Why Bibi Dong Was Reborn

"You really don't need to do this. I don't want to drag you down. You can help me now, but can you keep helping me forever? Even if you're willing, I'm not. This is my own matter. No matter how bitter or exhausting it is, I should bear it myself instead of burdening you."

Lin Hanye shook his head, his voice somewhat sorrowful and subdued. "In my heart, you are one of a kind. You represent the most beautiful hope in my heart. I don't want you to be implicated by me, much less have too much contact with who I am now. I carry a blood feud and am destined to fall into darkness. I don't want to taint you."

Bibi Dong's gaze shifted slightly. Unable to help herself, she rose and walked to Lin Hanye's side, speaking in a complicated tone. "Actually... I'm nowhere near as wonderful as you think I am."

After experiencing the pain of losing Little Linzi in her "previous life," she had long ceased to be the innocent and kind Bibi Dong she once was. She had become more ruthless and vicious than anyone.

She was indifferent to everything, viewing every life other than Little Linzi's as ants. If Little Linzi had not still been alive, she would have long been thinking of how to drag the entire world down with her and destroy everything in existence.

"So what?"

Lin Hanye stood up without the slightest hesitation, his voice resolute. "Even if everyone says you're wrong, I'll still believe you're right. Perhaps the world needs reason, but I will always take your side. You are my entire life."

Even Lin Hanye felt disgusted with himself after saying that.

If some girl on Blue Star in his previous life had heard those words, she would definitely have called him a scumbag. The cringe alone would have been enough to carve out a three-bedroom apartment with her toes.

But where had Bibi Dong ever heard words like that? Even in her "previous life," she had been the one taking the initiative most of the time.

Now, hearing Lin Hanye's heartfelt confession, she could not help staring at him dreamily. A feeling even arose in her heart—so what if she died for him?

A man like this was worth giving everything for.

To add more fuel to the fire, Lin Hanye, who had never been an assertive man, suddenly shook his head and said somewhat dejectedly, "In my heart, you will always be perfect. And the perfect you is someone the current me can never match, no matter what I do."

"Why do you keep belittling yourself? You will always be you. Between us, none of what you imagine has ever existed."

Bibi Dong could no longer endure this man "demeaning" himself like this. She stepped forward and covered Lin Hanye's lips, gazing at him affectionately.

"No matter what hardships and obstacles lie ahead, I am willing to face them with you, until seas run dry and rocks crumble."

Looking at Bibi Dong so close before him, Lin Hanye reached out and held the hand she had placed over his lips, enclosing it within his palm. Bibi Dong's hand was slender and long. Perhaps because her martial soul was formed from two Spider Emperors, her fingers were exquisitely beautiful, like fine jade. Yet even more beautiful were her face and bearing—peerless and independent.

He wrapped an arm around Bibi Dong's slender waist, pulling this woman he had longed for over two lifetimes into his embrace. Lowering his head, he kissed her lips.

Soft, warm, delicate... During the Second Simulation, it was not as though Lin Hanye had never kissed Bibi Dong. He had even done things far more excessive than this.

But a simulation was ultimately just a simulation. Its realism was still lacking by a little.

As a result, Lin Hanye could not help becoming immersed in it. After a long while, accompanied by the blush-inducing sound of a string of saliva breaking, he gazed affectionately at Bibi Dong's slightly flushed face and remained speechless for a long time. His hands instinctively tightened around her, and his heart was filled with a dreamlike sense of unreality.

Yet the sensation of her in his arms was incomparably real, making him sink deeper, unable to pull himself free.

It was not time yet. Taking a deep breath, Lin Hanye did not forget his purpose. Holding Bibi Dong, he said with a self-reproachful expression, "We can't do this. The current me simply can't give you a future or a promise."

As he spoke, he struggled to release his arms from around Bibi Dong. He walked alone to the window of the tea house's private room, looking down at the streets of Gengxin City below as he tried to calm the stirring in his heart.

But Bibi Dong stepped forward and took Lin Hanye's hand. Looking at him with tender affection, she was so obedient that she seemed nothing like the darkened female Pope, but rather a delicate little wife who would give him anything he asked for. "I don't need those things. As long as I can be with you, we'll endure hardship together in the future and shoulder difficulties together. Even if it means death, I'll follow you."

At that moment, Bibi Dong had long forgotten the kindness Spirit Hall had shown in raising her.

Perhaps one could call her an ungrateful wretch.

But when she was willing to be an ungrateful wretch for your sake, what man could truly bring himself to hate her?

This was what it meant to have a love-struck brain. Lin Hanye held Bibi Dong's hand and remained silent for a long while. Though he no longer wished to deceive this innocent woman, the mood had already built up to this point, so he still asked the question he cared about most. "Can you tell me how you found this place?"

"Mm!"

Bibi Dong nodded. She immediately told him everything in meticulous detail—from fainting while Absorbing the Fourth Soul Ring, to discovering that she had been "reborn," then picking Immortal Herbs, absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Fourth Ring with the help of Lovesick Heartbreak Red and Ten Thousand Year Whale Glue, and finally finding him through Ling Yuan.

Not only that, she also told him how, before her "rebirth," she had accidentally learned that Lin Hanye had been secretly plotted against and harmed by Qian Xunji. She had then worked hard to cultivate, only to awaken after absorbing her Seventh Soul Ring and, upon opening her eyes, discover that she had returned to before she met Lin Hanye.

After hearing this, Lin Hanye fell into a brief silence.

He had studied the Life Simulation System before.

Originally, he had believed it would not affect reality, but he had never expected such an accident to occur.

What made Bibi Dong different from everyone else was that, when he had simulated her at the time, she had been in the middle of absorbing a soul ring. At the same time, she had gained the recognition of Lovesick Heartbreak Red during the simulation.

In addition, during his simulation, she had been the only girl he had truly liked and entered into a relationship with.

Could it have been because of these factors?

It seemed he would have to conduct a proper experiment next time.

"Then aside from you, has anyone else been 'reborn'?"

Lin Hanye vaguely remembered that during the Second Simulation, aside from Bibi Dong, Ling Yuan had been the person with whom he had shared the deepest ambiguity. If even Ling Yuan possessed Simulation Memory, then his first two conjectures would not hold.

"No. I've tested nearly everyone I know. Aside from the two of us, no one else has been reborn. Do you think it could be because of this?"

As she spoke, Bibi Dong took out the Lovesick Heartbreak Red that had already recognized her as its master.

Lin Hanye raised a hand and lightly touched it. Perhaps sensing its master's emotions, Lovesick Heartbreak Red also became exhilarated, blooming with an incomparably dense, bewitching red glow.

"That should be it."

Learning that no one else had been "reborn," Lin Hanye could not help but let out a sigh of relief.

Bibi Dong's "rebirth" had already somewhat exceeded his control.

If others had also been "reborn," the consequences would truly have been unthinkable.

It seemed that even when simulating in the future, he had to be extremely cautious. He could not act without restraint simply because he "wouldn't truly die."

PS: First Update.