Courtyard House: My Long and Hard Body Makes Me Play with All the Women in the Courtyard

The moment everyone stepped inside, Xiao You turned back and smiled at Ji Yan:

“You said that as long as he remembers me, he will come back to me.”

Ji Yan gazed quietly in the direction she had left, and nodded gently.

"But have you ever considered... what if he doesn't recognize you this time?"

She didn't answer again, but turned and stepped into the red light.

Then the world suddenly plunged into darkness.

Chapter 1023 Standing in the Void

Ji Yan stood alone in the void.

Suddenly, a voice rang in his ear, deep and hoarse yet carrying a strange warmth:

“I said…no matter where she is, I will bring her back.”

"Even if it destroys everything, I won't let her wait alone."

Ji Yan closed his eyes.

He asked in a low voice, "Do you still remember your real name?"

A near-hysterical laugh echoed from the darkness:

"Heh...of course."

The next second, the world outside the red gate completely collapsed.

The world inside the Red Gate is a distorted space, like a crack in a data stream bursting through reality. Light becomes unreal here, and gravity seems to be constantly being overturned. With each step, tiny ripples of blue light appear beneath one's feet.

"This place... it feels like a labyrinth from the depths of my memory?" Su Ting said in a low voice.

“This is not physical space.” Lin Su checked the terminal device in his hand, his eyes scanning the surroundings warily. “This is the boundary between the consciousness layer and reality—we have entered the memory model of the first sequence of remnants.”

Su Ting walked at the front, his neural terminal buzzing incessantly, the screen flashing with a series of chaotic data, as if some program was trying to link to the unknown code on his body.

Xiao You slowly approached: "Are you alright? Just now you... seemed to have remembered something."

Su Ting did not respond immediately, but after a moment she whispered, "I saw a man."

Xiao You's eyes flickered slightly: "Who is he?"

“I can’t quite put my finger on it… but I had a familiar yet terrifying feeling. He looked at me and said, ‘Your name isn’t Su Ting.’”

Hearing this, Su Ting couldn't help but interject, "Hey, is there any point in talking about this now? Haven't you guys noticed that something's off about this place?"

Everyone stopped in their tracks.

Afterimages began to appear in the surrounding void—shattered family scenes, crying children, a sealed-off building, and a blurry figure with outstretched arms amidst flames…

"What are all these?" Chu Mo squinted at them. "A hallucination? Or a projection of fragmented memories?"

“It’s the imprint of memories.” Ji Yan’s voice came from behind. He had caught up with the group without realizing it. “This place will reveal everything that was not accepted, deleted, or forgotten in the past.”

Xiaoyou bit her lip: "So... this place isn't just about the past, it also includes our future?"

“In some ways,” Ji Yan nodded, “if you can get to the core area, you will find the answer you really want to know.”

Su Ting suddenly frowned: "Wait! Did you hear that?"

The sound of the wind echoed.

But it wasn't natural wind; rather, it was more like a tremor caused by some kind of data fluctuation.

A voice, sometimes near, sometimes far:

"You've come... finally."

The sound seemed to come from another time and space, carrying a rhythm that did not belong to this place, as if the whole world was listening to it.

Su Ting's expression changed: "That tone... it sounds like... it's waiting for us?"

Su Ting took a step forward: "Of course it's waiting for us."

Xiao You suddenly spoke up: "Su Ting, do you know who's speaking?"

“I don’t know.” He shook his head, but his eyes grew even more determined. “But we will find out soon.”

They walked through a long corridor made of tattered images, each wall flashing scenes familiar to them—their growth, their struggles, their choices… but some of these fragments had never appeared in any record.

Chapter 1024 The Final Judgment

That was a time never experienced, a forgotten story, or...

"Is it a hypothetical life trajectory?" Lin Su guessed. "It's part of an experiment—simulating the consequences of every decision."

"In other words... if we can choose a branch to go into, can we bypass the final judgment?"

As soon as Chu Mo finished speaking, the entire corridor collapsed instantly, and the ground turned into countless flowing data, sucking everyone into a new environment.

This is... the heart of the city ruins.

The massive tower lay collapsed in the distance, the sky filled with ash-like particles, and the air reeked of static electricity.

"Welcome to the world after the 17th reboot." A voice, a mix of mechanical and human, rang out in the air.

A figure slowly emerged from the ruins.

Is it... another group of them?

"You...are people from a parallel world?"

The man sneered, "Worse than that, we are the people you failed to become."

Su Ting frowned: "What do you mean?"

“It means,” the “self” pointed at him, “you are the only option that wasn’t eliminated.”

"And we all tried to change the outcome, but we all failed."

Su Ting stared at the scene before him, his fists slowly clenching.

Xiao You gently took his hand: "They are not enemies, they are possibilities of the past."

The other person suddenly looked up, revealing a sorrowful smile: "But what if we weren't the mistake, but the right ones?"

Then, that voice rang out again in the air—deep, calm, and carrying an undeniable sense of command:

"Choose to begin."

Everyone instantly realized what had happened.

Ji Yan stepped forward: "You have reached a critical juncture. The choices you face are not as simple as just opening this door."

Su Ting asked anxiously, "What are we supposed to do?"

Ji Yan was silent for a moment, then finally answered:

"What you must choose to believe is: which world is the future you truly belong to."

The moment the words fell, a red gash suddenly tore open in the sky, and a beam of light shone down, illuminating the entire wilderness.

Immediately afterwards, a cold and majestic voice echoed throughout the void:

"The restart protocol has been triggered. Please make a choice: stay or return to the starting point of your destiny."

Everyone held their breath.

Chu Mo said coldly, "I choose to leave here. I don't believe in this nonsense."

Lin Su stood still: "I don't believe in fatalism, but I have to see it for myself to know."

Su Ting turned to look at Su Ting: "And what about you? Do you want to go back to your original 'starting point'?"

Su Ting slowly raised his head and looked at the red crack.

A strange light flashed in his eyes.

“I’m not going back,” he said softly. “I’m going to see someone.”

He took a sudden step forward.

"No matter which stage of my life I'm in, the person I'm looking for has never changed."

He turned to look at the others:

“I’m going through that door. If you want to come, come with me.”

Xiao You smiled and said, "I really don't want to leave you."

Chu Mo sighed and followed forward: "Heh, since no one dares to go first, let me, this madman, test the waters first."

Lin Su shrugged: "I don't want to be tormented by dreams I'll regret in the future for the rest of my life."

Ji Yan watched silently as they walked away into the distance.

The last sentence whispered in his heart:

"Don't forget what you said, Su Ting."

The light in the distance grew brighter and brighter.