"Brother, if, if... I never come back, please be sure to treat them well. They don't dare say it, but I know how they feel. They're all good girls who deserve it. I've always been overbearing, keeping you all to myself, because I knew I might not have much time left. I just wanted you to see only me. Forgive my selfishness... But I really, really like you. I've liked you since Flame Capital. I can't help it."
By the end, she could not endure it either.
Because she truly had a premonition that this time, she really had no way to survive. The calamity she had to face was slowly revealing itself. She had already sensed that those things were even more terrifying than Reincarnation Bugs.
"Uh..."
Li Tianming stared blankly at her.
Their gazes were just like when they had first met at Fire Ribbon Mountain—so pure and innocent. Back then, neither of them could have imagined that over the coming decades, they would walk hand in hand through so many storms and hardships.
When Jiang Feiling spoke those words before him, Li Tianming suddenly stopped crying. His gaze gradually turned resolute, incomparably stubborn, like a man possessed.
"Jiang Feiling."
Li Tianming could only say that if not for her final words, he truly would have been unbearably fragile.
But now, he truly understood what kind of responsibility he had to bear for the good girl before him.
"Listen carefully—"
Li Tianming bit through his lip, staring fixedly at her burning face as he said with all his strength, "I've decided. The instant I hear news of your death, I'll kill myself immediately. Nothing in this world can stop me. If this world has no you, then I might as well not live!"
Every word he spoke was