From Lin Xian's position to the Little Mermaid statue, it was only ten meters.

But those ten meters.

Were the longest road Huang Que had ever walked in her life.

Even.

Longer than the time and space she had crossed, longer than everything she had longed for.

Da.

She finally arrived beneath the melancholy Little Mermaid statue, raised her head, and met its gaze.

Silent.

Finally.

She turned around, her vision blurred with blue light, and looked at Lin Xian, who was ten meters away, holding his phone sideways, trying to find the right angle:

"Make sure you get a clear shot! A really clear one!"

Lin Xian gave an okay gesture, reassuring Huang Que. In the realm of art students, painting and photography have common ground, not just in composition, but also in lighting.

For night scenes like this, you absolutely can't use the flash, or the effect will be like a demon-revealing mirror, too ghastly to look at.

You have to manually adjust some photography parameters, absorb as much external light as possible, and supplement it with intelligent fill light to capture the best night scene photos.

Click.

Lin Xian took a photo, but wasn't satisfied. So he turned the phone vertically, changed the angle, and took another one.

Hmm, looking at his results:

"This one's good."

He raised his head and looked at Huang Que, still standing beneath the Little Mermaid statue:

"Come back, I've got the shot!"

Beneath the sorrowful Little Mermaid, Huang Que didn't move, and smiled softly:

"Take a few more, just in case one isn't clear enough?"

"Alright then."

Lin Xian crouched down again, preparing to take another photo of Huang Que and the Little Mermaid statue from a low angle.

Shooting from this angle would make her legs look longer, her waist higher, and her figure more proportional... even though Lin Xian thought Huang Que's legs were already long enough and her figure was already good enough, completely negating the need for such superfluous tricks.

He focused the camera on Huang Que, capturing her confident and proud face.

Suddenly!

A petite, black figure! Leapt out from behind the rocks behind the Little Mermaid statue! Charging straight at Huang Que!

"Hmm?"

Lin Xian saw this in the phone's camera view, and immediately looked up...

Why would a child be hiding behind the Little Mermaid statue? Was it a tourist separated from their parents? Or were they playing in the water earlier?

But with such big waves, it was too dangerous for a child to hide there!

But, the next second.

Lin Xian's eyes widened instantly, and he gasped, realizing the danger of the situation!

It was a young girl.

Judging by her figure and slenderness, it was a girl wearing a gray hoodie, about 1.5 meters tall.

Even though the large hoodie hood completely covered her face, making it impossible to see her features, her terrifying eyes—

Were an unusually bright blue!

This crystalline blue was just too bright.

Almost several times brighter than Huang Que's eyes at their brightest!

If Huang Que's eyes gave the illusion of glowing, or seeming to glow; then this girl's eyes, whose features were obscured, would definitely make people believe that her eyes... were actually glowing! An eerie blue light!

These two sudden bursts of light were incredibly conspicuous in the darkness of the sea, shining like spotlights, making it impossible to look away.

The visitor has ill intentions!

Lin Xian immediately realized this and quickly shouted:

"Run!"

However…

It was too late.

A sharp dagger was stabbed directly into Huang Que's back! Piercing straight through and protruding from her chest! Completely penetrated!

Huang Que seemed to have been prepared, gritting her teeth, bracing her body:

"Quick… quick, take the picture!"

Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click!

Lin Xian frantically pressed the shutter, tracking the girl's figure!

But that girl pulled out the dagger with a swoosh, and then sprinted towards the other side of the beach like a cheetah, disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye.

That wasn't normal human speed...

Lin Xian had never seen anyone run so fast!

Knowing that he couldn't catch up, he quickly put away his phone and ran towards the injured Huang Que—

"Huang Que!"

He shouted her name, rushing onto the beach, and picked up the woman who had collapsed on the ground.

Blood…

The blood gushing out, from the wound in her chest, like a fountain.

Lin Xian pressed down hard.

But it was useless, it was a wound that pierced through the chest cavity, gushing out from both the front and back!

"I'll call—" "Don't speak… listen to me…"

Huang Que gritted her teeth.

Forcing her eyes open, looking at the panicked man in front of her:

"Listen to me, this is… the last thing I can teach you, the last… lesson I can give you…"

"Don't talk, I'm calling 112 to save you! I won't let you die!"

Lin Xian quickly took out his phone from his pocket, preparing to dial the Danish emergency number.

But…

Huang Que's blood-soaked hand covered Lin Xian's phone, weakly, shaking her head:

"Lin Xian, I did this on purpose… This is why I came to Copenhagen… the purpose of coming here."

"My time, was already running out… I wouldn't have lived past these two days…"

"Please… don't interrupt me… remember everything I say, you must… remember it clearly!"

She gritted her teeth, gasping for air, saying each word carefully:

"There are two questions you need to think about, about what just happened…"

"The first question… Why did I know she, the girl who killed me, would appear here; and… why did we run so far to Copenhagen, but that girl… could still find me with such precision."

Cough, cough! Cough, cough, cough!!

Saying so much in one breath, Huang Que coughed violently, with blood splattering from her nostrils and mouth as blood gushed from her chest:

"And then… there's the… second thing… you need to think about."

Huang Que's weak left hand grabbed Lin Xian's jacket, supporting herself in Lin Xian's arms, and said again, trembling:

"The second question… Why… did she come specifically to kill me, but not you… showing no… killing intent towards you."

