dognovel Chapter 774 Behind the Mask
Chapter 774 Behind the Mask
Being a person who remembers the rules is actually really boring.
Boredom itself is not scary. What is scary is that one day you suddenly realize that it is really boring.
Annie experienced such a moment.
When she was just a memory, she was like an emotionless and excellent employee, carrying out the only mission day after day, year after year, Amber century after Amber century, recording, observing, archiving and storing... over and over again without end.
At that time, she didn't think there was anything wrong with it, because the emotions of tiredness or boredom themselves did not exist for her.
Until this reincarnation, she no longer just remembered Annie, but also had feelings for her.
During the long time between the five simulations, Annie began to actively learn. She retrieved all the fragments related to "love" from the vast memories stored in her memory, trying to understand this most troubling and fascinating emotion for human beings.
But looking at the lovers in the picture, I always feel a little strange.
She saw the kiss under the moonlight, the farewell in the war, the smiles in the ordinary life, and the heartbreaking pain caused by the tricks of fate.
Loving each other is painful, loving each other means having to separate, loving each other is extremely happy... They are all called love, so why do they take on so many completely different forms?
At that time, Annie did not fully understand love. It was not until the end of the fifth simulation that she clearly realized that she would never have the chance to meet An Ming again.
She is just a prisoner trapped in a pure white memory space, and the place where the World Tree is located is a narrow gap in the universe that no one can reach, a forbidden place that exists only beyond concepts.
At that moment, an unprecedented emotion, the first time since her birth, emerged from the bottom of her heart so vividly and strongly, that was... "fear".
That was a more painful feeling than being a loser in the simulation. Annie was really scared. She was scared that the only variable born from countless reincarnations, the light that illuminated her, would disappear from her world forever.
So, for the first time, she, who was born under the rules, had a thought that went against the rules.
She wants to leave here.
No matter what, I have to go see An Ming.
If An Ming didn't come to see her, then she would run to find An Ming.
Until this moment, the person I had been thinking about day and night was standing right in front of me.
In fact, before meeting An Ming, Annie's heart was also full of tension. She was also worried that the An Ming in reality would be different from the warm and determined figure in the simulation who saved her time and time again.
But now, all the anxiety and confusion have disappeared.
The An Ming in front of me is a more real and beautiful person than any simulation.
"Ok, I know..."
Annie responded softly, a hazy light shimmering in her azure eyes as clear as an icy lake.
She was a person who seldom cried, but the moment she actually saw An Ming, the emotions that had been accumulated for so long finally broke through her heart, and warm tears slid silently down her cheeks.
"I know...you will find me."
It was not until this moment that she truly realized that tears did not always come from sadness.
When extreme happiness fills your heart, you will also shed tears that are not sad.
An Ming didn't say anything, but just reached out his hand and gently wiped away the tears on Annie's cheeks with his fingertips.
The feeling of being touched was warm and real, completely different from all the memories of touch in his memory. It seemed like a reassurance that directly soothed his soul.
She was once the law of "remembering", observing and recording everything, but always separated by a layer of eternal glass, unaware of the origin of affection and the meaning of warmth.
She had tried hard to learn about love, and read through countless fragments of joy and sorrow, but it was always like looking through a mirror, and what she saw was more of her own confused reflection rather than the real warmth.
And now-
She finally no longer had to search through her memories or look for answers in other people's stories.
At this moment, the warmth coming from An Ming's fingertips, the heartbeat that can be clearly heard in my chest, and the throbbing that is almost overflowing with sourness and sweetness...all of this is happening at this moment.
That's what love looks like.
Xing, who had been watching for a long time with her mouth full of dog food, had her mouth twitching and was muttering silently in her heart that it was clearly her who broke the cage of memory, so why did she feel like a passerby now?
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I've been on the day shift for two days in a row, so I went to bed early today QAQ and asked for leave. I'll make up for the number of words in this chapter tomorrow. Hehe