Chapter 233 - 200: It Seems an Old Friend Has Come (Finale)

The words had barely left her mouth when the man in front of her pulled her into a hug. "Yes, I’m... Cang Lan."

Su Mo felt a warm liquid slide down her neck.

Though it was a stranger’s embrace, it felt achingly familiar.

Long Yan, standing to the side, frowned slightly. ’What an unlucky day,’ he thought. ’One hug after another... honestly!’

「Coffee Shop.」

Su Mo looked at the two people sitting across from her, staring at her without blinking. "Are you finished?"

Ye Yuan nodded. "That’s more or less what happened."

He had just given a rough summary of the situation in the Beast World.

Su Mo didn’t speak right away.

Ye Yuan, thinking she didn’t believe him, explained with a serious tone, "I’m really not lying, I promise!"

In truth, Su Mo felt as if she were listening to a story, but that inexplicable sense of familiarity seemed to be telling her that it wasn’t all a dream.

’Perhaps I really did experience a past life like that?’

How else could she explain the innate familiarity and trust that inexplicably surfaced as she looked at the two men before her?

’The story they told mentioned Mo Xiao, Fei Yan, Yue Ying, and even Long Yan and Xuan Qing... There couldn’t possibly be that many coincidences, right?’

’Perhaps life itself is an indescribable, dreamlike journey,’ Su Mo thought in a daze. ’What you think is the end is just the start of a new Chapter, rewritten in another time and space, in another way.’

Su Mo took Ye Yuan and Cang Lan and arranged a place for them to stay.

As she was leaving, Ye Yuan looked as if he was about to cry again.

Su Mo raised a finger, pointed at him, and warned with a frown, "No more crying. If you cry again, you won’t get any dinner!"

Ye Yuan stared at her, lips pressed together and eyes rimmed with red. ’At least she didn’t say she’d abandon him if he kept crying...’

’He was so terrified she would abandon him again.’

Then she patiently explained, "I’m not going to disappear. I’m just going back to my room to rest for a bit."

’I need to sort out my thoughts.’

Only after watching Su Mo enter her room with their own eyes did Ye Yuan and Cang Lan return to their own.

"Wife doesn’t remember us."

Cang Lan frowned. "As long as she’s safe, that’s all that matters."

A knock came from the door. Cang Lan went to open it and saw Long Yan standing outside.

Long Yan said, a bit awkwardly, "Can... can we talk for a bit?"

Cang Lan nodded and stepped aside to let him in.

Long Yan was truly curious. What was he like in the past? And what was their relationship like...?

...

Su Mo mulled things over in her room for a moment. Some things seemed to match up with what Ye Yuan had said.

He said he was severely injured after coming from Wangchuan because he had been corroded by the Forget River Water.

The day she found Yue Ying at the clinic’s entrance, his body had also been severely corroded.

She had actually asked that fox later how he had gotten his injuries, but he had never given her a straight answer.

If she connected it to what Ye Yuan had said, then everything made sense.

Su Mo dialed Yue Ying’s number. The call was answered instantly.

"Mo’er, you must be missing me, right? I knew you couldn’t live without me~ When are you coming back? How about I pick you up from the airport tomorrow night?"

He was always like this, hiding his deepest longing behind frivolous teasing.

Su Mo’s hand holding the phone tightened slightly, and her voice suddenly grew tense. "Yue Ying, do you know about the Forget River Water? The Forget River Water... it’s incredibly painful when it burns you, isn’t it?"

The person on the other end of the line suddenly fell silent.

After a moment, Yue Ying chuckled lightly. "From one of Sister Ying’s stories? It’s fake, all fake. That woman is the best at making up stories..."

Su Mo cut him off.

"Your previous injuries... were they from crossing Wangchuan?" Although she tried her best to control her emotions, her voice still couldn’t help but choke up. "You suffered a lot to see me, didn’t you?"

Yue Ying was silent for a few seconds before asking, "Did you meet someone?"

"Yes. I saw Ye Yuan, and Cang Lan."

"Don’t listen to that little Mermaid’s nonsense. All he does all day is CRY CRY CRY. He’s going to cry away all of my good luck! Next time, I’ll have him cry in front of me so I can collect his pearls, sell them for money, and support my wife!"

Su Mo let out a soft laugh, her mood instantly brightening.

Yue Ying teased her a few more times, then didn’t forget to add, "Don’t stay out too long. Come home early, or else I’ll miss you! Actually, I’m already starting to miss you uncontrollably, so, so much... How am I supposed to get through the day!"

He didn’t want to tell her how he had spent all that time she was gone.

Because everything else had become insignificant the moment he saw her.

He never considered it suffering. It was the price he paid for his choice, and since he had made that choice, he was naturally willing to bear the cost.