TL: Hua

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Chapter 131: Live well

The two bodyguards were very professional; as soon as they heard Lin Yanran’s words, they understood he suspected something was wrong with the car. One immediately began to alertly scan the surroundings for suspicious persons, while the other immediately called to arrange a replacement vehicle.

The driver inside still didn’t know what had happened and looked at Lin Yanran in confusion.

“What’s wrong, Teacher Yanran?”

Lin Yanran didn’t explain much, only cautioned, “Check the car.”

As he finished speaking, he saw Gu Siye walking down.

This place was no longer suitable for conversation, so they didn’t waste words. They returned to the passage they had just come from, taking another path to the theater’s side entrance to wait for the car Lin Yunzhe had newly arranged.

Lin Yunzhe was highly efficient; even in a foreign land, by the time Lin Yanran had just stepped out, the car was already in place.

The driver was a white man who spoke fluent Chinese.

After the bodyguards quickly completed the handover with the driver, one of them took over the wheel to drive, while the other sat in the passenger seat.

Only after the bodyguards nodded to confirm it was safe did Lin Yanran and Gu Siye get into the car.

After the black car had driven a certain distance, Lin Yanran finally spoke to Gu Siye.

“Teacher Gu, was your car targeted by them too?”

After traversing three worlds, the tacit understanding between the two no longer required words.

With just a movement or a look from Lin Yanran, Gu Siye understood his meaning and explained, “When I started the car, I felt like something was wrong.”

Lin Yanran nodded, but his heart suddenly tightened.

Although he hadn’t directly found the method of restarting the world mentioned by Xuan Yihan and Lin Muyang, he could infer from their intentions that this method likely involved his own death.

Gu Siye and his brother had probably realized this key point as well, which was why they had been exceptionally vigilant lately, constantly looking out for his safety.

Gu Siye, in particular, stayed by his side almost 24 hours a day, never leaving him.

But even having guessed this layer, Lin Yanran never expected that Gu Siye would also be a target.

Thinking about how his lover was in just as much danger, Lin Yanran gripped Gu Siye’s hand tightly, unable to speak.

Gu Siye kissed his forehead comfortingly. “I’m fine.”

Gu Siye’s voice still carried that usual sense of reliable reassurance.

But this time, Lin Yanran’s heart remained unsettled.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, fragments of memory vaguely flashed through his mind again.

There was him, there was Gu Siye, and there was a confined space…

It gave him a lingering sense of foreboding.

He closed his eyes and tried hard to capture the information, but these images wouldn’t form a complete memory. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t remember what had happened.

“Young Master, Old Liu just sent a message. There really was a problem with his car earlier.”

The bodyguard in the passenger seat reported the situation to Lin Yanran in a low voice.

He continued, “The brakes were tampered with, and so were Teacher Gu’s.”

The man’s words undoubtedly confirmed Lin Yanran’s suspicions.

Xuan Yihan and Lin Muyang were indeed hoping to engineer an “accidental” car crash to erase both him and Gu Siye from this world.

That way, with the protagonist gone, the world would naturally restart.

Lin Yanran and Gu Siye exchanged a look.

But when he looked into Gu Siye’s eyes, Lin Yanran suddenly sensed something was off.

If the world only restarted if he and Gu Siye died in a car accident, then how did they return from the previous fan-fiction world?

He hadn’t died an accidental death in his last life!

Just as this doubt emerged in Lin Yanran’s head, the bodyguard’s words interrupted his thoughts.

“Young Master, someone is following us from behind.”

Lin Yanran turned and saw a car trailing them at a moderate distance.

Furthermore, the other party was clearly accelerating.

As a public figure, Lin Yanran had been stalked by sasaeng fans before. Being followed by a car wasn’t a novelty to him.

However, today’s car was different from those of sasaeng fans.

“Can we shake them off?” Gu Siye, who also sensed something was wrong, was the first to ask the driver, stating with certainty, “That doesn’t look like a fan’s car.”

