"She’d like to borrow Jun Chi for a while," Housekeeper Mu reported, "Miss Yan seldom calls, and to ask for Jun Chi so late, she must have an urgent matter. I was worried it might affect her arrangents, so I took the liberty of sending him over first."
"It’s fine," Jun Lii nodded, "from now on, Ah Xing’s issues are my issues; Uncle Mu, just handle it as you see fit."
"I’ll get so light porridge for the family head; you’ve been in a coma for so long, your throat has turned hoarse."
"Alright."
After Housekeeper Mu had left, Jun Lii struggled to get out of bed.
This ti, it seed like he was sleeping in hypnosis for ten hours, but in reality, it was as if he had returned to that stage and experienced it all over again, utterly exhausted!
While his mory was still clear, Jun Lii quickly sat at the desk, taking out paper and pen and slowly began writing sothing.
Last ti, he had sworn he would not forget, but as soon as Su Zihu left, he completely lost all recollection.
Now, heaven had given him a second chance, and he must hold on to it at any cost!
Jun Lii slowly sorted through his thoughts.
Unknowingly, he wrote a great deal of text.
As he wrote, he pondered within his heart.
The future self had ntioned—ti flow is a massive entity, and it’s rare for a soul body to enter and co back normal.
All soul bodies flow like water, from up to down.
Su Zihu struggled repeatedly in it, found Ah Xing and even managed to co back upstream. The difficulties he faced were astonishing.
Every short rest in each world relied on a strong will to prevent mory from getting lost or confused.
After Ah Xing returned, she lost a lot of her mory, which wasn’t strange.
But what about Su Zihu?
Where... did he go?
Jun Lii touched his chest, where once a thread connected to Su Zihu’s soul body.
Now, he couldn’t see anything...
Was it that he couldn’t see, or was their connection severed?
Could it be that, after all, he had vanished in the vastness of the ti flow?
"Compared to you, I feel like soone who just enjoys the fruits of others’ labor..." Jun Lii placed a hand over his heart, murmuring, "I hope you can co back, even if it ans exchanging myself for you... that would be okay..."
The words he whispered quietly received no response.
In this body, there was no longer Su Zihu, only the emptiness he had lived with for five years...
Jun Lii shook his head, discarding the ssy thoughts and began to straighten out the tiline of this world.
"Ah Xing went back to the Jiang Family from the Yan Family when she was in her teens, Teacher Jiang taught her for a few years, then Aunt Jiang had Ah Xing return to Hua Country to try her hand at investnt... The year she left, I just happened to go to the Jiang Family to study, and we missed each other."
Recalling the subtle details Su Zihu had once ntioned about the Jiang Family, Jun Lii wrote down a na—Jiang Ke.
"In Su Zihu’s tiline, Jiang Ke had already shown signs when Ah Xing returned to the Jiang Family. Later, after a falling out with Aunt Jiang, she targeted Ah Xing with a vengeance. However, in my tiline, Jiang Ke hid her intentions well, and without Su Zihu’s knowledge... it would have been tough to discern her true thoughts."
He sketched a rough diagram for analysis: "Which ans, when Ah Xing went back to the Jiang Family, in fact, Jiang Ke had the intent to get rid of Ah Xing! She even had people following Ah Xing when she went back to Hua Country to invest. Otherwise... when the S organization ambushed and I got injured, how could she have arranged a house conducive to recovery so quickly?"
It wasn’t only good for recovery, but for those few months, it was uninterrupted.
The only person who could fend off the S organization and prevent Aunt Jiang from finding her daughter besides Jiang Ke was soone Jun Lii could not think of.
"After the explosion, I was taken back to the Jun Residence by Jun Chi; Su Zihu was too injured to easily co to Hua Country, so he could only stay at the Jiang Family to recover..."
"The idea of nurturing the soul body was probably false, his real intention was to assist Aunt Jiang in getting rid of Jiang Ke’s influence! After all, with so many mories and thods from the future, taking down a Jiang Ke who hadn’t completely turned against them, shouldn’t be difficult!"
