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Published at 9th of November 2023 10:53:29 AM


Chapter 319.1

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Skeleton Pan Pan reluctantly moved to Bai Lixin’s side.

The ghostly woman stared straight at Skeleton Pan Pan, her tone almost pleading, “How about having breakfast first before leaving?”

Skeleton Pan Pan immediately looked up, her skeletal hands tugging on Bai Lixin’s clothes, “Yes, let’s have breakfast first. I don’t have the energy without breakfast. I have low blood sugar.”

Li Cancan: “…”

‘What low blood sugar? Pan Pan, where do you even have blood?’

The young man remained cold and decisively refused, “No, we need to hurry. We can’t afford to delay even a minute.”

The woman’s expression twisted slightly.

Skeleton Pan Pan lowered her head. Even though her expression couldn’t be seen, the others could sense her profound sadness.

Bai Lixin glanced at Li Cancan, who immediately understood. She quickly lifted Pan Pan from the ground and turned to the woman, “Big sister, thank you for your hospitality last night. We’ll be on our way now.”

Just as they stepped out of the courtyard, hurried footsteps echoed from behind.

The woman caught up with them, panting, “By the way, you’re heading to the mountain, right? There are many hidden traps and forks on this mountain and it’s easy to get lost. Let me accompany you for a part of the way.”

The four exchanged glances. Skeleton Pan Pan remained silent, but her five slender fingers clenched Li Cancan’s clothes nervously.

A few seconds felt unusually long.

Finally, the young man nodded, “Alright, thank you. But can your Pan Pan stay home by herself?”

“She’s fine,” the woman quickly reached Li Cancan and extended her hand towards Skeleton Pan Pan, “The road is rough, and it’s inconvenient for you to carry her. Give her to me. It’ll be easier for you to watch the path.”

Li Cancan knew what she intended to do.

She also knew that Li Cancan understood what she intended to do.

Everyone understood without a word being spoken.

In the instant Li Cancan handed Skeleton Pan Pan to the woman, Skeleton Pan Pan immediately clung tightly to the woman’s neck. The woman also hugged Pan Pan tightly.

The journey afterward was slow.

On the way, no one spoke much, only the woman talked to herself as if no one else was present.

“When Pan Pan was little, we used to take her up the mountain often. Sometimes we’d pick fruits on the mountain, and we’d collect spring water in a bottle.”

“Once, Pan Pan got lost on the mountain. She cried and called for her mom, saying her mom didn’t want her anymore. How could her mom not want her? When Pan Pan’s mom found her, she almost turned the entire forest upside down, fearing that something had happened to Pan Pan.”

“Do you know what Pan Pan’s mom said to me? She said Pan Pan was the greatest blessing from heaven. Perhaps God thought she was too happy with Pan Pan and others would get jealous, so he made her experience those hardships.”

“She loved Pan Pan very much. If there was only one person left in the world, she hoped it would be Pan Pan.”

“After Pan Pan was gone, she often dreamed of her at night. After dreaming, she’d go out to look for her, searching and searching, but she couldn’t find her. She went crazy trying to find Pan Pan.”

“The silly child Pan Pan would often say, ‘If Mom didn’t marry Dad back then, there wouldn’t have been so much suffering.’ She only saw her mom’s suffering but didn’t see the little angel by her mom’s side. Pan Pan was her mom’s little angel.”

“Pan Pan’s mom often regretted not telling Pan Pan how much we loved her. If we had held onto her tightly back then, maybe she wouldn’t have left us for so long, right?”

Skeleton Pan Pan remained silent, holding onto the woman’s neck tightly.

They reached the mountaintop amidst the woman’s soliloquy.

The once dense fog had dissipated at some point, and as they walked, the woods ahead became increasingly bright.

When they reached the mountaintop, the sunlight was abundant.

The woman stopped walking.

She looked at Li Cancan with difficulty. “Your little sister is a good child. Take care of her well.”

Li Cancan felt uneasy. She hesitated and looked at Bai Lixin, who nodded subtly.

Placing her hand under Skeleton Pan Pan’s arm, Li Cancan gently pulled her towards her.

She pulled, but nothing happened.

She pulled again, still no movement.

The woman clung tightly to Pan Pan, refusing to let go.

Li Cancan looked at Bai Lixin for help. ‘Um, should I let go or not?’

Bai Lixin tilted his head, looking at the sky.

Li Cancan: “…”

‘God Xin, how can you not do anything!’

Li Cancan turned to the woman, looking at her face that was so close and swallowed hard, “Should I let go or… should you let go?”

The woman pursed her lips tightly and reluctantly released her grip.

Pan Pan returned to Li Cancan’s embrace, but she looked back at the woman.

At the same time, the woman also gazed affectionately at Pan Pan.

Li Cancan felt like crying but had no tears, her hands trembling slightly as she held the little skeleton.

‘Please, please don’t do this. You’re making me feel like the villain in a melodramatic play.

I’m not, I’m not.’

At this moment, Bai Lixin cleared his throat, “Alright, every journey has its end. Let’s go.”

