My boyfriend suddenly regained his memories. He remembered his childhood sweetheart, the one he had loved for years. He couldn't wait to break up with me. Our two-year relationship was voided. He warned me: "Forget this relationship. Pretend we never knew each other." I breathed a sigh of relief. Just yesterday, the System notified me: [Host, your mission is complete.] [Erasing memories from the mission period...] 1 On our two-year anniversary, Liam got into a car accident and fell into a coma. I sat by his side for eight hours, only to hear him say: "Anything I did while I had amnesia wasn't my will. Naturally, the relationship we had these past two years doesn't count." After recovering his memories, he wanted to break up with me immediately. I wasn't surprised by this ending. After all, from the beginning, we weren't honest with each other. Back then, He was an amnesiac with broken legs, hurt by love. I was a redeemer with a mission, here for him. The System told me: [The mission goal is to make him stand up again.] Not just physically, but mentally. His state was too passive, and he wasn't cooperating with treatment. A person who doesn't remember the past and can't see the future is lonely and lifeless. To visualize the mission progress, the System showed me his Love Value for me. It said love can give a person the courage to live again. With love, one can overcome anything. Using the value as a reference, my mission would be complete when his Love Value for me reached 100. I spent two years pulling him out of the abyss, helping him stand again. The Love Value climbed slowly at first, then soared. Finally, it stopped at 99. It wouldn't go up anymore. I was anxious but couldn't find the reason. Finally, the System reminded me: [Love requires sincerity. Only a true heart can exchange for a true heart.] So, I sat on the balcony all night and decided to let go of the mission goal and gamble with my true heart once. Finally, on our two-year anniversary, on the way to our date, Liam swerved to avoid a truck running a red light. In the moment of life and death, he desperately turned the steering wheel towards his side, leaving the chance of survival to me. In that instant, the System broadcasted: [Love Value Progress: 100%] [Host, your mission is complete.] Luckily, the two cars brushed past each other, resulting only in a minor collision and no casualties. But Liam fainted due to the deployed airbag. I sat in the hospital room from night till dawn, watching his Love Value for me drop from 100 to zero. Then it fluctuated, rising and falling, until the progress bar finally disappeared. When dawn broke, he opened his eyes and said to me: "Eva, let's break up." From the beginning until now, all redeemers face two endings after completing the mission. One: stay with the mission target forever. Two: forget each other and disappear into the crowd. Liam frowned slightly, saying word by word: "Forget this relationship. Pretend we never knew each other." This was the ending he chose for us. I looked at him quietly and summoned the System: "Will Liam's Love Value for me change now?" The System was silent for a few seconds before telling me: [Mission complete. The ending is set.] [From now on, Love Value will not be displayed.] Right. Without the System, love and hate between people don't have visual data. Moreover, every look and action from Liam right now told me clearly without a progress bar. The person he loves now isn't me. It's his "White Moonlight"— Sophie. 2 They were childhood sweethearts. Before I met Liam, the System told me about his past with Sophie. It was a cliché story of unrequited love. Sophie fell for someone else and wanted to go abroad with him. Liam raced to chase her on a rainy night and got into a car accident. He lost his memory and broke his legs, becoming depressed ever since. Mutual friends couldn't stand it and called Sophie. From across the ocean, she only said three sentences: "It's good that he forgot me. Saves him from pestering me." "We just grew up together. Helping him recover should be your duty." "Please don't disturb me anymore. My boyfriend will be unhappy." Liam felt nothing about this, even annoyed that his friends kept bringing up Sophie and emphasizing his love for her. Their reminders told Liam that he, who should have shared memories with everyone, remembered nothing. Every gathering after that, everyone he met was an acquaintance, yet a stranger. He was an insider, yet felt like an outsider. Surrounded by noise, but empty inside. This was probably why I could approach him smoothly. We had no shared past. In a sense, it was equal. I smiled and told him: "Our memories start from now." Countless gazes and touches condensed into a Liam who loved me. Unfortunately, when his past memories surfaced... Our two years couldn't compare to their twenty years. Worse, Sophie came back. Just a few days ago, she fought with her boyfriend and broke up. She secretly returned, appearing before Liam in the rain, crying: "I have nowhere to go, Liam." Facing the uninvited guest, Liam was annoyed. He exposed her mercilessly: "Go home, stay in a hotel, or under a bridge. Even if you have nowhere to go, my place isn't for you." Sophie crumbled, looking at him in disbelief: "You never spoke to me like this before." "Sorry about that," Liam sneered. "I forgot how I used to speak to you." I couldn't bear to see her in the rain, so I handed her an umbrella. She slapped it away, looking at Liam with hurt eyes. "Even if you don't remember, Liam, someone must have told you about our twenty years. Treating me like this, aren't you afraid you'll regret it when your memory returns?" "Or are you doing this on purpose to revenge me because I went abroad? So you found a random girlfriend now, an eye for an eye?" She looked at me and sneered: "Do you know what this behavior is called?" "Taking advantage of a weakness." I didn't know if I counted as taking advantage, capturing Liam bit by bit when he forgot his love for her. But Sophie was right about one thing. Liam, with his memory restored, regretted it. Unexpectedly, when Sophie learned he was in the hospital, she came to visit. Facing Liam's soft question: "Are you not mad at me anymore?" She huffed coquettishly: "I'll settle the score after you're discharged." "You got into a car accident; how could I ignore