A mysterious realm descends, and I defy fate in comics.

Chapter 382 will be the end.

She is not dead; she is still alive.

Or perhaps she was dead, but she came back, and she is still alive.

She is still alive.

Jiang Xingni, feeling somewhat helpless, gently hugged her friend. She patted her back and softly comforted her, "Yes, I'm still here. I'm still alive."

"Niannian, I'm here. Don't cry, okay?"

She raised her hand and gently wiped away the other person's tears.

"I'm sorry." Xu Niannian didn't dare look at Jiang Xingni's expression. She hugged her best friend tightly and began to ramble on about everything that had happened. "Back in high school, I lied to you when I said I was too busy to keep in touch. I was just afraid that you would drift further and further away, and I would become less and less important to you. I feel like I care about you too much. I'm afraid that if there are more and more people in your world, I will drift further and further away from you. So I feel..."

"I feel I should have left sooner. And now that you have such a big stage and so much more experience, would you still care about me now? Would you still care about an ordinary high school classmate with no special abilities? Would you find my messages and complaints too annoying? So I didn't dare contact you anymore."

"I didn't even know you died. I didn't watch the live broadcast, and I don't follow social news. I had no idea you were dead. I thought... I thought you were still alive, just having encountered a lot of big events. I even thought, 'Sure enough, you've found a bigger world.' But I didn't know you were dead."

"For days afterward, I was still happy because the college entrance exam was over, I was free, I had summer vacation, and I even got into the university I wanted, fulfilling my family's wish for me to come to the capital. I had no idea you were dead!"

"I didn't know you were dead until I called you and it wasn't you on the other end of the line, but someone named Lu Ming? I think it was someone named Lu Ming. I... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I missed your funeral, I'm sorry, I also missed your seventh day memorial."

Xu Niannian finally dared to vent. For the past two years, every time she woke up in the middle of the night, she would see a dark figure in her dreams constantly questioning her: Why didn't you pay attention to Jiang Xingni? Why did you wait until she died to contact Jiang Xingni? Didn't you know that people with superpowers can also die? Or did you simply not care about her death? Anyway, in the beginning, it was you who didn't contact Jiang Xingni first, wasn't it?

All the nightmares and regrets were released through this hug, right in front of Jiang Xingni. Xu Niannian still didn't dare to look at Jiang Xingni's face, afraid of seeing the disgust and indifference in his eyes.

Then she felt a hand gently pat her back.

Xu Niannian glared fiercely at the two people in front of her.

Xie Yungui and Song Juexiao, who hadn't done anything, were inexplicably glared at: ?

Is there anything more for us to do?

Jiang Xingni gently patted Xu Niannian's back to comfort her. She was still a little confused—it was just a missed opportunity, and she hadn't done anything to offend her, so why should she apologize? Besides, she was back now.

Jiang Xingni sincerely comforted her, "It's okay, I don't remember."

……

The moment Song Juexiao uttered those words, he knew he was doomed.

Sure enough, Xu Niannian, whose tears had finally stopped after she had confided in him, burst into tears again after hearing this, and hugged Jiang Xingni and cried loudly.

"You don't remember? You don't remember! What am I supposed to do?" Xu Niannian asked. "You don't remember? What about me? Who should I tell? How can I get your forgiveness?"

At least not the Jiang Xingni we know now.

She had never experienced the pain of death, nor had she remembered anything related to her superpowers. The Jiang Xingni before her could not forgive her actions in place of the Jiang Xingni who had suffered in the past.

"You don't need my forgiveness. You haven't done anything wrong," Jiang Xingni said calmly. "What you should do now is forgive yourself."

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, she is happy because she was admitted to her ideal university after the college entrance examination, sad because she feels that she is drifting apart from her friends, and wants to ask her friends to go out and have fun. There is nothing wrong with all of this. Xu Niannian is just an ordinary person. She may stand up for Jiang Xingni when she is in a crisis, but she cannot watch Jiang Xingni and her relationship grow more and more distant and she has no way to do anything about it.

"It's my fault." She finally gently pushed Xu Niannian away, looked her in the eye, and said this. "It was my sudden death that made you suffer for so many years after my death. It's all my fault, Xu Niannian."

And what does this have to do with her?

Jiang Xingni's pain deepened, realizing that no one's suffering could compare to that of death.

"I might have known I would come back, I might have been prepared—but whatever the case, you shouldn't blame yourself for it," she said softly.

Jiang Xingni couldn't help but feel sad for Xu Niannian. After all, if she put herself in Xu Niannian's shoes, she would feel the same sadness if her friend died.

However, what Jiang Xingni couldn't accept was that Xu Niannian felt guilty because of her death.

Her death wasn't Xu Niannian's fault. She's back now, and everything she missed before isn't irreversible. It's completely unreasonable to blame herself for it.

Xu Niannian's reaction was to cry even harder.

Xie Yungui wasn't interested in the deepening relationship between the two of them. If he watched any longer, he was afraid that he would impulsively pry Xu Niannian apart and then stuff himself into Jiang Xingni's arms, so he turned on his phone.

—Just at that moment, Xie Yungui saw the newly sent notification.

A strange creature is heading your way; some of you are being targeted.

[Still VOID, is there anything special near you?]

Xie Yungui couldn't figure out what was so special about his surroundings—his gaze fell on Jiang Xingni, recalling the two possible future developments in his memory, and then he pulled Song Juexiao back a step.

Song Juexiao gave Xie Yungui a puzzled look.

"We came here because of Jiang Xingni," Xie Yungui explained simply. "It will end."

VOID originally wanted to use the monsters to probe Jiang Xingni's memories, to find out how Jiang Xingni was successfully resurrected and whether he could contribute to their boss's resurrection efforts—but by sheer coincidence, Jiang Xingni lost his memory.

Even more coincidentally, this strange creature, while searching through Jiang Xingni's memories, not only failed to find the answer, but also successfully helped Jiang Xingni retrieve her own memories.

If this monster doesn't show itself now, Xie Yungui is prepared to take Jiang Xingni to find it.

The dark figure quietly slipped into Jiang Xingni's shadow.