It was really Gu Zixing. She can't believe she is seeing him here. But why is he here? How? Hong Cha watched him walk around and pass through the peach tree. He stopped in front of a camellia bush with red petals. If Hong Cha had guessed correctly, it was the rarest flower ever. The Middlemist Red Camellia. Xu Qin Rui is rich and powerful. It was not strange that he had this rare flower in this greenhouse. Hong Cha jumped down the peach tree as he turned to her. She felt her heart race fast.

  Is this a dream perhaps?

  "Are you Xu Qin Rui's relative?" his voice was no less familiar too. Hong Cha supported herself by relying on the tree. She shook her head in response.

  "Gu Zixing?" she called out in uncertainty. This caused him to pause.

  "Who are you?" he frowned.

  "Gu Zixing, I'm Hong Cha. You often call me by my English name, Camellia." Hong Cha felt immense sadness and a small trace of bliss. She walked forward with a look of disbelief. Without knowing, her tears were falling down. "Is this really you? Gu Zixing?"

  The young man was silent for a moment. He formed a smile that lacked emotion. "I finally found you, Hong Cha." he glanced at the red camellias that were about to bloom. "However, I am not Gu Zixing. Im Gu Jiaoyue, his twin brother."

  "You're not?" Hong Cha felt like she was doused by a bucket of cold water. No wonder she doesn't feel too acquainted. She only felt sadness with little bliss.

  "As of now, I am living as Gu Zixing. I faked my identity to look for him. Zixing has been missing for years now. The last person he met before he disappeared was you." in a second, his gentle temperament dropped cold. "Hong Cha, you vile woman. Where is my brother?"

  "I... I don't know. I can't remember things well. My memories were all fragments." she suddenly felt her heart was in pain. Hong Cha didn't expect Gu Zixing to disappear. "The last thing I remember, he was saying goodbye. Gu Zixing told me he will leave and is uncertain when he can come back. But I know he will never return. That's what I remembered."

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  "Hong Cha, that was just a fragment. I know you are transmigrating for world trials." he took a step forward as Hong Cha remained in her place. "I've been searching for Zixing's whereabouts for decades. I have a system assisting me to enter worlds where he can possibly exist. You know why we are here together?"

  Hong Cha can't think of what possible reason it can be. She wanted to see Gu Zixing too. She wanted to know who they were and how she died.

  "Because he always followed you. I don't know how or why, but my system tracked his life force, always connected to yours. You did this to him. He chose fiction over reality because you reside here. I wish to hate you, but you're the only key to finding him. Hong Cha, I can try setting aside my hostility against you if you help me find Zixing. Once I do, I will return him to our planet, not in this unaware world. That also means you will not see him again."

  "How can I find him?" Hong Cha, though reluctant, is willing to cooperate. If she sees Gu Zixing, she might know her real identity. All she knows is that she fell for two men in a lifetime and the last one was Gu Zixing. She needs to uncover her buried memories and free herself from confusion.

  "Awaken him." Gu Jiaoyue has no other choice. He's been looking for Gu Zixing for so many years in two worlds straight and tracked Hong Cha. Only she can convince Gu Zixing. "Zixing is not simple and he came from Earth 1. You have three trials to try out. If you finish completing them, meet me on Earth 1. I'll tell you what you need to do if you fail to awaken him here. This is a fictional world and we both know that. You destroy the plot to awaken this place and a male god will appear. Once you awaken a world, Zixing might appear but before I can find him, he would leave the world and follow you. He refused to be awake."

  "Does he have a system? Or do you mean to say he integrated as a fictional character?" she found an inkling from his words. Gu Zixing refused to be awakened, does that mean he is one of the main characters as well?

  "He doesn't have a system." his gaze lowered in melancholy. To enter different worlds, they must integrate their consciousness into a system that can traverse time and space. But Gu Zixing doesn't have a system. Gu Jiaoyue fears that his brother has become a fictional character already. And that character must be someone close to Hong Cha by any chance. "In your last world, can you guess who Zixing is from the main characters you met? Someone whom you felt close with? Even a faint liking?"

  Hong Cha thought and Lin Siji came to her mind. Was it him? It was a faint admiration since he is exceptionally beautiful, like Gu Zixing. But for so long, Nian Xiaoyuan has been running around in her mind.

  "I admired a feminine prince in the previous world but the villain placed a deep impression on me. At the same time, the villain was the male god. He died after a year or so when I left the world. As for the feminine prince, he was spared from the royal family's execution and lived longer." she can't tell which. Lin Siji or Nian Xiaoyuan?

  "The one who protected and loved you is Zixing. Was it the prince or the villain?" Gu Jiaoyue had interacted with the prince Lin Xingjin in the previous world as a palace guard. However, he never met Hong Cha.

  Before Hong Cha could answer, they heard a crashing sound by the door. Both of them looked back to see Xu Qin Rui with a broken flowerpot in front of him. His lips rose up to a dangerous smile as his eyes lit up in fiery anger.