"No... this time, Jiang Du bet everything on the future."
The unfamiliar voice spoke.
"He said he'd already tried twice, but the timeline was still dead, and the whole world was still dead... he couldn't make time flow again. As Jiang Du, he couldn't do it."
"So the so-called soul data..." Li Xijiu's voice asked.
"How could a soul possibly have data? That baby's soul is genuinely Jiang Du's soul. It's just... a blank version with everything stripped away."
"As for the parts stripped away, some were good and some were bad. I kept the good part. It might be useful. As for the bad part, Jiang Du seems to have buried it deep in that child's heart. I don't know what he was thinking, either."
"In short, Jiang Du really is... already dead. The child left behind is a blank slate. What he'll grow into, whether he can change the past that Jiang Du couldn't change and thereby affect the future... Jiang Du entrusted everything to that newborn."
"Of course I have to intervene."
"Is that why you copied Jiang Du and split yourself in two?" Li Xijiu's voice was faint, almost impossible to make out.
"Yes. You don't need to concern yourself with your relationship to me. The moment we separated, the real Yi Lianhai ceased to exist. You're the part of Yi Lianhai that's cheerful and confident, carefree and unrestrained-all his positive emotions. As for me... I'll carry his dark side and keep my teeth sunk into the Bai family for the next twenty years."
"So I have to be that kid's nanny?" Li Xijiu's voice asked.
"No, you also need to grow up from infancy. Your memories will unlock when he's dragged into Fu City's [Eye Realm]."
"Well, I suppose I should thank you for that..."