What kind of outrageous joke is this? Snatched off the street to become someone’s bride? A prince, no less? Couldn’t they at least run a background check? This is far too hasty. Still, it doesn’t matter. After all, I’m only meant to be a temporary consort. ____________________________________ “There may be no turning back for us anymore!” “Is that so? I doubt it. At the very least, I can always choose to kill you and set everything right again!” “Mm.” “Mm? What does that mean?” “Kill me.” After a long silence, the stillness was as heavy and cold as a bed of ashes.
In my previous life, meeting you might have been only to bind myself to you, marking the ground as prison walls. But in this life, I am willing to give up everything I have for your freedom. If, Norsang, you are determined to leave, then I will let you go. When the skies above us are no longer the same, when everything has already changed, perhaps the only thing that remains unchanged is the memory of what once was.
“Tell me, tell me! Why did it have to be this way? Please, just tell me!” Si Norsang screamed in anguish.
Staring at the man before her, she couldn’t understand why things had come to this. They could have been so happy together. Yet now, as if everything had been severed, they had become the most familiar strangers.
“Kill me!” Wen Shu’an looked at Si Norsang, his face expressionless, like a soulless shell.
He seemed utterly drained and lifeless, as if all hope had died within him.
“Fine, I’ll kill you!”
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Drip. Drip.
Time flashed forward three years, but Si Norsang was no longer who she once was.
She was now a detective in the year 2550, formerly a police officer. But after a disagreement within the force, she had resigned and opened a small detective agency, focusing mainly on investigating supernatural cases.
By some strange twist of fate, this new case had sent her back more than fifteen hundred years.
Though time travel was no longer unusual in the year 2550, traveling this far back was still a rare feat.
“Si Norsang, since leaving the police force, you seem to encounter more and m