In the end, the second year of high school, and even the third year of high school passed by quickly, with the three childhood friends graduating.
The result of the family drama had been that Rong Sheng's younger sister was sent to a private boarding school, while Rong Sheng had comforted the upset and depressed Wen Hua. Because Wen Hua had a weak personality, she forgave Rong Sheng, and even his sister in the end.
Although now that there was no child to protect her, Rong Sheng was still at her side, keeping her from being bullied by his parents.
After graduation, he forced their engagement, even with his mother and father's disapproval. The two of them ironed out the kinks in the relationship between their family after many years, getting married at 23.
As for Yin Mei and Yao Heyan, the two of them got officially married and held a lavish ceremony when they were both 21.
Of course, Yao Heyan couldn't help but subtly flaunt his newlywed life in front of Rong Sheng, who had yet to marry at that time, invoking jealousy in the man.
Yin Mei, who had completed her mission, initially thought that that was the end, but the mission actually had to update itself to the next mission: have a baby with Yao Heyan.
Yin Mei wanted to send back this faulty useless system to its creator. Have a baby, have a baby your mom! She wanted to ask just how many babies she would need to have with Yao Heyan before this mission was finally complete?
Really terrible! Bad reviews, she would give the system bad reviews!
After graduation, Yin Mei became a housewife. She could have gone to work, but she felt being a rich man's trophy wife was also good. She showed off her prowess in cleaning and cooking, that she hadn't been able to before, and Yao Heyan didn't even need to hire a personal chef or maid.
Yin Mei had never liked doing either of those two activities before now, but maybe because she was good at them, she began to find both of them relaxing and enjoyable.
She especially liked cooking, perhaps because it made her recall happier times in her previous world.
One day, Yin Mei decided to confront Yao Heyan.
"Let's have a baby," she boldly proclaimed. After a few years, it seemed that her sense of shame about these matters had faded a little? But she had to say this, or who knows for how long this guy would continue having protected s*x with her! She would never complete the mission this way.
Although it didn't matter that much, she still felt like if she didn't say something they might end up at age 40 with still no baby.
Yao Heyan blinked in surprise, finding this unexpected. Yin Mei always seemed unwilling to do it with him, though he could tell it was a combination of shyness, embarrassment, as well as simply due to the fact that his stamina was more than hers... as a result, he felt that her unwillingness was even more endearing in his eyes.
But, this sort of boldness was also good. He immediately felt his desire to eat her up rising, and seeing her red ears as she put up a brave front just made his throat feel a little dry.
"Do you know the consequences of what you're saying?" He asked, standing up from where he was sitting on the couch to walk over to Yin Mei, grabbing her by the waist and pulling her close to him. He caressed her cheek, a gentle smile on his face that made Yin Mei feel an innate sense of danger.
"O-of course I do! We're 25, it should be a perfectly good time to have a baby now!" She said bravely, and Yao Heyan leaned in closer.
His warm breath brushed up against her ear as he spoke. "Then I guess we'll have to. Work. Very. Hard." He emphasized each word at the end, before biting her ear, nibbling at it gently, and then slightly harder.
Yin Mei yelped. Yao Heyan proceeded to kiss, nibble, and lick at Yin Mei, moving down her neck and beginning to unbutton her shirt. "Wait! We aren't going to do it here, are we??" Yin Mei asked, pointedly looking around them. They were currently in the living room, and though the floor was covered in a lush and soft carpet, it still couldn't compare to the comfort of a bed.
Yao Heyan lifted her up, and carried her princess style into the bedroom. He seemed to really like doing this. Although he had been tempted just to take her then and there, after all, he really didn't want to make Yin Mei more uncomfortable than she needed to be. As for making her unable to get out of bed the next day due to a sore back, well, that was a totally different matter.
He placed her onto the bed, continuing his mission of undressing her, and Yin Mei also proceeded to undress Yao Heyan. This creamy white skin that was more beautiful than any female model's really made people want to stab him. Just that he was also so beautiful that it made one reluctant to do so at the same time. But Yin Mei had also now gotten used to having a beautiful appearance after four lifetimes of receiving bodies with good looks, and so didn't feel as hateful about it as she probably would have felt had she never transmigrated.
As Yao Heyan unbuttoned her shirt and revealed her pale skin underneath, a lace black bralette contrasting against the white of her blouse and skin.
Yao Heyan continued to kiss down her chest and stomach, his hand slowly going lower, as Yin Mei shivered.
Yin Mei discovered that night exactly just how motivated Yao Heyan could get when she took the initiative like that. In the end, she was sulking in bed for a very long time, completely unable to move. Of course, Yao Heyan, with that refreshing and warm smile of his, would continue to pamper and dote on her in the morning after, feeling completely satisfied with things.
