Yu Yi gently nodded, understanding the metaphor of water and rivers representing time and spacetime domains, even if she couldn’t comprehend how he moved between them.
When a person returns to their own past, for that person, the events they have experienced have not yet occurred at that point in the past.
Meng Qing looked at Yu Yi and nodded to show understanding, then continued, “Originally, two years later, your family would have been raided, your father stripped of his title, all male family members executed, and female members sold into slavery. You were going to commit suicide but instead were chosen to become a time-space mission executor.”
Yu Yi stared at him blankly: “Are these all events that were destined to happen?”
Meng Qing shook his head: “They will never happen again. To save the other members of the Yu family, you secretly returned to your own fourteen-year-old time and space, changed some things, and thus altered the Yu family’s impending disaster.”
Yu Yi asked in surprise: “Is this change the murder of Chen Shilang that you mentioned? Did I kill Chen Shilang?”
Meng Qing nodded: “It was you, the you who would become a mission executor three years later. I followed you here, but I couldn’t persuade you to change your mind.”
“How is this possible…” She was momentarily confused, but the day she first met him was indeed the day Chen Shilang was murdered, after which he came and spoke those strange words. This bizarre world, with furniture appearing out of thin air, seemed to only make sense if she believed his words.
Meng Qing opened the projection function on his terminal and projected the Time-Space Management Bureau’s file on Yu Yi onto the table, including her mission records and the documentation of her criminal actions to change her family’s fate.
Yu Yi finished reading the file, still feeling incredulous. Meng Qing said nothing, quietly waiting for her to process everything.
Yu Yi suddenly frowned: “If what Young Master Meng says is true, doesn’t that mean there’s another Yu Yi in this world? She assassinated Chen Shilang, not me, because I was in the marquis’s residence at that time. So where is she now? Shouldn’t the Time-Space Management Bureau be arresting her, not me?”
