My Apocalypse: Infinite Rewinds

"Xueying, Xueying, wake up, wake up quickly." The sleeping girl suddenly felt someone calling her name repeatedly beside her.

"Ugh, I hate it. It's so rare to get a good night's sleep." Xueying pouted unhappily and opened her eyes resentfully from her sleep.

"Phew, you're finally awake. I know I'm sorry to have bothered you, but what's next is very important!" Li Kai said solemnly, his expression extremely serious.

"Okay, you don't need to act like that." Xueying turned her head slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable, as if he was acting a little different today.

"Tell me how to awaken Yu Ruoxue?" Li Kai took a deep breath and then asked in a deep voice.

"What?!" Xueying exclaimed in surprise upon hearing the question.

"You told me before that she completely blocked out her consciousness, so you should know how to pull her out of it, right?" As if worried that she hadn't understood, Li Kai explained in detail.

"I...I have no choice." After hearing Li Kai's words, Xue Ying shook her head slightly.

"impossible!"

"That was a rejection of her own will, and as a part of me, I simply cannot awaken her as the original self. Unless..." At the end, Xueying couldn't help but shut her mouth.

"Unless what is it?" Li Kai, with his keen ears, caught her subtle voice.

"No, even if you tell her, you can't do it. It's too dangerous!" Xueying shook her head resolutely, a strange glint suddenly flashing in her eyes. "And why do you have to wake her up? What are you worried about?"

"Phew, sorry, I was a bit impatient." Li Kai let out a deep breath; he had been too anxious just now.

"No, I'm not angry, it's just that your condition is very unstable." Xueying's hands had already broken free from the ropes, and her cool little hands gently stroked his face.

“I wish I were talking to a normal you, not this anxious person you are now.”

"I know, it was my fault." A slight coolness seeped into Li Kai's heart along his cheek, and he unconsciously calmed down.

“Although I don’t know how to explain it, Yu Ruoxue is in a very critical situation right now. That monster has returned for her, and I don’t have the ability to defeat him right now. Moreover, I have a reason not to run away,” Li Kai explained hurriedly. “Whether for your sake or for the sake of others, I don’t want anyone else to get hurt because of me.”

"You really are such a softie, always like this." Xueying looked at Li Kai helplessly. "Just like when we first met, so innocent and adorably silly!"

"Hey, hey, I won't be happy with how you describe me!" Li Kai grumbled, dissatisfied. If he weren't currently unable to free his hand, he would have already—

"Hehe, but that's part of what makes you so attractive!" Xueying chuckled, covering her mouth, a strange light flickering in her eyes. "If it were you, perhaps you could really untangle her knot in her heart, and then I could..."

"This must be it. It really feels amazing!" Li Kai, whose whole body glowed with fluorescence, looked curiously at the deep darkness around him, with blurry fragments occasionally flashing through the air.

"She sealed herself in the deepest part of her consciousness, a cage made up of countless fragments of memory. There is only one way to break out of this cage, and that is to rely on external consciousness to forcefully break through." The things the girl had mentioned earlier echoed in Li Kai's ears again.

"The only thing you need to remember is that the damage caused here is irreversible and may even disappear, which is why I rejected you before."

Indeed, Li Kai's current state is what is known as the soul state, and this darkness is Yu Ruoxue's sea of ​​consciousness.

"It's so big! It looks endless!" Li Kai exclaimed in amazement.

"Wait, that spot ahead should be it!" After drifting for an unknown amount of time, a ball of light, bound by countless chains, finally appeared in front of Li Kai.

"How do we get in next?" Li Kai wondered, looking at the densely packed chains.

"Daddy, Daddy, where do we want to go play?" A sweet, tender voice suddenly reached Li Kai's ears.

"Huh? That's strange, what was that just now?" Coming back to his senses, Li Kai looked around in surprise, but there was nothing there. Could those words just now be her memory?!

“All the chains are fragments of memories, so isn’t the way to get in quite simple?” Li Kai gazed thoughtfully at the sphere of light in front of him, and then slowly pressed his entire soul against it.

But is it really that simple? Foreign souls that casually enter the consciousness of others will sooner or later be swallowed up by the endless torrent of memories.

"What's the pronunciation of this word, Mom?" The exquisitely carved jade girl rested her chin on her hand, looking at the woman beside her with a puzzled expression.

"Huh? Does Ruoxue still have words she doesn't recognize?" The woman affectionately hugged her head.

"Is this from when I was a child?" Li Kai murmured in confusion as he stood in the air.

"Daddy, shall we go out and play together today?" The little girl looked at the man in front of her excitedly, her big eyes filled with longing.

"I'm sorry, Xue'er, Daddy has something to do today." The man patted her head apologetically.

"Then I'll go back first!" The little girl suppressed her disappointment and turned to leave without looking back.

"Has the environment here already started to grow?" Li Kai looked down at the scene from his vantage point.

"Why is no one playing with me?" The girl looked at her empty house with a puzzled expression, watching several children running together outside the window.

"Mom and Dad haven't come back yet, it's so boring to eat alone!" The girl looked at the long dining table, but she was all alone there.

"Hmm, why are my breasts getting bigger?" the girl asked, rubbing her slightly developed chest with a puzzled expression.

As time went by, Li Kai accompanied the little girl through every step of her growth. There were joys, but more often there was loneliness. The long-term solitude had created her fragile heart.

"It's so lonely. Even though I come from a wealthy family, I'm all alone. It seems my childhood was more interesting. Wait, who am I again?" Li Kai touched his face and asked in confusion.

As the memories unfolded, the entangled chains slowly dissipated into the darkness, revealing the sleeping girl within. However, Li Kai's soul grew increasingly dim, as if it were being gradually devoured, or more accurately, assimilated.