Li Cancan followed behind Bai Lixin, holding Pan Pan. The four of them slowly walked away.

After taking a few steps, the woman suddenly spoke, stopping Li Cancan, “Hey, the girl carrying the child, take good care of her, understand?”

Li Cancan: “Yes, yes, big sister.”

‘I’m not just “the girl carrying the child,” I’m Li Cancan!

Forget it, I don’t dare to argue anyway.’

After a few more steps, the woman spoke again, “Hey, the girl carrying the child, can you take care of Pan Pan?”

Li Cancan: “I’ll try to do my best.”

A few more steps forward, the woman’s voice sounded again, “How can it be just ‘I’ll try to do my best’? You have to promise me that you ‘will definitely’ take good care of Pan Pan.”

Li Cancan got angry.

She turned around and strode directly to the woman, shoving Pan Pan into her arms amid the woman’s somewhat stunned expression, “I’m fed up. If you’re so reluctant to let Pan Pan go, why didn’t you say it earlier?! You keep picking on me. Do you think I have no pride? Just because you’re beautiful, you think you can treat me however you want!”

“I’m not doing this anymore!”

After speaking, she turned her head and walked behind Bai Lixin, burying her head directly behind Bai Lixin’s shoulder.

Hiss.

It felt satisfying to scream, but after screaming, she was a bit scared.

‘God Xin, save me, save me.’

The woman held Skeleton Pan Pan, looking somewhat bewildered at the four people a little distance away from her.

After a long while, Bai Lixin slowly spoke, “Actually, we didn’t want this child, but we couldn’t think of a better solution. She eats too much, and we can’t afford it. The purpose of this trip was originally to send her away, but we didn’t know who to send her to.”

The woman was suddenly furious. She hugged Pan Pan tightly and cursed uncontrollably, “Are you all idiots? Such a good child, what’s wrong with her eating more? Eating more is a blessing!”

“Look at her small head, her white body, it’s so adorable. Do you know how precious this child is to me? And yet you all despise her? Are you all blind? What kind of virtues do you have to match our Pan Pan? If I hadn’t seen that Pan Pan liked you all, I would have driven away you bunch of ugly monsters a long time ago. Who do you think you are, to abandon Pan Pan?!”

“I want Pan Pan. If you don’t cherish her, someone else will!”

“You…”

“Stop, Auntie, I’m not leaving.” A milky voice suddenly interrupted the woman’s torrent of abuse, “Don’t scold them. They are good people.”

The woman’s voice abruptly stopped. She stiffly lowered her head to look at the little skeleton in her arms and cautiously asked, “What did you just call me?”

The little skeleton girl looked a little embarrassed, “Auntie.”

After speaking, the little skeleton straightened her body and lightly tapped the back of the woman’s head with her palm, “And also, Mom.”

“I’m not leaving. I regret it. I want to go home.”

The woman’s body suddenly trembled. Her head shook oddly, as if the back of her head was silently weeping.

“You’re willing to forgive Auntie and Mom, willing to acknowledge us, willing to come home?” The woman’s voice quivered as she hugged the girl In her arms excitedly. “That’s wonderful, Pan Pan. Thank you for forgiving us.”

Pan Pan tilted her head in confusion. “Forgive you for what?”

The woman said, “Because Mom was imprisoned, she couldn’t be there for you when you needed help the most, causing you to go through such terrible things. And on the day of revenge, I lost you. You must be angry, that’s why you didn’t want to come home, didn’t want to acknowledge us. We were afraid you’d be angry, so we pretended not to recognize you. Pan Pan, I’m sorry, Mom and Auntie won’t do it again.”

Pan Pan was stunned. She raised her skeletal head and looked at the woman’s face. Suddenly, she burst into tears while smiling. “Ah, what a misunderstanding.”

“I wasn’t angry at all.”

“Mom didn’t come to save me, I knew she was in danger herself.”

“And I wasn’t lost because of you, Auntie. It was someone else. Why would I be angry at you?”

The woman was also stunned. “If you’re not angry, why didn’t you come back?”

Pan Pan knocked her lower jaw against her upper jaw. “It’s because I feel that my existence brought misfortune to Mom. If I wasn’t a burden, Mom could have left this unfortunate village a long time ago. If I wasn’t here, it might have been better. If time could reverse, I would wish Mom didn’t marry Dad.”

The woman shook her head vigorously, seemingly trying to convey something with the face on the back of her head.

The woman’s expression was blank for two seconds, then she continued, “Your mom asked me to tell you that you are her treasure. Life doesn’t offer a redo, if you choose wrong, maybe it’s because on that wrong path, there’s an angel waiting for you. That angel is you. She never considered you a burden. You think you’re a burden, but what you don’t know is that your mom suffered severe depression in that environment. Your arrival made her heart beat again, giving her hope to keep living. You’re not a burden, you’re the angel sent by heaven to save your mom.”

The woman paused for a moment and continued, “Your mom also said she wants to apologize to you.”

The little skeleton tilted her head.

