This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous Chapter 1727: 5: Dead Zone Memories (Part 5) — Love as an Af

Chapter 1727: Chapter 5: Dead Zone mories (Part 5) — Love as an Affliction

Lin Xue, in a fit of anger, ran back to her ‘mother’s ho’.

Mu You, of course, was worried about her being alone and followed her to the Lin Family.

Like a sulking child, Lin Xue shut him out and locked herself in the room, refusing to co out for days and nights.

Mu You didn’t push her, knowing that Lin Xue wasn’t truly sulking but needed so space to calm down.

So Mu You stayed outside the door, occasionally saying a few words, letting her know he was still there.

Lin Xue would also occasionally make noises, tacitly telling him she was fine.

Couples quarrel at the head of the bed and reconcile at the end, but in this slow-paced world, even the duration of the cold war seed indirectly prolonged.

In a blink, three months passed.

That day, Lin Xue finally ca out.

When she opened the door, Mu You was waiting right outside. Lin Xue didn’t say anything, just walked up to him, buried her head in his chest, and her shoulders slightly trembled.

Mu You felt the rapidly wetting lapel on his chest, held her, and offered silent comfort.

The two were rational enough, clearly aware of the problem and knowing how to resolve it. Hollow and fake sweet words like other couples wouldn’t work for them; at this mont, a silent hug was more effective than anything.

This ti, Lin Xue just took a small opportunity to vent her inner distress, and her emotions soon stabilized.

In the ti that followed, the two returned to their previous couple life.

The baby girl was sent back to her original place by the two, and Lin Xue never ntioned the child again from then on.

Initially, Mu You was worried that Lin Xue, having forced such an adjustnt, might suffer another ntal breakdown.

But no, the two reconciled, clung together daily, and the scattered points of light never appeared again, indicating that Lin Xue had indeed walked out of the quagmire.

Thus, another three years passed.

Year 719 of the Dead Zone calendar.

On this day, Mu You woke up as usual.

The person beside him seed to have risen early, and Mu You didn’t think much of it, proceeding downstairs to prepare breakfast as usual.

However, as soon as he got downstairs, he saw a streak of blood on the floor, the bright red color exceptionally glaring.

Following the blood trail, more was seen seeping from the restroom door.

Alard, Mu You hurried over and opened the restroom door.

By the restroom wall, Lin Xue lay in a pool of blood, her face pale, clutching scissors and gauze, with so bottles of anesthetics scattered on the floor, and her clothes, the belly and stomach area, soaked through with blood.

This scene almost caused Mu You’s blood to boil. He rushed to Lin Xue’s side, helping her up, and looked at the bloodied wound on her stomach with a mixture of urgency and distress: “Why did you do such a foolish thing?!!”

Lately, Lin Xue’s emotions had been stable, and he never thought she would suddenly self-harm.

Luckily, no one could die here, and now the terrifying wound on Lin Xue’s body was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Lin Xue, upon seeing him, seed to see a savior, suddenly grabbed him, and cried tearfully: “No, I didn’t find…”

“Find what?” Mu You asked, confused.

“The child… there’s no child in my belly…” Lin Xue wept with a panicked look.

“?”

Mu You was shocked; she had cut open her stomach just to look for the child?

“Mu You, did… I make our child disappear?” Lin Xue’s tears fell continuously. This ti was different from the last; then, she was just venting her depression, but this ti, Mu You could clearly feel the deep helplessness and fear inside her, emotions he had never seen in Lin Xue all this ti he knew her.

“How could it be? What are you saying?” Mu You was still puzzled. To him, Lin Xue’s previous claim of pregnancy was purely an illusion, and the so-called ‘child’ had never existed, so how could there be a ‘disappearance’?

Under Mu You’s persistent questioning, Lin Xue finally, through her sobs, haltingly recounted her experiences over the period.

It turned out, all these years, the vision of the child in her belly had never ceased, which was why she indulged in that role-playing, not due to her ntal fragility, but because the motherly instincts within her had been triggered by that illusion, growing stronger with ti, and eventually her actions were increasingly dictated by those instincts.

