Guizhong: If I Had the Chance, I Might Fall for Him Too

[So this is how Lady Guizhong survived the Archon War?]

[Apologize! Hurry up and apologize to Asura Yaksha!!]

[I'm on my knees, I really am. I never expected Asura Yaksha could even turn back time to save Lady Guizhong!]

[Come to think of it, the Knight of Boreas and Asura Yaksha are the same person, right? Isn't it a little weird to keep calling him by those code names? How about we give him a nickname?]

[I suggest "Time Traveler." After all, this lord seems to travel through different periods of history, and he has the power to control time.]

[Time Traveler is a good name, but I think it should be shorter. Let's just call him the "Temporal Traveler"!]

Mt. Aocang.

As viewers online began frantically discussing the newly released bonus video, the many adepti fell silent after watching it.

Cloud Retainer stared at the black screen for quite a while before she couldn't help saying, "Why did it end so soon? I haven't had enough yet!"

"Cloud Retainer, you're really treating it like a serial drama, aren't you?" Mountain Shaper couldn't help remarking. "Shouldn't we be discussing Asura Yaksha's past and the power he used to save Guizhong?"

"Turning back time..."

Recalling the scenes in the video, Guizhong couldn't help looking conflicted and touched. "No wonder I felt so strange back then. I had no confidence at all that I could survive, yet I made it out of such a hopeless situation alive."

"Come to think of it, why did we completely forget about Asura Yaksha?" Moon Carver frowned. "Before these videos came out, I had almost completely forgotten about him."

"It wasn't just you. We all forgot." Cloud Retainer looked conflicted. "I couldn't make sense of it before, but after watching this video, I have a guess about what happened to Asura."

"You mean... that one really did it?"

Mountain Shaper didn't dare speak the name of the ruler above the heavens and could only allude to that one cautiously.

"Most likely." Cloud Retainer nodded. "Asura could even turn back time, but he clearly wasn't one of the four executors of the laws... In that case, whether he made a deal with the being who controls time or stole the power of the laws, neither would have been tolerated by the one on Celestia. Perhaps, at some point, that one rewrote the laws of the world and forcibly made all of us completely forget Asura's existence."

"I see. That makes sense." Guizhong nodded. "The reason they're willing to release this video now is probably that they've confirmed the one on Celestia has fallen asleep."

"Perhaps there's another reason?"

Cloud Retainer was doubtful, but she couldn't speculate too much about matters concerning Celestia and could only voice her misgivings.

"I truly hope Lord Asura is still alive." A trace of hope appeared on Guizhong's face. "No matter what, I want to repay him for saving my life."

"You're not going to fight my disciple over a man, are you?" Cloud Retainer couldn't help feeling conflicted when she heard Guizhong's words.

"Hehe, I wouldn't go that far." Guizhong shook her head. "I didn't spend much time with Asura Yaksha. During the Archon War, he was always fixated on fighting, and after the war ended, he devoted himself to eliminating the gods' lingering resentment. He hardly ever spoke to me..."

"That's true enough. The two of you really didn't have much to do with each other."

"Still, he's such an impressive hero. If he's still alive and I could spend more time with him, perhaps I'd feel a little attracted to him too."

"...Fuck! Guizhong, could you not make things even more complicated?!"

Cloud Retainer was so exasperated by Guizhong that she couldn't help swearing.

But there was nothing to be done about it.

Ganyu had clearly been acting strangely lately, and everyone could understand that.

Ever since watching that earlier video, she had shut herself away in her cave abode on Mt. Aocang, completely unwilling to see anyone from outside.

Cloud Retainer and Shenhe had tried everything, but neither could help her come to terms with it. They were at their wits' end.

So Cloud Retainer didn't want things to get any more complicated, no matter what, and hoped Ganyu could move past it as soon as possible.

"Since Ganyu cares so much about Asura, should we show her this video too?" Mountain Shaper, standing nearby, couldn't help suggesting. "Perhaps after seeing more of what happened with Asura, she'll be able to come to terms with it a little?"

"That... might make sense?"

Cloud Retainer nodded.

But taking the video to Ganyu was undoubtedly a thankless task nobody wanted.

In the end, the dirty work fell to Ganyu's junior fellow disciple, Shenhe.

As Ganyu's junior fellow disciple, she presumably had some common ground with her and might be able to lead Ganyu out of the gloom in her heart.

Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

After watching the new bonus video, everyone present was shocked by what they had seen.

Hu Tao spoke first. "The power to turn back time... I'm so jealous. I really wish I had such an amazing ability too."

"No, that was not an ability, but a curse."

Hearing her, Zhongli disagreed.

Hu Tao was puzzled and couldn't help asking, "What do you mean? Are you saying Lord Temporal Traveler was cursed, consultant?"

Because of the widespread discussion online, most people had now taken to calling him the Temporal Traveler instead of the Knight of Boreas or Asura Yaksha.

"Most powers in this world are, in essence, a kind of curse." Ronova quietly chimed in as well. "The power of a law is even further beyond a mortal's ability to wield. Without paying a tremendous price, it would be impossible to use it at will."

"A price... I guess that's true?"

Thinking of the A Hundred Lifetimes of Reincarnation videos released so far, in which the protagonist, the Temporal Traveler, had met a tragic death every time, Hu Tao had to admit that the price of using the Law of Time might be far greater than she had imagined.

She was no longer envious of the Temporal Traveler and instead said with a sigh, "What a shame. Lord Temporal Traveler still ended up dying amid the trouble caused by the gods' lingering resentment. Otherwise, I might have been able to meet him too."

"Perhaps you actually have met him?"

Zhongli suddenly spoke, an odd expression on his face.

"Met him? When? Besides, I'm so young. How could I possibly have met someone so important who lived from the time of the Archon War to the present day..."

"The Temporal Traveler travels between past and future, moving through different times and places. Naturally, it's possible he reincarnated in Liyue in recent times too."

"This..."

Zhongli's words made Hu Tao look concerned.

She had to admit he was right, but she had never imagined that someone like the Temporal Traveler might have appeared somewhere close to her.

Zhongli, meanwhile, couldn't help looking at Mo Fan in the video and recalling that his last reincarnation in Liyue had been only a little over a decade ago.

If people found out about this, it would surely cause a huge stir in Liyue.

Moreover, his identity at the time was closely connected to Director Hu, who was standing beside Zhongli.

So, as far as possible, Zhongli still preferred not to mention any details related to it.