sbdcsierra Chapter 678 My Story
Chapter 678 My Story
Lu Yangyang leaned down and hugged Rong Xin.
"Auntie, I already know your story. Would you like to hear mine?"
Rong Xin looked at Lu Yangyang with some surprise.
She actually knew why Lu Yangyang had come to watch over her: he was afraid she would do something foolish.
During the years they spent together, they never really got to know each other properly. All she knew was that Lu Yangyang had been abandoned. She remembered that time when she was just a little girl, in the dead of winter, wearing thin, tattered clothes, with nowhere to shelter from the wind, so she secretly hid in Lu Yangyang's arms.
She pushed her away countless times, but she kept clinging to her relentlessly.
In those years, the two of them depended on each other for survival. She was mentally unstable and couldn't even take care of herself. The Empress had already taken a huge risk by sending her away, knowing countless eyes would be watching. So they could only secretly find complete strangers to take care of her. Life was hard, but she didn't care. It was little Lu Yangyang who supported them. Even if she only got a dry biscuit from outside, she would bring it back and share half with her. When she got a little older, she would tirelessly follow the hunters into the mountains to find food every day, never begging for food in the village again. When she was only four or five years old, she began to shoulder the burden of supporting both of them, never uttering a single complaint.
When Lu Yangyang left, she said she was going to seek justice, but her mental state was already very poor at that time, and she was rarely sober. She didn't remember why she left at all.
All she knew was that when Lu Wei was home, he would bring her food every day without fail, and when he wasn't home, he would have someone deliver it on time and even have someone cut up clothes and throw them into the yard.
She knew it was all because of Lu Yangyang.
Rong Xin grasped Lu Yangyang's hand, and Lu Yangyang smiled at her, beginning to tell her about her background, what happened after she went to the capital, and what happened from the time she left the capital until she finally met her.
“I used the medical skills my aunt taught me to save many people, and to some extent, I changed their lives. All of this is because of my aunt.”
Rong Xin shook her head. "It has nothing to do with me."
“No, it has something to do with you.” Lu Yangyang said with great certainty, “I have never told anyone, Aunt, before I left Qingzhou for the capital, I had a dream. In the dream, I did not meet you, Aunt, and lived a completely different life.”
"A dream?" Rong Xin frowned slightly, looking at Lu Yangyang in surprise.
Lu Yangyang nodded and told Rong Xin what happened in her dream: "As time went by, the dream became more and more blurry, so there are many things I can't remember. But I still remember my ending in the dream. Because of my insistence and my desire for more love, I was covered in wounds. Even in the end, when I woke up, I didn't have the ability to protect myself."
"But because I met my aunt, I learned medicine and gained the ability to protect myself. Even if I couldn't get justice for myself in the capital, I can still live well and do many things, save many people, and change many people's lives."
“Yangyang…” Rong Xin stared blankly at Lu Yangyang.
“Aunt, before I came to Changyang County to see you, I made many plans. I thought I should try to help you regain your memory, lead the old Rong family army back to the capital, beat the Dengwen Drum, and seek justice for the Rong family and those who died unjustly in Chenzhou, or I should let you never remember anything and just live on in a daze.”
“I’ve thought about it many times, but I still feel that this is a decision you should make yourself.”
“In those things, you were also a victim. You have the right to choose to live and the right to choose to die,” Lu Yangyang said earnestly. “So I never intended to advise you to do anything or not to do anything. I just hope that you can make the decisions you want to make in a sober state. You don’t owe anyone anything.”
After saying all this, Lu Yangyang hugged Rong Xin again, then got up and left, leaving Rong Xin alone.
After an unknown amount of time, Wenren Jing came in, brought the medicine, and placed it aside.
Rong Xin reached out, picked up the medicine bowl, and drank the medicine.
Wenren Jing looked at her with surprise and delight.
“In my past life, when I was sixteen, I was still studying in school, following the rules,” Rong Xin put down the medicine bowl and looked into the distance. “In this life, when I was sixteen, I was still dreaming of a simple life of practicing medicine and helping the world. I’ve lived for more than half a century in total, and I’ve had enough. I can’t even last another second. Yangyang started taking care of me when she was three, and took on the responsibility of supporting me when she was four or five. She’s suffered enough. Now she’s sixteen, and she has seen through the truths that I couldn’t see in my two lives. My life has been too smooth, so smooth that I can’t withstand any setbacks. I never thought that what I have might be something that others could never get in their entire lives.”
“Ever since then, I’ve been thinking about what the meaning of my time travel is. I haven’t changed anything, only my broken and collapsing life remains. But if I traveled here and changed her life, wouldn’t that be a kind of salvation that this time and space has left for me?”