It seemed to say,

"Goodbye."

Yan Huan just looked at her, at the seven wedding photos behind her...

Then, he gradually tightened his grip on the pocket watch in his hand.

"Tick...tock..."

At the exact moment it reached 4:44 PM, a power beyond time and space pulled Yan Huan's consciousness, instantly extracting him from there.

He returned to a realm of darkness.

He was back!!

And in his hand, the four crystalline Crab Medicine, several crab coins, and the phantom pocket watch...

Still existed!!

"Yan Huan! You're back, Meow! I figured it out!! I know how the ring finger works, Meow!! Hey, where did you get so much Crab Medicine, Meow?!"

This was inside Yan Huan's modifier.

The afternoon of the day he died, at 4:45 PM.

But Yan Huan was still accelerating.

Yan Huan endured the pain of time acceleration, squeezing out a question from the depths of his throat,

"Meow...Meow! Is the outside world...accelerating?!"

"No...no, Meow!"

"I bet right!!"

Yan Huan painfully crouched in the darkness, the phantom pocket watch in his hand still turning,

while in reality, everything was as usual.

As if he was the only one accelerating.

But beside him, Meow bizarrely kept up with his accelerated time and could still communicate with him,

"Yan Huan, listen to me, I'll tell you how the ring finger works, Meow!!"

"Do you have to say now?! It hurts like hell!!"

"Meow?! If I don't say it now, it'll be too late!!"

Yan Huan widened his eyes, gasping on the spot.

The magical force was gradually reshaping his body, bones regenerating, muscles remolding...

As if casting magic on his corpse, it was bringing it back to its peak moment within a year.

But in this process, the regeneration of bones and reconstruction of flesh were extremely painful.

"Yan Huan, don't forget, resurrection isn't without cost, Meow!

"You owe a fragment amount enough to upgrade the modifier, and if you don't repay it, you can't use the modifier halfway!"

As Meow tilted its head and hurriedly explained,

"And I appear through the modifier, so I can't appear until you've repaid it, Meow!"

"So sinister?!"

"...Earlier, did you go to a place very similar to a 'Parallel World', probably without me there?"

"Yes..."

Yan Huan stared blankly at Meow, finally remembering that the resurrection indeed required a fragment's cost.

"The place you went to before wasn't some Parallel World; there is no such Parallel Different World at all!

"To be precise, the world invaded by the Evil God is the Different World!!

"This world has only one true timeline, which is the one you are on!!"

Hearing this, Yan Huan was slightly stunned,

"So, the place I went to..."

Meow, anxious, circled around, hurriedly drawing brilliant golden light with its paw in the air.

It sketched something resembling a tree trunk or a river flow,

"The timeline we're on now is like this, a great river or tree trunk spanning the past and future...

"This is the real, sole fact that happens!

"But, just like the human brain imagines based on what's happened, my subconsciousness will also produce such things..."

Blinking, beside that great river, Meow branched out a tributary or branches...

"Sometimes the world's subconsciousness will imagine:

"'What if it hadn't happened' or 'What if it happened', what would occur...

"That is, it would construct false 'possible timelines'.

"But they only have results, not processes!"

Just like people regret or fantasize...

People often only imagine a "result" based on the "possible" in their minds without a detailed process.

Marrying a rich and beautiful woman, becoming a CEO, reaching the pinnacle of life...

These, all of them, are results.

Things that may happen but didn't happen.

And imagination, generally, is just imagination...

Even the world's imagination is like this.

Unless...

A person with a modifier can enter others' imaginations and briefly turn them into reality.

"And the power of the ring finger can pry open the only timeline of reality, letting you enter these if-lines and turn them into reality!

"Because they are false timelines in the first place, once you enter that if-line, you directly replace the Yan Huan inside it.

"Otherwise, if that timeline were real, you would see another independent yourself!

"I can't enter it because I'm already absent in that result.

"Moreover, that if-line, because it only has a result, doesn't exist in the past or future.

"Therefore, if you can stay in it for a long time without being thrown back, you should see that the if-line will keep repeating that 'result'."

Listening to Meow's words, Yan Huan finally realized why it repeated after 4:45 PM.

"So... those... are things that could've happened?"

Yan Huan paused for a second, then suddenly asked.

Meow blinked, not understanding why Yan Huan asked this but nodded and replied,

"Yes, Meow... The world's subconsciousness doesn't make absolutely impossible imaginations, those imaginations are based on things that happened in reality, either in the past or future..."

"..."

Hearing this, Yan Huan seemed to endure the pain, lowering his head again.

The next second, he remembered something, raised his head with doubt, and asked,

"So... Bai Yi's ring finger can let her enter false timelines and make fantasies come true?