I'll give my daughter one more second.

Before Wu Shen could finish speaking, he suddenly felt Yun Ying's small hand grab his collar.

"help me……"

A soft, heartbreakingly delicate voice, tinged with a sob, reached Wu Shen's mind.

"Dad, save me, help me. I know I made a mistake, but I don't want to just disappear like this. I still want to live with everyone and grow up together. I don't want to disappear so soon after I came into this world."

If given the choice, who would truly wish to sacrifice themselves? Does anyone really want to disappear completely in the midst of happiness and fulfillment, leaving no trace of their existence?

Doesn't everyone hope for a happy ending?

"I don't want my other family members to disappear, and I don't want to disappear myself. But I can't find any other solution. Is this wish really just an unrealistic and naive fantasy...?"

"Of course not. The wish for family reunion is a very common one."

Wu Shen hugged Yun Ying tightly; this was the only thing he could do to comfort her at the moment.

Whether they were the perpetrators of the daughter's disappearance or other victims of the incident, Yunying and her friends bore far too much fear, panic, anxiety, and responsibility that they shouldn't have at their age.

This can't go on any longer. Today, let's put an end to all the worries and pressures on my daughters. Wu Shen's resolve grew even stronger.

"I have accepted Yunying's wish. Now, leave the matter of fulfilling her wish to me."

That's right. At Christmas, all a little girl should do is obediently tell her wish and go to bed early. As for preparing gifts and fulfilling wishes, that's something for parents to worry about and plan.

All my daughter needs to do is drift off to sleep happily, and when she wakes up, she'll find her wish has come true and she's received a gift, and then she'll show a cute little smile.

In the living room, the lolis were still arguing and laughing about Tsukine and Ame-on from their first reincarnation.

Just then, the living room door was slowly pushed open, and Wu Shen coughed lightly, immediately drawing the attention of all the lolis.

Wu Shen led Yun Ying by the hand and walked to the front of everyone. Yun Ying's eyes were still a little red, perhaps because she had just cried.

"Father actually made Yunying cry, how awful," Yueyin said with a smile.

“Hey, this isn’t my fault,” Wu Shen complained.

"It's unimaginable. What cruel tortures did Father inflict on Yunying to turn her into this?" Wuyi trembled, looking at Wu Shen in horror.

"Father, even if interrogation is necessary, I think there should be limits..."

"Hey, hey, hey, what kind of weird misunderstanding is this? Yunying, quickly explain it to them!"

"Um, Dad did this and that to me, sob sob, I can't say it... QWQ" Yun Ying covered her face and lowered her head shyly.

"Stare..." All the little girls' eyes were drawn to this.

"Those things were just Yunying and me being cute and charming. Don't misunderstand," Wu Shen quickly explained.

"Waaaaah, Daddy, you promised you wouldn't tell anyone." Yunying started punching her father's chest with her little fists.

"Dad had no choice. If he didn't explain it clearly, he felt that his glorious image as a father would plummet in his daughters' eyes."

"Ahem, anyway, everyone come over here. I've just successfully persuaded Yunying, and she's agreed to tell us the whole story. Everyone come and listen."

As Wu Shen spoke, he called the little girls over. At the same time, when Yun Ying hesitated, Wu Shen gently pushed her back, encouraging her to take a step forward and cross that hurdle she had never crossed before.

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Today was my first time experiencing being trapped in a malfunctioning elevator, lol. Feels like I have some new material to share = =

Chapter 1017 The Reason for the Daughter's Disappearance

"Huh? You're going to tell me now? I'm not mentally prepared yet..."

Yun Ying took a few steps and arrived at the center of the group of lolis. She looked around in a bit of a panic.

"Yun Ying, we don't have much time left. If we continue to waste time, who knows how much time we'll have left to solve the problem?" Wu Shen explained earnestly.

"Ugh... Can I tell Daddy all by myself, and then have him tell other people?" Yunying fiddled with her fingers, lowering her head shyly.

"Hey, we also want to hear Yunying speak directly."

"Yun Ying, just tell us directly. No matter what happens, we will always be your partners!"

The dancers surrounded her, all expressing their desire to hear Yun Ying's honest confession.

"Waaaaah!" Surrounded by everyone, Yun Ying seemed a little lost and quickly looked to her father for help.

"Sorry, there's nothing I can do to help. Everyone's so enthusiastic, why not just be honest?" Wu Shen shrugged.

"Waaaaah, Daddy promised he'd be on my side!"

"Ahem, I'm just trying to help you, Yunying. By the way, the reason you're afraid to be honest is because you're worried that everyone will change their minds after you confess, right? In that case, how about we all make a vow together? That way, it can be considered as a kind of guarantee. What do you all think?" Wu Shen asked the other lolis for their opinions.

"Is it a vow format like 'I will absolutely not XXXX, otherwise XXXX'?"

Wu Shen nodded: "Mm."

"I think it's OK."

"can."

“No problem at all, we could never possibly hate Yunying anyway.” The lolis all agreed.

“Since it’s a vow, I’ll go first. If I start to hate Yunying after she confesses, then let Daddy tickle me every day! Yunying, what do you think?” Wuyi was the first to jump out, speaking with great confidence.

