Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 364 Answer
In the darkness, Xi Xian turned his head to look at Su Miaoyi.

Su Miaoyi stared at the ceiling, waiting for her answer.

Thunder rumbled outside, and the moon was already obscured by dark clouds.

Xi Xian chuckled softly: "Because I look a lot like her? I look a lot like you too. Why don't you suspect that we have some kind of relationship?"

“But you are more like Su Miaoyi,” Su Miaoyi said. “Although there are still some differences, you are more like her. And your voice is almost the same as hers.”

She returned as Su Miaoyi, so her voice was almost identical to Su Miaoyi's before.

Qin Leyan's voice is not like that.

And Xi Xian's voice is the same as hers now, or rather, as Su Miaoyi's voice before.

“Continue,” Xi Xian said.

"When you were on the rooftop, you said you could erase or add a person at will. If that's the case, you could have simply given me a new identity and let me come back directly. So why did you make me wait a year and bring me back as Su Miaoyi?"

"And... two years ago, when I died, I heard your voice in the darkness," Su Miaoyi said. "You told me you could grant me one wish. The voice then was similar to the one now, only with a more ethereal, clean, and sacred quality. Later, in the boundless darkness, I saw Su Miaoyi. She told me to come back as her and help take care of my uncle and aunt. Actually, at that time, I felt that your voices were very similar."

"However, as someone who is already dead, I need your help. I feel that it's enough that I can come back. I don't need to know much else. After I came back, I only had Su Miaoyi's memories, not Qin Leyan's. So naturally, I forgot what I saw and heard in the boundless darkness."

"I was in a coma for a month, and suddenly those things came back to me." Su Miaoyi shifted, turning over to lie on her side and looking at her. "It's an occupational hazard. When I think about it, I naturally think about it more. I can't understand it, but I also know that I can come back to life after I died, so there must be things in this world that I can't reach or understand. It's understandable that I can't understand it."

"But now that you've appeared, I've figured some things out and I've found some answers."

After listening to her finish speaking, Xi Xian chuckled and said, "You're still as smart as ever."

"So now I want to hear what you have to say," Su Miaoyi said.

"Listen to me?" Xi Xian paused for a moment, glanced at the lightning outside the window, and said after a while, "How should I put Su Miaoyi? You could say she's an alter ego of mine. I know everything she's experienced here."

"Why did you come here?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“There are some entanglements that need to be settled,” Xi Xian said. “With Ji Sheng and Cai Qinglian, and with Cheng Yong, Ge Yu, and Cheng Jue. You can also understand it as what is said in TV dramas; I need to go through a tribulation.”

"What would happen if we didn't undergo tribulations?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“It will be very boring,” Xi Xian said.

Su Miaoyi: "."

"As for the tribulation, I naturally can't interfere too much," Xi Xian said. "Besides, this tribulation will be over in twenty-five years. I don't even know how long I've lived. Twenty-five years is like a grain of sand in a boundless desert to me. It's too insignificant. I can't be bothered to care."

“But Cheng Yong, Ge Yu, and Cheng Jue were too good to Su Miaoyi. Such good people deserve to be rewarded. I was just thinking about how to make it up to them after Su Miaoyi died when you died.”

Su Miaoyi heard the excitement in her tone: "."

A long bolt of lightning struck outside the window, as if it had torn the sky apart.

“Knowing you as I do, if I gave you a choice, you would definitely come back,” Xi Xian said. “The daughter of a professor at Jinghai University and the director of the Jinghai Police Bureau, the niece of the richest man in Jinghai—with that kind of background, a single word from the Cheng family and Cheng Jue would set your future on a fast track.”

"That's why I made you wait a year, until Su Miaoyi died, so you could return as Su Miaoyi. You see, hasn't the Cheng family changed a lot?"

"I didn't realize that," Su Miaoyi said.

“The bigger changes are yet to come,” Xi Xian said. “With you here, Cheng Jue’s future path will be smooth. Even if Su Miaoyi lives on until she is a hundred, she won’t be of much help to the Cheng family or Cheng Jue. After all, she is a clone without memories. Influenced by the Ji family’s genes and her environment and experiences, she is somewhat weak in personality, not decisive enough, and not daring enough to take risks.”

“If they had a choice, they would definitely choose to let you live to be a hundred years old instead of my help,” Su Miaoyi said. Xi Xian smiled: “But this world has always been cruel. Human lifespan is limited, and no one can escape separation. I have already broken the rules and interfered in the affairs of this world. You see, you have your price, and I have mine. I’m back here to live this hard-working life of making money.”

Su Miaoyi was silent for a moment before saying, "You're just average too."

“Where I’m from, if anyone dared to talk to me like that, I’d have them encased in a wall,” Xi Xian said.

Su Miaoyi pulled the blanket off her and teased her, "When we were on the rooftop, you said you could wipe out the world with a flick of your finger, but now it seems... just so-so."

“Of course I can erase it with a flick of my finger, but there will be a corresponding price to pay,” Xi Xian said. “The three thousand worlds each have their own rules of operation, and arbitrary interference will cause chaos.”

Su Miaoyi thought for a moment and said, "Your tribulation isn't caused by the interference of this world and that world because of your world's movements, is it?"

Xi Xian remained silent.

Su Miaoyi knew she had guessed correctly: "You don't have a whole bunch of tribulations lined up behind you, do you?"

Xi Xian remained silent.

Su Miaoyi chuckled: "Got it, I was just being nosy."

"Shut up," Xi Xian said.

Another long bolt of lightning flashed outside the window, accompanied by a loud clap of thunder.

The windowpanes shook.

Xi Xian felt the tremor most clearly from the bay window. She turned to look out the window at the lightning that was about to tear the night sky apart, and shouted sharply, "Go back!"

Su Miaoyi watched as the lightning flashed halfway before retreating.

Su Miaoyi: "!!!"

"It's November, and you're still flashing and fighting!" Xi Xian said, sitting up. "Don't you have any common sense?!"

Su Miaoyi exclaimed in shock: "Oh my!"

A short while later, she saw the moon rise.

Su Miaoyi was so shocked that she immediately fell silent.

Xi Xian lay back down.

After a long pause, Su Miaoyi said, "So, will it really strike me?"

“It dares not,” Xi Xian said.

Su Miaoyi: "?"

"It's just trying to scare you."

Su Miaoyi: "??"

"You could say it's a reminder to you," Xi Xian said. "After all, you died once, so the fewer people who know, the better, and it's best to mention it as little as possible."

(End of this chapter)