Chen Junnan once again “broke through the door.”

Before he could fully display his dashing heroic bearing, he saw that Qi Xia had just finished explaining some precautions to Tiantian.

But Tiantian looked like she had already been confused by Qi Xia’s idea.

“Qi Xia… your plan… you…” She frowned with an expression full of incomprehension. “Your thinking is just too…”

Tiantian seemed to want to evaluate Qi Xia’s idea, but the words hung at the edge of her mouth like they had crashed into something. She couldn’t spit out a single word.

“So take this opportunity to practice now,” Qi Xia said to Tiantian. “We don’t have many chances—perhaps only one.”

“Okay… I, I understand… don’t worry…” Although Tiantian said “don’t worry” with her mouth, she clearly had no confidence in her heart. “I’ll hurry and practice first…”

“Thank you,” Qi Xia said.

“Hm…?” Tiantian turned her head back, looking at Qi Xia with a blank expression. “What?”

“I said thank you,” Qi Xia repeated.

These three words not only made Tiantian feel difficult to understand, but also made Chen Junnan on the side pause for a few seconds.

In his memory, Qi Xia rarely said these three words to people.

“That’s not necessary…” Tiantian squeezed out a trace of a smile. She obviously hadn’t recovered from that absurd plan just now and could only respond by saying, “I haven’t done anything yet. Saying ‘thank you’ now is too early. What if it fails…”

“It’s not just about this matter,” Qi Xia said. “For a long time, I’ve wanted to thank you. It’s just that you’ve never given me the opportunity.”

“For a long time…?” Tiantian obviously couldn’t understand. “Logically speaking, my abilities are meager. The number of times I could help you shouldn’t be many…”

“This…” After hearing this, Tiantian nodded as if half-understanding but didn’t know what to say. She could only remain silent for a few seconds before saying, “You don’t need to be polite… Although I don’t know what I’ve done, it’s surely no different from this time—it’s all of my own free will.”

After speaking, she seemed to think of something and added: “Even if I have to find a place to quietly die, that’s also of my own free will.”

After hearing this, Qi Xia let out a meaningful breath, as if untying some invisible knot in his heart.

“Then I’ll go first,” Tiantian said again.

“Tiantian,” Qi Xia called softly.

“Hm…?”

“I want to seriously ask you one last time.” He walked forward a step and said solemnly, “If there was an opportunity to start over again right in front of you, would you choose to escape from here and return to your life?”

Tiantian froze. She obviously hadn’t thought Qi Xia would ask this question at this time.

Her gaze became confused for a moment, but after a moment it became silent like dead ashes.

“I don’t want to…” Tiantian gently opened her mouth and said. “I probably no longer have what you’d call a ‘life.'”

Qi Xia looked at Tiantian, a trace of complex sympathy flashing in his eyes.

“Even if you could start over yourself, you still wouldn’t choose to go back and take a look?”

Tiantian lowered her head. A few strands of hair from her forehead hung down, perfectly blocking the expression between her brows and eyes. Or perhaps at this moment she simply had no expression at all.

Chen Junnan also fell silent at this moment. If one were to describe the aura emanating from Tiantian at this moment, it would be the decisiveness of having not a trace of attachment to the entire “real world.”

Both Qi Xia and Chen Junnan knew that what was swirling in the mind of this girl before them wasn’t hesitation about “whether or not to return to reality,” but rather hesitation about “how to refuse without seeming rude.”

In the “Land of the End,” there were some people like Tiantian who felt panic toward “reality.” But this kind of “unwillingness” in most cases was disguised. After all, everyone in the “Land of the End” was ultimately here because they had no other choice, and could only numb themselves by telling themselves “I don’t want to leave.”

If given a chance to actively choose, most people would still hesitate.

From the very beginning, neither Chen Junnan nor Qi Xia had ever seen this kind of hesitation in Tiantian. Whether when she had preserved her memories or appeared here in a brand new state, she had never missed anything from the real world.

After a few seconds, she spoke: “I’m sorry. In any case, let’s win this game first.”

Qi Xia was silent for a while. The sense of expectation that hadn’t existed in the first place also disappeared: “That’s fine.”

Tiantian nodded, turned around to open the door, and happened to meet Lawyer Zhang and Zheng Yingxiong who were walking back.

The three briefly greeted each other, and Tiantian entered the room and closed the door, off to do who knows what.

After seeing Chen Junnan, Lawyer Zhang and Zheng Yingxiong were stunned for a moment, then took half a step back.

“Little brother… this…” Zhang Chenze turned her head to look at Zheng Yingxiong.

After thinking for a while, Zheng Yingxiong said to Chen Junnan: “Big brother, did you get the ‘character’?”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan was startled. The words he had prepared to say to Qi Xia were also swallowed back down. He turned his head around and looked at Zheng Yingxiong with a serious expression.

“What’s wrong?” Zheng Yingxiong asked.

“Damn… that woman even impersonates kids?” Chen Junnan showed a face full of disgust. “Zhang Jie, hurry up and let go. Be careful he might bite you in a moment.”

“Huh…?” After hearing this, Zheng Yingxiong felt the other party had misunderstood. “No… it’s not…”

“Come, come, come,” Chen Junnan walked forward a few steps. “If you’re capable, attack me. Where did you get that arrogant kid? Fucking can’t attack adults so you attack kids, is that it?”

“There might be a misunderstanding…” Zhang Chenze hurried forward and said, “Chen Junnan, we just encountered someone impersonating you, and it was Brother Yingxiong who saw through them. During this time, we never separated, so he’s not fake.”

“Huh?” After hearing this, Chen Junnan was stunned. “That’s not right… Zhang Jie, do you know what this kid just called me? I’ve fucking known him for so many days, and I’ve never heard this kid call me ‘big brother.’ What’s the difference between this and raining soybean juice from the sky?”

“I was testing you,” Zheng Yingxiong said with an impatient expression. “You’re actually here testing me now. I really don’t know who’s more worrying…”

“You little brat…” After hearing this, Chen Junnan sighed. “This young master has also been made a bit jumpy by that ‘Transformation.’ Being careful can’t be wrong, right?”

After hearing this, Qi Xia looked at Chen Junnan and asked softly: “What did you gain this time?”

“Ah! Right, Old Qi!” Chen Junnan left Lawyer Zhang and Zheng Yingxiong aside, turned back and said, “You don’t know how awesome the thing this young master just did was…”

As he spoke, he pulled out a “character” from his pocket and raised it in front of Qi Xia.

“Cloth” (巾).