"Don't worry, Yunying. If she breaks her vow, I will help you carry out the punishment." Wu Shen's fingers nimbly swayed.

Hearing Mai's vow and her father's promise, Yun Ying was about to nod when Yue Yin stopped her.

"Wait a moment!"

"What's wrong? Is there a problem with this oath? My father's tickling punishment is the thing I fear most. Isn't this agreement intimidating enough?" Mai asked, puzzled.

"It is indeed intimidating, but according to my statistics, Mai, you are now committing suicide once a day on average, which means that you should be punished by being tickled once a day. Your oath is practically meaningless!" Yueyin pointed out the flaws in Mai's oath.

"W-what? There's such a thing?" Mai was taken aback, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that she had indeed been punished by her father every day recently for doing stupid things.

"Therefore, I propose that she be tickled by her father five times a day and stripped of her title as the King of Wuyi Kingdom for life. Even if someone is younger than Wuyi, they cannot call her 'sister.' What do you all think?" Yueyin said with a smile.

"Tsukine, you devil!"

Tsukine's punishments struck at Mai's weak points, causing her to panic for a moment.

"Actually, it doesn't really matter what the punishment for the oath is, right? After all, you can't possibly hate Yun Ying."

"Hmm? That's true. Okay then, we'll do it your way." Mai nodded.

Seeing such harsh punishment conditions, Mai agreed without hesitation, and for some reason, Yun Ying's tension eased a little.

"I see. So Yueyin deliberately intensified the punishment to put on a show for Yunying so she could feel more at ease and relaxed? As expected of Yueyin, her schemes are truly brilliant." Wu Shen secretly transmitted his voice to Yueyin, praising her.

"Father, you've misunderstood. I just thought teasing Wuyi was fun," Yueyin said with a smile.

Give me back the emotion I felt!

"Yueyin, since you've imposed such a severe punishment on me for breaking my oath, shouldn't you yourself be punished in the same way?"

"Alright, if I break my vow, then everyone will call me 'Big Sister,' and I can do whatever I want with you."

"Oh, oh, oh! This is great! It's a deal then."

Mai snapped her fingers, readily agreeing to the punishment. All the lolis realized at this moment that setting a higher punishment for breaking the vow seemed to make Yun Ying feel much more at ease.

"If I break my oath, then... then..." Yu Yin hesitated halfway through her sentence, unable to think of any punishment that would be severe enough for her.

"How about we make it so that as punishment, everyone has to wear a school swimsuit and white stockings as their everyday clothes at home?" Mai suddenly had a whimsical idea.

"Eh?!" Yu Yin's mouth dropped open.

At first, she wanted to refuse immediately, but then she thought that the punishment seemed quite severe for her, so she nodded.

"Okay, this is it."

"If I break my promise and start to hate Yunying, then I'll make sure Dad never speaks to me again," Chie said after making up her mind.

For her, the thing she feared most was that her father would ignore her and disregard her.

"If I break the promise, I will never be able to eat Baumkuchen again for the rest of my life." Ye Ge raised her little hand, and the condition she made was equally devastating.

"Me? This is really difficult. I don't have anything I particularly object to..." Wei Ling floated in mid-air, scratching her head as she pondered.

"I've got it! If I break the agreement, I'll do all the punishments that everyone mentioned earlier."

"Wow, Miling, you're really ruthless to yourself," Mai exclaimed.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not going to hate Yunying anyway." Weiling shrugged casually.

“That’s true,” Wu Yi said knowingly.

"Well? We've already discussed the punishment for breaking the oath. If you really break the promise, everyone else and Father will urge you to fulfill it. Now, can you be honest with us?" Yueyin looked at Yunying earnestly.

"Yes, I'll say it."

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Everyone has already said this much; if I don't come out honestly, it would be too pretentious.

Moreover, the fact that everyone so easily decided on such a terrifying punishment precisely demonstrates that they believe they would never hate Yunying.

This made Yunying feel reassured.

"Actually, the reason why everyone is facing the crisis of disappearing is all because of me. And I am also the one who sent everyone from the future to the present..."

After saying this, Yunying looked up at her surroundings with some concern, only to find that everyone was looking at each other, and no one seemed particularly surprised.

"Uh, why isn't anyone reacting at all?" Yun Ying asked nervously.

"We already knew about what you mentioned," Yu Yin said with a wry smile.

Everyone had more or less guessed who was behind the disappearance crisis. And Wei Ling had already told them that the light sphere was Yun Ying.

"Hey, since you all already know, why do you want me to confess?" Yun Ying looked completely bewildered.

"What we want to know are other things, such as why our future cannot coexist with Yunying's future. What exactly caused Yunying to trigger the crisis of everyone disappearing?"

"I see. The reason why everyone disappeared is actually quite... I'll explain from the beginning so it's easier for everyone to understand. There's something you might not know: you've all seen my sphere of light form, right?"

"Yeah, I've seen it before. I saw that ball of light when I traveled from the future. It startled me; I thought I'd wandered into the God's Space, haha..." Mai said half-jokingly.

"That ball of light wasn't a disguise; I was actually born in that form," Yun Ying explained with a wry smile.