Chapter 425: 12.33

[Pupa: Ding! A hidden plot had been triggered, Rewinding Memories with Rewind Stone!]

Yunyu got a notification from Pupa, but he was still unconscious as if floating in emptiness. Everything felt light and hollow. Even his body felt hollow.

All his sensory had been numbed, and he couldn't even see or hear anything. But he could still hear Pupa's voice inside his head that woke him up.

[Pupa, are you there?]

Unlike Yunyu, Pupa seemed to be unaffected. It floated around in the hollowness and replied,

[Pupa: Yes, I'm here.]

[Where are we right now?]

[Pupa: We are in the belly of emptiness. This is basically my home most of the time, where everything is void. And we are here because of the Rewind Stone. It basically confirms my suspicion that Rewind Stone is part of Master Han Ye's power.]

[Pupa: I've asked Father Admin about Master Han Ye and how we've entered the backup world and original Ragemeter world, and he said that Master Han Ye and Master Bai Yunyu are meant for each other, but they keep destroying each other.]

[Pupa: He said that he wished Master Han Ye and Master Bai Yunyu would make up soon because he was tired working his bones taking care of the worlds.]

[Pupa: Anyway, I am unaffected in this belly of emptiness. This is my home and other system's home. But you are not a system, so all of your sensory have been numbed. You can't hear anything but my voice.]

…

Pupa nudged at Yunyu, who was still unconscious. It sighed and downloaded the hidden plot and then poured it into Yunyu's head.

--

Yunyu slowly accepted the hidden plot, and his consciousness transferred to the Imperial Palace once more. He saw Huang Shu as the young adult Seventh Prince. But what he saw was not the glorious Huang Shu that sat at the dragon throne with his majestic bearing.

But this Huang Shu was a disgraced Prince, with the long deceased Crown Prince, his brother, pointing his sword at him.

"It's unfortunate, seventh brother. I really think that you can be a great general for our Empire. I'm planning to give you the title of 'Great General' also once you get more achievement along the way. But it seems that you have more ambition than you should have."

Huang Shu glared at Crown Prince, but he was still unyielding, "Do you think I don't know what you will do once you get crowned? You will take Bai Yunyu for yourself, right?"

"And what if I do? Just because both of us are in love with the same person doesn't mean that I can have him for myself. I will be the next Emperor, so I get to decide who will be my Empress."

"Unlike you, you have nothing compares to me, Huang Shu," the Crown Prince chuckled and stabbed Huang Shu's neck.

Huang Shu hurriedly took out the Rewind Stone in his pocket and crushed it, sending the purple energy from the egg-shaped jade stone to the sky to create a dark cloud, just like what he did before.

"All the glory, including my beloved Bai Yunyu, will be mine!" Huang Shu yelled as everyone got sucked away into the black hole.

Huang Shu was the only one standing outside the black cloud, then the crushed Rewind Stone reshaped into one again and landed on Huang Shu's hand.

The Rewind Stone suddenly spoke in Huang Shu's hand, "Master Han Ye, do you want to plant a new memory or erase any memory before we rewind this world?"

[Han Ye?!]

Yunyu was stunned when he heard Han Ye. The Rewind Stone didn't say 'Master Huang Shu', but 'Master Han Ye.' That meant the Rewind Stone knew Huang Shu's true identity as Master Han Ye's soul.

[Pupa: Yes, Rewind Stone comes directly from Master Han Ye's power. So it isn't a surprise that it recognizes the true master.]

Huang Shu stared at the Rewind Stone and replied, "No need, I will completely rewind everything."

"As your command, Master."

The dark cloud exploded, and everything turned white for a moment, even for Yunyu and Pupa.

When they regained their sight again, they saw Huang Shu was a teenager again, probably in his fourteenth, starting anew like a reborn. Then like a novel, he started scheming to get everything he wanted, tempered with Crown Prince's horse during a war that got him killed and started courting his beloved one, Bai Yunyu, earlier. 

Bai Yunyu stared at Huang Shu, who finally sat on the dragon throne. This was the timeline that was written in the world background. There was no story about Huang Shu getting killed by Crown Prince or struggling to get Bai Yunyu's love.

After he was reborn with the help of the Rewind Stone, he basically became that unbeatable protagonist in a reborn novel.

Until he became too prideful and banished his wife, of course.

--

[He got the second chance and still managed to blew it up…]

[Pupa: Indeed. Apparently, that was his first timeline. We are right now in the second timeline and will enter the third timeline. Hold on, I've finally gained the cause of Breakmeter.]

[Pupa: Breakmeter cause #1: Hidden.]

[Pupa: Breakmeter Cause #2: Prevent Huang Shu from using the Rewind Stone more than three times.]

[Pupa: Apparently, this is his second time using the Rewind Stone. If he used this Rewind Stone power twice more, then something terrible would happen, although nobody knows what's the exact aftermath.]

[I see, then, I should give him a satisfying life, so he wouldn't even think of using it. Or maybe I should steal that Rewind Stone and hide it somewhere.]

Yunyu was thinking about how to complete the Breakmeter, but then Pupa suddenly said,

[Pupa: Hold on, based on the new information about the Rewind Stone, nobody except the bearer is immune to memory manipulation. The bearer has the ability to plant fake memory, erase some memory, and also turning back time to his favoured year.]

[… So you're also not immune to this memory manipulation?]

[Pupa: I should be immune, but we are connected, so what happened to you will also affect me. The only way to restore all of our memory is by touching the Rewind Stone.]

[…]

[Pupa:…]

The voice of Rewind Stone and Huang Shu echoed inside this Belly of Emptiness.

"Master Han Ye, do you want to plant a new memory or erase any memory before we rewind this world?"

"Yes, turn back the time and erase the memory of everyone inside about this timeline. Return to the moment I've married Bai Yunyu. Erase his memory, don't let him remember about my sins," Huang Shu said coldly.

"As your command, Master."

Pupa and Yunyu were stunned by Huang Shu's command to the Rewind Stone, feeling such an ominous feeling. Pupa tried to sever its connection with Yunyu first before escaping, but it was too late. Everything became a torrent around them. Pupa knew there was no way to escape this, so it jumped at Yunyu's chest, and they got sucked by the torrent.

[Pupa! What would happen next?!]

[Pupa: I don't know! But I cannot escape now! You Spicy Chicken Host better find that Rewind Stone! Because we will not be able to remember anything without touching it!]

…

Huang Shu watched as the world around him created again as the dark cloud spouted everything from its belly of emptiness. The Palace of Serene Harmony, the Imperial Palace, the Forbidden City, the capital, the outer region.

Huang Shu nodded satisfiedly because this was what he wanted.

"Ten years ago, when I just took the throne at such young age of twenty-two. You may not remember anything, my wife, but you shouldn't remember about bad things."

"Let's live happily in this time together, okay?" Huang Shu had a twisted smile on his face as he entered the world as the young Emperor,

Emperor Xianliang.