Chapter 500
Chapter 500
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 500
>Chapter Title: Yang Na
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“A complete madman!”
Yang Na’s father stared at Li Huowang, who was hysterical in the distance. The disgust on his face deepened even further. It was all because of him that his own daughter had ended up like this.
Immediately after, he reached out and grabbed Yang Na’s skinny arm, preparing to forcibly drag her back the way they had come.
Watching as the two figures in the distance moved farther and farther away, Li Huowang’s eyes bloodshot, staggered and threw himself at the barbed wire fence.
“They’ll turn back! Right, that’s it! They’ll turn back any moment now!”
Li Huowang’s eyes bulged wide as he stared deathly at the backs of the two figures. He poured every ounce of effort into controlling the imperceptible Xiantian One Qi within his body!
“Turn back! Turn back! Hurry up and turn back!!”
As Li Huowang kept shoving his face forward, the crisscrossing barbed wire pressed his contorted features into diamond-shaped patches.
When he saw Yang Na struggle free from her father’s large hand and come running toward him, tears streaming down her face, the corners of Li Huowang’s mouth twitched upward. He smiled.
“Hahaha! It worked!! I can cultivate immortality in this world!!”
Looking at Yang Na in tears before him, Li Huowang had never felt this happy in his heart before. The method he’d thought of had succeeded!
Reaching out to grasp her skinny hand, Li Huowang’s voice trembled as he spoke.
“Yang Na, wait for me! Give me three years! No! Two years! Just give me two more years, and everything will go back to those wonderful school days we shared!!”
Yang Na shook her head vigorously. Her jet-black hair stuck to her cheeks along with her tears.
Suddenly, she felt her lower body lighten. Her father had hoisted her entirely onto his shoulder, preparing to yank her away from the barbed wire fence.
“How long are you going to keep deluding yourself?! Can’t you see he’s gone completely mad? If you can’t forget him, how will your illness ever get better?! This guy is going to ruin your entire life!!”
But no matter how he pulled and tugged, their hands remained clenched tightly together.
The tearful Yang Na summoned all her strength and leaned her head forward. Through the cold barbed wire fence, she planted a heavy kiss on Li Huowang’s cracked lips.
Feeling the softness between their lips, in that instant, Li Huowang felt as though he had returned to that rooftop at dusk.
How he wished he could stop thinking about everything else and stay frozen in this moment forever.
But that was destined to be impossible. When Li Huowang saw Yang Na’s skinny waist being stretched almost to the breaking point from the tugging, his heart ached. He quickly let go of her tightly gripped hands.
“Nana! Go back and take good care of yourself! Two years! In two years, I’ll come find you!”
Li Huowang shouted loudly toward the other side.
And Yang Na, sprawled on her father’s back, finally burst into sobs. Her cries were heart-wrenching.
Only when Yang Na vanished from his sight once more did Li Huowang slowly stop his shouting.
He stared blankly for a long time before exhaling. Gripping the iron fence in front of him, he pushed himself to his feet.
Just as he turned around to pick up the broom from the ground, he spotted Sun Xiaoqin standing there with a doctor and three orderlies. It looked like they had witnessed everything that had just happened.
“Five people?”
Li Huowang instantly went on high alert. He did a forward somersault, gripped the broom in both hands, and assumed the opening stance of a sword form.
“Stay back! Anyone who dares take another step forward won’t be shown any mercy!”
Sun Xiaoqin, her face full of pain, was just about to speak when the young doctor held her back. He pulled her aside, muttered a few words to her in a low voice, then walked back over.
“Li Huowang, relax. We won’t get close to you. Can you tell me why you’re so fixated on there being five people? Why not four?”
With a gentle wave of his hand from the young doctor, the three orderlies and Sun Xiaoqin gradually retreated into the distant building.
“Did you run into some danger over there? Were five people just about to harm you? You’re not the only one with symptoms like that.”
Li Huowang, gripping his “sword,” stared intently at the frameless glasses on the doctor’s face.
“Doctor, I just want to be left alone quietly for a bit. Nothing else. Just for a little while.”
“Of course, that’s fine. Look, I haven’t done anything to you, have I? Are you waiting to return to that other world? That’s no problem at all. As long as you don’t have a stress response, you can do whatever you want.”
After soothing Li Huowang’s emotions, the doctor took off his white coat, draped it over one arm, then lifted off his wig from his head like it was a hat. He shook it out before putting it back on.
“Li Huowang, since I’ve met your demands, could you help me out a bit? Truth is, I don’t want to deal with you either, but I have no choice. I’ve got reports to submit. If you don’t give me any reactions, I’m stuck making stuff up every day, and it’s making my hair fall out nonstop.”
Seeing that Li Huowang wasn’t speaking, the doctor pushed up his glasses with his index finger.
“Really not gonna say anything? Fine, if you won’t help me, then I won’t help you. I’ll go round up enough people—five of them—and drag you back.”
“Wait!”
Li Huowang furrowed his brows as he eyed the doctor before him. His mind raced, pondering what could have happened over there to twist into this situation here, and whether this doctor was one of those five people.
“No matter what, stabilize this doctor first. As long as I can hold steady until I wake up, I’ll be safe.”
After thinking for a moment, Li Huowang spoke to the doctor in front of him.
“What do you want to ask?”
“Nothing much. I’m just a bit confused. Watching you and that girl part like it’s life and death—do you take this side as real, or as fake?”
A hint of confusion flickered in Li Huowang’s eyes.
“Fake... No! Real! It’s definitely real!”
The doctor nodded and took a slight step closer to Li Huowang.
“We’ll set aside the part you think is real for now. Let’s talk about why you believe this side is fake.”
Hearing this, Li Huowang shook his head vigorously.
“No! This is real! Everything here is real!”
“I know you want to recover, but forcing yourself to believe that won’t work. Let me think... Is it because of too many coincidences? Every time you wake up, something random happens? Like Yang Na showing up just now, for instance?”
At these words, Li Huowang’s mind instantly cleared. He stared calmly at the doctor before him.
“You’ve read my old medical records? I only ever said that to my previous doctor.”
“It doesn’t matter who you said it to. The key is for you to understand—this isn’t coincidence. Even when you’re lost in hallucinations for long stretches, it doesn’t mean you’re oblivious to everything here.”
“What do you mean?”
Li Huowang’s brows knitted tightly.
Seeing that Li Huowang was listening, the doctor explained patiently.
“Li Huowang, even when you’re immersed in hallucinations, your subconscious is still absorbing information from your surroundings. When it picks up on information you care about, your subconscious calls your true self to wake up.”
“So, do you get it now? All those ‘coincidental’ events that happen every time you wake up aren’t random chance. They’re what your own heart desires, so your true self wakes up.”
“To prove it, I even ran a little experiment. Earlier, I deliberately had your girlfriend call while your mother was feeding you, telling her she was coming over. You two talked, and your subconscious picked it up. Yang Na was coming—you wanted to see her.”
(End of Chapter)