The driver nodded. “I’ll try. Young Master, Teacher Gu, please fasten your seatbelts.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the car began to accelerate sharply and soon rounded a corner at the end of the road.

Meanwhile, Xuan Yihan, who was on the phone with Lin Muyang, realized he had been discovered again. He slammed the steering wheel, gritting his teeth. “They seem to have noticed me.”

In the receiver, Lin Muyang’s weak voice sounded, unable to resist mocking him: “Of course they’d be cautious after having died once.”

Xuan Yihan huffed, clearly indifferent.

Knowing the plan was bound to fail now that Lin Yanran had noticed the tampering with the cars, Lin Muyang said to Xuan Yihan:

“Stop following them. Lin Yunzhe is watching us too closely this time; his people should be arriving soon. Come to the airport; let’s leave here first and think of another way later.”

Xuan Yihan didn’t want to listen and shot back, “They’ve remembered everything. Is there still a way later?”

Lin Muyang coughed twice, threw the blood-stained tissue, and walked forward, pulling his suitcase with difficulty.

“Perhaps. If we wait, there’s bound to be a way.”

“Liar.”

Xuan Yihan laughed. He didn’t let up on the accelerator and followed Lin Yanran’s car around the corner.

“This is our last chance. I don’t want to miss it.”

Lin Muyang already understood what Xuan Yihan wanted to do, but he still reminded him seriously: “But restarting the world requires an accidental death. If you make a move, it’s intentional.”

Xuan Yihan’s smile grew wider, eventually turning into an uncontrollable laugh. “Do we have a way back? I don’t care if you want to die like that, but I’ve had enough of living like a clown, forever stepped on by others! As long as they die in a car accident, isn’t that an accident to them? What does it matter who did it?”

Through three worlds, from awakening to hopeful scheming, it had all ended in failure.

Xuan Yihan couldn’t take the blow; he was so frustrated he was going mad.

This return to the real world was clearly his most hopeful success, but who knew that Lin Yanran would come back and turn everything around again?

Xuan Yihan refused to accept it; he now wished for this person to die immediately.

He had nothing left, so even if there wasn’t a next time, he would rather die along with this person.

No one was going to have it easy!

Although Lin Muyang was terminally ill with cancer, his mind was clear, and he certainly didn’t want Xuan Yihan to act so recklessly.

Seeing that he couldn’t persuade the other party and realizing Xuan Yihan wanted everyone to go down together, Lin Muyang also got angry. “Xuan Yihan, are you crazy? You must be a lunatic! If you want to die, don’t drag me with you. I want to start over one more time!”

The corners of Xuan Yihan’s eyes were red. Stricken by repeated failures, he could no longer listen to anything.

He interrupted Lin Muyang directly, his tone gradually becoming manic. “We have to try. We still have a chance to flip the script. Lin Muyang, remember this: I’m the one helping you this time. After the restart, you’d better find someone even more pathetic to adopt him—it doesn’t matter if he’s a vegetable for the rest of his life.”

After saying this, Xuan Yihan, fantasizing about the future, excitedly floored the accelerator.

“See you in the next world.”

Lin Muyang listened to the busy signal on his phone, standing dazed where he was.

When he remembered he needed to keep running, several people were already standing around him.

A man in black blocked his path and asked with a smile, “Lin Muyang, where else do you want to go?”

On the highway.

Being chased by a madman who didn’t even want his own life was naturally a dire situation.

The bodyguard driving was very skilled; though the speed was high, the drive was generally stable.

But this was only temporary; no one could hold out against a madman’s suicidal pursuit.

On the desolate road, the distance between the two cars grew shorter and shorter.

Close enough that Lin Yanran could see Xuan Yihan’s face in the car behind them.

This was the first time he had seen such frantic murderous intent on someone’s face directed at him.

The other party stared at them, pursuing them relentlessly.

His speed was too fast; once the vehicle stopped or was forced into a collision, the consequences would be unthinkable.

