Chapter 730 - RW 1.25

Huang Jinren then darted his eyes at Han Ye, "And you, we're no longer a friend or working partner. I refuse to get associated with a malignant bastard like you."

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There was no answer from anyone because they also knew that Han Ye was abusing his power in this series. 

But they couldn't afford to let Han Ye leave the cast because this series was highly expected. At least 80% of the first wave supporters were Han Ye's massive amount of fans since he was basically the most popular man in China right now.

Huang Jinren turned his back and dragged Yunyu with him to his room. As the story's main antagonist, Huang Jinren also gets similar if not the same treatment as Han Ye. It was just his importance that was less than Han Ye due to his popularity. 

Huang Jinren entered his room with Yunyu and sat the young man on the bed. He closed the door and stared at the young man. He wasn't sure how to talk with Yunyu.

He wanted to say that Yunyu was a total idiot who blatantly ignored all the abuse that Han Ye had inflicted. He was blind and stupid just because of love.

Even Huang Jinren didn't know whether Yunyu actually loved that bastard or not. Maybe it was more admiration that led to blind worship.

But he knew, if he yelled at Yunyu right now, it'd hurt the young man even more.

So he slowly walked towards Yunyu and then kneeled in front of him.

"J—Jinren-Ge, why did you—?!"

"Yunyu, why did you do this to yourself?" Huang Jinren said as he gently wrapped his hands on Yunyu's smaller hands. "You're hurting yourself."

"Jinren… Ge?"

"Do you not know that your pain is also mine? Every time you look sad, or you got hurt, I can feel it as well."

"But… we've just met. I don't think you know what you're talking about, Jinren-Ge." Yunyu tried to pull his hands to no avail. Huang Jinren slowly looked up to Yunyu.

Huang Jinren showed a beautiful yet somewhat melancholic expression at Yunyu, like someone who had been in love for so long, yet unable to spend time together. 

"My white moonlight, please don't hurt yourself. I've always dreamed of you every night, and I wish I could spend more time with you. Yet, when I met you, you're in this pitiful state."

"Jinren-Ge, you… are saying weird things…."

Of course, Yunyu knew that was definitely the soul of Huang Shu speaking to him. The soft yet mellow voice was definitely Huang Shu from world 12.

He ended that world on a bittersweet note, but they reunited in the end after Huang Shu's death, right?

[Then how could he remember me? I thought if a world ended on a good note, then they will not remember anything.]

"I… I'm just saying what's in my heart, Yunyu," Huang Jinren said. He felt there was a thorn in his heart, seeing Yunyu suffer so bad in the hands of someone he loved. 

"This thorn in my heart, when you got hurt by someone you love, I feel like I am the one who had inflicted that pain to you, Yunyu," Huang Jinren put Yunyu's palm on his beating heart. "In here, my heart is in pain whenever you get hurt, Yunyu."

"Maybe there is something between us, a connection of the past. Because the moment I met you, I want to protect you, put you on the highest throne, make you my Empress, Bai Yunyu."

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[Huang Jinren doesn't remember his past as Huang Shu, Emperor Xianglian. But his heart remembers the connection between us, a pair of lovebirds in the turmoil of the imperial throne. He hurt me until my death, yet he also tried to compensate for everything he had done. We even have a child in the end, though it cost me my life.]

[I have forgiven him after our first time reset, but it seems that he still remembers how he hurt me.]

[And now, he wants to compensate… I guess.]

Yunyu wasn't sure how to approach this. He never thought he'd meet Huang Shu after he finished the world…

"My Emperor…" Yunyu called him softly. Huang Jinren felt that his heart was both in joy and grief when he heard Yunyu calling him 'emperor.'

Of course, he didn't remember anything, but this feeling wouldn't lie. 

"My Emperor, why have you followed me all the way here? I thought we had a happy life together until our deaths, and you have let go of our worldly affair…."

"Because it's not enough for me, my beloved Empress…." Huang Jinren let out all this sacred feeling in his heart. "I… I want to spend more time with you. I want us to be a family once more, even in another world."

"My heart doesn't lie, my Empress…."

Yunyu sighed deeply. Huang Shu was still the same mellow and gentle man behind that solid and powerful persona he put in front. 

"My Emperor, this is not our era anymore. I am but a different person in this world. Hence, we cannot be together…."

"I understand, my beloved Empress. Maybe what I did to you was too much. All the pain you have to bear because of my ignorance..." Huang Jinren got up and then sat beside Yunyu on the bed. He embraced Yunyu in his arms and kissed Yunyu's lips gently. "But I still want to protect you. This is the least I could do for you, since you have someone else in his life..."

Yunyu understood why Huang Shu didn't want to force him to be in a relationship. Their relationship in world 12 was very rocky and painful, albeit the bittersweet ending in the end. 

Maybe he just didn't want to put more pressure on Yunyu's life right now.

"But I will always be available if you've changed your mind, my Empress. You will always be in my heart, forever engraved in."

"My Empress, can I request something?"

"Yes, Emperor..."

"Can you.... leave Han Ye?"