Unlike Wen Hua, Yin Mei's fertility levels were normal and she wouldn't have such a convenient pregnant after one night of sex moment. She only got pregnant another year later, coincidentally at the same time as Wen Hua.
Because Rong Sheng and Yao Heyan were still very good friends and business partners, naturally Yin Mei had continued socializing with the couple and the result was that everyone had taken Wen Hua and Yin Mei to be best friends. Yin Mei wanted to deny this with dead eyes, but seeing this sparkly eyed little animal looking up at her with admiration, she could only stay silent.
Wen Hua was extremely excited that she and her best friend (Yin Mei: ... ) had become pregnant at the same time and immediately felt this was fate. She decided that if the children were opposite genders, they should definitely get engaged. Yin Mei personally disagreed with this sort of thing, feeling that this would definitely end up as some horrible convoluted love story, but upon Wen Hua's insistence, ended up agreeing with a sigh.
Whatever. It wasn't guaranteed that they would be opposite genders anyways.
But this was Wen Hua, the beloved daughter of heaven! So when they gave birth one day apart from each other, Wen Hua gave birth first to a little adorable boy and heir for Rong Sheng, while Yin Mei gave birth to a lovely cute young princess.
Yin Mei: ... She should have known!
The boy was called Rong Yi, and the girl was called Yao Yu.
Because the families were close, the two children naturally also became very close friends from a young age. Yao Yu inherited her mother's domineering attitude, while Rong Yi was a cool and capable little kid.
Five years later, Yin Mei gave birth to a male heir for Yao Heyan called Yao Yong, while Wen Hua gave birth to a little princess for Rong Sheng called Rong Xing a year after that. Yin Mei really wanted to cough up blood - were her children destined to be married to Wen Hua's children?
She found heaven's love for this woman incomprehensible, for even both their second children to be born so close to each other and of opposite gender as well.
Even despite Yin Mei's reservations, the two families remained very close, and her two little babies got along very well with their childhood sweethearts.
Yin Mei as well was finally able to complete her quest after Yao Yong's birth... was what she thought, but it had told her that the next quest was to actually grow old and die with Yao Heyan.
She had to say, Yao Heyan this b*stard was too greedy, actually not satisfied with her laboring to give him two cute little kids and still wanting to grow old with her! She was not secretly feeling warm in her heart at all.
The end result was that her babies got married to their respective childhood sweethearts, with none of the drama that Yin Mei had been expecting. They had babies of their own. Before Yin Mei knew it, Yao Yong had already succeeded his father in the companies that Yao Heyan owned as he retired. Rong Sheng as well, had retired even earlier. As for the information guild, he had washed his hands of that underworld stuff when his daughter had been born, wanting to start anew for the sake of his little innocent child.
Yin Mei felt very satisfied. Her older daughter was a successful lawyer, married to the current CEO of the Rong family's company, while her younger son was the CEO of Yao Heyan's companies, and even though he was married to Wen Hua's daughter, she had to say she did like this daughter-in-law of hers, that knew how to take care of her mother-in-law and was very conscientious. Although the mother was still an airhead after all this time, her children had inherited the intelligence of their father, and Yin Mei felt satisfied over this fact. They also didn't have that trouble drawing ability that Wen Hua possessed! Though after she had gotten married, it was true that Wen Hua no longer drew any trouble. Maybe it was because they had passed the "ending" of the original storyline? Yin Mei didn't know.
In the end, the two pair of Yin Mei and Yao Heyan lived to a ripe old age of 91 years before passing away at the same time.
While lying in bed together, Yao Heyan's old hand gripped Yin Mei's. "I'll be even better to you in the next life." He said. He actually already remembered. He had slowly recalled over the years, but always kept silent. He felt guilt. He felt regret. He wished to turn back time, but it was already impossible. He could only treat her well now, and in the next life, and the next life after that.
No matter what, he would find her again.
Yin Mei also remembered. She remembered it. But maybe because he was here by her side, it didn't seem to matter as much anymore. Her memories were still filled with pain, but now they also had warmth. She recalled the warm times as well as the painful times. And most of all, she now had this life to look back on, where she had a loving hubby, two lovely children, and lots of cute little grandchildren.
It was a good life.
No matter what happened next, she felt that now... now she had the strength to take it on.
The two of them closed her eyes. She felt Yao Heyan's breath slowly leave him and she let out a deep breath she didn't know that she had been holding. She then opened her eyes, and they were filled with a determination that she didn't have before.
"System, I wish to leave this world now." She said.
"Confirming decision. Please wait as host is transferred." The cool voice of the system sounded in her ears, and she also took her last breath.