Because of this, Su Zihu stayed at the Jiang Family until Ah Xing had given birth before returning. Otherwise, knowing that Ah Xing was not in good health and needed company the most, he wouldn’t have been absent...
It’s probably because the situation at the Jiang Family deteriorated so severely that they needed him to give advice desperately!
"After Ah Xing’s body was possessed by the Remnant Soul, he went into the ti flow to find her... And since then, there’s been no response from Aunt Jiang... Perhaps Su Zihu had made it clear to her? Or maybe... the situation in the Jiang Family still needed ti to stabilize?"
Jun Lii drew two more lines.
One possibility was that Jiang Ke was still alive, though his wings had been clipped; the underlying strength was there, which was why Aunt Jiang had never taken Ah Xing back.
The second, and most likely possibility—Aunt Jiang knew that Ah Xing had been replaced, and did not want to bring the fake goods back to enjoy the blessings of the Jiang Family, fearing even more that Jiang Ke would discover the secret, or that he might use the imposter to do sothing harmful to Ah Xing’s body.
Suddenly, Jun Lii stopped writing and frowned, asking himself, "What about the Yan Family? Are they aware?"
He began to flip through the information on Yan Yueqing that Jun Jiu had previously pulled up, looking at it page by page.
After Ah Xing left, the imposter let herself go, not only venturing into the entertainnt industry but also making a mockery of herself.
The more he read, the tighter his brows furrowed.
Finally, he ca to a conclusion.
"Old Master Yan definitely knows. That’s why he let the imposter go unchecked, trying to force her to give up and leave Ah Xing’s body on her own. But who could have expected the imposter to be so shaless, not getting support from the Yan Family, she simply entered the entertainnt industry to squander Ah Xing’s body and reputation?"
He unconsciously clenched his fists...
Fortunately, soone from the Lin Family spread the word, and people in the entertainnt industry neither dared to promote her nor play with her.
Otherwise, it’s hard to say what the situation would look like today...
Jun Lii took a deep breath and thought that Lin Qiming was a person worth associating with; he would have to repay this favor in the future.
After finishing his analysis, Jun Lii folded the papers neatly and placed them in the drawer.
He walked to the window and sighed longingly at the full moon.
"Zihu, now I finally know what efforts you made during that ti... Whether you can co back or not, I will fulfill your wishes and complete these unfinished matters one by one."
"Ding—"
Yan Yueqing was just getting ready to rest when the system abruptly sounded.
"Detecting that the remnants of consciousness fragnts have returned to their place, awarding the Host additional enhancent points: 100. Current enhancent points: 530."
"Huh?" Yan Yueqing was stunned, "What consciousness fragnts? I didn’t feel anything."
No sooner had she finished speaking than the seed in her heart showed more of its sprouting tip.
"Eh, the seed seems to be growing?"
It had been a long ti since the last breakthrough, but the lustrous jade-like seed had shown no signs of growth.
Yet tonight, tender white sprouts had erged.
"Tong Bao, is the seed’s sprouting only related to consciousness fragnts? Can my enhancent points make the seed grow faster?"
After so thought, the system answered: "The growth of the seed requires fate; enhancent points won’t work."
"Oh."
So she just hadn’t encountered her opportunity yet.
Yan Yueqing didn’t hurry upon hearing that, optimistically saying, "Alright, then I will wait patiently for it to grow!"
The next morning, just as Yan Yueqing was coming down for breakfast with the two children, Butler Zhong ca up with a smile.
"Miss Yueqing, there is a gentleman nad Jun Chi here to see you."
"Please invite him in," she said.
Jun Chi calmly walked into the manor. As soon as Jun Yan saw him, he smiled happily, "Uncle Chi."
"Young Master Yan."
Yan Yueqing greeted, "Please take a seat, Mr. Jun."
Jun Chi sat down, "Miss Yan, whatever arrangents you have, just instruct ."
"Mhm, it wasn’t convenient to speak over the phone last night, so I especially invited you here because there’s a matter I need your help with."
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