Today's second update: Chapter 3482! 2/4!
Hao Zhong did not answer immediately. He only tightened his arms around her, lowered his head, and pressed a long, tender kiss to her smooth forehead. After a long while, he slowly said, "Little Gu, we both heard it. Who would have thought... after living ordinary lives for half a lifetime, you and I would ultimately have to bear such a vast, such a heavy karmic mission? This burden is heavier than mountains, deeper than seas."
He paused, and a trace of barely perceptible hoarseness entered his voice. "Our time... truly may be running out."
Those words were like a needle, gently piercing the calm Chen Gu had struggled to maintain.
Her eyes instantly reddened. The tears she had held back for so long swirled in her sockets, yet stubbornly refused to fall.
She buried her face deeper into her husband's chest, her muffled voice thick with irrepressible attachment and reluctance. "We... still haven't seen Xiao Kun again. That child—nineteen years, with no word of whether he's alive or dead. I don't even know whether he's grown fatter or thinner... And Xiao Jian, that blockhead only knows how to fight all day long. Even now, he hasn't settled down and given our Hao family a son or daughter, so I can experience what it feels like to be a grandmother... I... I can't bear it, Brother Zhong. I really can't bear to leave this mortal world, can't bear to leave all of you."
Feeling his wife tremble faintly in his arms, Hao Zhong silently clenched his hand, his knuckles whitening slightly from the force.
A bitter smile, mixed with helplessness, affection, and resolve, appeared on his face. He looked out at the boundless night sky beyond the window, as though his gaze could