TSFLIP Chapter 528

Nan Xiaoxiao genuinely believed that Yan Yu was being held captive by Chen Yu and was in grave danger. She was truly ready to risk her life to save him. It wasn’t until yesterday, when her worry overwhelmed her and she couldn’t help but run back, that she finally discovered the whole thing had just been a play staged by Chen Yu and Yan Yu.

Yan Yu was aware of the relationship between Nan Xiaoxiao and Feng Guang. He figured that if something happened to Nan Xiaoxiao, Feng Guang wouldn’t just sit back and do nothing. In reality, Feng Guang had planned to stay out of it—because in her mind, Nan Xiaoxiao was the female lead, Yan Yu the male lead, and of course, nothing bad would happen to the leads. The only reason she got involved at all was because Xu Wang said he needed to take care of some unfinished business… She should’ve stopped him right then and there!

Feng Guang didn’t believe Xu Wang was truly dead. Someone like him—a major villain—was supposed to live until the very end. How could he die like that? But the fact that he hadn’t come to find her did suggest he was in serious trouble…

She looked at Nan Xiaoxiao with suspicion. “You’re saying all of this was a setup by Yan Yu and Chen Yu? They tricked you, and then tricked the rest of us, too?”

“Yes!” Nan Xiaoxiao quickly replied, afraid Feng Guang wouldn’t believe her. “Ever since Yan Yu found out that the outer prison defenses keeping Xu Wang contained had been breached, he used Chen Yu to submit a petition to the Emperor, claiming that keeping Xu Wang alive would eventually lead to catastrophe. So… so to kill Xu Wang, he and Chen Yu staged a performance in front of me. The whole point was to lure Xu Wang to Chen Yu. Feng Guang, when I found out the truth, I tried to run and warn you all not to come, but… but Yan Yu locked me in a room. I couldn’t get out. You have to believe me—I never wanted to hurt Xu Wang!”

Nan Xiaoxiao wasn’t from this world, so all those stories Yan Yu told about Ye Mo being a murderer didn’t feel real to her. At most, she viewed them like an outsider watching a drama, commenting, “How could he be so cruel?” But after seeing how careful and gentle Xu Wang was with Feng Guang, her judgment shifted. Compared to all of Yan Yu’s talk about “great righteousness” and “sacrifice for the greater good,” she chose to side with her friend’s happiness.

Feng Guang was her best friend. She would never want to see her get hurt.

“I believe you…” Feng Guang’s expression didn’t soften, but she still said, “At this point, you don’t have any reason to lie to me.”

Nan Xiaoxiao burst into tears, overwhelmed with emotion. “Thank you, Feng Guang! I thought… I thought you wouldn’t believe me. Don’t worry—I’m done with Yan Yu. These past few days, I’ve been trying to figure out how to return to our world. I met a planetarium director who told me that we ended up here because the meteor strike aligned perfectly with the magnetic fields of our bodies. In a few days, there’s going to be another meteor shower. If we stand near the meteor site again, we might be able to go back.”

A planetarium director?

Feng Guang remembered this was an NPC from the original story—an old man who appeared when Yan Yu misunderstood Nan Xiaoxiao for liking another man and gave her the cold shoulder. Back then, she’d been heartbroken and wanted to leave. She hadn’t expected that Nan Xiaoxiao’s chance to return now would come because of what had happened to her.

Shaking her head in amazement at how the plot was unfolding, Feng Guang said, “I’m not going.”

“Why not?” Nan Xiaoxiao couldn’t understand. “Yan Yu lied to me. I could never be with him again. And Xu Wang… Feng Guang, there’s no reason left for us to stay in this world.”

“Because…” Feng Guang gripped the amber pendant hanging over her chest. “I don’t believe he would leave me behind.”