you?" 3 The hospital room was soon crowded. I became the extra one. They chatted enthusiastically about the past, a life I never participated in. The topic always revolved around Liam and Sophie. Going to school together, skipping class, Liam fighting for her, taking punishment for her. I suddenly felt bored and turned to leave. Sophie called out to me, inviting warmly: "Miss Yu, we're going to celebrate Liam's new life. You should come too." I was about to refuse when Liam spoke before me: "No need. I've broken up with her. I'll explain later. Don't mention it again." The room fell silent for a few seconds. Sophie looked surprised: "Is that so? Okay then." "But I still want to remind you, Miss Yu, don't do this kind of thing in the future. Or you'll be the only one hurt." She looked at Liam flirtatiously and said to me: "Especially..." "When you meet a bad guy like Liam, stay far away." I nodded and smiled gently: "I will." Liam frowned, but smiled and teased: "Tsk tsk, if Liam is a bad guy, then how did you survive growing up with him, Sophie?" She looked radiant, her voice crisp: "I'm not afraid of him. I'm the kryptonite for bad guys like this." Everyone laughed together. I walked out of the hospital and finally felt I could breathe. Bending over and pressing my chest, I asked the System: "How long left?" Yesterday, when the System announced I completed the mission, it also notified me: [About to erase memories from the mission period.] This procedure starts by default upon mission completion, but can be terminated at any time under Ending One. It's a protection mechanism for the redeemer. After all, a mission is like an immersive life dungeon. Many redeemers are traumatized by the second ending and cannot continue their original lives. Giving a true heart is giving the other person a knife to hurt you. Now, this knife was stabbed straight into my heart. It really hurts. The System replied quickly: [Organizing mission data. Please wait.] I couldn't wait. The uncontrollable pain almost made me lose control. I needed to do something to distract myself. My phone rang. The person on the other end named a restaurant, saying I left something there. Without thinking, I rushed over. Upon arrival, the restaurant manager said it was Liam's item and my number was left as an emergency contact. Just as I wanted to say I'm not that person anymore, the elevator doors opened, and I froze. Fields of tulips filled my vision, gentle lights twinkling among them, spreading all the way to the hall at the end of the corridor. Like stumbling into a romantic sea of flowers. The manager handed me an exquisite velvet box from a cart, smiling kindly: "Mr. Liam booked the whole restaurant floor yesterday, but he never came, and we couldn't contact him. This is what he left here." The scene before me stung my eyes. I knew what was in the velvet box without looking. The setting, the atmosphere, and yesterday being our two-year anniversary. It was hard not to guess. This was a proposal scene. 4 Liam originally planned to propose yesterday. I remembered his nervous look in the car and his expectant tone when I asked about the restaurant: "Secret. It won't be a surprise if I tell you." So this was the secret he couldn't wait to hide. I didn't expect it to be revealed this way. I stood there in a daze, suddenly hearing footsteps around the corner and people talking excitedly. I recognized Liam's friends immediately. "Is this a double blessing?" "Memory restored! Single again!" "What do you mean single again?" Sophie sounded slightly displeased. "He had amnesia. That relationship doesn't count. Just playing around." "You guys too. I wasn't here, and you didn't watch him." "Letting any woman get close to Liam." Liam's friends indeed didn't like me much. They always felt I was an intruder in their circle. They only held back because Liam liked me enough and saw me making him better bit by bit. The relationship maintained a delicate balance. Sophie's return caused a fluctuation in that balance. Liam didn't take her in on that rainy day. That night, he received a call from a friend, voice angry: "It was raining so hard, and you didn't even let her in? Liam, you grew up together. You just have amnesia; you don't remember how much you liked her before." "Aren't you afraid you'll regret this later?" Everyone was sure he would regret it. Liam sneered into the phone: "How many times do I have to say the only person I like is Eva? Bringing up Sophie repeatedly... is it me who likes her, or you guys like her but dare not say it, using me as a cover?" Silence on the other end. Liam threw the phone and hugged me, voice softening: "So annoying. Why does everyone say I like her?" "Is liking someone hidden in memory?" I smiled and hugged him back, thinking for a moment: "Liking someone is hidden in the heart." But now, the liking in his heart was obviously not for me anymore. Around the corner, Sophie's voice continued. She pretended to be angry and said to Liam: "Better think about how to compensate me." "I'm still angry." Liam seemed weak because he just woke up and left the hospital: "What compensation do you want? I—" He stopped abruptly because he saw me, and the romantic proposal scene behind me. The manager reacted first and stepped forward to explain, thinking Liam brought friends for the proposal. He congratulated with a big smile until he saw everyone's faces weren't looking good. He slowly stopped talking. Someone asked: "Playing around... and proposing?" Liam's face was cold. He watched me walk closer step by step, shoving the velvet box into his hand, and saying gently: "Since you're here, I'll go. Returning this to you." "Wait." He suddenly spoke, looking down at me: "If we meet again, pretend we're strangers." I didn't look back: "Okay." The elevator doors opened and closed slowly. The last scene was Sophie taking the ring from his hand to play with, saying displeasedly to the manager: "Why haven't you disposed of these flowers yet?" The elevator went down with a "ding." System notification: [Data organization complete.] [Start erasing Host's memories of the mission period and all traces of existence.] [Start unsealing Host's emotional module from before the mission.] [Mission reward—Recovery Card, issued.] [Your fiancé is about to wake up.]
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