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

"So what you need to do is—" Su Ting suddenly raised her voice, "tell me the truth! Why did you erase my memory? Who is that 'brother'? What exactly did I lose!"

The woman's eyes flickered for a moment, and finally, she answered softly:

"You erased your own memory with your own hands."

boom!

These words struck like a thunderclap, throwing everyone's thoughts into disarray.

"What did you say!" Chu Mo blurted out, "Who would willingly forget who they are? This thing sounds even more fucking ridiculous than the system!"

Lin Su narrowed his eyes. "What's the motive? There has to be a reason."

"Of course." The woman slowly walked forward, a circle of pale blue light spreading out from under her feet with each step, as if she were walking on water. "You chose to seal these memories not because you were forced to. It was because on that day... you wanted to live."

Su Ting's voice grew hoarse: "To live... one must forget?"

The woman looked at him, her voice tinged with pity, "No... it's because you don't remember that you can live on."

The air was silent again.

The man suddenly sneered, "What a clichéd premise."

The woman looked at him and said, "You were part of that time too."

“That’s right.” A sarcastic smile played on his lips. “But I’m not that cowardly, so I kept the truth. And that’s why they’ve been hunting me down ever since.”

Su Ting clenched his fists, veins throbbing on his forehead. "So... tell me now, what is the real truth?"

The woman raised her hands, and the surrounding mirrored sea reformed, transforming into a series of rapidly flashing images—a laboratory explosion, walls splattered with blood, figures lying on the ground, and...

A child's silhouette disappears into the depths of the firelight.

"Do you remember your sister's name?" the woman asked softly.

Chapter 1030 Don't Listen

Su Ting froze, “I didn’t…” His words trailed off as a word vaguely popped into his mind: An Ran.

This name cuts like a knife to my heart.

Xiao You suddenly exclaimed, "Stop! She's trying to reconstruct the main memory core, which will affect the stability of the host's neural connections!"

Ji Yan immediately activated the defense protocol: "Warning, memory overwriting is underway. If he receives this information stream, his physical body may collapse."

The shadowy man roared, "Don't listen to me! You can't bear this memory right now!"

Su Ting staggered back a few steps, clutching his head with both hands, bloody lines erupting on his forehead.

The woman said urgently, "You can bear it; you're the first 'cognitive stabilizer' to achieve this. Go back to that day and see the truth you've covered up! Otherwise, you'll be trapped in this false cycle forever!"

The shadowy man lunged forward, grabbing her collar. "Are you crazy! He hasn't completed the fusion process! You'll kill his identity structure!"

A flicker of pain crossed the woman's eyes, but she did not flinch.

Chu Mo yanked the man away. "Stop talking nonsense! If we're going to play, let's finish this game. If I lose, I'll burn down your tower!"

Lin Su and Ji Yan exchanged a glance and then raised their weapons.

The situation was tense and could spiral out of control at any moment.

"stop fighting……"

The boy's voice was soft, but impossible to ignore.

Everyone turned to look at him.

Su Ting's face was soaked with sweat, and there were bloodshot streaks in the corners of his eyes, but his gaze was exceptionally clear.

He raised his head, looked at the woman, and slowly spoke—

“I want to see her. I…I really want to know what happened that day.”

The next second, the entire platform began to shake violently.

A giant eye pattern appeared in the sky, accompanied by a cold, mechanical voice:

[Target detected to have triggered a forbidden sequence; mandatory isolation measures implemented]

Immediately afterwards, an irresistible and immense attraction erupted from the door behind the woman, like a vortex tearing through time and space.

The woman cried out urgently:

"Let's go, while he can still hold on!"

The man gritted his teeth, "Then let's rush in and see."

Chu Mo charged forward first: "What's there to be afraid of? I've been wanting to fight someone for ages!"

The boy gazed at the woman, and the last sentence slipped out—

"If what you're saying is true... please remember one thing."

The woman looked over quietly, waiting for him to finish speaking.

"I want to take everything back with my own hands, no matter how painful the truth may be."

In the next instant, they were all swept into the door that glowed with a ghostly blue light.

All I could hear were the woman's last words:

"An Ran is still waiting for you... brother."

As the light faded, the group found themselves in a dark and damp space.

The air was thick with the smell of rusting metal, and the sound of dripping water echoed from above. The walls were sealed off, covered with strange engravings and coded patterns, like a language that blended ancient and modern elements.

Lin Su raised his hand and swept it across, and the miniature detector on his wrist immediately projected a light screen: [Area Status Unknown | Energy Field Chaotic | Biological Reaction Index Moderate]

"Where is this?" Ji Yan frowned, his fingers unconsciously pressing on the hilt of the tactical knife at his waist.

"It's like... underground," Chu Mo muttered. He took out a small flare and threw it into the air, the blue and white light quickly illuminating the entire space.

It was a huge circular hall, surrounded by rusty pipes, with countless cracks in the floor from which an unknown liquid seeped, shimmering with fluorescence.

Chapter 1031 The Ancient Bronze Gate

In the very center stands an ancient bronze door, with an open eye carved on it, its pupil shimmering with a faint light, as if it might awaken at any moment.

“This is not an ‘entrance’,” the man sneered, “but a ‘retrograde cage’.”

Su Ting didn't speak again. His gaze fell on a floor tile by the door—there was a name there, now blurred and indistinct: Su Anran.

The name stirred up a storm in his mind. For a moment, his heart almost stopped.

Xiao You quickly walked to his side and lowered her voice: "You still remember?"

"I have no memory of it, but my heart aches terribly," the boy murmured. "It feels like someone has cut a large chunk of it away with a knife."

The shadowy man sneered, "This emotional fluctuation... you really are the sole survivor of that experiment. You thought you could handle it, but you've actually been struggling on the verge of collapse for a long time."

"Shut up!" the woman coldly interrupted. "Don't provoke him any further. We need to complete the awakening ritual before the system locks in, or this entire ruin will collapse."

Lin Su stepped forward and placed his palm on the bronze door. "The structure is unstable, but it can still be opened. The question is—are we facing the truth, or a trap?"

“Of course it’s a trap,” Ji Yan said coldly. “But rather than being blindfolded, I’d rather step into as many traps as I want.”

The woman gently pressed the activation button. "Get ready, once you go in, there's no turning back."

Su Ting suddenly spoke up: "Is she still alive? My sister... is she still inside?"

The woman didn't answer; she simply pushed the door open slowly.

Click...

The heavy sound seemed to come from the end of the river of time.

Outside the door, there was neither darkness nor light, but a still scene.

An image inside a laboratory freezes in that instant, showing everyone as a gray-blue illusion: scientists, researchers, and a huge container device in the center.

A child is floating inside the glass enclosure.

The little girl was about seven or eight years old. Her eyes were closed, dozens of silver-white tubes were inserted into her chest, her face was pale, and her lips were chapped.

"That's... An Ran?"

The boy stumbled and nearly fell.

"She is your sister, and also a witness to your shared failure." The man's voice was deep and thunderous. "Back then, you both participated in a human brain experiment called the 'Dual-Core Cognitive Fusion Project.' The goal was simple—to create a new human individual with a complete cognitive structure."

He paused, his tone turning icy:

"They succeeded."

"But the price is that you choose to seal away her existence yourself. Because only by forgetting can you stop the pain; and only by forgetting her emotional fluctuations can your nervous system remain stable."

"So you're saying you don't want to live?"

"I just want to... survive."

The woman said softly, "At that moment, you knew that if you kept all your memories of her, your heart would break. To protect yourself, you erased all evidence of her existence at the last second."

There was silence.