I'm Leaving, Su Yang

Gai Fengyan seemed to have sensed the turmoil in Su Yang's heart.

He looked at Su Yang and spoke in the same calm tone he had used when they first met.

"I told you once before not to be so reckless. The road we're on is a hard one, and we have to take it slowly."

"If you'd listened to even a little of my advice back then, you wouldn't have ended up like this today."

"All right, I know what you're wondering about. Only Heng Hong, your parents, and I know about this."

"Don't dwell on it. Be careful. I'm going to slaughter those beasts."

With that, Gai Fengyan raised his sword and started off in another direction.

Su Yang had yet to recover from what Gai Fengyan had just said.

There was far too much information in those words!

From the way Gai Fengyan had spoken, had Su Yang and Gai Fengyan been friends before?

Did Heng Hong, Gai Fengyan, and his own parents all know that Ren Yexue had brought him back to life?

Did Ren Yexue know that they knew?

When had they found out? Had they learned of it after Su Yang died, or had they known before his death?

Could his parents' sudden disappearance five years ago have something to do with this?

Why did his parents know about Ren Yexue and even ask Gai Fengyan to pass along the words, "We quite like that girl Ren Yexue"?

Did his parents know Ren Yexue's identity?

At that moment, Su Yang felt as though he were trapped in a scheme.

The Deity, his parents, Gai Fengyan, Heng Hong, and countless others had all been drawn into this earth-shaking scheme!

There must be something else I haven't remembered!

Forget it. Never mind!

Su Yang gritted his teeth and put those troubling thoughts aside.

He just had to find a chance to question Gai Fengyan and Heng Hong properly!

The most urgent thing was to find Ren Yexue!

Watching Gai Fengyan's retreating figure, Su Yang suddenly remembered something and shouted after him.

"Gai Fengyan, there's someone from the first Sequence behind me to the left. He's slaughtering civilians!"

"I don't know whether he's one of the Fierce Ghosts or where he came from. He's third-tier trash. Remember to kill that beast!"

With that, Su Yang got up and continued running toward Ren Yexue's house.

Just then, he felt a sudden knock on the back of his head. The impact nearly sent him tumbling.

By the time Su Yang came to his senses, the murmurs from the Omniscience Sequence in his ears had grown much fainter.

Gai Fengyan's voice drifted over on the wind—

"That iron rooster Heng Hong actually gave you his Sequence Ability? I'm borrowing half of it!"

"Demigods with divinity can't enter the Divine Kingdom. Everyone here is below the sixth tier, so half of Heng Hong's Omniscience ability is enough for you!"

Hearing Gai Fengyan's words, Su Yang knew exactly what had happened.

That damnable Gai Fengyan had just snatched away half of the Sequence Ability Heng Hong had lent him!

Su Yang rubbed the back of his head and muttered indignantly as he ran.

"Forget it! I won't hold it against you. Consider it a loan to help you find those beasts!"

"If you don't kill every last one of them, you'll have let me down!"

In the Northern Suburb Cemetery, Heng Hong gazed at the distant flames and murmured to himself.

"It's time I left too. If I stay out too long, they'll get suspicious."

"Su Yang, and Lord Deity, I hope you both have good luck!"

He took a B-class containment item from his robes and prepared to leave.

Just then, the expression on Heng Hong's ribbon-covered face froze.

The next moment, he ground out a few words through clenched teeth.

"Gai Fengyan, you bastard, you stole my Sequence Ability again?"

"You think I can't do anything to you, is that it? Just you wait till I get back!"

Su Yang finally reached the detached villa.

He crouched down and gulped in a few breaths before getting up and rushing into the villa.

He saw the door whose lock he had smashed.

Without its lock, the door would no longer stay shut, and it was now creaking as it swung in the wind.

On the door, traces of Su Yang's dried blood remained around the enormous hole.

Su Yang rushed into the villa. A glance showed him that no one was on the first floor.

With the entire city caught up in war, not a single crystal lamp was lit in the villa. Only the moonlight streamed through the windows, bringing a little light to the first-floor hall.

The tiled floor faintly reflected the glaring moonlight, while the cool-toned curtains fluttered wildly in the wind.

The refrigerator in the corner of the first floor had been left open.

Perhaps Ren Yexue had forgotten to close it when she cooked for Su Yang earlier. Its open double doors provided the only warm light in the living room.

A vase stood on the table beside the sofa.

In it was a Two-Branch Blue Enchantress—Ren Yexue's favorite flower, whose meaning in the language of flowers was "destiny."

Looking at these things, Su Yang's eyes slowly grew misty.

He climbed the spiral staircase to the second floor.

He stopped outside the bedroom.

For he saw a figure on the bedroom terrace, standing before the enormous floor-to-ceiling window and gazing into the distance.

She was still wearing that white slip nightdress.

It was torn in many places, revealing stretches of snow-white skin.

Blotches of blood had stained the white hem of her dress and her cascading hair red.

Ren Yexue stood with her back to Su Yang, holding a Two-Branch Blue Enchantress in her hand.

The flower's blue and her scarred, pale arms formed a poignant sight.

Sensing Su Yang's arrival, she slowly turned her head.

Red lips, almond-shaped eyes, bright eyes, a delicate nose...

Su Yang also saw a thin cut on her left cheek.

After turning her head, Ren Yexue kept her hands behind her back, hiding the Two-Branch Blue Enchantress.

She hid the flower behind her back, but the wind and its fragrance revealed her love.

"Oh, Su Yang, what brings you here?"

"I didn't expect to see you one last time. I'm so happy!"

Those softly spoken words reached Su Yang's ears, and he felt as though ants were gnawing at his heart.

He rushed to Ren Yexue and pulled her into his arms—just as he remembered doing more than a year ago.

"Ren Yexue, I remember now. I remember everything."

Su Yang took the Two-Branch Blue Enchantress he had brought from the cemetery from behind his back and placed it in Ren Yexue's hand.

"This can't be the last time. Is there anything else we can do?"

"Aren't you a God? You must have a way, right?"

Ren Yexue stuck out her tongue at Su Yang, cutting him off.

She gave Su Yang a mischievous wink.

Then she poured out a stream of words, as though she had kept them in her heart for a long time.

"There's no way~ My Divine Kingdom has shattered!"

"It's just such a shame. There are so many things in my little notebook that I still haven't done."

"I wanted to squeeze onto a bus with you, eat at roadside stalls with you, work with you, and worry about rent with you..."

"Su Yang, I might have to go. When I'm gone, be good and listen to Grandma, okay?"

"Don't be as reckless as you used to be. I can't save you a second time."

With that, Ren Yexue gave Su Yang a smile.

Two little dimples appeared on her face, along with a trail of clear tears.

The author says: I can't go on writing, so I'll say this here. Let me explain the readers' questions about the previous chapter—

1. Gai Fengyan has been at Headquarters the whole time, so his memories should be the same as those of the outside world. As mentioned earlier in chapter 46, Ren Yexue erased the outside world's memories of Su Yang's death. So the outside world's understanding of Su Yang, except for Heng Hong, who reached an agreement with Ren Yexue, should be the same as Zhao Shengshen's in the real world: two years ago, Su Yang began the Soul-Reaping Bureau's assessment, passed a year later, and advanced three tiers in succession. (For details, see Zhao Shengshen's answers to Su Yang's questions over the phone in chapter 40.)

2. The author's note is still under review. You can wait and read my other explanations.