She Said That Kisses and Hugs Are Needed for Redemption [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 29

Without knowing how much time had passed, the unconscious Lu Xi felt as though she were in a state of nothingness, like a soul without a body, being carried along by the wind.

While she was in a daze, a familiar mechanical voice rang out. “Lu Xi! Lu Xi! Wake up! You need to wake up!”

The hollow voice seemed to come from the depths of her mind, yet also drifted from the boundless void. It was familiar, but she couldn’t immediately recall whose voice it was.

“Lu Xi! If you don’t wake up, I’m going to throw you into the Space-Time Ruins!”

The Space-Time Ruins? Where was that? Why did it also feel so familiar?

As her consciousness gradually returned, Lu Xi heard the mechanical voice chattering and noisy in her ear. She suddenly opened her eyes. In a flash of white light, she could see nothing, but she slowly remembered her previous experiences.

She was Lu Xi, a corporate slave who had died young. After dying, she was bound by a system named 001, starting missions to save blackening female supporting characters in various novels.

Memories flashed quickly through her mind. In an instant, Lu Xi captured all the recollections of what happened after she became True God Xi Ning.

Fu Lancen! Her wife, whom she had already married!

Grief spread through her heart. Lu Xi looked down at herself through blurred vision, only to find that she was currently nothing more than mist moving with the wind; she had long since lost a body that could be seen by others.

She missed Fu Lancen so much. She missed the days spent together in Boyun Palace. At this moment, Fu Lancen had likely already learned of her death from Zhi Wu.

She suddenly felt a deep regret for not having properly said goodbye to her only wife in this life, leaving her to be the one abandoned once again.

“Given your good performance in this book, having completed the mission and some side quests, I am now settling your points,” 001 had been talking for a while, but the emotionally immersed Lu Xi only heard that last sentence.

“Points?” Right, she remembered now. 001 had said that completing missions would grant a certain amount of points. But what use were points to her in this state?

001’s mechanical voice came from all directions. “Correct, you have accumulated many points now. However, you can only choose one of two things to spend your points on.” It paused for a moment. “Of course, you can also choose not to spend points at all, meaning you choose neither.”

Hearing that there were only two things points could accomplish, the choice seemed too narrow. Lu Xi lost interest and replied casually, “Then tell me, what are the two things?”

001 cleared its non-existent throat. “Ahem. First, you can retain your memories of this book as you enter the next one.”

Lu Xi was stunned. She was instantly tempted. She could keep her memories of Fu Lancen! She could ensure she never forgot her!

Sensing Lu Xi’s surging thoughts, 001 smiled and continued. “Second, you can exchange points for a Resurrection Card. However, the Resurrection Card can only be used on the group of gods and immortals who lost their souls in the great battle to seal the Demon Sovereign.” In other words, it was a limited Resurrection Card that could only revive specific people.

Upon hearing this, Lu Xi’s previously excited heart slowly calmed down.

“001,” she breathed deeply, then asked softly, “Are you doing this on purpose?”

Knowing full well that she felt guilty toward those Immortal Lords and Fairies, the system still used such a choice to toy with her. For her, no matter how much she wanted to keep her memories of Fu Lancen, she would choose the limited Resurrection Card with great sorrow. She understood which was more important. But this damned 001 had first given her hope of remembering Fu Lancen forever, only to personally extinguish that light. It truly deserved to be cursed!

“Oh my! What are you saying? What do you mean by ‘on purpose’?” 001 played dumb and chuckled. “So, which one do you choose?”

“The second one. The Resurrection Card.” Lu Xi closed her eyes, no longer paying any attention to the seemingly happy 001.

“Hey, hey, hey!” But 001 didn’t care about Lu Xi’s current mood. It transformed into a gust of wind, enveloping the invisible and untouchable soul, and seemed to snap its fingers. “Don’t you want to see the fate of Bai Youran and Qi Ran?”

Lu Xi was not interested. She had handled those two personally; she could guess what their end would be.

“Don’t you want to go back to the book and look around?” 001 continued to tempt her. “What if you run into… you know who?”

“Let’s go.” Lu Xi opened her eyes instantly and urged urgently, “Let’s go now.”

“Dead blind man! Get lost!”

