After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

"what?"

He suspected that he had heard it wrongly and did not dare to believe Mu Xiu's unreasonable words.

"I know it's hard for you to believe now, but this is the truth," Mu Xiu slowly raised his head and met her panicked and shocked eyes. However, there was a hint of calmness in his eyes as if he had known this would happen. He added word by word, "We can't go back. We can never go back."

"What nonsense are you talking about! Why do you say I can't go back? Do you have any evidence? Do you have enough data to support your conclusion?" Wan Ning became more and more excited as she spoke. Her body began to tremble slightly, so she held onto the corner of the table next to her for support.

After a series of questions, she gradually calmed down and looked at Mu Xiu, but she was eagerly waiting for him to give answers one by one. But after waiting for a long time, he still had that calm expression, like a thick layer of sponge that silently dissolved Wan Ning's stormy emotions. He must have known this conclusion long ago, and only now could he accept it so calmly.

Mu Xiu suddenly felt a chill coming up and wrapped himself tightly in the blanket again. Wan Ning also calmed down, looking up and down at his now haggard appearance, and asked with a softer tone, "Weren't you fine the day before yesterday? What happened?"

As she spoke, Wan Ning saw his thin wrists and bloodless fingers, and walked over to help him cover the blanket. She was so shocked and distressed that she almost cried, and asked in a sobbing voice, "When did you become like this, Mu Xiu? Why are you so cold?"

Mu Xiu held her wrist in reverse, and the warmth of Wan Ning passed through his fingertips, making him a little dazed. But he quickly recovered and comforted her calmly, "You know, this body is not mine. I have been feeling more and more powerless and out of control recently, and I am particularly afraid of the cold."

"Is it a rejection reaction?" Wan Ning, with tears in her eyes, squatted on the ground and helped him pull the blanket.

Hearing this description, Mu Xiu grinned first, nodded and added: "It's a bit like that. Your description is very vivid."

"Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt, but it's a little difficult to move."

Wan Ning wiped her tears and said, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? And I won't give up asking you for the evidence that led you to the conclusion that you can't go back just because of this."

Mu Xiu smiled indifferently, pulled his left sleeve to his shoulder, revealing a reddish-brown scar the size of a fingernail near his armpit. When Wan Ning was confused, Mu Xiu put down his sleeve to cover her, and then covered her with the blanket before speaking: "There is something I have never told you. When my ancestors separated the butterfly jade pendants so that they would never meet, our lineage was also entangled by a curse and gained an additional identity - the guardian of the butterfly jade pendants. As a guardian, you must ensure that the butterfly jade pendants will never meet, and every guardian will die young and have a bad end."

"then you……"

"I don't know. As the guardian of the butterfly jade pendant, I can receive its induction, and I also know the consequences of the reunion of the two broken halves of the jade pendant. As for when I can go back, I have been waiting for the jade pendant's induction. In the past, it gave very few inductions, and no news was considered good news. Recently, the signals it gave have been gradually increasing."

"Isn't this... a good thing?" Wan Ning asked. She thought that at least the jade pendant was giving them some guidance.

Mu Xiu smiled and shook his head, saying, "But the induction it gives is disordered, and my body changes accordingly. As for the scar I showed you just now, it is also affected by it. Although it is only a little bit now, it will get bigger and bigger. Gradually, I will no longer be able to receive the induction of the butterfly jade pendant, and lose my status as a guardian."

"Then...what will happen then?" Wan Ning couldn't imagine what impact the butterfly jade pendant would have without a guardian.

"The butterfly jade pendant will not cause time travel alone. There must be a guardian by the side. Without a guardian, time travel will never happen again." Mu Xiu added calmly.

"Then...what about the guardian?" Wan Ning's bright eyes were longing for a good answer.

Mu Xiu looked out the window and said, "The guardian abandoned by the butterfly jade pendant will die."

Perhaps it was too cruel, Mu Xiu added: "But as a guardian, he will die early, which is not a loss!"

There was too much information. Wan Ning stood up and paced back and forth in the room, slowly digesting and sorting out the content. She suddenly turned her head and looked at Mu Xiu with red eyes, and said, "What's the loss? You have to live well. Even if you die, you have to use your own identity. What's the point of being here!"

Mu Xiu smiled and raised his hand with difficulty to wipe away her stubborn tears, but Wan Ning wiped away her tears with the back of her hand first and questioned: "Why do you say what you say? How do I know if you are lying to me? If you are sick, go see a doctor. I don't know how to treat illnesses. I will go and get a doctor for you. Maybe you were bitten by a poisonous insect, or maybe your ancestors' mottos have been changed when they were passed down from generation to generation. How can things remain unchanged as the world changes?"

"Su Wanning, calm down." Mu Xiu grabbed her wrist to stop her from making any futile efforts.

Wan Ning turned around and asked loudly, "Calm down? How can you tell me to calm down? Why didn't you tell me before? Why are you telling me now? Why don't you just tell me when you die and I collect your body? Then you won't be able to hear me even if I blame you!"

"I'm sorry. I didn't tell you before because I didn't receive any signal from the butterfly jade pendant. I thought I had escaped the fate of being a guardian. Why should I make you worry too?" Mu Xiu told him about his concerns, while Wan Ning slumped in the chair with red eyes.

"Then what about now? Why are you telling me?" There was despair in Wan Ning's voice.

"Because you are different from me, you and the butterfly jade pendant only intersected for a moment and were affected by it to come here. Once the encounter is completed, there will be no more intersection points, and naturally it will not affect your body. Here you have friends, 'relatives'... lovers, even if you can't go back, you can live a good life. Now I tell you because I hope... I hope you can make plans early." As he spoke, Mu Xiu raised his face and met her broken and red eyes, but there was not a single tear. He avoided it and lowered his head and added: "I know you have always wanted to go back, and all your plans are to go home with all your heart. Now that there is no hope of going home, you must change direction in time and make... plans early."

Wan Ning squinted her red eyes and looked at him desperately, stubborn and silent.

Mu Xiu continued tentatively: "I'm sorry, now is not the time to be willful..."

"That's enough. You don't need to teach me now!" Wan Ning stood up and said, "You are not my boss, and you are no longer my client. If, I mean just in case, just in case you can find the butterfly jade pendant, can you still get better?"

Mu Xiu raised his head and looked at her stubborn face: "I don't know, no one in my ancestors has traveled through time before."

"I understand." After saying that, Wan Ning calmed herself down, picked up her skirt and was about to leave.

But after taking two steps, Mu Xiu called her from behind and said, "Just treat this as your original life and live well. Being a princess of the Chu Kingdom is not bad, isn't it?"

Wan Ning turned her head and glanced at him with her peripheral vision, but there was no expression on her face. Then she turned her head and strode away. Long after she left, Mu Xiu still sat in the chair in the same position, holding the blanket tightly, wondering what he was thinking. Until Yin Zhu came in with hot water, hurriedly stepped forward, put the foot basin on the ground, and knelt in front of Mu Xiu and raised his hands.

Mu Xiu lifted the blanket, took out the wrapped ice cubes from his arms, put them in Yin Zhu's hands, and said, "Take it and deal with it."

"Yes."