NOVEL ONLINE FREE 25: The Past
In the evening, Ye Lan returned home.
She had just come back from visiting Bai Yu.
Since having Ye Lan as a friend she could talk openly with, Bai Yu had completely opened up, discussing many topics with her.
Ye Lan, being somewhat inept at conversation, mostly just listened the whole time. Bai Yu did most of the talking, with Ye Lan only needing to respond occasionally.
Even so, Bai Yu never tired of it.
Ye Lan felt that simply smiling was enough.
Before leaving, Ye Lan specifically asked Bai Yu about her parents, but didn’t get any useful information.
Bai Yu had never seen her mother as a child, and rarely saw her father.
During that time, she had been in a coma for several years.
When she woke up, her sister told her that their parents had passed away.
Hearing this news, Ye Lan felt there were many hidden secrets.
Her intuition told her so.
Ye Lan wanted to help Bai Yu but didn’t know where to start.
“So frustrating…”
She wanted to investigate some things but had no means to do so.
As someone who had just recently joined the Night Watchers, she felt utterly powerless.
If only she had an incredibly skilled hacker friend.
In this era of advanced digital network information, a powerful internet expert could obtain desired information even from home.
Even highly confidential information would be accessible.
This would be far more powerful than search engines.
Of course, if one were too reckless, it could potentially incur public wrath.
Especially from the Night Watchers.
The effects of Stars were varied and unpredictable. If someone were to invade the Night Watchers’ network system, they’d likely be exposed in no time.
“I guess I’ll have to work hard on my own after all.”
Ye Lan’s intuition told her that the key to solving Bai Yu’s problem lay with her parents. Perhaps knowing the truth would be enough to resolve it.
“But how to find out…?”
Ye Lan and Ye Xing lay on the bed, spacing out together, thinking together, withdrawing together.
Two pillows on the bed, one was hers, and the other was also hers. It felt somewhat sad.
As time passed, both quickly became drowsy.
“If I am the Wishing Machine, please let me help Bai Yu…”
Ye Lan and Ye Xing closed their eyes.
The next second, time and space instantly became disjointed, and the two young girls in the room were swallowed by darkness.
……
Ye Xing opened her eyes, feeling momentarily dazed, not knowing what was happening.
The next second, she heard a baby crying, like the first cheer of a new life entering this world.
“Look, Qingya, this girl looks so much like you. She’s beautiful.”
It was a man’s voice, very gentle. The emotion it contained made Ye Xing feel a warmth in her heart, and her eyes inexplicably became moist.
“She looks just like Bai Tu. They’re truly sisters. I hope this child can also grow up healthy and happy.”
These words were spoken by a woman, presumably the Qingya mentioned by the man. Her voice was also very gentle.
Ye Xing felt herself being held in someone’s arms. That warmth was something she had never experienced before, as if it was something she had always been missing.
“Let’s give her a name. How about Bai Yu? I hope she can be as free as a fish, unbothered by any hardships.” The father said happily, excited like a young boy.
“Bai Yu… Then from now on, this child will be called Bai Yu. Little fish~” The mother agreed.
Hearing this name, Ye Xing began to realize what was happening.
Could these two people beside her be Bai Yu’s parents?
And from their conversation, it seemed this was when Bai Yu had just been born.
What was going on?
Ye Xing wanted to speak but couldn’t say anything.
It seemed she was just a soul residing in Bai Yu’s body, more of an observer than a participant.
So she could only watch with open eyes?
“Hmm…”
But before Ye Xing could feel dejected for long, something unusual happened.
The man’s voice suddenly rang out, filled with panic and anxiety.
“Qingya, Qingya! What’s wrong? Wake up!”
Ye Xing suddenly felt uncomfortable and her expression became serious.
Based on the information she had found earlier, the woman’s Star had begun to show signs of losing control.
Just as she realized this, Ye Xing suddenly felt dizzy and lost consciousness.
After an unknown period, Ye Lan opened her eyes.
“What’s going on?”
Just as this question arose, she found herself seemingly residing in someone else’s body again.
This was a small child with long silver-gray hair, looking somewhat similar to Bai Yu, but upon closer observation, more like Bai Tu.
“I see, is this Senior Bai Tu as a child?”
Bai Tu seemed to be only four years old now, still not having lost her childish innocence, very cute.
When her mother gave birth to Bai Yu, she seemed to be waiting outside the door.
Then her mother’s Star inside her body started to lose control a bit.
Several Night Watchers quickly arrived and stabilized her in time, preventing her from completely turning into a Star Eclipse.
Bai Tu was just a child, only able to wait outside the door.
“Is Mom okay…?”
At this time, Bai Tu heard the Night Watchers talking, but couldn’t understand.
“Ye Qingya’s internal Star has affected the newborn infant. Logically, a newborn infant shouldn’t be able to awaken a Star, but Ye Qingya’s Star’s near loss of control forced the child’s internal Star to awaken prematurely. Now mother and daughter possess the same type of Star. One is on the brink of losing control, and the other will be affected. Although we’ve managed to stabilize Ye Qingya’s Star for now, if the two aren’t separated, the infant’s internal Star will grow rapidly, completely beyond her control. At that point, her soul would collapse and die.”
This was said by a researcher.
“So for the safety of both mother and daughter, it’s best to separate them immediately. It’s best not to meet until a solution is found.”
The young Bai Tu didn’t understand these words, but Ye Lan, who had learned some common knowledge, did.
She remembered Ling Miao saying that the descendants of Night Watchers were a very special group.
Parents and children might contain homologous Stars.
But children almost never awaken their Stars at a young age, most awakening during adolescence, after which they can control them well.
Another issue was that if a person awakens their Star at an age when they can’t control it, it’s easy to lose control.
Even if they don’t lose control, being close to parents with homologous Stars can produce very frightening phenomena.
That is, it can cause one person’s Star to have a high probability of turning into an extremely dangerous Star Eclipse.
Bai Yu, currently in the infant stage, and her mother were likely in this situation.
The two would probably be forcibly separated next.
Sure enough, upon hearing this news, the stabilized Ye Qingya wore a sorrowful expression and began crying directly into the man’s chest.
This made Ye Lan’s heart ache a bit.
Parents being forced to leave their child will always be sad, right?
The more love invested, the greater the sorrow and reluctance to part.
It’s probably like that.
Then the father accompanied the mother as they left the room to avoid affecting Bai Yu.
Night Watchers with healing-type Stars were responsible for examining and caring for Bai Yu, pulling her back from the brink of death.
“Waaah————“
The baby’s cry sounded again.
The bewildered Bai Tu also left this place with her parents.
Ye Qingya was transferred to another location for a physical examination.
The young Bai Tu followed the whole time, allowing Ye Lan, residing in her body, to witness everything.
“Your Star has entered an unstable stage and could go out of control at any time. I suggest you don’t use your Star’s power anymore. Otherwise, with this level of Star Eclipse, we Night Watchers have no other way to resolve it.”
No other way, meaning they could only let the bearer die.
“So you’re saying I can no longer be a Night Watcher?” the mother asked in a trembling voice.
“Yes, please rest well.”
At this moment, Bai Tu saw the desolate and sorrowful expression on her mother’s face.
Even though she didn’t know what it meant, her mood also became sad.
“Mom…”
Ye Lan was also infected by this emotion, feeling a faint sadness.