Chapter 256 To My Future Self
I think I should thank you, but I just can't do it.

I followed every step you taught in your letter and followed it carefully. The effect is very good. I believe that when you come back and see all this, you will understand it deeply.

But these years I haven't been as happy as I seem to be.
Remember, when I came into this world, I wanted to go home.

I wonder if you have been back?
Is Xixi okay?
Where is Qiao Jiming?

Will my mother still be sarcastic?
I always feel that everything here is not real. Even though I have a lot now, I don’t feel that all of this belongs to me.

I believe you understand that feeling, right? You and I both know that this is just a game, it is virtual, and we cannot live in a virtual world forever.

I showed your letter to Zongfang, and just as you said, we resolved a lot of misunderstandings and talked a lot in a calm manner, but I don't know why, I always feel like there is something missing between us. He is still very good to me, taking care of me in every detail and putting me first in everything, but I still feel that something has changed quietly. He occasionally looks at me in a daze, and I know that he is waiting for that moment, the moment when you come back in the future.

Every time this happens, I feel a little sad.

I was clearly right in front of them, but Zongfang and Anubis had been waiting for that day. I think Luka also noticed it, but he never said it.

But these are just a few regrets in my good life over the years. I know that maybe they are nothing compared to what you have experienced, but I still want to tell you.

You must be great, right?

I can feel your strength from your words. You seem to become very determined, brave and decisive, which is exactly what I want to be.

But I hope that as you become stronger, you will not lose your innocence and original intention.

Qiao Suisui, we should bloom in reality.

Don't forget your way home.

The wind blew the gauze curtain, and the scattered drawing papers surrounded the girl sitting on the floor. Qiao Susu looked at the letter in her hand with her eyes lowered, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking.

outside the temple.

Libery went to the banquet hall to deal with the guests who were still detained. As he walked, he ordered his deputy to prepare some valuable souvenirs and asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs to prepare a speech to give everyone a decent reason and explanation for the incident at the banquet.

Anubis hurried to the medical team's office. He now needed to brush up on a lot of common sense about pregnancy and childbirth. All he could think about was what she could eat and what she couldn't eat.

Karl stood outside the hall, leaning against the wall pillar and smoking. It looked like he wanted to see Qiao Susui as soon as she had rested.

Zongfang and Ruka looked at each other, neither of them said anything, and then walked in the same direction.

The two of them came to an empty conference room, and Zongfang closed the door. The next question he asked was: "What do you think?"

Luka was silent for a while, then he sighed. "I don't know."

If any other man was here, they might not understand this conversation at all, but Zongfang and Luka obviously had a consensus with each other.

Zong Fang said: "I won't let her leave. You just heard that she has family in another world. Why don't you let me continue asking? I still don't know how she left."

"What can you do now that you know?" Luka asked him, "Destroy her way back? Or just lock her up like she was treated before?"

Zong Fang was speechless. They all knew that he would not treat Qiao Susu like that.

Luka pressed his temple, sorted out his feelings, and said, "We have no choice but to respect her decision."

"Then can you just watch her leave?"

Zong Fang's eyes were full of tiny flashes, and the emotions that he had been suppressing in front of Qiao Sui Sui just now burst out without any concealment. "You can live without her, but I can't."

Luka frowned and pushed him, his deep voice was filled with rare anger: "What can you do? Force her? Or pester her every day until she gets tired of you?"

Zongfang gritted his teeth, his chest heaving, and the veins on his forehead bulged.

Luka walked past him and went out. His hand froze for a moment as he held the door handle. He didn't know whether the words he said were a warning to Zongfang or a way to convince himself: "No matter what her choice is, I will accept it, even if she wants to leave."

After calming down, Qiao Susu planned to go see the children. As soon as she walked out of the palace gate, she saw Karl squatting in the corridor with his back to her, and she didn't know what he was doing.

She walked up and called out "Karl", only to see the man standing up in a panic, waving his hands frantically to dispel the smell of smoke, with cigarette butts all over the floor under his feet.

Qiao Susu took a quick look and saw that there were at least seven or eight of them.

“When did the addiction become so severe?”

Karl smiled nonchalantly, "It's boring to stay here." Then he changed the subject: "Have you rested well?"

She nodded and said, "Aren't Harveys and the others leaving tomorrow? I want to go see them."

Karl made sure that there was no smell on him, then he went over and held her hand, saying, “I’ll go with you.”

The imperial court is very large. Qiao Susu's palace is in the middle of the central axis, and the children's bedrooms are on the east and west sides of the imperial court. Luka and the four children live on the east side. Because Liberi is the sun, he lives directly behind Qiao Susu's palace, also on the central axis. The six deer cubs live on the west side, Carl and the five leopard cubs live in the southwest, and Zongfang himself lives in the northeast. The children are all in the Federation, and Anubis and Zongfang are neighbors.

While Qiao Suisui was still wondering whether to go to the east to see Harves and his friends first or to the west to see Tyr and his friends, Karl had already summoned a servant and asked him to summon all the children to the nearest reception room. The servant respectfully agreed and hurried away.

Karl played with her hand and said, “We should have asked them to see you first, but we were afraid of disturbing your rest. It’s not too late now. Let them run, and I’ll walk with you slowly.”

Qiao Susu agreed with a smile. As the two were walking towards the reception room, they ran into someone they hadn't seen for a long time.

"Sui Sui."

A clear and pleasant voice was heard. Qiao Susu looked over and saw Lan Ze standing a few steps away, waiting quietly.

"Lan Ze?" She took a few quick steps forward in surprise, but was stopped by Karl.

Karl raised his eyes lazily, stared at the person in front of him, and said, “What are you doing here?”

In this timeline, after Qiao Susu and Zong Fang cleared up the misunderstanding, they found Lan Ze as stated in the letter. Lan Ze directly admitted everything he had done, but the only thing he could not get over was the fact that he did not even have a place by her side over the years.

After that, he used Neo's whereabouts as a bargaining chip to get Libery to allow him to move back to the Royal Court. Although he didn't do anything out of line in these years, he would occasionally show up in front of Qiao Susu to show off, which made other men secretly dissatisfied, but they couldn't find any fault with him. If they were too aggressive with him, they would be ignored by Qiao Susu.

So Lan Ze has been cleverly maintaining a balance.

Now, he knew it was time for him to break the balance.

Lan Ze smiled faintly, his spiritual thread passed directly over Karl, gently wrapped around Qiao Suisui's ankle, and said to her: "I heard that you fainted suddenly, are you okay?"

Qiao Suisui noticed that Karl’s expression was not very good, and shook his arm, “You go first, I’ll come later.”

Karl raised his eyebrows and sneered: “Let me make room for him? No way. If you have anything to say, just say it here. I’ll watch you and say it.”

(End of this chapter)