“Sharp turn ahead; please slow down.”

The mechanical female voice of the car’s navigation warned everyone in the car of the impending danger.

“Young Master.” The driving bodyguard didn’t finish his sentence, but everyone knew what they were about to face.

Lin Yanran looked ahead. At the end of the road was a sharp turn with hills on both sides. If they didn’t slow down to turn, the car would flip, but if they slowed down to turn, they would inevitably be rear-ended by Xuan Yihan.

Either way was extremely dangerous.

The navigation prompt sounded again, and the distance to the sharp turn grew closer. The driver gripped the steering wheel tightly, waiting for Lin Yanran’s command.

“Slow down first, then drive toward the hill.”

Gu Siye’s words broke the silence.

His voice was steady and powerful, like an effective sedative amidst the panic.

The driver thought this plan was feasible, but because the person he was protecting was Lin Yanran, he still instinctively wanted to ask for his opinion.

But Lin Yanran spoke before him, his voice full of trust in Gu Siye.

“Listen to him.”

His gaze landed on the slope to the left front. “Is there a gentle slope there? Let’s try.”

In the current situation, it was difficult to come out completely unscathed, so in this desperate moment, they could only choose the relatively safest method with the least harm.

Lin Yanran and Gu Siye’s hands were tightly clasped together.

At this moment, he suddenly had the thought of never letting go of the other’s hand.

The driver, upon hearing Lin Yanran’s instruction, calmly agreed, “Okay.”

He had received professional training, and his mindset was much more stable than the average person’s.

Estimating the distance, he began to methodically step on the brakes to slow down.

The sudden deceleration caused the original several-hundred-meter gap with Xuan Yihan to close abruptly.

Xuan Yihan, who had been chasing them, smiled when he saw this.

Giving up already?

Still afraid of dying, aren’t you?

Then let me send you on your final journey.

He didn’t release his foot from the accelerator. The car didn’t slow down at all and crashed directly toward the vehicle Lin Yanran was in.

Fifty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, five meters…

Xuan Yihan let go of his hands, allowing the speeding car to crash straight in.

However, to Xuan Yihan’s surprise, a second before his car hit the vehicle in front, the car ahead made a sharp turn and rushed directly toward the nearby hillside.

The unforeseen move meant that by the time Xuan Yihan wanted to pursue them, it was too late. He could only slam on the brakes, resulting in the car flipping and crashing into the side of the mountain.

Inside the car, Lin Yanran felt the vehicle shaking violently. He was thrown hard to the right by the inertia.

Amidst the chaos, he didn’t know what he hit before everything went black.

Before losing consciousness, he heard Gu Siye’s voice in his ear.

“Yanran!”

This time, Lin Yanran finally knew why the previous world had been restarted.

Because in that fan-fiction world, Gu Siye had died for him.

In that car accident, Gu Siye had saved him.

He had held him firmly, using his own body to shield a space for him to survive.

Steel rebars had impaled his chest and palm; the blood simply wouldn’t stop.

Yet, fearing that the sharp steel might fall and injure Lin Yanran’s eyes, he endured the agony through sheer force of will.

“Yanran, don’t cry… I don’t want the first time you cry for me to be because of this.”

He used his other hand to wipe away the tears from Yanran’s face, exhausting every ounce of strength to maintain the appearance of being fine, smiling at him despite his deathly pale face.

“I actually had something I wanted to say to you today…”

“Forget it, I won’t say it.”

“Saying it would only add to your sorrow.”

As the blood flowed more heavily, Gu Siye’s voice grew weaker. However, he struggled to keep his eyes open, wanting to look at Yanran for just a little longer.

“You must live a good life.”

By now, he lacked the strength to wipe away any more tears, so he simply pressed his palm gently against Yanran’s cheek. Reluctant to close his eyes, he whispered with a tender smile.

“Forget me.”

“Yanran…”

“In the future, forget me.”

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