After being ‘awakened’ by Mu You three years ago, Lin Xue forcibly suppressed that maternal drive, but since then, she started having nightmares frequently, with the protagonist being Red Sleeve.

Red Sleeve’s past repeatedly swirled in her mind.

Red Sleeve’s child was taken away by the Death God Divine Power, and she too was a successor of the Grim Reaper, blessed with the debuff of bringing destruction to her loved ones. Supposed to be lonely her whole life, she eventually, through various twists of fate, fell in love.

Initially, she did spend so ti worrying about Mu You, but Mu You possessed the Power of Heaven, a force superior to ordinary divine powers, supposedly capable of disregarding the Grim Reaper’s influence.

The reality later also proved her right; during their hundreds of years of love, Mu You never once showed any discomfort.

Lin Xue was thus reassured, believing she had broken free from the curse of a lonely life.

Until now, when she couldn’t find any trace of the child she had envisioned for years in her belly, the terror resurged, and she was extrely worried about whether she would repeat Red Sleeve’s old experiences, and worse, the child, although unborn, was already jinxed to death in her belly.

“Little Xue, you’re overthinking, we can’t have a child here.”

“It’s all just your delusion.”

“Don’t worry…”

…

Mu You didn’t know Lin Xue had been under such enormous pressure and hurriedly comforted her.

However, words seed so insufficient at this mont, and no matter the perspective or the different thods he tried to console her, they didn’t alleviate much for Lin Xue.

Lin Xue’s wound soon healed completely, but she fell ill imdiately after.

In the following week, Lin Xue ran a high fever, was delirious, and could not get out of bed.

In this world, one wasn’t supposed to fall ill; it was a sickness of the heart she suffered.

Mu You stayed by her side without leaving for a mont, trying various ways to make her happy.

Lin Xue always responded, maintaining a smile and optimism under his teasing, sotis even turning around to comfort him, assuring him she was fine and he shouldn’t worry.

However much she appeared nonchalant on the surface, Lin Xue’s ntal state was deteriorating, her face growing more haggard daily.

Until a week later, in a state of half-dream, half-awake, Lin Xue’s body began to emit light points again.

“Little Xue, hold on…” Mu You urgently called out.

On the sickbed, Lin Xue half-opened her unfocused eyes with little response to his call, while the light points continued to emanate from her body.

“If that’s the case, then let’s end it here…”

Mu You sighed; the day had finally co.

Given Lin Xue’s current ntal state, she was evidently no longer fit to stay in the Dead Zone, and Mu You couldn’t bear to watch her suffer any longer, preparing to send her away first.

“Wait for outside, it’ll just take a few seconds, I’ll resolve everything here quickly and return to accompany you.” Mu You said softly, planting a tender kiss on her forehead.

He then extended his palm, about to press down on her.

Just as the palm was about to fall, it was caught prematurely by a pair of hands.

On the bed, Lin Xue suddenly opened her eyes, evidently realizing sothing from his actions, and weakly shook her head while gripping Mu You’s hand: “No, I can’t…”

“I can’t leave, if I go, what will you do?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve gotten used to life here; I can walk the rest of the way on my own.” Mu You gave her a reassuring smile.

Lin Xue shook her head, sighing: “If it were just a few hundred years left, I would let you proceed, but now, with only 700 years gone, there are still over 4,000 years to go… I promised to accompany you through the whole journey, and now I haven’t even held on for a fifth of it, that’s just too pathetic.”

“The thing is, here, being alone and being with soone are two entirely different experiences, you absolutely can’t withstand it alone. I can’t leave.” Lin Xue said.

“We’ve only made it this far, and we both know that being here alone is a very different experience than being together, you wouldn’t last on your own. I can’t leave.” Lin Xue said.

Mu You held her hands, gently shaking his head and sighed with a smile.

“Little Snow, if you want to give it a try, fine… but I can’t just watch you in pain like this.”