As Dong Zhen pushed forward, Johnny's memories moved from his old age into middle age.
Johnny stood by Liva's window. By then, she was already gravely ill, with the Platypus Doll beside her bed.
The floor was covered with paper rabbits.
"We have just enough. Even after paying for the surgery, the remaining money will be just enough... so don't worry," Johnny told Liva.
But Liva merely looked at Johnny. "A well-intentioned lie... You think it's a well-intentioned lie, don't you?"
"No, I'm sure we have just—" Johnny tried to explain, but she cut him off.
"Stop... I don't like it when you lie."
"I've calculated our assets. I know the actual situation."
"Why are you trying to convince me to go against my own wishes?"
Liva looked deeply saddened.
Johnny, on the other hand, became somewhat agitated. "We need that money to pay for your medical treatment, Liva!"
"I understand that Anya is very important to you, but this... this is too ridiculous!"
"I mean, she isn't even—"
Liva interrupted again. "Do you know what would make me happy?"
As Liva spoke with Johnny, Dong Zhen and the viewers in the livestream finally understood what Anya actually was.
In the previous memory fragments, they had learned from Johnny that Anya was something very important to Liva.
But what exactly it was had remained completely unclear.
At first, Dong Zhen had guessed it was the Platypus Doll, but now he had a new theory.
The one called Anya was neither a platypus nor a person. It was likely the lighthouse standing at the edge of the cliff.
Liva might originally have been curable, yet she had insisted that Johnny use the money for her treatment to repair the house so they could watch the lighthouse. She said that would make her happy.
"What the hell is this? She's willing to throw away her life for a house where she can look at a lighthouse!?"
Dong Zhen felt as though his mind was full of questions.
Far too many questions swirled through his head.
At that moment, Liva handed a paper rabbit to Johnny.
It was the blue-and-yellow paper rabbit with two colors.
"What is this?" Liva looked at Johnny and asked hopefully.
Johnny was a little surprised, but he still answered, "It's a rabbit, just like the ones you made before."
"And then?" Liva continued.
"And then... uh..." Johnny was at a loss. "Well, it's made of paper."
"What else?"
"Its body is yellow, while the other parts are blue."
"Very good. What else?"
Liva looked extremely anxious.
But Johnny had no idea what Liva was trying to say, so he changed the subject and said he had written a piece to play for her.
It was the same piece from before, "For Liva."
Liva smiled and teased him, saying the name was terribly cheesy.
The memories continued moving backward, and Johnny was troubled at this point.
He faced a painful choice: treat Liva, or continue building the house beside the lighthouse that Liva had wished for.
Johnny in the game agonized over the decision, but Dong Zhen, every viewer in the livestream, and Neil and Eva in the game all knew that Johnny had ultimately chosen to follow Liva's wishes.
But why!?
From Johnny's conversations with his friends Isabelle and Nicholas, they learned quite a few crucial details.
Anya was exactly what Dong Zhen had suspected: the lighthouse at the cliff's edge.
At the same time, that lighthouse was also where Liva and Johnny had gotten married.
But it still made no sense!
Why was Liva so obsessed with that lighthouse?
And from their conversation, they could also gather another crucial piece of information.
Liva might have suffered from some kind of illness, and folding paper rabbits seemed to be one of its symptoms.
But why was Liva so obsessed with that lighthouse?
And what exactly did those paper rabbits mean?
"What the hell, I seriously can't figure this out!" Dong Zhen's face was full of confusion.
Meanwhile, the livestream chat continued flooding the screen.
"My monkey brain doesn't have enough capacity."
"CPU overload!"
"So what exactly do these paper rabbits represent?"
"I have a feeling there's something seriously off about this game!"
"Hurry up, boss! Push the story forward already!"
"+1, I really want to know what happens next!"
Clearly, the viewers in the livestream were equally curious about the rest of the game's story.
They also wanted to see what answers the game would ultimately provide to these questions.
As the memories moved further and further back, Johnny and Liva grew younger and younger.
The two of them had shared a romantic embrace beneath the lighthouse called Anya, full of hopes for the future.
But the one thing that remained baffling was that Liva kept folding paper rabbits and holding the blue-and-yellow rabbit in front of Johnny, asking, "What is this?"
Thinking of how she had continued asking Johnny that question even when she was seriously ill only made it more confusing.
"So what the hell does this rabbit represent!?"
"This is driving me insane!"
Dong Zhen scratched his head in frustration, tortured by his curiosity.
And what kind of illness did Liva have, anyway?
Countless questions filled his mind.
The following conversations with Nicholas and Isabelle revealed even more about Liva.
Isabelle had the same illness as Liva.
It was this illness that made Liva's speech seem so strange, even somewhat muddled, making it difficult to understand what she was trying to express.
"So Liva has some kind of condition that prevents her from clearly expressing herself and gives her social difficulties?"
Seeing this, Dong Zhen began making guesses to himself.
With that explanation, Liva's previous strange behavior could all be understood.
Why Liva kept asking Johnny about the rabbit, why she had Johnny throw the sandbag toward Anya, and why she had risked standing at the edge of the cliff to watch it.
All of it now had an explanation.
Because Liva suffered from a mental illness, she could not clearly express what she wanted. She could only use hints to convey the desires in her heart.
But even if that explained things, a new question arose.
What did the rabbit represent, and why was Liva so fond of the lighthouse called Anya that she was even willing to give up her life for it?
Was it simply because the lighthouse was where she and Johnny had gotten married?
That still didn't make sense!