Chapter 16

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Hai Lan smiled bitterly, “Don’t be afraid.”

Lin Lang seemed to be taken aback. After a while, she said, “Hai Lan, I thought… I didn’t expect you to be this stupid.”

“Lin Lang, tell me, why are you talking about the butterfly effect? And, what does it have to do with Qin Ge’s death?”

The girl in front of her (HL) seemed unreal, but she could still hear her breathing. Hai Lan was not afraid of her. Maybe it was the woman’s indifferent eyes that seemed to bear a deep sorrow and pain. Sad people are most likely to meet sad people.

However, Lin Lang had been mentioning the butterfly effect a few times already. She (HL) knew that a simple flutter of a butterfly’s wings could set off a hurricane thousands of miles away. The result of something could always change thanks to small things.

“If you want to see Qin Ge again, you must let him be reborn,” Lin Lag said in a low voice.

Hai Lan was shocked, “Reborn?”

She closed her mouth tightly and decided…

“How do I do that?”

Her hands clenched, and Lin Lang’s voice became lower, “Break the original butterfly effect.”

“Break the butterfly effect?” The tremble in her heart got worse, Hai Lan wanted to ask something, but because of the tense atmosphere, she couldn’t even make a sound.

“Think about it. If Tangling’s Emperor tomb didn’t exist, would Qin Ge still die there?”

“But how is that possible? The Eastern Tomb exists!”

“No! If Tangling’s Emperor hadn’t died in his prime, would he be buried in Dunhuang? Would he still have chosen the temple? What’s more, if it wasn’t that Emperor who had inherited the throne, would the next in line also choose that same place?”

The more Hai Lan listened, the more startled she was, then she noticed something. “Time is irreversible and history is unchangeable. We don’t even have records of that dynasty in Chinese history. Perhaps time and space don’t exist in this world thus they have twisted and overlapped. That would be the reason why Tangling’s Emperor’s tomb emerged in this world.”

Lin Lang raised her head slightly and stared at the stars outside the window.

“If I could send you to another time and space, and let you go back to the prosperous Tangling Dynasty thousands of years ago. And you could meet the Emperor… would you dare to tamper with history against Heaven’s will?”

Hai Lan stood up abruptly and stared at Lin Lang in a daze. It wasn’t unusual to be so shocked.

“Just… Hai Lan, if the tomb wasn’t in Dunhuang, would the white and blue porcelain be excavated with the Tang tombs in Dunhuang?”

Ha Lan didn’t speak, she walked to the window and looked at the starry sky. Looking up, she remembered the time when they hadn’t changed yet. The memory of her coming out of the kitchen with hot soup. He had been waiting at the dining table while he watched her.

She never knew what love was, because she had never received it when she was a child. However, she loved him, and he had nothing to do with it.

Finally, she closed her eyes and smiled, “If he can be reborn, I am willing to go against Heaven.”

“Do you know the consequences of going against Heaven?”

She turned around and said with a small smile, “The end of the new butterfly effect will be that we’ll turn into strangers.”

If the Emperor’s tomb wasn’t there, then the porcelain also wouldn’t have been excavated. Because of that, the archaeological team would not make a trip to Dunhuang. Lin Yu would also not find the Xin Gu poison, thus she wouldn’t have left Qin Ge. So that day three years ago, Qin Ge would never have gone to City A to dig, and wouldn’t have met her through Lin Siwei.

After three years, they… will never be in love.

But my dear, if I really love you, even when you have never loved me, even if everything was just a game, even when we see each other in the crowd and don’t stay together. As long as you can smile, even when I’m not the one you’re holding.