Genshin Impact: This fireplace house is your graveyard.

Chapter 49 A World Without You

Seeing Yu Rou before him, Qiu He had a thousand words in his heart, yet he didn't know how to speak. Only tears streamed down his face. Disappearance and reunion were but a thought away, but for Qiu He, who had now regained all his memories...

The girl, who was standing before her, had been gone for a year. She looked at Qiuhe with a smile and said, "I'm sorry, Qiuhe, this dream doesn't seem to be perfect. I originally planned to bring you here after you and Yurou watched the fireworks together and fell asleep together."

"But in this dream, people and things that shouldn't be there always appear. But none of that matters anymore. The dream should end," Yu Rou kept explaining everything to Qiu He, but Qiu He still didn't understand.

He couldn't understand where Yu Rou had gone after disappearing for a year, why he and Yu Rou were here now, or where this place was. "Qiuhe, you must miss Krevy a lot," he heard this.

Qiuhe's lost memories returned to his mind once more. He remembered that he, Klevy, Tian Yaochen, and everyone else were fighting against the Ironclad Molten Emperor.

But before she fainted, she saw that the crab had already turned to ash. Yu Rou had mentioned having a dream earlier. Could all of this be a dream? Thinking about this, Qiu He also recalled Yu Rou saying that the dream should end.

Overwhelmed by this thought, Qiuhe could no longer contain his inner turmoil. He rushed over and hugged Yurou tightly, screaming and sobbing as he released all the pain of the past year.

At this moment, Akikawa finally understood Funina completely. He himself had been driven to the brink of collapse and even contemplated suicide after only one year of solitude, while Funina had endured this solitude for a full 500 years.

But Qiuhe's mind was blank; in the silent space, only Qiuhe's painful sobs could be heard. Qiuhe knelt before Yurou, tightly embracing her.

He now understood the physical sensations he had felt back then; he was so afraid, so very afraid, of her disappearing again. Yu Rou, looking at Qiu He, whose voice was hoarse from crying, felt her heart breaking.

But she knew that the two of them could never go back to the way things were. Yu Rou gently hugged Qiu He, and pressed her face against Qiu He's head. "Qiu He, do you know, I noticed that during your trip to Teyvat, there were a few times when my image would appear in your mind. I even wavered then, wondering if I shouldn't have left you in Teyvat."

"I've clearly erased all memories of me from your mind, yet you still think of me, still dream of me. I watched you jump from a great height, the rope not even tied in time. At a moment when you should be focused on the present, my image reappears in your mind."

"I know that this will be a huge obstacle for you in your future travels. I've even selfishly thought that it might be better to keep you in my dreams forever, so you can always be happy with me."

"But when I tried it, I realized that those two girls, and your true friends, no longer hold a place in your heart. You need those friends, but we can never go back to the way things were."

Upon hearing this, Qiuhe felt as if her heart was being sliced ​​apart piece by piece by a razor. She thought to herself, if she could go back to the beginning of that dream, she would want to strangle her past self. Why was she so pathetic?

My entire life is right before my eyes, yet I find myself thinking about people I shouldn't be thinking about. If only I hadn't paid attention to that girl named Claire, or if only I hadn't been thinking about that book.

Does that mean I can be with Yu Rou forever? Why should I care about those people's lives? They're just characters in my game; what do they have to do with me?

Qiuhe kept hitting his head with his hands, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yu Rou, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have thought about people who don't even exist. I'm such an idiot, it's all my fault."

"You are my everything, yet I shamelessly think of others. Their lives or deaths have nothing to do with me. You can hit me, you can scold me, it doesn't matter."

"Reality or a dream, all I want now is to be with Yu Rou. Please, Yu Rou, don't leave me alone. I'll do anything you ask. Please, I really don't want to be alone anymore..."

Qiuhe strained with all his might to utter each word, his voice becoming incredibly hoarse, as if it had been rubbed with sandpaper. His body trembled uncontrollably, and his cries grew louder and more painful, almost unbearable to hear.

Yu Rou listened quietly to Qiu He's words, a sharp pain piercing her heart. Looking at Qiu He's pained expression, tears welled in her eyes. She understood that everything Qiu He was going through was because of her.

But she was powerless. She knew that no matter what she said, it wouldn't alleviate Qiuhe's pain; it would only make him more desperate. So she chose silence, simply holding Qiuhe tightly, leaving behind her final words in brief.

"We can't go back to where we started, and all I can do is give you one last dream. I just want Qiuhe to live happily and never think of me again."

Yu Rou spoke softly, her voice filled with helplessness and sorrow. She knew their love had come to an end, like a candle flame in the wild wind. Once extinguished, no one could rekindle it.

That's how fate plays tricks on people's hearts. But she still hoped that Qiuhe could live a happy life, even without her by his side.

Yu Rou gently lifted Qiu He's face, her eyes filled with endless tenderness and longing. She slowly approached Qiu He's lips and softly kissed him. This kiss contained all her love and reluctance to part with Qiu He.

It was also the last thing she could leave to Qiuhe. A tear rolled down Yu Rou's cheek and landed on Qiuhe's face. At that moment, Qiuhe's mind was racing.

From their first meeting with Yu Rou to their long and complicated love story, the events flashed through Qiu He's mind like a slideshow. It lasted only 10 seconds, but in Qiu He's mind, 10 years had passed.

As Yu Rou stopped, Qiu He also came back to his senses. Yu Rou reluctantly said her last words, "Goodbye..." Then, her body, like a shooting star streaking across the night sky, slowly passed through the star particles and disappeared little by little before Qiu He's eyes.

Qiuhe knelt there silently, gazing in the direction Yu Rou had left, his eyes filled with pain and despair. His mind had already endured ten years of suffering.

Ten years together, ten years of love, and now they're back to square one. Watching Yu Rou slowly disappear before his eyes, he slowly raised his hand, trying to grasp those star particles.

But there was nothing they could do. Those hands, once sharp as blades, capable of tearing flesh and blood, were now unable to hold their beloved, and they could only watch helplessly as everything they had become slowly vanished before their eyes.

He stood up, waving his hands frantically, trying to grab the particles back, while shouting Yu Rou's name, his voice filled with despair and sorrow: "Yu Rou, Yu Rou, Yu Rou! Don't go! Come back! Yu Rou!"

However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't change the fact that Yu Rou had left. With his final step, the ground of the entire space shattered completely, the shimmering space finally collapsed, and Qiu He plunged into endless darkness.

"Yu Rou, no, Yu Rou!" Qiu He suddenly sat up in bed, shouting Yu Rou's name. The sudden turn of events startled Klevili and Peruvier, who were sitting nearby.

Tian Yaochen and the others, who were caught off guard, were all startled. After calming down a bit, they looked at Qiuhe, who had finally woken up after being unconscious for a full day and night.

Claire hugged him tightly, "Waaah, Lei, I thought you were going to sleep forever! You're finally awake, waaaah!"

Everyone else breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Qiuhe, however, looked bewildered. He felt something was off about his face and touched it.

I noticed my face was wet with tears.