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Chapter 283: Chapter 262: The 178th Universe Reboot Vote

“Jiaye…”

Chen Yi, still not recovered from his emotions, hugged Jiaye tightly as if he feared she might vanish into thin air the next second. It was the first time that Chen Yi’s emotions had been so visibly apparent.

Before this.

His emotions usually remained hidden.

Or rather, his heart rarely experienced any turmoil.

“That…”

Tuberculosis Rabbit, with a bizarre expression, leaned in and asked bewilderedly, “Yi, what did you guys do? Why is Jiaye crying buckets this early in the morning?”

“Come back!”

Sword Without End, his face expressionless, pulled Tuberculosis Rabbit back, “Don’t stand out here and be an eyesore. Go downstairs, and leave the place to Yi and the others.”

“Phew!”

Chen Yi took a deep breath, patted Jiaye on the shoulder, then turned to look at Tuberculosis Rabbit. He sat down on a nearby chair with Jiaye’s left hand in his, and spoke softly, “We just activated a prop.”

“It’s the Grade-A prop ‘Cowherd and Weaver Girl’ that you saw, Tuberculosis Rabbit.”

“Activating this prop causes amnesia and entry into an unfamiliar world. Jiaye also entered this world, and if we fell in love while amnesiac, we would receive a large reward.”

“If there was no love, then there was no reward.”

“Upon entering this world, my identity was that of a young man in his early twenties who had just failed at starting a business. Actually, before entering the map I had made preparations, such as consuming the Memory Paper.”

“But upon entering this strange world, I was in a state of complete amnesia. This rule had a higher priority than the Memory Paper; even having consumed the Memory Paper, I had no memory of reality, only the character background given by the map.”

“The first time Jiaye and I met in the map was after I left a convenience store. Jiaye handed her phone number to the store clerk and asked them to make sure it was passed on to me.”

“But the next day, due to some accidental factors, the clerk was fired, and the note never reached my hands.”

“They only told me that after I left the day before, a girl had come to leave contact information, but that the note was lost.”

“The second encounter was half a year later. I had restarted a business and succeeded. I saw a woman’s figure in a coffee shop and was so heart-stirred that I followed her, and that woman was Jiaye.”

“But the crowd was too dense.”

“I chased for nearly ten minutes, but still lost her in the throng of people.”

“Looking back now, I don’t know why I chased after her at the time. I just had a nameless premonition in my heart telling me that this girl might be my most suitable partner, which led me to chase after her as if possessed.”

“This was completely out of character for me.”

“The third time we met was when I was boarding a subway car, and I suddenly saw Jiaye outside the car. I was so excited that I wanted to get off immediately, but the train doors had slowly closed, preventing my departure, so I could only wave through the window.”

“And at that moment, I noticed Jiaye outside seemed excitedly waving back at me.”

“I got off at the next station and returned, but Jiaye was no longer there.”

At that moment, Jiaye, leaning on Chen Yi’s shoulder, murmured, “I went to the next station looking for you. I guessed you might get off at the next station to wait for me.”

“But I couldn’t find you after searching for half an hour at the station where you got on, so I guessed you might have gone to the next one, and I went there to look for you.”

“I couldn’t find you at the next station after searching for half an hour, Yi, so I went back to where you got on and waited there.”

“…”

Chen Yi sighed helplessly, then continued looking at Tuberculosis Rabbit, “Anyway, after that, my business got better and better, with my annual income soaring to hundreds of millions. And just when the company was about to go public, I saw Jiaye again.”

“Of course, I missed her again.”

“That was our thirty-seventh missed connection.”

“I don’t know who wrote this script, having the male and female lead miss each other thirty-seven times. Even the most patient female TV viewers would curse at this scenario. And during this time, my business continued to improve, and many high-quality girls began to pursue me.”

“Daughters of scholarly families, innocent backgrounds, delicate and charming, fair-skinned and beautiful.”

“All were actively pursuing me.”

“I turned them all down.”

“Meanwhile, Jiaye’s career was also on the rise. She took over a company called Jiaye’s Marriage Proposal Planning Company, which specialized in serving men and women looking to propose—a very romantic industry.”

“We lived in that map for a full seventy to eighty years.”

“In those seventy to eighty years, we missed each other a total of one hundred and ninety-eight times.”

“Each time, it was due to various reasons.”

“And until the end of our lives, I never married, and Jiaye never wed.”

“It was finally as we were about to die of old age that we met, fell in love smoothly, and kissed to celebrate the regrets of those seventy to eighty years and the grace that heaven granted us to finally be together. After that, we died of old age and returned.”

“That’s the entire story of the map.”

“…”

Nodding with deep understanding, Tuberculosis Rabbit stuffed a chip into his mouth and said thoughtfully, “Marvelous, it’s a pity you skipped too much of the story, Yi. For instance, I really want to know the reasons behind those 198 missed connections.”