As dusk fell by a gurgling stream, several half-grown children were shoving a thin, weak man who looked to be in his thirties or forties. They pushed him to the ground, laughing as they snatched his cane and threw it far away. They clapped and laughed, spitting several times on the blind man before running off as their families called them home.

When the surroundings fell silent, the blind man cursed loudly for a long time, groping along the bank to find his cane. Just as he was about to crawl toward the stream, a lame yellow dog trotted up behind him, biting his hem to pull him away from the water.

As soon as his hand touched the damp moisture, the blind man snatched his hand back and crawled backward, cursing as he slapped the yellow dog that had just arrived. “Where were you? Why didn’t you come and bite those bastards to death just now?!”

He was filled with pent-up frustration and directed all his rage at the yellow dog that relied on him to survive. His curses were rapid and foul, his hateful expression entirely different from his submissive behavior toward the children who bullied him.

The yellow dog had just been tied to a tree and beaten by two of those children, leaving its leg lame. It had desperately bitten through the rope just to run and find its master. It didn’t understand why its master was hitting and cursing it. Was it because it hadn’t come fast enough?

The pitiful cries of the dog echoed by the stream. It was dinner time, and no one came to look, allowing the blind man to kick and punch the yellow dog even more recklessly. Pressing down hard on the dog’s neck, he rained punch after punch onto its head.

By the time night fell, the dog’s voice was barely audible, and its struggling paws slowly went still. The blind man felt something was wrong. Usually, when he beat it for this long, Dahuang would still be yelping loudly. Why was it not moving today?

“Dahuang?” He groped around and pinched the dog’s neck. There was no pulse. He picked Dahuang up and shook the animal, but there was no reaction. He angrily tossed the dog away, rubbed his hands which were still covered in yellow fur, and spat. “Bad luck!”

But as soon as he finished speaking, strange memories suddenly flooded his mind. He froze on the spot.

Lu Xi, turned into a wisp of nothingness, watched from the side and let out a clicking sound. “Without the status of an Upper God, Qi Ran truly is pitiful.”

Though her words sounded like sympathy, they were full of mockery. Glancing at the yellow dog—Bai Youran—who had died with its eyes open, Lu Xi withdrew her gaze expressionlessly. These two would torture each other like this for generations; it was a very satisfying end.

“Didn’t you say I would run into ‘you-know-who’?” Lu Xi didn’t want to waste time on these two scoundrels and asked 001 somewhat bashfully.

“Can’t bear to leave her?” 001 became an ambassador of gossip.

Lu Xi clenched her fists. “What do you think?”

001 laughed cunningly but stopped teasing the woman who was about to lose her temper. It took her to the next location.

Because she was in a soul state and had the system’s help, Lu Xi appeared atop a high mountain peak in the blink of an eye. Seeing the familiar white mist and the faint shimmering golden light, she looked around in surprise. “The sealing grounds?!”

001 did not answer, and she did not ask again. As her gaze shifted toward the cliff’s edge, a silhouette she could never forget was lying on a rocking chair just like before, holding a scroll and turning a page every now and then.

“Cencen,” Lu Xi stood there, stiff as if she actually possessed a body. “Why… why is she here?”

As the wife of True God Xi Ning, even if the True God had died, Fu Lancen should have stayed in Boyun Palace to be honored. Why would she come here to endure the cold wind?

“Sister!” The wind blew behind her, and a tearful Bai Qingyuan suddenly threw herself into Fu Lancen’s arms. “Sister! He’s back! Long Qian is back!”

Immersed in extreme joy, Bai Qingyuan shed tears. “A whole hundred years! He’s finally back!”

The matter of sealing the Demon Sovereign was known to almost no one at the time. In the end, only Lord Zhi Wu returned to the Heavenly Realm to announce the news to the Eight Desolations, declaring that True God Xi Ning and a group of immortals had sacrificed themselves and completely vanished. Only then did the crowd realize that, without them noticing, a war that almost destroyed the world had quietly ended. They felt both lingering fear and immense grief. They had lost their only True God and many respected immortals.

Now that a hundred years had passed since the war, Bai Qingyuan suddenly received news from Long Qian at the Dragon Clan, saying that after a century of gathering his soul, he had finally manifested again. However, he was currently extremely weak and needed to soak in the Dragon Clan’s Sacred Pool for decades before he could come find her.

Bai Qingyuan wept with joy. After waiting for centuries, she finally had word of her senior brother. So she hurried here to tell this news to her sister Cen, urging her not to give up hope.

