The woman's appearance struck Ning Bei as strangely familiar. He was certain she was someone extremely important to him, yet no matter what, he could not remember who she was.
"A Bei, I finally found you."
"A Bei? Is she calling me? Who am I?"
Ning Bei's eyes filled with confusion. He neither knew where he had come from nor whether the woman before him was calling out to him.
But that did not stop the woman before him from feeling heartfelt joy at seeing him. Then she ran toward him with all her might, spreading her arms halfway like a young swallow returning to its nest as she threw herself at him.
Ning Bei also opened his arms by instinct, ready to welcome her, as if all of this were only natural. It had already become muscle memory.
But in the next instant, an accident descended without a sound. As the woman ran toward him, her eyes suddenly lost focus, wrinkles crept across her cheeks, and her hair gradually turned gray-white. Her slender legs also lost their strength, and she slowly collapsed onto the ground.
"A hundred years have passed. I finally found you, A Bei. It's so good to see you one last time!"
Ning Bei's eyes widened, as if he could not believe everything happening before him. How had that young, beautiful woman aged into this in the blink of an eye?
And at that moment, Ning Bei finally remembered the past between him and Dugu Yan. What exactly was he doing?
"Could it be that I've been on the Road to Godhood for this long already?"
He rushed to Dugu Yan's side and slowly held the aged Dugu Yan tight, his arms trembling nonstop from agitation.
"Yanzi, I'm sorry. I failed to do what I promised