“You know, can a seer manipulate time?”
If it’s the source of the curse, can’t it cause such anomalies?
Ivy asked Uvia with vague thoughts. Then, Uvia tilted his head once again.
“What do you mean by manipulating time?”
“For example, if Dias from 10 years later appears here now.”
“Will Dias still be here after 10 years?”
“Well, probably. He seems robust enough.”
“No one knows that.”
But Uvia was determined. So, Ivy, feeling puzzled, asked:
“But, if he is there, whether it’s 10 or 30 years later, can Dias come back healthy by defying time?”
“No, that’s impossible.”
Uvia shook his head with excitement. Then, he calmly explained:
“There is no future. It’s just a concept created by those who imagine tomorrow. If there is a predetermined future, everything exists and moves to fulfill that, so in such a world, is there any need to live?”
“That might not be so bad…”
Uvia was once again enigmatic today, and thanks to that, Ivy, whose headache got worse, cleared away those complicated words and asked only the essential point.
“So, is it impossible to defy time?”
“Yeah. It’s impossible. Instead, it may appear that way.”
“It may appear so?”
“Reversing time is possible.”
“…What’s the difference?”
When Ivy asked, Uvia pondered while looking at the air. Then, as before, he reached out his hand to Ivy.
“Do you want to catch it?”
“Yeah, I’ll show you.”
Ivy remembered for a moment that she had almost been swallowed by a snake when she grabbed that hand. However, without hesitation, she took Uvia’s hand.
At the same time, she felt a sensation of her body sinking below.
Surprised, she closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, unexpectedly, Ivy was still on top of that hill. However, the Uvia who was beside her had transformed into a rabbit-like figure.
The reduced Uvia floated up and down like foam and said:
“All life is connected to two worlds. One is space, and the other is time.”
When Uvia said that, the ground on which Ivy stood split open and rose. No, it wasn’t the ground, but the roots of the tree firmly attached to the soil.
Ivy was carried along and climbed up, and the hill and the village moved far below her feet.
“This is space.”
Uvia whispered softly as he circled around the floating tree with the space. Then, the tree gradually shrank, and the soil began to fall off from the roots like dust.
“And this is time.”
Uvia said, looking at the tree that had become a sapling.
But Ivy had no chance to respond to his words. Due to the wind as the tree shrank, the ground on which Ivy stood collapsed, too.
“Oops…!”
Thinking she was falling into the pitch-dark abyss, Ivy screamed, but she ended up sitting on something soft.
When Ivy came to her senses, she was back in the two-story house. In that house, Dias, who had just returned from the market, was preparing lunch.
“All life in this world is holding hands and walking together. Even if you don’t like each other, it’s unavoidable. As long as we’re connected by the same time and space, we have to share one world.”
Uvia said, fluttering around the house. However, neither Dias nor Ivy seemed to see Uvia.
While Uvia floated around, silently, Dias was cutting butter. Uvia continued speaking.
“However, the seer can care for life, so they can make this connection loose.”
“Loose?”
“While everyone is holding hands and walking, you’re the only one who lets go for a moment.”
As Uvia said that, the world flashed. The sky outside the window repeatedly changed between day and night, and Dias moved at an invisible speed, disappearing and reappearing.
After a while, the surroundings became quiet again. However, during that time, the scenery inside the house had changed considerably. The furniture had changed, and it was now winter. Dias, wearing different clothes from before, had much longer hair, tied neatly.
“Three years have passed for everyone except you. This way, you will look like someone who has skipped through time.”
Ivy looked back and forth between Dias and Uvia with a bewildered face. However, Uvia, without giving Ivy a chance to be surprised, asked:
“So, how should one make it look like they’ve traveled through time?”
“…Just rewind the time of everything except me.”
Ivy replied reflexively.
As if it were the correct answer, Uvia circled around in the air. Then, once again, the world flashed dark and bright rapidly. The structure inside the house changed, and Dias disappeared.
Eventually, in the static house, the familiar sight unfolded before Ivy’s eyes.
At that moment, footsteps thumped behind her. When she turned around, the astrologer was there.
Ivy looked at him with an astounded face. Even though she knew it was an illusion shown by Uvia, she couldn’t take her eyes off him.
Ivy stared at him with trembling eyes. Fortunately, before reaching out her hand or taking a step, everything collapsed.
“There is no future.”
Uvia’s voice echoed only in the darkness.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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