After all, everyone knew that the True God’s wife did not believe Xi Ning had completely vanished. She had moved out of Boyun Palace to stay at the mountain peak of the sealing array, waiting for the True God’s return.

“Sister, Long Qian and the other immortals can return safely, so True God Xi Ning, as an ancient deity, can surely return as well!”

Fu Lancen’s fingertips moved slightly, her voice holding a trace of hope. “Is that so?”

Bai Qingyuan looked at her haggard sister and replied softly, “Of course. So, you must pull yourself together and welcome the True God back with your best face.”

“Alright.” For the first time in centuries, Fu Lancen showed a smile. But her face had been numb for too long; as she pulled the corners of her mouth, it felt unnatural. It was likely a very ugly smile.

The woman who had floated in front of Fu Lancen felt a lump in her throat. She reached out, wanting to touch the girl’s pale lips, but as a void entity, she couldn’t even get close.

“001, can I hug her one more time?”

“No. You are a soul body and have already detached from this book world; you can no longer touch any person or object.” 001’s answer was very official.

Lu Xi could only lean over vaguely, her hands passing through the space beside Fu Lancen, embracing her in a protective gesture. “Cencen, I’m sorry.”

The girl, who had been wiping tears from her eyes, suddenly froze. Her reddened eyes looked around, so urgent that tears fell one after another.

“Sister, what is it?” Bai Qingyuan looked at the person who had suddenly burst into tears, worried she was missing the one who hadn’t returned. She held her hand and comforted her carefully. “Sister, don’t worry. The True God is likely still gathering her soul, which is why she hasn’t come back to find you yet.”

Fu Lancen could no longer hear anything. She felt for a moment as if her wife were right beside her. Unfortunately, a gust of wind blew past, and the chill she felt told her it was all just a hallucination.

Lu Xi’s face was already covered in tears. She wiped the marks away, suppressed her sobbing, and made a request to 001. “I don’t want her to stay immersed in the sadness of losing me forever. She should be happy, free, and carefree. So, can you help me erase her memory of me? Just as you are about to erase mine of her.”

001 was silent for a moment before agreeing.

“The world has slowly returned to its proper track. The resurrected immortals are resting in their respective caves, the Demon Sovereign has no chance of emerging again, and Qi Ran and Bai Youran, who harmed the supporting character Fu Lancen, have received their most torturous punishment. And…”

“And the supporting character Fu Lancen will slowly lose the memories of her time with you. She will slowly forget you.”

After saying this, 001 issued a very official inquiry to Lu Xi. “Now that you have completed the mission for this book world, can you immediately proceed to the next book world to save the female supporting character about to blacken?”

The mist scattered as dusk fell. Lu Xi watched lingeringly as the figure picked up her scroll, stood up, and walked toward the nearby bamboo house. After a long time, she spoke softly. “001, after losing my memory, will I develop feelings for the female supporting character of the next book world?”

001 was startled, thinking it had leaked the plot. Seeing that Lu Xi was merely asking a question and hadn’t noticed anything, it breathed a heavy sigh of relief. “As for the plot of the next world, this system does not have access permissions currently. Therefore, I cannot answer your question.”

The sky had turned completely dark. In the small bamboo house, a faint candlelight had been lit. After imprinting that thin silhouette deeply into her mind, Lu Xi gave a self-deprecating smile and turned to leave. “Then now, let us enter the next book world immediately.”

The wind whispered in her ears, and the ethereal mist dissipated in the night, vanishing completely from this realm.

The door of the bamboo house swayed gently, and the candle flame flickered. The girl reading her scroll felt a sudden emptiness in her heart, as if something had been cut away. A flash of bewilderment appeared in her eyes. She looked at Bai Qingyuan, who was pruning flower branches nearby, and asked softly, “Do you feel like something just left?”

Bai Qingyuan clipped a withered leaf, also looking a bit lost. “No. Did you feel something run away from here?”

The bamboo door was quiet, the candle flickered, and the scroll was still on the page she had just opened. Everything was very normal. Fu Lancen thought she was having a hallucination again, so she shook her head and continued looking at the page.

Fine, there was nothing. She would continue passing the time, waiting for that person to return. Suddenly, Fu Lancen’s breathing hitched, and her heart ached.

Who was that person? Why was she waiting for her?

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