"This question is crucial, and it's precisely… the second temporal law I wanted to teach you that day… but couldn't say. This law… is the real power, your true method… you must… think it through… cough, cough! Cough…"

In the end.

Huang Que trembled as she gasped for air, even her coughs became weak.

Her body grew cold.

Lin Xian could feel her life force fading away.

"Huang Que…"

Lin Xian held her tighter, wanting to use his body temperature to stop her temperature from dropping, his clenched fists trembled, but he couldn't hit any enemy, he could only hold Huang Que tighter:

"How can I save you!"

The woman in his arms forced a weak smile:

"You don't need to… save me. This is… my mission… my task."

"If possible… I only want to… ask you one thing…"

Huang Que's voice grew weaker and weaker.

More and more ethereal.

Her body also became light, and transparent:

"Lin… Xian…"

The now semi-transparent, feather-light Huang Que bit her lip, using the last ounce of strength in her body…

Tremblingly…

Raised her left hand…

Stroking Lin Xian's face, which she couldn't feel:

"Promise me… this time…"

Her lips barely moved, her breath as thin as a thread:

"Don't… leave… Yu… Xi…"

Swish—

Swish—

Swish—

Like pouring fine sand.

The nearly completely transparent body of Huang Que in his arms instantly turned into countless tiny blue crystals, and shattered and dissipated in a time undetectable by the naked eye... scattering with the sea breeze, behind the Little Mermaid statue. Blowing towards… the other side of the sea.

Lin Xian knelt on the beach, taking several deep breaths, with the illusion that she was still there.

But he turned to look at the Little Mermaid statue on the granite.

She was so sad, so heartbroken.

The waves crashed against the rocks, the droplets of water splashing on the Little Mermaid's face, resembling tears.

The blue stardust that had just scattered with the sea breeze.

Had already disappeared without a trace, even the blood that had just stained Lin Xian's body had all turned into glittering stardust and fallen away.

Whether it was the beach or Lin Xian's body, there were no bloodstains, no traces of Huang Que's existence.

Only the scattered pieces of clothing, high heels, and the last few photos taken on his phone… proved that a woman named Huang Que… had once come to this world, had once been to Copenhagen.

Lin Xian breathed rapidly.

Getting up from the beach.

He looked at the Little Mermaid statue, at the direction the sea breeze was blowing, at the quiet, empty beach, at the bright white moonlight in the sky:

"Yu Xi…"

He murmured the name Huang Que had left behind, his heart filled with melancholy and confusion:

"Who is… Yu Xi?"

…

…

"Woof woof woof woof woof woof!! Woof woof woof!!"

Late at night in the Dragon Country's East Sea, inside a high-end villa bedroom, a dandelion-like Pomeranian suddenly woke up from a nightmare! Barking incessantly:

"Woof woof woof! Waaa! Ooo… oooo… oooo!!"

It cried in grief.

Wailing and crying.

"What's wrong? What's wrong, VV?"

Zhao Yingjun was suddenly awakened by the noise in the bed next to her.

She hurriedly turned over, switched on the bedside lamp, and looked at the Pomeranian dog lying on the ground, crying until it was breathless:

"What's wrong, VV? Did you have a nightmare?"

Realizing that something was wrong, she quickly got out of bed, smoothing VV's fur and stroking its neck:

"It's okay, it's okay, you're awake now, it was just a dream…"

Zhao Yingjun was very surprised.

In the past, her Pomeranian puppy often woke up from nightmares at night.

But…

After waking up from a nightmare, it would only bark incessantly, never crying so exaggeratedly.

She had been raising this puppy for eight years, and had never seen it cry so sadly at any time…

"Oooo oooo oooo!! Oooo oooo oooo!!"

No matter how Zhao Yingjun coaxed it.

This Pomeranian dog seemed to be possessed, refusing to open its eyes no matter what, and unable to stop crying no matter what.

"Oh, I don't know what to do with you."

Zhao Yingjun sighed softly, picked up her phone from the bedside table, opened the photo album, and opened a video she had recorded before.

It was recorded when Lin Xian first came to her house to see VV.

"Here, let me show you again."

This was a foolproof trick.

As if there was some special magic… every time this Pomeranian dog was disobedient and barked randomly in the middle of the night, as long as she showed it the video of Lin Xian patting its head and calling its name, it would instantly become quiet and well-behaved, and go to sleep obediently.

Zhao Yingjun pressed the play button.

Bringing the phone closer to the wailing Pomeranian dog VV.

In the video, the tall and gentle Lin Xian, smiling, crouched down and stroked this dandelion-like white puppy:

"VV… be good, okay."

The magnetic voice came from the phone's speaker, entering the Pomeranian dog VV's ears.

However…

"Oooo! Woof woof oooo!!"

This time it didn't work.

Hearing Lin Xian's voice, the Pomeranian dog showed no sign of stopping its wailing, still lying on the ground like a puddle of mud, large clumps of tears pouring from its closed eyes, wetting the carpet underneath.

Zhao Yingjun frowned.

Crouching down.

Picking up VV, who was crying and trembling on the ground.

Holding it in her arms.

Stroking its head.

Letting it get close to her heartbeat, close to her skin, and then lowering her face, using all her warmth to comfort this sad puppy:

"VV… what's wrong…"