Alan smiled sheepishly and replied, "Okay, Uncle."
The door opened, and the room was empty except for the bracelets displayed on the central stand that emitted a faint red glow.
The room appears to be under renovation.
Li Baobei gradually walked towards it, and the red light of the bracelet gradually became more dazzling. Alan also stared wide-eyed in confusion, as the bracelet had never been so dazzling before.
Why is that? Could it be that she...?
She looked up at Li Baobei and remembered the story her grandmother used to tell her.
A woman waited anxiously at home for her husband, but he had already died on the battlefield. The woman died of grief, and after her death, a red bean plant sprouted from her grave. After the plant hatched, nine beads resembling red beans fell out, which were later strung together into a bracelet.
The name was Xiangsi (相思).
It is said that when a bracelet meets its destined owner, it will become radiant under certain conditions.
Could she be the one destined for us?
Alan stared at Li Baobei's face in shock, finding it unbelievable that the legends were true.
Li Baobei looked at the bracelets in the counter and her head began to throb violently. She walked forward uncontrollably, and the closer she got, the more obvious the pain became.
The man who often appeared in her mind, she finally saw his face clearly.
What is there to be care about, what is there to worry about...
They are the same person.
She remembered, she remembered everything. Li Baobei burst into heart-wrenching sobs, He Ji, He You…
Why am I here? Aren't I already dead?
He Ji, I haven't fallen in love with anyone else. From beginning to end, I've only ever loved you. Can you hear me?
He Ji...
Li Baobei's vision went black and she fainted. Alan rushed forward to support her, but the person in his arms was no longer conscious.
"Miss Li, Miss Li..." Alan's voice rang in her ears, but she could no longer wake up and only felt very cold.
All her memories flooded her mind at that moment. She had traveled through time; she had fallen in love with a man named He You; they were deeply in love; then she drowned in a lake… and met He Ji…
They were always the same person. Was this just a hallucination after my death?
The blank in her heart that had always been there was now answered: whether it was He You or He Ji, they would both leave her.
Why couldn't their outcome be better? Why...?
She called out the name of the lover hidden deep in her heart over and over again.
Watching myself sink deeper and deeper into darkness, yet powerless to stop it.
Finally, she gave a desperate, bitter laugh, tears streaming down her face. "Perhaps the protagonist of that love bracelet story was also one of her and He You's past lives!"
No matter how many lifetimes she goes through, she will always miss He You, and they will never be able to stay together for life, nor will they ever be able to stay together forever.
What's there to worry about? Even if I forget you, I will never forget loving you.
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