The system jumped to me

Chapter 510 Lotus Building CP Li Lianhua

With a clink, the spoon handle struck the rim of the bowl, and Li Lianhua's youthful spirit vanished without a trace. He said urgently...

"My wife, what did I do wrong? I don't know why I forgot you, but I..."

"Stop—calm down! Let me speak first."

Hua Xiaozhou quickly recounted how the two met, her guesses about Li Lianhua's identity, and finally, what she knew about Li Xiangyi.

"are you OK?"

Li Lianhua had been silent for a long time. Hua Xiaozhou had already finished eating, but he still hadn't said a word, which was quite frightening.

"How about this, why don't you go back and take another look? After you've seen it, you can come back to repay your kindness?"

Still not speaking, Hua Xiaozhou tentatively called out...

"Li Xiangyi? Sect Leader Li? Lord Li..."

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I promise I'll treat you better from now on."

"Huh?" Hua Xiaozhou hadn't reacted yet and tried to bring Li Lianhua's thoughts back to her own.

“This is no small matter, and there’s no way to escape it. I’ve heard that once the news of your accident spread, the Sigu Sect quickly split and collapsed. Now only the Baichuan Academy is barely holding on, with someone in charge. But you are, after all, the sect leader. If you go back now, I think it’s not too late to save everything.”

Hua Xiaozhou's words were somewhat self-serving. In the original timeline, the Sigu Sect was scattered beyond recognition, and after ten years, it was difficult to reunite. But now it's different. In just five or six days, Li Lianhua has recovered from the poison. As long as he shows up, he can continue to be the spirited Li Xiangyi.

The situation was too complicated. Heaven had already dealt with the chosen one of destiny, so Hua Xiaozhou dared not covet that martial arts manual anymore. Once Li Lianhua gained momentum, she would demand ten thousand taels of gold and immediately flee far away.

Hua Xiaozhou was lost in her own thoughts and failed to notice Li Lianhua's increasingly guilty gaze.

“My lady… Flower Girl, I am not an ignorant child. As you said, I used to be a peerless martial artist, made many friends among heroes, established my own sect, and stood in a high position, but I fell to the bottom in one day. Many of the brothers who followed me in the past abandoned me one after another. This is enough to prove that I—or Li Xiangyi—am not as popular as people say, and am even hated without realizing it.”

Hua Xiaozhou was stunned. She hadn't expected Li Lianhua to have thought of so much in such a short time. She didn't know how to start a conversation, so she could only continue to be a listener.

"Perhaps Li Xiangyi did not choose to go back, but instead returned to the place where he lost everything and even almost lost his life, prepared to live in anonymity. This shows that he already understood the principle of changing times. He wanted to start over, find his senior brother's remains to give himself and his master an explanation, and also try a different way of living, not to be that dazzling, scorching sun that illuminates others but also burns them."

"But the sun did nothing wrong, so why should it be changed?"

Li Lianhua gently wiped away the moisture from Hua Xiaozhou's eyes with his fingertips, and said very, very gently.

"Perhaps the sun keeps shining and shining until it runs out of energy."

Hua Xiaozhou's most valuable quality is her empathy, she said, choking back tears.

"Then the sun is so lucky. I heard that the sun rises from the sea and has to work very hard to get it to shine every day. Now the sun is in the sea and doesn't have to go up. The seabed is very beautiful. There are small fish and corals, and it is colorful and beautiful. You can never get tired of looking at it."

A tear still slid down Li Lianhua's cheek. He had forgotten, but the pain in his heart remained.

Hua Xiaozhou felt extremely uncomfortable just from empathizing, but he had experienced it firsthand. Even though he didn't remember a single word, he felt an involuntary rejection in his body and mind as soon as he heard it.

It turns out that pain is something that cannot be forgotten.