Regarding the question of whether one thousand lives are enough to beat Honkai Impact 3rd.

The girl felt the softness and warmth of her face, lost in thought.

She had already accepted that Su Qing'an would not go to Canghai City with her.

It would be too much of a burden for Fu Hua to make such a shameful request, given her thin skin, although she had had a strong urge to confront this thought in the past few days.

Fu Hua, who didn't understand Su Qing'an's future plans, was afraid that her willfulness might affect his existing plans.

And so, the last shred of courage vanished.

However, Su Qing'an did not mention his intention to leave. It was as if he had completely gotten used to life at home and would continue to stay there for a long time, which made Fu Hua, who was afraid that she would never see him again, breathe a sigh of relief.

Even so, she was still worried about whether her father and Su Qing'an would get along well in the future, since she had always acted as a bridge between them.

So after I leave, the simple life of just the two of us might make the atmosphere a little too silent and awkward.

What if Master Su is kicked out of the house by his father and ends up on the streets? The girl secretly began to prepare to make sure that Fu Xiuran and Su Qing'an got along well before boarding the plane.

This person clearly hadn't realized that the two had already eased their tensions and were even gradually starting to see each other in a more agreeable way.

The girl breathed into the car window, and with her fingertips, she wrote someone's name on the natural canvas formed by the condensed mist, murmuring with a hint of disappointment:

"It will be a long time before we see him again."

"I'm a little...reluctant to part with it."

23. Fu Hua's dilemma, and her father-in-law's probing.

After writing the name in a daze, the girl suddenly woke up as if from a dream, blushing and hurriedly smearing the words on the car window.

Waaaaah, if Dad or Master Su himself sees this, I'm doomed!

Am I an idiot?

Fu Hua shook her head to clear her mind, glancing at the empty car as she thought.

Why are they still at home?

Bored, the girl drew circles on the remaining white fog on the car window with her fingertips, her eyes looking towards home through the window with a puzzled expression.

Are they whispering something to each other?

Fu Hua didn't feel anxious about the wait; on the contrary, she wished the time could last a little longer.

For girls, leaving their hometown a little later is an instinctive attachment, and therefore these agonizing waits become precious moments to cherish.

Slow down, let me...

Let me think about it some more.

My fingertips pressed against the cold car window, and as I applied more pressure, my skin gradually turned white, like the refreshing snow.

A voice inside her kept urging the girl to make that seemingly selfish decision.

That decision lacked proper reasoning and sufficient justification for implementation.

That idea of ​​restricting a teenager's freedom simply for one's own preferences.

On the eve of my departure, these thoughts once again clamored in my mind like never before.

They seemed to be telling of fear and unease, gradually pulling the girl out of her drowsiness. She gazed at the azure sky, her mind preoccupied, and gripped her phone tightly.

Should I... allow Su Qing'an to accompany me to Canghai City?

Despite being such a selfish and unreasonable proposal, it haunted her like a nightmare, tormenting the girl's honest nature.

The sudden vibration of her phone made Fu Hua look at the screen, which had unlocked itself. It was an email from Lin Xinchan.

Today is the day Xiaohua goes to Canghai City. I wish you academic success and a happy youth. (*'▽'*)?

When the girl saw the cute emoticons, she unconsciously associated them with the expressions Lin Xinchan would make.

Fu Hua's lips curled up slightly, and the emoticon was a bit too vivid and expressive, matching her personality.

She quickly typed out a reply, hesitated for a moment, and then added an emoticon at the end of her message.

【Okay, thank you, Xin Chan. You'll be starting your formal training soon, right? Good luck then! (?oωo?)】

At this moment, Lin Xinchan, who was far away in another city, suddenly remembered the subtle relationship between the girl and Su Qing'an that day, and typed out a message within ten seconds.

[Speaking of which, Xiao Hua, if you go to Canghai City, won't Su Qing'an eventually find someone new?]

Fu Hua's cute face, which was showing a hint of joy, suddenly froze.

How can you be so good at talking?

What? What? What? You've found someone new!

No, no, I'm not Master Su's girlfriend!

No, no, no, Master Su won't be looking for a new love.

"No" seems like a strange answer too.

Just as the little girl's brain was about to overload with shyness and explode, the next message arrived.

Damn it, so what if you type fast!

