One person: I am Li Buren, I cannot bear to do anything!

"We meet again."

Chen Duo ignored Li Buren, seemingly not having heard him, and focused intently on playing with the radish in her hand.

"Hey, put a mine here, or we'll lose."

"Huh? Where's the lightning?"

"Oh, but you'll have to pay for it."

"I have no money."

"I have."

Only then did Chen Duo raise her head to look at Li Buren.

"Last night, a girl gave me a choice: fight alongside Village Chief Ma and the others or wait here."

"I chose the latter."

Those green eyes were now incredibly clear, yet held a hint of confusion.

"Tell me, did I make the wrong choice?"

Chen Duo recalled what Li Buren and Lao Meng had talked to her about that day.

Everyone should be able to make their own choices about their life; this is both a right and an obligation.

Li couldn't bear to shake his head.

"You did nothing wrong."

"There is never a right or wrong choice; all we need to do is make those choices right."

Chen Duo lowered her head again, staring blankly at the screen.

Behind them, Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the temporary workers also gathered around.

"Master Li!"

Old Meng shouted.

He subconsciously worried about Li Buren's safety and Chen Duo's emotions.

But Li simply waved his hand.

Everyone could see that Li Buren seemed to be communicating very well with Chen Duo.

At this moment, Feng Baobao explained to everyone why Chen Duo had not appeared.

A glimmer of light shone from behind Old Meng's grimy glasses.

"Duo, there's still a chance..."

Chen Duo curled up there, burying her head in the crook of her knees.

"I don't know what to do."

Old Meng racked his brains, considering all possible options, and spoke slowly, his voice low and deep.

"You can choose to come back to the company with us, and we can arrange for you to go somewhere else."

"or..."

Old Meng suddenly got stuck; he seemed unable to think of any other options.

It was obvious to the naked eye that the middle-aged man was becoming panicked and started pulling at the people around him for help.

"Hurry and help me think of something else, what other options are there?"

"You're all so smart, think of something!"

Zhang Chulan walked out of the crowd with his head down.

"Or, death."

Chen Duo suddenly looked up.

Old Meng shoved Zhang Chulan: "Do you know what you're saying?"

"Are you crazy?"

"Shut up! Why are you forcing her!"

Everyone fell silent. They were all intelligent people and knew the company's attitude towards Chen Duo.

So at this moment, silence is their only answer.

"I want to die."

Chen Duo's soft voice fell, yet it seemed to carry an extremely heavy burden.

Old Meng opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to cry out, but it was stopped by a hand.

"I know you want to cry, but don't rush."

Li couldn't bear to walk back to the crowd and look at Chen Duo, whose eyes were full of clarity.

"As I've said before, everyone has the right to make their own choices."

The past cannot be undone, but the future can be changed.

"I can't travel back in time to save you, but I can give your future a chance to experience simple happiness and what life is like."

The tall Taoist priest bent down and slowly brought his face close to Chen Duo's.

"I used to hear people say that if someone says they want to die, they usually don't actually want to die; they just need to be loved."

Li couldn't bear it any longer, so he simply sat down, ignoring the mud and gravel, and sat cross-legged opposite Chen Duo.

"Of course you have the right to choose to die, but I think you should know what the other options are like before you make that choice."

"If you choose to die even after experiencing choices you've never felt before, then we will still support you."

Li couldn't help but sigh and reached out his hand to Chen Duo.

Under everyone's gaze, the small hand also reached out and placed on Li Buren's large hand.

...

"Actually, Chen Duo's biggest problem is not the Gu poison, but her psychology."

Li Buren and Lao Meng walked one after the other in the woods.

In the distance were the temporary workers surrounding Chen Duo.

The group decided to take Chen Duo to experience a world that was familiar and ordinary, yet completely foreign to her.

After hearing Li Buren's words, Lao Meng wanted to say something, but was at a loss for words.

"She didn't want to die, nor did she want to live; she just wanted a real choice."

"Whether she lives or dies, that is Chen Duo's own thought, that is Chen Duo herself."

"Instead of some Gu-body Holy Child from the Medicine Immortal Society, or a temporary worker at the company."

Old Meng remained silent for a long time before wiping his glasses.

"Um."

Li couldn't bear to take a step.

"So what we need to do now is to let Chen Duo feel, feel loving others, and feel being loved by others."

"The mountain breeze, the river water, the giant screen in the square, and the buskers in the subway."

"Chen Duo needs to experience this world firsthand before she can make the choice that is uniquely hers."

Three days passed quickly.

The group eventually met on a bridge in a city.

At this point, Chen Duo was already an ordinary, pretty girl in an ordinary city.

She got a manicure, wore fashionable clothes, and even put on trendy makeup.

Her smile, her joy and anger all became innocent.

Only those green eyes remain, holding the irretrievable past.

"Honestly, I can't tell whether these three days were a dream, or the past ten years or so were a dream."

Chen Duo was holding a small ice cream in her hand.

The ice cream melted and dripped onto the ground.

The girl with green eyes suddenly looked out from the bridge, where rows of trees stretched as far as the eye could see.

One river, two banks, two lifetimes, two feelings.

"Before this, it seems I had never really chosen what my life and existence should be like."

"But I've felt it these past few days."

Chen Duo turned around and looked at Li Buren, Wang Ye, Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the temporary worker.

On the left are the lanes on the bridge, with a constant flow of traffic.

To the right is the vast river, rushing on and on, with no end in sight.

Chen Duo suddenly shook her backpack, which had a fluffy brown bear plush toy tied to it.

That was caught by Lao Meng.

This middle-aged man, who wasn't good at this kind of game, spent a full 200 tokens before finally managing to catch the doll with the help of several people.

Chen Duo put all the other balls, Xiao Ge, and even the dolls that Feng Baobao caught into her bag.

Only the little bear was meticulously tied to the outside by Chen Duo.

Old Meng covered his glasses, turned his back, and shrugged his shoulders.

Xiao Zizai walked to the side and gently patted Lao Meng on the back.

Wang Zhenqiu and the others watched silently as Chen Duo skipped and hopped further and further away until she was far ahead of them.

Chen Duo finally looked at Li Buren.

"Although I haven't asked your name yet, I'm still very grateful to you for giving me the opportunity to choose."

"Compared to the happiness I've experienced these past few days, a real opportunity for me to understand and choose is actually more important to me."

"Thank you."

The girl with green eyes smiled at Li Bulian, her eyebrows curving upwards.

"So, finally, please play a game with me."

"I'll count to three, two, one, and then we'll all turn around and walk forward. No one is allowed to look back, okay?"

Chen Duo's voice was still as cheerful and ethereal as ever.

"Three, two, one."

Chen Duo turned around, and the others did the same.

Old Meng tried his best to suppress his sobs, but instead created an atmosphere of profound sorrow.

Tap, tap, tap.

Only the echoing sound of footsteps striking the bluestone pavement of the bridge remained.

Chen Duo didn't say anything more, seemingly trying her best to restrain herself.

Li Buren suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He didn't turn around, he just said...

"By the way, my name is Li Buren."