"..."

Hearing this, Yan Huan in her arms lifted her head, finally revealing an expression of relief.

Feeling her tight embrace, Yan Huan’s voice trembled as well,

"That’s great..."

"Wuu... Yan Ye, after going back, I want to visit my dad..."

"Okay..."

"I also want to know why my mom kept lying to me... I must make her pay..."

"Okay..."

"I want to write lots and lots of songs..."

"Okay..."

"You... will always be with me, right, Yan Ye?"

Bai Yi tightly hugged Yan Huan, sobbing as she murmured.

Feeling her loneliness and sadness, Yan Huan opened his mouth, yet couldn’t answer for a moment.

It was hard to imagine, for someone who lied as easily as drinking water, uttering even one more lie to Bai Yi felt like enduring torture.

But he had to say it...

As long as it allowed Bai Yi to return to the present.

"I will, Meow..."

"Wuu..."

Hearing the response, Bai Yi snuggled against Yan Huan’s furry body, letting out a whimper.

At this moment, the only thing she had was this little cat that had always accompanied her.

"Tick-tock... Tick-tock..."

Yan Huan lifted his tail to wipe her tears, gazing at the time as it approached 4:44 PM.

Bai Yi had no intentions of doing anything else, simply holding Yan Ye, waiting for the moment of time travel to arrive.

Soon, the time came, and the timeline opened a path to the if-line.

"Buzz..."

In Bai Yi’s arms, at the moment the timeline opened, Yan Huan turned his head to look outside, confirming the danger level of this if-line.

After all, this time, Bai Yi also changed the past where her parents had an accident.

If the if-line turned red, it would mean danger, so...

"Hmm?"

But in the next second, he was suddenly taken aback.

Because at that moment when they were about to enter the next if-line, within the crack of time between 4:44 PM and 4:45 PM...

A dazzling, terrifying golden light intercepted them!!

That golden light seemed to have been lying in wait beyond the timeline at this particular moment...

"Boom!!"

This is...

In front of her, the tear-stained Bai Yi also realized something was wrong, looking up at the incoming dazzling golden light.

"Wuu!"

The golden light traveled through time and timelines, heading straight for Bai Yi... no, not Bai Yi, but the white cat in her arms!

"Meow?!"

The golden light firmly locked onto the white cat tightly held by Bai Yi, instantly enveloping his small body and pulling him towards the future.

Is it trying to take Yan Ye away?!

"How could this be..."

Yan Huan’s eyes widened as he instantly realized it was the power of Aria’s Big Thumb.

But what shocked him even more was that the power of Big Thumb could traverse time like a higher-dimensional force, affecting him after so many years?!

Don’t forget, he was exactly eighteen years in the past now!!

And Aria’s power could only be activated now!!

But it had activated!

"Buzz!"

The moment Big Thumb’s power activated, cracks began to appear all over Yan Huan’s small cat body.

The Big Thumb targeted Yan Huan, and now Yan Huan and Meow were fused, so it wanted to extract Yan Huan, causing this effect.

No doubt, if he and Meow were to separate, lacking the ability to travel through time, he would definitely be taken back by the Big Thumb instantly!

So immediately, Yan Huan endured the pain of bodily separation, confronting the power of the Big Thumb.

"Meow..."

Not only the physical pain, Yan Huan’s consciousness was also affected by the Big Thumb, causing countless thoughts of betrayal.

Those thoughts, like demons, lingered around Yan Huan, persuading him to give up.

"Send her back, the Causal Law Bomb hasn’t been deactivated..."

"You will die!"

"It’s either her or you, so why bother?"

"Think about Aria and the others; without Bai Yi, you still have other people..."

"..."

The moment these seductive voices infiltrated his mind, Yan Huan’s body trembled slightly.

In an instant, he was completely engulfed by that golden light, with more and more cracks spreading as he flew out from Bai Yi’s arms.

"Wuu... Yan... Yan Ye?!"

And when Yan Ye was forcibly removed from her side, Bai Yi immediately realized something.

But under the invincible golden glow, she couldn’t even open her eyes.

She could only feel Yan Ye leaving her...

After experiencing her mother’s betrayal, the truth about her father being imprisoned because of her, and Yan Huan’s deceit, Bai Yi was already helpless at this moment.

Feeling that the last Yan Ye by her side was also leaving, Bai Yi immediately broke down, reaching desperately in the direction Yan Ye was leaving, crying out in despair,

"Yan Ye... wuwuwu... where are you going?!

"Why... I only have Yan Ye...

"Wuwuwu..."

!!

In the darkness, enveloped within the golden light, Yan Huan was pierced by an icy, bone-chilling feeling upon hearing Bai Yi’s cries.

He suddenly snapped back to reality, looking towards the lone Bai Yi getting farther away in the darkness.

The internal unwillingness and pain awakened his reason, causing him to activate virtualization and struggle madly.

But the usually invincible virtualization proved weak in the face of the Big Thumb, only able to barely resist being taken away, bit by bit, towards Bai Yi.

"Bai Yi!!"

His shout penetrated the golden light, reaching the crying Bai Yi’s ears.

She took a shallow breath, realizing Yan Ye hadn’t left, immediately extending her hand towards the golden light,