Era of Breakdown

.. Bang~ Bang Bang~

Hearing the knock on the door, Likoa, who was still in a daze, said subconsciously:

"Please come in."

Standing outside the ward, Xilin's body suddenly stiffened, and the extremely familiar voice in her memory reappeared, leaving her at a loss as to what to do.

Obviously, I had made all preparations before coming...

Feeling Xilin's nervousness, Yaeji said, "Do you still remember what I told you?"

"Yeah." Xilin pursed her lips. When she saw her mother again, she needed a new persona, not as an "enemy of mankind."

At least she can't let her mother know how she has spent these years, otherwise...

Xilin raised her eyes and looked at Yaeji next to her. He was familiar yet unfamiliar...

With her mind full of distracting thoughts, Xilin turned the doorknob and pushed in.

The eyes of Sirin and Likoa intertwined, and their eyes turned red unconsciously, as if there was mist brewing in those starry eyes.

Likoya was a little confused. In her memory of Sirin, she still stayed in her childhood. The girl who looked like Sirin in her sight made her even more confused.

However, she still knew Yae Ji next to the girl. After all, apart from the clothes he was wearing, nothing else had changed very much.

"Aji, this..."

"mom!"

Likoa sat up and was about to ask Yaeji when the girl shouted and rushed into her arms.

"Mom~ Wuwu~ It's great that you're okay. Really, Wuwu~ I thought Brother Aji was lying to me, he... Wuwu~"

After Likoya was stunned for a moment, she hugged Sirin tightly and placed her slender jade hands on Sirin's little head, comforting her daughter as she did before.

The feeling of familiarity was unmistakable, even if it didn't feel real to Likoa.

"Okay, okay, Siren, be good~ You are already an adult, why are you still crying?" Likoya held up Sirin's pretty face, and kept wiping away the glistening tears with her thumbs. .

"Wu~Si, Xilin thought I would never see you again. You don't know, they...they...I...wuwuwu~"

Years of depression turned into tears. Xilin found support and cried profusely. The words she had thought of before had been thrown away thousands of miles away.

Likoa had no choice but to make Xilin cry so hard that she could only bury her daughter's little head in her shoulder and pat Xilin's back with her palms to slowly soothe her daughter's collapsed emotions.

In fact, she wanted to cry for no reason, but there was Yaeji standing in the ward. In front of the younger generation, she still had to have the necessary restraint.

Likoa's eyes just turned red when she heard Sirin's wanton crying.

Yaeji was a little embarrassed. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be standing here disturbing the reunion of mother and daughter, but he was also afraid that Xilin would say the wrong thing when she was emotional...

Seeing Likoa looking at him, Yaeji put the fruit basket in his hand on the cabinet and gave Likoa an awkward yet polite smile.

"Sister...it's a long story."

He, Likoya, Xilin and others did have different names. He looked to be about twenty years old in appearance. At that time, it was normal to call Likoya "sister".

However, Xilin insisted on calling him "brother". Even though Likoya corrected him several times, Xilin still went her own way, and later the two parties started calling him "brother".

"Aji, I have troubled you all these years." Likoya's expression was serious, and her eyes were full of gratitude.

"Sister, do you know everything?" In order to make himself less embarrassed, Yaeji pulled up a chair and took out an apple from the fruit basket. In the other hand, he took a fruit knife from nowhere and started. Peel the apples.

Likoya rolled her eyes at Yaeji and said, "You haven't changed much. Xilin has grown so tall. I'm not blind."

Yaeji smiled. Likoa's physical condition was completely different from before. In the past, she was weak and could only speak a few words, looking like a sickly beauty. Now her expressions are normal and her words are normal. He can joke around freely without feeling weak at all.

Likoya hugged Sirin and looked at Yae Ji with softer eyes.

In her subconscious mind, the reason why she did not die was probably because of Yae Ji. Xilin has grown so big, and looking at her skin, figure, etc., it doesn't look like she has been wronged in any way.

‘It seems that my original choice was right. ’ The look of love on Likoya’s face became more intense, and she became more and more satisfied with Yae Ji.

If only Likoa knew the true story...

Yaeji, who was sitting peeling apples, was in a daze. Deep in his memory, it seemed that there was a vague figure who had smiled at him like that.

Hearing the conversation between the two, Sirin held back tears and stood up from Likoa's warm embrace.

"Mom~" Xilin pursed her lips and shouted again.

Likoa: "Hey~ My little Siren has grown up, but it's a pity that your mother didn't grow up with you."

Speaking of growth, the darkness in the depths of memory emerged, and the tears that Xilin had just held back showed signs of pouring out again.

Thinking of Yaeji's repeated instructions, Xilin opened her mouth, but still didn't say anything.

The mother in front of her looked younger than in her memory, and she looked like she was in her early twenties. The feeling of weakness completely disappeared, and there was still a strange energy in her body. Xilin knew that it was this energy that allowed her mother to have a healthy body.

"Aji." Likoa focused her gaze on Yaeji and asked, "What year is this year?"

"2000 years." Yaeji said.

"When I woke up, I felt like I was across the century." Likoa joked, "It's like a god in myths and legends."

"Haha, it's okay. Sister, you are still young. The future is early." Yae Ji turned the blade in his hand, and the apple peels fell into the trash can. Then he cut them into small pieces with the knife and put them on the plate. Insert the toothpick and serve it in front of the two of them.

"Sister, eat some fruit."

"Thank you." Likoya's smile became even wider, "Aji, you can eat too."

Yae Ji: "Okay~ I can do it myself!"

Xilin pursed her lips. For some reason, she felt like an outsider. Mother obviously spent longer looking at Brother Aji than at her, and Brother Aji seemed to care more about his mother...

"Celine."

When she heard someone calling her, Xilin, who was secretly angry, raised her head and found a piece of apple inserted in front of her mouth.

Moving his gaze upwards, he saw the smiling face of Yae Ji.

Siren opened her mouth and bit into the piece of fruit, chewing it bitterly.

Likoa's eyes flickered back and forth between her daughter and Yaeji, and the warm motherly smile on her face could not be hidden.

In her opinion, her daughter and Ah Ji's movements were smooth and smooth. If the two had not lived together for a long time, they would not have such a tacit understanding.

Yaeji sat for a while. Seeing that Xilin's mood returned to normal, he reminded her several times with his eyes. Then he smiled and said to Likoya: "Sister, you guys talk first. I'll go outside and talk to the doctor." .”

After watching Yaeji leave, Likoya and Xilin talked about these years. Xilin told her mother the story Yaeji gave her.

She didn't want to tell her mother about her tragic experience... Today, the most important thing is happiness.

Likoya kept nodding her head, and when Siren talked about happy things, she smiled; when she talked about low points, she encouraged her, and when she talked about... Likoya added a few words from time to time, as if she was also involved. Daughter's growth.

As everyone knows...all these joys, angers, sorrows, and joys are all fake.

Time was silent, and the two people in the ward seemed to have returned to the past...

"That's right." Seeing that the story timeline was almost at the end, Likoya interrupted and asked, "Xilin, what do you... think of your brother Aji?"

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