Chapter 245: Free Of Worries, Lover Safe
A long time passed.
Xie Jingyan’s thin lips parted slightly: “Then use my health to exchange for her complete recovery.”
Little Honey was silent for a long time before inquiring: [Are you sure?]
“Confirmed.”
[No regrets?]
Xie Jingyan shook his head: “No regrets.”
“Just leave me with my life, I want to be with Jiang Ning year after year.”
His demands were not high; he just wanted to accompany Jiang Ning until old age.
Little Honey: [I understand. You two will be happy. By the way, after I complete this last task for you, I will disappear. I’m very happy to have accompanied you through this journey.]
It circled around Xie Jingyan.
For the ten years that Jiang Ning left this world, it had almost always been by Xie Jingyan’s side.
Watching him fight for power, watching him carve out his own piece of sky in a den of jackals, wolves, and tigers, watching him go from having nothing to being feared by everyone in the end.
These ten years, he walked a path that was lonely and dangerous.
His ultimate goal was simply to have enough ability.
To protect the people he cared about.
Xie Jingyan responded softly: “Mm.”
He did not ask Little Honey where it was going.
Because life is always about subtraction.
He looked at the elevator floor numbers rising continuously.
Little Honey was reflected on the elevator wall, its color slowly fading.
[Actually… Ning Ning was originally a person from your world. She is also a character in this book.]
Xie Jingyan looked up in disbelief at Little Honey: “What?”
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
In Xie Jingyan’s eyes, there was only this light ball.
It slowly shed its layer of yellow light ring, transforming into a hunched human shape.
Xie Jingyan could not see its appearance clearly; it seemed shrouded in light.
[This world is composed of thousands of novels. The world consciousness selects characters from them as the male and female leads. The end of one era gives rise to the next. Your mother’s generation was the first novel in this world, but the second one looped 100 times without reaching the correct ending.]
Little Honey’s voice shed its crisp mechanical tone, becoming somewhat aged.
[Ning Ning was the anomaly in the second book. She awakened when she was very young and refused to be a manipulated puppet anymore. So at that time, she had a happy family, loving parents, an obedient younger brother, and an older sister who doted on her. There were not so many conflicts; they were just an ordinary family who loved each other. Later, she met you, and because you attracted Ning Ning, the plot line collapsed. So she was forcibly kicked out of this world by the world consciousness. The world consciousness refreshed it again and again, finding one strategy player after another, but amusingly, these strategy players who were supposed to torment you ended up falling for you. Later, they forgot their original purpose and only wanted to stay in this world with you. After a hundred times, the world consciousness found Ning Ning’s original soul again, thinking that as long as it erased Ning Ning’s memory, it could stably end this script.]
[But it underestimated Ning Ning’s kindness and her inherent charm. Hardship would not make her compromise, even if the world consciousness arranged for her an orphan identity who wouldn’t live past two years old.]
When I sent her to that world, I felt some pity and secretly took care of her for six years without the world consciousness knowing. But she missed me for more than six years. Ning Ning is really well-behaved. She thought I had died, but she didn’t know that I watched her grow up. So when the world consciousness wanted to bring Ning Ning back to this world again, I took on this mission. She thought that every time she deviated from the plot, I didn’t punish her because she convinced me she was my good friend, but actually I did it on purpose. I wanted Ning Ning to be happy.]
[I’m telling you this, but don’t tell her. I’m afraid she’ll be sad. I’m about to disappear, and we probably won’t meet again, so I won’t say goodbye to her.]
Xie Jingyan stared blankly at Little Honey.
Watching it disappear bit by bit.
When the elevator stopped at the 108th floor.
The glow dissipated.
Xie Jingyan felt like it was all a dream.
He carried the food out, his tall figure reflected on the elevator doors, the surroundings eerily quiet.
So Jiang Ning had simply returned to the world that originally belonged to her.
Here were her real loved ones and friends.
Xie Jingyan’s lips curved slightly as he felt subtle changes and pain emerging in his body. His smile widened: “Thank you, Little Honey.”
He could finally stop losing his loved one.
It didn’t matter if he bore the pain and consequences.
As long as Ning Ning was safe, happy, smooth, and worry-free, that was enough.
Because ten years ago at the ancient temple.
The special peace talisman he sought was.
For all evils to retreat, all matters unobstructed, loved one safe.
Fortunately, it came true.
……
Xie Jingyan entered the room lightly and quietly.
He found Jiang Ning sobbing softly.
He quickly set down the food in his hand and hurried over to check on her.
She had her eyes tightly closed, tears soaking the pillow.
Xie Jingyan frowned with worry and gently shook her: “Ning Ning, wake up.”
Jiang Ning heard someone calling her and slowly awoke from her sleep.
She blinked, her eyes hot and sore.
Xie Jingyan reached out to wipe her tears and pulled her into his arms: “Why are you crying? Does it hurt a lot?”
Jiang Ning nodded hesitantly.
Xie Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled lightly: “Then I’ll be gentler next time.”
Jiang Ning’s face flushed red instantly.
She glared at him angrily: “There won’t be a next time!”
Xie Jingyan shook his head, his lips gently kissing Jiang Ning’s cheek: “That’s not possible. It’ll suffocate me to death.”
Jiang Ning rolled her eyes at him and pushed him away: “Stay away from me.”
Xie Jingyan held her even tighter instead, burying his head in Jiang Ning’s shoulder, his voice a bit hoarse: “No.”
Jiang Ning’s eyes and brows curved with a smile: “Xie Jingyan, you’re so annoying. Don’t be all clingy.”
Xie Jingyan closed his eyes: “No, I want to cling to you for life. Don’t think you can shake me off.”
Jiang Ning couldn’t push him away, so she let him be.
She hesitated for a moment before slowly saying: “I wasn’t crying just now because it hurt. I dreamed of my grandmother, but she passed away when I was six. For so many years, I never dreamed of her once, but just now I did. Her appearance was so clear, taking me back to when I was six, before she got cancer and passed away. On a hot summer day, she sat in the shade patting my back to lull me to sleep, telling me to study hard in the future, live well, not go astray, and be a useful person to society.”
Xie Jingyan’s voice was low: “And then? In that world, did you study hard?”
Jiang Ning huffed lightly, her voice tinged with pride: “Of course. I was the top scholar in the Gaokao that year.”
Xie Jingyan’s voice was very soft, carrying praise: “Ning Ning is so good, listening to Grandmother like that.”
Jiang Ning nodded without hesitation: “Of course I have to listen to Grandmother. She was the best to me in that world. It’s just a pity she only accompanied me for six years before passing away.”
The voice against her shoulder grew lower and lower, carrying comfort: “Your grandmother didn’t disappear. She just turned into the cycles of the four seasons, always guarding you by your side.”
The grandmother who runs through the entire story, even though she never properly appeared, haha.