“Your mom said if children could choose their parents, she feels no child would choose a family like theirs. But you came. She’s very sorry, for making you face so much unhappiness from the moment you were born, for not giving you a happy and complete childhood, for not giving you a intact family. She feels guilty towards you.”

The little skeleton suddenly hugged the woman’s neck, her tearless face crying out, “Wuuu, Auntie, please stop. I never blamed Mom. Wuuu, Mom, I was wrong. Can we go home?”

Li Cancan: “Wuuuuuu, wuuuu. It’s so touching. They are all so kind, always thinking of each other.”

The stormy sobbing drowned out the sudden sadness that rose in Sun Ning’s heart.

She suppressed the bitterness in her eyes, glanced at Li Cancan, who was crying loudly, and silently put her arm around her shoulders.

Li Cancan cried her heart out on Sun Ning’s shoulder, “It’s so wonderful to see them resolving their misunderstandings and acknowledging each other.”

“Wuuuu, they are obviously so ugly, yet so gentle. But some people, although they look good, have hearts as vicious as snakes and scorpions. I’m talking about those people from Gentle Village. Wuuu.”

The woman glared at Li Cancan, who instantly fell silent.

Sun Ning: “…”

‘Could you please say a little less? Even if they’re gentle, they’re still the boss of this copy.’

Pan Pan and the woman hugged and cried for a while before approaching Bai Lixin.

Skeleton Pan Pan looked at Bai Lixin. “Um, I don’t want to go back to the past. I want to stay here with my mom. So, I won’t trouble you anymore. Please go on your way.”

Bai Lixin seemed to have anticipated all of this, merely nodding quietly. “Alright, as long as you’re happy.”

The skeleton snuggled in the woman’s arms, observing Bai Lixin. “You don’t seem surprised at all.”

Bai Lixin, “When two hearts that care for each other are together, it creates a wonderful chemical reaction. It’s hard to separate after spending so much time together. And you’ve been lonely in Gentle Village for so long, when a lonely heart encounters strong love, it ignites instantly.”

“All I need to do is give you time to be together and provide the space for your emotions to ferment and heat up.”

He paused. “I understand things deeply.”

Don’t ask him why he knows this so clearly.

Those who understand, understand.

The woman: “Still, I have to thank you. You came to find us repeatedly, was it to lift the curse on the village across? I can…”

“What curse?” Bai Lixin interrupted the woman, “That was clearly a blessing. How could it be a curse?”

“You let the merchants who toiled for a living settle down peacefully, no longer exposed to wind and rain. They have warm shelters, endless food, and healthy bodies.”

“You gave families longing for children the children they dreamed of. You revived the elderly who feared death, and you accelerated the growth of children longing to grow up.”

“How can there be such a kind-hearted person in the world?”

“I truly envy them.”

Everyone: “…”

If they didn’t know the truth, they almost wanted to live in this village.

The woman glanced down the mountain. “Uh, so I don’t have to do anything?”

Bai Lixin: “You still need to do something. I suggest enclosing this village completely. Don’t let anyone else in. Such a happy village, how could outsiders like us be worthy of enjoying it?”

“We even feel it’s sacrilegious to just look at it.”

Everyone: “…”

God Xin, you’re good at the yin and yang talk.

The woman scratched her head. “Alright, I’ll seal off this entire area later.”

“Oh, by the way,” Bai Lixin added, “you guys have been staying in the mortal realm due to lingering obsessions. Now that you’ve let go of them, I guess you might go to the underworld. If I’m not mistaken, King Yama should be my son. Mention my name; it should work. I can’t guarantee anything else, but arranging a place to stay for you shouldn’t be a problem. However, Ah Jing killed a number of people before her death, so he might still face some punishment.”

Li Cancan: “?”

Going through the back door openly?

Is this okay?

The woman scratched her head again, feeling a bit embarrassed. “Um, by the way, what’s your name?”

“…” Bai Lixin paused for two seconds, “My name is Bai Lixin.”

Li Cancan: “…”

I was really afraid that God Xin would suddenly say, “My name is Lei X.”

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In the live broadcast room

[“Blessing”]

[This blessing is for you, do you want it?]

[Next time I encounter a villain, I’ll directly send them a triple blessing.]

[Ah ah ah, this is a big ending I didn’t expect. I just want to say, God Xin, well done, I love you.]

[Today is another day I love God Xin so much. No, I love God Xin even more today than yesterday.]

[I thought God Xin would beat up the copy boss like before, but this ending is so good. The little ittle skeleton reunites with her mom and aunt in Gentle Village, and the villagers live happily and carefree in blessings.]

[Gentle Village People: Let me say, thank you.]

[Hahaha.]

[So happy, so happy. Today is the last day, I welcome God Xin’s triumphant return.]

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A system sound echoed in Bai Lixin’s mind.

Escape System: [Master Bai Lixin, friendly reminder, due to NPC reasons, there has been a change to the answer of one of the tasks. Please answer Task 2 again.]

Bai Lixin paused for a moment, then opened the taskbar.





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