"Oh, come on, why are you acting so strange today, big brother?" Seeing that he would not move, Lin Yuechan tugged harder at him. "Hurry up! Mr. Wang makes you stand if you're late for class!"
Everything around him seemed so real. The parasol trees by the school gate, the warning bell ringing from the classroom building, even the smell of chalk dust in the air matched his memories of high school perfectly.
Yun Che drew a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart. He knew that all of this was an illusion created by the Heart Demon Tribulation.
Lin Yuechan had already fallen into a vegetative state from which she could not wake long before he left Earth.
And he bore an inescapable share of the responsibility for what had happened to her.
They had been in their first year of middle school then. He had taken her to an amusement park, but on their way back, they encountered an out-of-control van.
The van hurtled straight toward them. Lin Yuechan reacted first, urgently crying out a warning as she shoved him aside while he stood at a loss.
With a heavy crash, the girl's body flew past his eyes and finally fell more than ten meters away. Crimson blood quickly spilled out, staining the asphalt red.
Although his wealthy adoptive parents had given Lin Yuechan's parents a large sum of money afterward, the incident became a lifelong source of pain and a shadow over his life.
He had always buried that memory he could not bear to recall deep in his heart. He thought he had long since forgotten it, yet now the Heart Demon Tribulation had dug it up.
"Big brother, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that he was still standing motionless, Lin Yuechan's playful