Chapter 203: Tian Tian Xinhan

As long as great power exists, you can play with everything in the world in the palm of your hand, ignoring morality, ethics, fairness, and justice, trampling them, making them toys in your hands!

Even after you do all this, you can turn around and proclaim your own righteousness; your great power is the power of speech.

If you wish, you can manipulate public opinion like playing with toys; whatever you say will be popular, whatever you do will be supported—because you yourself are the authority!

Strength represents power; ultimate strength is absolute power!

When you possess absolute power—you are naturally God!

Suddenly, she sneered coldly.

What? Did you forget? On that very day, in His pasture, did you not already determine your path? Did you not already decide to become a thing like an addict—that existence revered by His believers as God?

God? Heh, what is God? As long as one is strong enough to a certain degree, even an addict can call themselves God; on what grounds—cannot I?!

In the depths of consciousness, that vortex began to twist and spin again; at some unknown time, the vortex had already occupied more than half of the deep consciousness space...

"Yang... Yang Yang?" A hesitant footstep came from behind.

Yang Yi turned around abruptly.

Tian Tian Xinhan was frozen by that gaze for a moment; what kind of gaze was that—as if locked onto by some ancient existence from the depths of the chaos abyss, the most ancient and purest trembling surged from the bottom of his heart.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, you also returned to your hometown?" Yang Yi looked around and realized she had unknowingly walked to the reservoir.

Tian Tian Xinhan came to his senses, and that strange feeling from just now vanished immediately, as fast as if it had never appeared.

"Ah... I only returned a few days ago..." Facing his childhood neighbor sister, thinking of her identity, he was actually somewhat at a loss.

Yang Yi relaxed her expression and said in a relaxed tone, "If I had known you were back, I would have gone to find you to play!"

This relaxed and casual tone made Tian Tian Xinhan sigh with relief, as if he had found some of the childhood feeling again.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, I heard you became a lawyer? Where are you working now?"

"In the capital."

"Then why didn't you come find me? You know I am in the capital too."

"This..." Tian Tian Xinhan hesitated for a moment and said awkwardly, "You are too famous; I couldn't just show up at your door..."

"Do you think we are just childhood playmates, that we are actually not close?"

"No, no, no, how could I think that?" Tian Tian Xinhan quickly denied.

Yang Yi turned her head and looked at him steadily; a smile bloomed on her plain face, "Oh, I understand, Brother Tian Xinhan, you are worried I have long forgotten the childhood friendship between us, afraid that suddenly showing up would be awkward. Is that it?"

Tian Tian Xinhan shook his head on his own, not knowing how to respond, and could only smile.

Yang Yi did not smile; this childhood neighbor big brother still looked so tall, yet he was not as unreachable as he was when he was small.

The double eyelids under his glasses made his whole person radiate a reserved and gentle temperament. His cold white skin, without acne scars, made him look several years younger than his actual age, as if he had just graduated from university.

He stood right in front of her, within reach.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, you don't seem that tall anymore," Yang Yi suddenly said, "Before, I thought you were so tall, so tall, so tall that I had to look up to see your face."

Tian Tian Xinhan smiled, "You were too short before, thin and small, like a little runt, of course you would think I was tall."

"Come, let's compare; before, I think I only reached your chest!"

This childish request made Tian Tian Xinhan unable to help but laugh, so he straightened his body.

Yang Yi smiled and slowly walked closer to him.

For some reason, Tian Tian Xinhan suddenly felt as if he couldn't breathe; he swallowed, and his Adam's apple trembled up and down.

She approached him; the two drew close, and her forehead was just below his nose.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, I have finally grown up. Look, I am up to your nose here." Yang Yi looked up at his face; inadvertently, her forehead rubbed against his chin.

Tian Tian Xinhan took a small step back; for a moment he felt his action made their relationship seem distant, so he reached out and patted the top of her head, just like when they were small.

It was already very cold by the reservoir in November; only the two of them were on the shore.

Yang Yi looked at him silently for a while, then suddenly asked jokingly, "Brother Tian Xinhan, why did you come back this time? You are 28 this year, right? Did your aunt urge you to get married?"

She looked at him with a smile, as if she were still that innocent little girl.

"No. My father fell while working and cracked his leg bone; my mother kept hiding it from me, but later I felt something was wrong, so I hurried back to check." Tian Tian Xinhan, for some reason, felt somewhat uncomfortable all over under her gaze.

"Is your uncle in the hospital or at home? Is he better?"

"He has already been discharged; he can walk on his own with a cane."

"Then I will go see your uncle later."

"Okay."

"I also have to eat at your house; I just sent the entire Yang family to prison, so I have nowhere to eat." Yang Yi said, as if unaware of how much shock this sentence would bring to the person before her.

Tian Tian Xinhan was startled; he carefully examined the girl before him, as if for the first time realizing she was no longer the childhood neighbor sister, but an adult woman.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, why are you looking at me like that? Did I do something wrong?" Yang Yi tilted her head to look at him, a smile playing on the corner of her lips.

"On what charge?"

"The crime of abuse."

"Did you find a lawyer?"

"Mayor Wu should have found one for me. What? Do you want to be my lawyer?" Yang Yi still looked at him with a smile.

"If you need it," Tian Tian Xinhan said softly.

Yang Yi withdrew her smile; she looked carefully into his eyes; his pupils were brown-black, as gentle as ever.

Yang Yi took his hand; Tian Tian Xinhan followed her steps, and the two strolled by the reservoir. Just like that youth pulling the thin little girl along the shore to catch cicadas and scoop fish, as if the times of youth had never faded.

Only now, the one taking the initiative had become her.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, do you remember that summer? We caught many cicada nymphs and roasted them to eat; after eating, you walked me home; Chen Chen Cuilan wanted to hit me, you stopped her, and then she pointed at your nose and scolded you."

"I remember," Tian Tian Xinhan smiled, "She scolded very harshly. She also locked me outside the door and beat you hard in the yard... I heard she hit you very hard, yet you stubbornly didn't make a sound..." He tightened his grip on her hand.

"I didn't dare make a sound; I was afraid you would rush in and fight her," Yang Yi said with a smile, "As long as I endured it, we could still play together later. But if you had a conflict with her, I'm afraid we could never play together again."

Tian Tian Xinhan stopped walking; he reached out and patted her head, "After I left home for university, how have you been?"

"Not good. I almost got married off to that fool in town."

Tian Tian Xinhan's lips twitched, as if he had many words to say but didn't know what to say.

"It's all in the past," he could only say in the end.

Yang Yi smiled too and said, "Yes, it's all in the past."

They walked along the shore for a long time again.

"Brother Tian Xinhan, do you have a girlfriend?" Yang Yi suddenly asked.

"... No."

"It doesn't matter if you do," Yang Yi said with an inexplicable tone. She stopped and stood opposite him. "Do you know why?"

Tian Tian Xinhan vaguely felt something was about to happen, but he didn't know where this feeling came from. He deliberately ignored it and asked along with her tone, "Why?"

Yang Yi smiled, pulled his head down, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him—deeply, for a long time, as if with a hint of revenge.

After a long while, she slowly replied, "Because only I can bring you everything you want, no matter what thing in this world."