Putting aside her strange and embarrassed reaction, the girl carefully looked at Lin Xinchan's text message.

【I know this stuff really well, long-distance relationships are bound to fail miserably, so don't cry your eyes out then, hahaha, (???)】

Why did you type so many "hahahaha"s? Are you happy?!

The girl's gaze was distant and wistful.

I'll kill you. The next time we meet, it'll be the death penalty.

She hesitated for a moment, then asked tactfully:

"Well... doesn't Xin Chan think it's going too far to send Su Qing'an and me to Canghai City? Maybe he has his own reasons."

Lin Xinchan responded without even thinking:

[Wouldn't that be going too far? After all, prices in Canghai City are so high, and he wouldn't have anywhere to stay if he went with you. No normal person would go with you unless they love you so much they can't live without you.]

But honestly, how would you know if you didn't ask him? Is Xiaohua stupid? If you're curious, just ask him yourself.

Should I...go and ask him myself?

……

……

In the not-so-spacious living room, the boy and the man looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

"Su Qing'an, what does this world look like to you?"

This was an extremely unusual opening, like a grand and ethereal topic that a man who was usually not good with words casually brought up in order to prevent the situation from becoming awkward.

What does the world look like in Su Qing'an's eyes?

This should be an extremely boring topic for the person being questioned.

It is empty and vast, enough to fill with any idea at will.

It might be more suitable as a debate, but it should never have happened on the eve of Fu Hua's departure.

But Fu Xiuran looked at the boy with such seriousness in his eyes.

The blue eyes, weathered by time, were fixed entirely on his face, as if they held a sharp, hard blade, ready to tear apart the boy's indecisiveness in his indecisiveness about whether to reveal the truth.

Su Qing'an understood that Fu Xiuran wasn't just casually starting a conversation; he genuinely wanted to know the answer she would give.

I don't know why...

The man's eyes unconsciously overlapped with those of Shuichi Kanbara, both so heavy and sharp.

But... do you really possess Mr. Kambara's unwavering will to forge ahead even after fully understanding everything?

If you try to approach the truth with only a half-baked understanding, you might as well stay away from this vortex from the start.

Even possessing the martial arts of the Mind's Eye Realm doesn't mean Fu Xiuran has the same level of awareness as that man. Moreover, the despair brought about by this truth is even greater than the predicament that Shenyuan Village faced at that time.

Even if it were for the other person's sake, Su Qing'an would not easily reveal the truth.

To die in the blink of an eye, completely unaware of what is to come, is far better than to die in constant fear and anxiety.

Which one is gentler?

Su Qing'an loathed the situation that required him to make this decision, but reality forced him to make a choice.

There is no room for escape; whether to speak or not is already a choice.

The boy met Fu Xiuran's gaze without flinching or avoiding it, and said:

"You should know that everything I have experienced is not on the same level as everything you have ever been exposed to. It's like the difference between a shonen manga and the everyday life shown on the news. There is a fundamental difference between them."

"Those scenes I witnessed, even if my uncle knew, he would be powerless to change them. Having experienced what happened before, you should understand them better than anyone else. It is precisely because your martial arts have reached the realm of the mind's eye that you should be able to understand this fact better than ordinary people."

"Even if you know everything, your abilities will not change because of the increase in this knowledge."

"So why are you so fixated on this?"

Fu Xiuran wasn't angry; he just smiled and said:

"Xiao Su, when did you start to think that I wanted to know the truth?"

Su Qing'an said:

"From the very beginning. But this is to be expected; a normal person would react the same way in the same situation."

Fu Xiuran gave a similar yet different answer:

“I’ve wanted to know the truth ever since your martial intent gave me all the answers.”

Only after accurately understanding the boy's true nature and his feelings for Fu Hua did Fu Xiuran begin to desire the answer.

The reasons and differences are already quite obvious.

The man continued, smiling:

“You’re right. If such a monster didn’t have the abilities you mentioned, it would be an enemy that normal humans couldn’t handle. Even a martial artist like me, who has toiled for twenty years, would only need one mistake to go to the Yellow Springs.”

"Knowing everything like this will only make me more uneasy and afraid, isn't that what you're thinking?"

Su Qing'an nodded silently, not surprised that her thoughts had been guessed.