kvmb Chapter 40 Time
Chapter 40 Time
In front of Wen Shiyu's villa, Duanmu Cong and Xia Lan stood facing each other, silently for a long, long time without saying a word.
Xia Lan could see the hurt and grievance in the other person's eyes. She turned her face away, feeling somewhat sorry for Duanmu Cong for changing her mind.
Thinking back on all the little things between the two of them since childhood, childhood sweethearts... But Xiaoyu was also a childhood sweetheart, wasn't she? It's just that I hadn't seen her before.
"Lanlan..." Duanmu Cong's voice was somewhat hoarse: "Can we make up..." He desperately wanted to tell Xia Lan that he couldn't hold on any longer, that he wanted to see her, that he wanted to hug her...
“Ah Cong…” Xia Lan looked guilty, but couldn’t say what he wanted to hear: “We can’t go back…”
"I... I can change it," Duanmu Cong visibly panicked.
Like a child about to be thrown away, she panicked: "I... I can stop objecting to you working at the Wen Group, stop forcing you to stay by my side... I... I was wrong, Lanlan, I'm serious... Please don't leave me..."
Duanmu Cong's hoarse voice choked with emotion. He lowered his head, unable to believe it, unable to look at or listen to Xia Lan's answer.
Because he read rejection in Xia Lan's eyes; those eyes held no love.
The rain, which had stopped for a long time, started falling sporadically again at some point. The two figures stopped some distance away and stopped moving forward.
Wen Yiming pulled Lu He to a stop at the corner of the villa, watching the two people talking in the distance.
"What's wrong?" Lu He noticed that he had suddenly stopped, so she peeked ahead and then looked at Wen Yiming's anxious eyes, feeling that he was about to grind his back teeth to powder.
"Sigh, if you care so much, why don't you just rush over and interrupt their reconciliation?" Lu He said, exasperated.
“No, I can’t do that…” Wen Yiming took a deep breath and shook his head: “Xia Lan has her own choices, and I can’t force her to do that.”
"What? Don't you want to try?" Lu He frowned, looking at her good-for-nothing brother.
Wen Yiming smiled wryly: "What's the point of fighting?"
He paused, then said very seriously, "Xia Lan is a person. She has her own feelings and emotions. She is a living, breathing person, not an object. I have given her all the love I can. It's not that she can't see it; she just doesn't love me. Do you really think I don't understand?"
Wen Yiming's expression was bitter; he, the second male lead, was destined to love but not be loved in return.
Although he loved her foolishly, he wasn't really a fool.
He also knew that Xia Lan wasn't stupid and would realize that he loved her.
The lack of mutual affection is not because one person doesn't try to get closer, but because the other person never wants to get closer.
Wen Yiming's words made Lu He momentarily dazed, as if something had awakened her: Xia Lan...
She has her own feelings...
It shouldn't be something that others are fighting over...
Victory prizes...
Therefore, she is not the victor; she will become the victim.
Lu He suddenly clenched her fist, which Wen Yiming squeezed painfully. "Ouch, ouch, ouch! Why are you squeezing so hard!" Wen Yiming shook off Lu He's hand and yelled.
"Brother, I'll help you. I'll help you make Xia Lan fall in love with you!" Lu He understood Xia Lan; she knew what she needed and what she liked.
The best option is to let Xia Lan and Wen Yiming be together, so that the mission can be completed without hurting Xia Lan.
As for Duanmu Cong, I can only apologize, but the acquisition of Duanmu Group is a mandatory requirement, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Lu He knew that she would eventually disappear.
When Wen Shiyu wakes up in this world, what kind of setbacks will Xia Lan experience? Will she be trapped in this relationship, never finding the answer? She might go crazy.
Unless I can stay in this world forever...
The system promptly announced: "You'd better not think like that. You can't stay here forever; you don't belong to this world."
As Lu He listened to the system's voice in his mind, he suddenly realized something: "The missions in this world have time limits?"
System: "That's right."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Lu He belatedly realized that the system had been hiding a lot of things.
"Because there should have been enough time, and you've always managed your pace very well. Besides, even if it's delayed by ten or fifteen days, it's still enough time, so we didn't say anything. But now it seems you want to stay here forever, which won't work."
"How much longer do I have?" Lu He wanted to know the time limit.
"At your current pace, you can complete the task well ahead of schedule," the system replied, seemingly ignoring the question.
"I want to know the deadline!" Lu He insisted.
"...Okay, there's a character in this comic, who is Duanmu Cong's older brother. He is his father's illegitimate son who lives abroad. A year later, after the old chairman passes away, he will return to fight for the family fortune."
His appearance basically signals the end of the story; it's the last chapter before the manga concludes.
"I understand. I must complete my mission and leave this place before the story ends, right?"
As clever as Lu He was, she understood what the system meant: "You clearly said that these are all real worlds, so why is there any talk of an ending!"
Lu He questioned the system.
"...That's not something you need to worry about right now..."
The system refused to continue answering her: "You must complete the three missions first before I tell you. Otherwise, you won't even survive the first mission, and there's no need for me to waste so much breath on you."
"Won't survive?"
"Yes, if the mission fails, you will return directly to your world, and you will not be able to change the fact that you died. In other words, if the mission fails, you will die immediately... You'd better watch out."