"But that future has already diverged. That's made them hesitate at this stage. Neither side chose to do everything they could to change what you were doing," Chen Xiao Qiu said slowly.
Ever since I entered that world, I'd wanted to find my family, my friends—Skinny and the others—and myself. But in the dream, I couldn't do anything.
When Ye Qing and Liu Miao entered that world, they were both still alive. They probably didn't know about me then. At the very least, they didn't know what would happen over the next year or how our paths would cross.
Ye Qing had known I existed since my childhood. Had he started planning then, or only after seeing me in the future world?
And what about Liu Miao? After he returned to the real world, regained all his memories, and learned who I was, what had he thought?
No, that wasn't right. What they thought didn't matter. What mattered most was whether the future they'd seen was a continuation of the present. If the future they'd seen was the result of all our efforts, then that proved we'd failed.
"Wait! Hold on! If that's the case, then what's happening now...?" Skinny waved his hands and cried out excitedly.
Fatty looked grave, while Guo Yujie seemed bewildered.
"None of you ever considered this?" Chen Xiao Qiu, who had raised the subject, asked, her brows lifting in surprise.
Skinny wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
I was covered in a cold sweat, too.
"It's not that we never thought about it... It's just... like the future Nangong Yao saw, the one where Mo Wen was still around..." I stammered.
Nangong Yao had once seen a future like that. His little sister was captured by that old demon Mo Wen, who used her