As she spoke, the silk thread wrapped around my neck tightened gradually. I felt my breathing becoming increasingly difficult and my body was already off the ground. I struggled desperately but to no avail. Tan Jiao rushed up from behind and hugged me tightly, trying to pull the thread off my neck.

  Everything ended suddenly in an instant.

  The threads that had tightly wrapped around me were suddenly pulled away all at once. I fell to the ground, my vision blurring in front of me as I gasped for air in big mouthfuls. Tan Jiao held me tightly in her arms, and we lifted our heads up together.

  The bright moon that was about to fall, I don't know when it came out from the clouds, shining on the earth.

  Feng Yan stood behind Chen Ruyin, a dagger inserted into Chen Ruyin's back. Chen Ruyin's face became extremely stiff, the silk thread in her mouth was gone, only some sticky liquid remained at the corner of her mouth. She slowly fell to the ground, her body starting to twitch slightly.

  Feng Yan's whole body was silly, and then tears flowed down, rushing to hug Chen Ruyin and saying: "Ruyin, Ruyin, how are you..."

  Chen Ruying said in a low voice: "Mom... why do you want to kill me..."

  Feng Yan hugged her and suddenly let out a mournful cry.

  Tan Jiao supported me, slowly standing up. We still didn't dare to get too close, but Feng Yan's one knife was right in the heart, she was determined to kill her daughter, Chen Ruyin was already breathing more out than in.

  "You can't kill them......" Feng Yan cried, "They are innocent, innocent...... You this way...... How will you live on......"

  Chen Ruying's scattered gaze swept over us again, and she softly sighed: "A Yu..."

  Neither Tan Jiao nor I spoke.

  Chen Ruying's eyes opened and closed, as if she had suddenly received some strong stimulation. Her eyes snapped open, looking at us, and this time, finally regained the clarity of a human being before death.

  "You... you... why did... clearly on the ground... that ship..." Her face was pale, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying. My heart suddenly tightened and I took a step forward to ask: "What are you saying? Who are you talking about?"

  However, Chen Ruying's eyes widened, and she suddenly laughed again with that extremely strange and cold smile. It was clear that she knew something but didn't say it out loud. Her hand slid down and stopped moving. Feng Yan hugged her and wept bitterly.

  I looked at Tan Jiao, her face was also very unsightly.

  This is the second time. Before that, Yan Yuan and Chen Ruying also couldn't recognize us, just like us, they lost all memories of that boat.

  At the moment before their death, they all seemed to remember something, looking at me and Tang Jiao, with such a violent reaction.

  What does this mean? What shocked them so much?

  Later, in the underground, where we were brought by the flood, what happened to Tan Jiao's body?

  Why did she alone lose a year of memories?

  Why did time start flowing backwards after I met her?

  ……

  My heart sank into a deep abyss, and Tan Jiao stood at the bottom of that abyss, at this moment using those forever quiet and confused eyes, unable to distinguish the passing of time, gazing at me.

  However, Chen Ruying is already dead, and everything cannot be found again. Although we changed history and saved one more Tang Lulan and Feng Yan, Chen Ruying died. And behind us, Professor Chen has long been unknown where he went.

  In the past, that night at the Chen's house might have been similar to tonight. It was just that we weren't there, so Feng Yan didn't kill Chen Ruyin. Afterwards, neither Chen Ruoyan nor her father told the police about what had really happened. Was it because of Chen Ruyin's secret or because of this night, they couldn't face looking back?

  The sound of sirens and fire trucks was getting closer, with two familiar voices shouting my name and Tan Jiao's. The flames had almost engulfed the entire villa, illuminating the sky behind us. I hugged Tan Jiao tightly and sat down in the snow. Not far away, Feng Yan touched Chen Ruyin's dead face, suddenly smiled and muttered to herself: "Ruyin, it's good that you died like this, so you don't have to suffer anymore." She then touched Su Wei's dead face on the other side, saying: "You actually didn't know what I wanted. He didn't know either. Actually, I couldn't leave this house, and I still want to go back there."

  My heart sank, and I roared: "Master's wife! Don't be foolish!" But it was too late. She suddenly stood up, turned around, and ran towards the burning house. In a flash, she was engulfed by the flames.