Yan'er Will Respect Him, Honor Him, and Love Him for the Rest of Her Life!

Qin Yan'er led Ye Yuan to her home.

Their home was in a slum within the imperial city. Ye Yuan's somewhat luxurious clothing looked completely out of place there.

The moment he stepped into the slum, everyone's gaze turned toward him. Quite a few people began to stir, but upon seeing the Royal Knight insignia on Ye Yuan's chest, they abandoned their intentions.

In the end, led by Qin Yan'er, Ye Yuan arrived before a low house at the very edge of the slum.

Calling it a house was generous. It was really just a crude shelter built from several huge tattered pieces of cloth and a dead tree.

Qin Yan'er turned and said, "Big Brother, Mom is inside."

After saying that, she ran into the shelter and shouted, "Mom, I brought a big brother! He's willing to lend us money!"

A woman with an extremely pale face slowly turned over on the bed and looked at her daughter.

"Oh? Please, bring him in." The woman's voice was hoarse, as though she might depart at any moment.

Ye Yuan walked in.

The instant the woman saw him, she froze for several seconds.

Ye Yuan also stood stunned for several seconds. He did not know how to describe the woman before him.

Her entire body was nothing but skin and bones. Her hair had gone completely white, without even a trace of black left, and there was not the slightest hint of color in her face.

Her whole body radiated a dense aura of death.

He was somewhat shocked that this woman could still be alive! She could even speak!

"Yan'er, go outside first. Mom has something to say to this big brother."

Little Yan'er nodded. "Mm." Then she ran out.

In Ye Yuan's eyes, this woman was not sick at all. Her lifespan was simply nearing its end.

"Your body..." The words reached Ye Yuan's lips, but he ultimately did not say them.

"It's alright. I know my own body."

"I never expected to meet you while I was on my deathbed."

The woman stared straight into Ye Yuan's eyes and said lightly, "You aren't from this world, are you?"

Ye Yuan's pupils contracted as he said in surprise, "Could you be as well?!"

Being from Earth was a secret he had never told anyone. Could she also be from Earth? But how had this woman known?

The woman continued, "Don't worry, I mean no harm. Speaking of which, we both came from the same hometown."

Just as I thought!

But Ye Yuan still did not know how this woman had figured it out.

"You must be wondering how I knew, right? Have you ever heard of witches?"

"Back on Earth, you often called us old witches."

Ye Yuan could not help finding that strange. Wasn't his hometown, Earth, a world that revered science? How could things like real witches exist? Even if they did, they should have been frauds.

But after thinking it over again, Ye Yuan no longer found it strange.

Since he himself could come to Douluo Continent, then supernatural things existing on Earth made sense too.

"We witches don't merely look at the world with our eyes. We also use our hearts."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Her breathing grew even weaker.

"My time is running out. I want you to help me with something."

Ye Yuan knew that the person before him was a fellow Earthling, so he nodded and said, "Please, tell me."

"After I accidentally came to this world, I searched for countless ways, but I could never return to Earth."

"By now, I've come to terms with it. The only thing I can't let go of is my little Yan'er."

"I want you to take her as your younger sister and protect her for the rest of your life."

"Of course, I won't make you help for nothing."

Trembling, the woman took a pocket watch from her clothes. It looked like something from Earth, yet the various patterns on it were strangely eerie.

"This is the Time Book Watch. I saw a fragment of your future. Your future will be filled with disasters and hardships. When the time comes, this item can lend you a hand."

Ye Yuan accepted the pocket watch. It was ice-cold to the touch.

"Yan'er—" the old woman shouted toward the entrance.

Hearing her mother call, Qin Yan'er immediately ran in.

"Mom, what is it?" Her gaze was pure and innocent, completely unaware that her mother was about to pass away.

"Mom is leaving. From now on, he is your older brother."

"You must respect him, honor him, and love him from now on! Do you hear me?" The woman practically screamed the words.

Qin Yan'er had never heard her mother speak in such a tone before, so she immediately replied, "Okay, Mom. Don't worry, Yan'er will listen to you."

"From now on, he is Yan'er's older brother. Yan'er will respect him, honor him, and love him for the rest of her life!"

"Good child... Mom has failed you..."

Then she looked at Ye Yuan again and said, "I'll also have to trouble you to burn my body after I die."

"If a witch's corpse is not cremated after death, it will bring misfortune and calamity to the people here."

Ye Yuan nodded.

After saying that, she raised her head and looked at the roof. Her gaze seemed to pass through it, looking far into the distance.

"I'm finally going home, back to Mom's original home..." As she spoke, the hand holding Qin Yan'er's fell limp.

No matter how foolish Qin Yan'er was, she knew that her mother had left forever.

"Mom! Sob, sob..." Qin Yan'er lay on the bed and wept bitterly. Ye Yuan did not comfort her, letting her cry as she pleased.

Ye Yuan did not know how long she cried. He only knew that she cried herself to sleep.

Only then did Ye Yuan gently pick her up. He glanced at the woman, then used Soul Power to set the shelter ablaze.

At that moment, Ye Yuan was deeply despondent. Hadn't he too arrived in this world by accident?

Witnessing the woman's fate made him feel even more downcast.

Would his own ending be like this woman's as well?

From then on, there was always a girl following behind Ye Yuan, and Ye Yuan raised her well.

Ye Yuan pulled himself from his memories and said, "I once separated half of your soul and placed it in someone named Xiao Wu in the Star Dou Great Forest."

"You can understand it as that Xiao Wu having already died. The current Xiao Wu is another you, exactly the same as you."

"Now, I will fuse this half of your soul with that other half, then destroy this body."

"Only then can we deceive that person."

Qin Yan'er nodded. "Okay, Brother, do it. Be gentle, Yan'er is afraid of pain."

Ye Yuan's face darkened. What kind of shameless words was this little girl saying?!

"Bear with it. It'll be over soon. It won't hurt."

"Oh, right. Because of the soul fusion, you'll temporarily forget some things afterward, but you'll slowly remember them."

The scene ended.

Ye Yuan felt that he was just too damn smart. As expected of him!

In other words, the current Xiao Wu was his Yan'er, except her memories had been affected by the soul fusion and she temporarily could not remember them.

That made it even more impossible for him to let Xiao Wu go.

"But I had already changed the past back then, so why did I have to restart my life?" Ye Yuan asked the Little Golden Man.

The Little Golden Man replied, "You idiot! From the moment you went back to the past and changed history, the world split into two timelines."

"Your timeline wasn't changed. A separate timeline was simply created. In other words, you opened up a parallel world."

"However, time in that parallel world was frozen at the moment when you changed that event—at the point when you saved Yan'er."

"Only after the person who changed history—that is, you—dies will the two timelines merge."

"Only then will you have truly changed the past."