In the middle of the device, the white light slammed against the restraints again and again.
Each time it struck, another section of the island's lights went dark.
Pei Zhou stood before it without retreating.
“Give Suìsuì back to me.”
The system let out a piercing laugh.
【Jiang Sui is already dead.】
【You can never bring her back.】
There was no expression on Pei Zhou's face.
He pressed the final button.
“Then you can be buried with her.”
A tremendous explosion rang out.
The white light completely shattered.
The force restraining me disappeared at the same time.
I fell from the air.
I thought I would hit the ground.
But in the next second, I fell into a pair of warm arms.
Pei Zhou's body suddenly went rigid.
His arms clearly passed through me.
But as though he had sensed something, he slowly tightened his embrace.
I leaned against him and looked up.
“Pei Zhou.”
He couldn't hear me.
But tears suddenly fell from his eyes.
They passed through my face and landed on the sand beneath our feet.
The police escorted Lin Wantang away.
The guests were also taken off the island one after another.
The once-bustling wedding venue was left in complete disarray.
Pei Zhou stood alone by the sea.
He stood there from daytime until sunset.
Finally, he took out the two wedding rings and clenched them tightly in his palm.
“Suìsuì.”
“I found the person who hurt you.”
“I finally kept the promise I made to you.”
He looked toward the distant sea and suddenly smiled faintly.
“Tonight.”
“I'll come find you.”
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After the system disappeared, the return-to-living-world token shattered completely.
The ghost messenger appeared behind me again.
“Jiang Sui, it's time to go.”
This time, the mist around my ankles was thicker than before.
But I desperately clung to everything around me.
“Wait a little longer.”
“I still have two dream entries left.”
The ghost messenger frowned.
“He hasn't gone to sleep yet.”
“Then I'll wait until he does.”
That night, Pei Zhou didn't go home.
He went alone to the bridal chamber on the island.
The room still looked exactly as it had six years ago.
Burgundy curtains.
Warm yellow walls.
Even the crooked inscription above the headboard remained intact.
Pei Zhou loves Jiang Sui.
For one lifetime, for all eternity.
So the thing destroyed by the saw had only been a fake bed.
The real wedding bed had long since been secretly moved back to the island by Pei Zhou.
Pei Zhou sat beside the bed.
He opened the bottle of sleeping pills that had never been opened.
Then he placed the gun beside it.
I anxiously flew circles around him.
“Pei Zhou, calm down.”
“I told you to live well. I didn't tell you to kill yourself after taking revenge.”
“Who's going to burn handbags for me after you're dead?”
“The saleswomen down in the underworld have already started laughing at me!”
He couldn't hear me.
Pei Zhou poured the pills into his palm.
I looked at the two dream talismans still in my hand.
I gritted my teeth and crushed both of them.
“One time isn't enough, then I'll use both.”
“Today, I'm going to scold some sense into you no matter what.”
The world around us shattered with a thunderous roar.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back by the sea.
Pei Zhou stood not far away.
Still wearing that black shirt.
Still looking exactly as familiar as he did in my memories.
But this time, the moment he saw me, his eyes were already red.
“Suìsuì.”
I lifted my skirt and ran toward him.
He instinctively opened his arms.
I crashed into his embrace.
Pei Zhou held me tightly.
With such force that it felt as though he wanted to merge me into his very bones.
“Suìsuì.”
“It really is you.”
He called my name again and again.
Hot tears fell onto my neck.
I had prepared so many things to scold him for.
I wanted to call him a liar.
Scold him for being crazy.
I even wanted to slap him twice to knock some sense into him.
But when I heard him crying, I couldn't bring myself to do it.
In the end, I could only raise my arms and hug him.
“It's me.”
“Why did it take you so long to recognize me?”
Pei Zhou buried his face against my neck.
“I'm sorry.”
“I didn't dare acknowledge you.”
“I was afraid that the moment I opened my eyes, you'd disappear again.”
My nose immediately stung.
“When I entered your dream that time, why were you so cold to me?”
“I didn't know whether it could see you.”
Pei Zhou's voice was hoarse.
“I was afraid it would discover that you were still here.”
“And I was afraid it would hurt you again.”
That's why he hadn't dared to hold me.
He hadn't dared to keep me there.
He hadn't even dared to call me “Suìsuì” until the dream was about to collapse.
I sniffed.
“What about the wedding photo?”
“Fake.”
“And the ring Lin Wantang wore?”
“Fake too.”
“Then why did you pour out the sweet osmanthus fermented-rice soup?”
Pei Zhou was silent for a moment.
“She touched it.”
“It was dirty.”
I froze for two seconds.
Then I suddenly couldn't help laughing.
“Pei Zhou.”
“Why are you still so petty?”
He raised a hand and wiped my tears away.
“Suìsuì.”
“You're not angry with me?”
“A little.”
His eyes immediately darkened.
I counted my grievances off on my fingers.
“You fooled me round and round.”
“You made me think you didn't love me anymore.”
“I even pawned all my jewelry.”
“Now I'm so poor I can't even afford a new handbag.”
Pei Zhou listened to everything seriously.
“My fault.”
“From now on, I'll burn a hundred handbags for you every year.”
“I want the latest models.”
“Okay.”
“And jewelry.”
“Okay.”
“And I want a private jet too.”
“Okay.”
He agreed to everything.
Just like when I was alive, without a single principle.
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