and fell into reminiscence.
"She is a selfless, quick-transmigration missionary, a passer-by in every small world. She only sees the mission, not love, but she will lend a hand when she sees someone in need..."
"I'm not human by blood, and once accidentally revealed my true identity in the mortal world, causing panic among the people. Everyone wanted me to be killed. I had the ability to kill them all, but I didn't want to hurt anyone. So I could only flee. That's when she appeared and saved me."
"She kept me by her side as a pet, and I happily followed her. But two years later, she completed her mission and left that world."
"Before she left, she saw me peeling off her scales and digging out her heart, intending to use up all my magic power to revive her. She tried to dissuade me, telling me that she wasn't actually dead, she had simply gone to another world. She told me not to use up all my magic power to revive her corpse. Even if she did, the person inside would no longer be her—"
"After she left, I practiced diligently. After achieving some success, I tried my best to follow in her footsteps."
"She goes to a world, and I go to a world with her."
"But I'm different from her. She carries the System of the Universe, and can travel freely to all the heavens and worlds. With the system, she won't be suppressed by the laws of any small world, but I can't."
"Every time I followed her to a new world, the moment I entered, I would be suppressed by the Heavenly Dao of that world. Then, Heavenly Dao would cast me into the body of an ordinary person. I would lose my own past memories, and my mind would be replaced by the memories of that flesh body. From then on, I would live like an ordinary person..."
"So, I lost my memory and couldn't go to her. She didn't even know I existed. She would just leave after completing her mission."
"I was left in that world, living my life unconsciously like an ordinary person. It wasn't until that body died that I regained consciousness for a moment and realized that she had left decades ago..."
"I know this pursuit is unsolvable and seems meaningless. I should give up, but I don't want to give up."
"I believe that if one world doesn't work, then ten, a hundred, a thousand, there will always be a world where I can wait until she discovers me, until she falls in love with me."
"So, I began my long journey of pursuit. After following her to hundreds of small worlds, I was finally lucky enough to be placed by the heavens into the body of an ordinary person, very close to her."
"In that world, I finally had the chance to die for her."
"At the moment that body died, I took advantage of that moment of clarity and told her that I was the person she had saved in a certain small world, and asked if she still remembered me... I told her that I had followed her to hundreds of worlds... I also told her that I would continue to follow her to new worlds. If she felt sorry for me, please make sure to find me in that new small world."
"She was probably shocked and moved, because when she didn't know, someone could follow her for thousands of years without regrets and travel with her through hundreds of worlds."
"So, in the new world, she came and found me, who had lost my memory."
"She kept me by her side, pitying me and protecting me like a stray animal, but she didn't love me."
"But even if there is no love, I am very happy. I am very happy to be able to stay with her."
"After she took in my three little worlds, I finally got what I wanted. I hoped she would fall in love with me. The feelings I had waited for thousands of years finally got a response."
"But, as a quick-travel quester with no desires, how could she possibly be tempted by someone? A quester with desires would be abandoned by the ruthless system. So, the moment she realized she was tempted by me, she abandoned me and faked her own death before leaving this world."
"Moreover, it was the kind of death where not a single bone was left."
"With no memory of the past few thousand years, I had no idea of her true identity. Her remains were nowhere to be found, so I assumed she was truly dead. Thus, I was devastated by the loss of my beloved..."
"I stayed where her body was, and I stayed there, guarding her for one year, two years, three years..."
"Then, I tragically ended up becoming like her."
"I forgot my name was Feng Nanyu. I thought I was Ying Tianjiao. I was like a madman, wearing women's clothes and wearing a bun. I completely became like her."
"I thought I would live my whole life in this madness. I would not regain consciousness until the moment of death and leave this world. But I didn't expect that many years later, she would come back again."
"She took pity on me and would rather accept the system's punishment than marry me."
"She conquered the Daning Empire, disguised herself as a man and became the emperor. I became her beloved queen. She even used the system to conceal her identity and blind everyone's sight, bearing me children..."
"I was happy to be able to spend my whole life lovingly with her. But my happiness came to an abrupt end the moment I breathed my last."
"Because I had recovered my memories of the past several thousand years, and also restored my true bloodline, at that moment, my dragon eyes allowed me to see that her soul was already covered in cracks. That was the sacrifice she made to stay with me, to respond to my love for hundreds of lifetimes."
"She was willing to sacrifice her life for my love."
"I suddenly realized that my love was only a prison for her. I was a burden to her. So I sacrificed half of my dragon blood to heaven and earth, and drew a line on the ground as my prison. From then on, I would stay in this world forever. Wherever I was, she could never enter again."
"Then, I gave her all my lifelong cultivation and half of my divine dragon bloodline, saving her soul and life, and completely cutting off her chance of coming back to find me..."
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