“There were so many chances to meet, but to miss each one is just too bizarre, right?”

“It is a bit bizarre.”

At this point, Chen Yi couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly, “In the map, because I accepted the world background, I didn’t find it strange, but after returning and recalling everything again, I realized it was too bizarre to be more bizarre.”

“It was only after returning that I realized the true difficulty of the map wasn’t just falling in love with each other in a strange world.”

“But that the map prevents the two from ever truly being together. However, in the process, countless other better suitors of the opposite sex will emerge. Only by rejecting all of them and maintaining love and anticipation for the other person until the moment before dying of old age do you really clear the entire map.”

“So this map has been preventing Jiaye and me from really meeting and falling in love, and it continuously provided all sorts of high-quality suitors for both of us.”

“At first, the ways the map prevented our meeting were relatively normal.”

“Such as disappearing into the crowd, being separated by the subway, or having to deal immediately with customers who suddenly become difficult over the phone.”

“But perhaps the number of interventions became too numerous, they ran out of normal methods, and the means they used became increasingly bizarre.”

“I remember the 129th time I failed to meet Jiaye, just as I was about to catch up with him, a laser beam shot from outer space melted hundreds of people between us. The news reported an alien invasion.”

“The 138th time, a tsunami erupted, a wave that spanned millions of kilometers and reached inland cities.”

“The 145th time, it was an earthquake, with a very small impact area, about the ten or so meters just between Jiaye and me.”

“The 158th time, I was hit by a Two-way Foil, and the attack’s range was also very small, right in those few meters between Jiaye and me.”

“The 178th time, the universe initiated a restart vote, and every resident had to return home to vote on whether to deny the universe’s restart.”

“The 192nd time…”

“In any case, with such inconceivable obstruction, Jiaye and I missed each other 198 times. On the 199th attempt, we finally met and cleared the level, returning.”

Engrossed in listening, Sword Without End unintentionally wiped away non-existent tears from the corner of his eyes and, with a sobbing tone, said, “That’s brilliant, Yi. It’s got me, a Pure Love Warrior, completely hooked.”

“If my wife was still alive, she and I would definitely make it through this map just like you did, Yi, overcoming all the hardships to end up together.”

“Such a love story is so tear-jerking.”

“Just a friendly reminder, this is an A-level Prop, and it’s highly unlikely that you will possess it.”

Tuberculosis Rabbit added somewhat inappropriately from the side.

After another careful inspection of his surroundings, Chen Yi took a deep breath, having reorganized his memory, activated the Bikini Beach Chair Prop, and lay down on it, lighting a cigarette and drawing it to his mouth.

So tired.

Although to Tuberculosis Rabbit and the others, he had disappeared for only a few seconds.

Less than the time it takes to urinate.

But from his perspective, he had lived another seventy or eighty years in a strange world.

A completely different world, entirely different life experiences.

Even longer than the time he had lived in the real world.

But perhaps the Prop “Cowherd and Weaver Girl” had already anticipated this because as he returned, the deep memories of resting for seventy or eighty years quickly became illusory. While these memories weren’t lost, they lost much of their realness.

The memories of the real world began to take the dominant position.

This prevented him from confusing his identity between illusion and reality.

Still, it left a sense of being in a daze.

Only then did he think to look at the panel that had popped up in front of him for a while. A panel had appeared as soon as he returned, but he hadn’t looked at it then, still not reacting from the return.@@novelbin@@

‘Map Name’: Cowherd and Weaver Girl.

‘Map Level’: None, derived from the A-level Prop ‘Cowherd and Weaver Girl’.

‘Map Evaluation’: You’ve experienced lows and visited the world’s peak. You’ve looked up at the world’s splendor from the gutter and have also gazed down with pity and mercy from the summit.

Surrounded by countless high-quality women expressing love to you, you rejected all of them without exception, without a single heartbeat.

Always waiting for that woman.

What touched you could be many things, perhaps it was the slight shock when you first found out a girl left you her contact information, feeling surprised that someone should care about such a destitute self.

Or maybe it was when you were extremely destitute, dressed in filthy clothes, squatting on the street corner eating a bun, and suddenly saw her in a business suit passing by. You hurriedly looked down, afraid of being recognized. When she passed by, you knew she recognized you, but she didn’t stop.

You thought she despised your destitution.

But the next time you met, and she showed her excitement again, you realized she hadn’t stopped to protect your dignity, understanding that a man wouldn’t want to be chatted up in such destitute circumstances.

Or maybe it was for other reasons.

In any case, congratulations, you’ve successfully cleared the map!

You faced countless temptations and obstacles, even if the Celestial Immortal Formation was placed before you, it couldn’t make your heart waver. You are soft, yet on matters of pure love, you are firm.

Eventually, you didn’t get lost in the map or the temptations. At the end of your life, you waited for the one you had been searching for all your life.

‘Map Reward’: …

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