Yuan Tian Matters Concluded

Yun Shou said, "The possibility of him changing his heart should be small. Though he does not truly love you that much in his heart, over all these years, he has more or less managed to deceive half of himself."

"After discovering that your future is boundless, he will definitely return your relationship to the moment of that agreement from decades ago."

"Under his disguise, perhaps you would never discover the truth. Your decades of waiting would receive its due reward. That childhood sweetheart who loves you would truly come back for you, and the two of you would live incomparably happy lives together, forever."

"Though it would only be a false love, as long as he does not give himself away, you would feel that it was real. He has never killed you. He might not even realize that he does not love you. There would be no estrangement between you at all."

Yun Shou pointed at Chen Kongyu in the distance, who was still unaware of everything. He wore an excited expression. Chen Kongyu was not ugly-looking, but... perhaps it was psychological, yet he now appeared incomparably hideous.

"And then there is the second path."

"I will preserve your memories, and naturally, I will preserve his as well. When he happily returns to find you, you can stab him to death with a single sword, just as he did to you."

If this experience had happened in a simulation, Yun Shou might have made a quip about there being a third, masochistic path.

That was: let both of them retain their memories, then have Xu Ling'er and Chen Kongyu hide their memories of that matter from each other, playing house as spies, precariously maintaining a balance and the illusion that they cherished each other.

But on second thought,