Chapter 72 - To find happiness in this lifetime (2/2)

Not being able to do much, she practiced martial arts in her free time. She should be in her top-notch form. Who knows when she has to use it on the fifth prince?

”My lady, the prince is here with someone to see you,” Xiao Luo tells her with a neutral face. It's quite late. It's strange that the prince will bring another boy at this time.

”Huh?” Kwon Yoori wonders who could come with the prince at this time. Is it Li Jun or Kyuri?

She comes out of the inner chamber. She exclaims in happiness when she sees her niece. ”You are here.”

”Brother.” Kyuri gives her a hug. ”I missed you.”

”I missed you too.” Yoori hugs her niece back cheerfully. In a stranger era and a foreign country, her niece is her only comrade and her family.

Wu Yixing watches the girls with a grudge in his heart. He wants a hug too. Why can't he also scream 'brother' and hug his wife?

It's like a puppy has been abandoned by his master.

She doesn't know what to make of this situation. She pours down the tea for the prince and offers it to the prince quietly.

The prince wipes his nonexistent tears and takes the tea. He complains to her, ”Your madame is the type of woman who wouldn't miss me even if I don't show my face for days.”

”...”

***

”You did what?” Furious, My aunt yells at me. ”Why would you make such a deal for me?”

”It's not a bad deal.” I don't know why she is angry. ”Aunt, I am freaking immortal until I reach my time. Until then, I can't die or grow up. You can live a normal life. If you don't mess up with time again, you won't be hunted by the timekeepers.”

”But, it's not fair.” The corner of her lips curls down. She holds her head as if she's getting a headache. ”Everything is going wrong.”

My situation won't change for a while. She has a chance to live a normal life. ”Aunt, don't mess up with time again. I am quite satisfied with how things have turned out. If you do something again, both of us will be caught and put into a time prison. If one of us can live a normal life, it's not bad. Besides, I can't stay here forever. You still have six years until your powers come back. Wu Yixing will protect you and give you a good life until then.”

I don't know what kind of decision she will make when her powers return. Will she go back to her time or stay here? It's up to Wu Yixing.

”I didn't appear before you left your time.” She looks up at me with deep struggles in her eyes. ”If I go back home and live there, I will mess up the timeline again. It might affect your existence.”

That's true. The timekeeper probably knew it too.

Aunt Yoori disappeared before I was born. In the original timeline, she went back to her correct time to give the purple notebook to grandmother. My grandmother gave that notebook to my father to pass it to me. When I came back to the past for the first time, I gave it to my aunt.

It was a trap set by the timekeepers to force her to go to her correct timeline and capture her.

This time, the timekeepers might not capture her. But, there is no telling how her presence would affect my existence.

I was born to correct her mistakes.

Still, there's a chance that she might find happiness with Wu Yixing.

”Aunt Yoori, this era isn't bad.” I pat her head to calm her down. ”But, if you want to go back, don't think about me. Maybe, things will turn out good.”

”Kyuri, I want to leave this place and come with you.” She hunches down her shoulders. She knows that she can't leave with me without the antidote.

”I will keep an eye on things here,” I tell her to soothe her worried heart. ”When you get the antidote, I will come to get you.”