Chapter 74: Never to Be Seen Again

Lu Guanchang saw Zhao Hongxia stop and listen with her ear tilted, so he sat back down.

"After I found you, I realized those things weren't important anymore. Just seeing you again, talking to you, chatting with you, and saying sorry to you is enough for me..." Lu Guanchang said softly.

Sun Mahayana knew Zhao Hongxia was too proud to face him, so he stepped forward and pulled her back.

Sure enough, Zhao Hongxia didn't struggle at all and sat back in her original spot.

"So many years have passed, what's the use of saying sorry?"

She looked at Lu Guanchang with a complex expression.

Lu Guanchang said, "I know it's useless, but I just can't let it go in my heart. Life is a one-way street; once it's gone, it's gone. It's too late for anything. Rather than saying sorry to you, I'm saying it to my conscience, to ease my conscience a bit..."

"You only ever think of yourself. You did before, and you still do now." Zhao Hongxia couldn't help but snap angrily.

Hearing this, Lu Guanchang didn't get angry. Looking at Zhao Hongxia before him, in a daze, he seemed to see the shadow of her childhood on her. Every time she got angry, he always had to spend a long time coaxing her back...

Back then, he loved her so much, so why did he suddenly harden his heart and abandon her and her daughter?

Now looking back on this question, he didn't understand it himself either, and could only come to one answer: he wasn't a good person, wasn't a good father.

Just as his daughter said, he only ever thought of himself.

But at this moment, he felt no regret. Everything was his own choice; he had let go of everything.

So he looked at Zhao Hongxia calmly and said, "I'm leaving."

Zhao Hongxia's lips trembled, wanting to say something more, but she couldn't get anything out.

At Lu Guanchang's chest, a dim blue light flickered. His body began to collapse outward from the center of the dim blue light...

"Dad... Dad... Goodbye..." Zhao Hongxia said, her eyes red and her voice choked.

Lu Guanchang raised his arm, which was about to vanish, smiled at Zhao Hongxia, waved, and said goodbye.

Vaguely, it seemed like returning to that morning when her mother held a bundle, pulled her, and said she would take her to her grandmother's house to see her.

She turned to look behind her; her father stood not far behind, looking at them with an unreadable expression.

She smiled and waved her small hand, saying, "Bye-bye, Dad~"

Never to be seen again; from then on, she had no father.

The memory ended there. She didn't remember what expression her father had back then, or if he gave her a response; it was all blank...

But at this moment, this forgotten memory surfaced again.

Her father smiled, waved at her, and said goodbye, just like in front of her now.

After Lu Guanchang fulfilled his wish and let go of everything, anger and grievance were gone from his heart. Perhaps he felt all of this was the retribution he deserved.

As for his assets, whether Zhao Hongxia wanted to fight for them was Zhao Hongxia's business; it didn't matter how it went.

Shen Siyuan had not imprisoned Lu Guanchang's soul, so after he fulfilled his wish and let go of all attachment to this world, his soul should have dissipated.

But the dim blue light within his body sucked in those souls that were about to vanish, then turned into a ball of dim blue light that shot skyward and disappeared.

Thus, a ball of dim blue light fell from the sky onto Shen Siyuan, who had just finished lunch and was on his way back to the company. Because it was too fast, no one noticed this scene.

But Shen Siyuan felt a pure soul power feeding back into the 【Ten Thousand Souls Banner】.

This soul power was incredibly pure, without the slightest desire or stray thought.

So naturally, Shen Siyuan didn't need to refine it, and thus didn't have to worry about desires and stray thoughts polluting his spirit; it could be used directly to repair the 【Ten Thousand Souls Banner】.

"Indeed, no merit."

Lu Guanchang confirmed his guess in his heart.

However, obtaining such pure soul power was an unexpected joy.

"What are you thinking? Let's go?"

Ding Youguang reached out and patted Shen Siyuan's shoulder, waking Shen Siyuan from his daze.

"Nothing. Let's go; it's almost time to start work." Shen Siyuan replied casually.

The reason Ding Youguang treated everyone to lunch today was mainly to ask Zhou Zhengdao about the specific progress of the project and whether there were any difficulties they could solve together.

But currently, there were no difficulties, though some equipment support was needed.

Because although the set-top boxes all used the Android system, the versions from different manufacturers varied.

So they needed to buy set-top boxes from every manufacturer and then run compatibility tests on the game.

This process was quite troublesome and also a significant investment.

But as the project's promoter, Ding Youguang stated he would handle this problem.

Of course, he wouldn't spend money to buy them; it wasn't that he was unwilling to spend the money, but there were too many types of set-top boxes, and even if they bought them, they might not get all of them.

He found a friend who worked in the mobile department and asked him to help get some set-top boxes.

In the afternoon, Shen Siyuan made some modifications and adjustments to the fishing game planning proposal based on the several questions Zhou Zhengdao had raised during lunch.

Then he chatted with Jiang Wenxin on Enterprise WeChat for a while.

She mainly asked Shen Siyuan about the blind date from yesterday.

Shen Siyuan didn't hide anything from her and chose to tell the truth.

What he didn't know was that Jiang Wenxin had already learned about it through Ruan Hongzhuang's Moments.

But she had to admit that Ruan Hongzhuang was indeed a capable and beautiful Miss, a woman who could make any man's heart flutter.

Seeing that Shen Siyuan had made his decision to try dating the other party, she could only sigh inwardly, lamenting how fate played tricks and that her own cousin didn't have that fortune.

And so, a day passed.

Yin Xingyue and Watching Dou Dou didn't know where they had run off to; no one saw them all afternoon.

Shen Siyuan returned home, cooked himself a big pot of egg noodles, and after eating his fill and drinking his fill, he put down his bowl and chopsticks and began tonight's plan.

The single strand of merit he had just obtained, Shen Siyuan didn't plan to use to repair the 【Ten Thousand Souls Banner】, but to cultivate the 【Great Luo Han Eighteen Phases】.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner was after all an external object; being strong oneself is true strength.

The single strand of merit from the previous two days had pushed the 【Great Luo Han Eighteen Phases】 directly to the second phase, second layer; he didn't know how far this strand of merit today would take him.

As this wisp of merit spread through his body as a coolness, Shen Siyuan hurriedly assumed the posture of the Second Phase, Third Layer.

Then a sharp pain spread through his body, especially the nerves around his mouth and teeth, extending all the way over the crown of his head; his temples throbbed, and his head felt as if it were about to split open, yet precisely during this process, his consciousness seemed amplified several times, becoming even clearer.

Immediately after, the teeth in his mouth began to loosen and fall out, mixed with blood, and he spat them out one by one.

During this process, his muscles constantly tore and healed, his skin cracked rapidly and lost moisture, beginning to peel off in large patches; the entire process left Shen Siyuan in agony beyond endurance.

Just at this moment, Shen Siyuan's mobile phone rang, but he had absolutely no spare energy to answer it.

PS: Begging for monthly tickets and continued reads~ Whether there are recommendations next week depends on today's continued reads; I beg everyone.