Chapter 9.2: Maternal Love
This was a warning, not for Shi Hai, but for herself, a reborn person.
In the future, Shi Hai had died saving Jian Sichun.
In this reset world, would he die again saving her?
Jian Sichun couldn’t be sure, nor did she dare to be.
For this miraculous second chance at life…
She absolutely didn’t want to witness the tragedy happening again.
If she lost him again, seeing him die for her…
Jian Sichun felt she would completely break.
The excitement and joy of seeing Shi Hai had been washed away, replaced by the despair and pain that once plunged her into darkness.
Even with a second life, she couldn’t escape the fear and darkness of losing someone dear.
Maybe if she stayed with him, the same event wouldn’t happen again; the future was unpredictable.
But if that thing called ‘fate’ truly existed…
If he died saving her again…
The mere thought of this possibility made Jian Sichun lose all courage.
If it were just her life at stake, she wouldn’t care.
But to gamble with Shi Hai’s life…
She didn’t dare.
She couldn’t.
However, there was still a chance to change the future.
But… perhaps she had already lost the right to be with him.
She could no longer be the most important person to him because she couldn’t let him risk his life for her.
Thinking this, Jian Sichun felt a deep grievance and wanted to cry on the spot.
But she held back.
Crying here would surely make Shi Hai worry about her.
She couldn’t let him worry or develop sympathy for her, and she needed to cut off her own feelings.
From now on, Jian Sichun decided to completely seal off her feelings for him to prevent herself from doing anything reckless.
Although the best solution might be to stay away from him and become strangers…
Jian Sichun knew she couldn’t completely ignore Shi Hai.
She wasn’t the strong-willed type and had a severe emotional dependency.
This dependency was so severe that she needed to see him first thing in the morning and last thing before bed, holding his hand to sleep soundly.
If she didn’t see him for even an hour, she would call to ask where he was, waiting anxiously until he returned.
Calling it ‘inseparable’ sounded nice, but it was more like a ‘parasitic love.’
So when she lost him, Jian Sichun felt like it was the ‘end of the world.’
Since she couldn’t stop caring about him… she needed a ‘reasonable’ reason to stay by his side.
It was like trying to quit smoking but keeping the cigarettes in sight.
A completely self-deceptive mindset.
That’s it! If she couldn’t be with him, he would probably be with another woman…
But what if he met someone who toyed with his feelings? What if the woman he liked cheated on him? What if he became a backup for some gold-digger? What if he became a victim of a manipulative girl? What if he realized he was gay? What if he stayed single forever? No!
Absolutely not!
I swore to make you happy this life!
At the very least, he needed to find someone similar to herself—cute, docile, with a good figure and looks, who would love him unconditionally, never deceive him, who could cook, clean, sew, share his hobbies, play games, go to conventions, understand and care for him, and in private, boldly seduce him, open to any playstyle, sweet and devoted, and could role-play to make him happy!
As his ‘ex-girlfriend,’ it was her ‘duty’ to seriously vet his potential partners!
In the end, Jian Sichun found a ‘reasonable’ and ‘legitimate’ reason for herself.
And her standards for Shi Hai’s future girlfriend were absurdly high.
Shi Hai, completely unaware of Jian Sichun’s thoughts, assumed she was pondering the sender of the letter.
But when he saw the maternal look Jian Sichun gave him, he felt something similar to what he felt from his mom…
A gaze full of maternal love.