Forced into a romantic relationship.

Zhong Yin and Zhong Ling were stunned.

Compared to her sister's blank expression, Zhong Ling seemed calmer, probably because she hadn't thought that much about it. Although her cheeks were flushed red to her ears, she couldn't help but ask, "So how did you answer?"

"Of course I refused."

Zhong Chengguang said with a grin, "Want to marry both of my precious daughters at the same time? Dream on."

Zhong Yin wanted to ask more about the dream, but her mother suddenly turned around, smiled, and asked, "Xiao Yin, do you want to try calling Wukong again?"

Zhong Yin was taken aback: "But I've called so many times, and it's just a disconnected number..."

"Perhaps it's not like that now?"

Zhong Yin hesitated for a long time before finally taking out her phone and entering the number she had long since memorized into her mind.

Despite what her mother said, she didn't have high expectations. She thought she would hear the usual notification tone, but to her disbelief, a pleasant ringtone came from her phone.

No way...it really went through?

Just as she was feeling lost, the call was suddenly answered, and a very muffled but extremely urgent voice came from the phone: "Sister Yin, it's me! Stop the car! Tell Uncle to stop the car right now!"

It's Han Zhou!

Zhong Yin's heart suddenly raced. She was neither old nor did she take on any younger brothers; only Han Zhou would call her Sister Yin. But the anxiety in his tone left her no time to feel happy. She quickly asked loudly, "What did you say? I can't hear you!"

The phone line was filled with the howling wind and the cacophony of rain, interspersed with bursts of electronic music. If she hadn't been so used to hearing "Sister Yin," she wouldn't have been able to hear those two words clearly at all.

"Stop the car! Stop the car! There's danger ahead!" Han Zhou seemed to be shouting into his phone.

"I still can't hear you... Wait a minute, I'll put it on speakerphone so my parents can hear too!"

Zhong Yin could sense that Han Zhou was very anxious at this moment, and thought that he had encountered danger. She was extremely nervous, so she quickly turned on the speakerphone, turned the volume up to the maximum, and then held the phone above the car roof.

At this moment, both Zhong Chengguang and his wife suppressed their smiles, their faces turned serious, and they strained their ears to hear every syllable on the phone. Zhong Ling did the same.

“No, it’s too noisy over there with Wukong. I can’t hear what he’s saying at all,” Zhong Chengguang said, shaking his head.

"There's a lot of rain over there, and it's pouring here too. Could he be nearby?" Ye Xiaorou asked with a worried expression. "Could Wukong have wandered onto the highway...?"

Zhong Yin also felt that this was possible, and became increasingly worried that something might have happened to Han Zhou on the road, and that he urgently needed their help. However, they couldn't hear what he was saying at all, and they were extremely anxious.

Just then, Zhong Ling suddenly spoke up: "Brother Wukong seems to be telling us to stop the car..."

She looked hesitant, as if she wasn't quite sure.

Zhong Yin was taken aback, then a thought struck her, and she hurriedly said into the phone, "Han Zhou, listen to me, do you want us to stop the car? If not, don't say anything; if you do, shout it out three times."

Han Zhou's shouts came immediately from the other end of the phone, exactly three times.

"Dad, stop the car!"

Zhong Yin made a decisive decision and immediately chose to trust Han Zhou. Zhong Chengguang did not hesitate for long either. Even though stopping at will was prohibited on the highway, he still stepped on the brakes without hesitation and pulled the car over to the side of the road.

"Xiaoling, watch out behind you, a car might be chasing us." Ye Xiaorou warned, the visibility was too low, and it would be dangerous if the car behind them didn't see them.

Zhong Ling responded and turned to observe the situation behind her.

Meanwhile, Zhong Yin was still using the same method to confirm the situation with Han Zhou.

Is there any danger over there?

Only the sounds of wind and rain could be heard on the other end of the phone. Han Zhou remained silent, indicating that he was not in danger.

"So, we're in danger here?" Zhong Yin asked again.

The response was three shouts, which indicated affirmation.

Are you on your way here?

Three more shouts followed.

"Is it okay if we just park and wait for you?"

This time, Zhong Yin did not receive a reply.

Because the next second, a towering flame suddenly rose into the sky in the distance.

Immediately afterward, the flames turned into a sea of ​​fire, and terrifying explosions rang out from afar, as if it were a harbinger of the end of the world. The entire highway shook violently, cracks appeared everywhere, and the mountains on both sides trembled violently.

The explosion spread rapidly, and a visible blast wave carrying mud and gravel broke through the rain curtain, rushing straight up from below. Even though their car was far from the blast point, it was still affected, and the car windows were instantly covered with a spiderweb pattern.

"Get down!"

Zhong Chengguang shouted and pressed his wife's shoulders down onto the seat. Zhong Yin in the back seat did the same, tightly hugging his sister and protecting her in his arms.

A violent ringing in her ears made her feel dizzy, but she gritted her teeth and shouted into her phone, "Run! There's been an explosion here! Don't come any closer!"

Zhong Yin couldn't hear whether Han Zhou had responded on her phone or not. She didn't care about that at the moment, because the impact of the explosion had pushed their car, which was parked on the side of the road, to the edge of the guardrail.

"No, the car is broken down, we need to get out immediately," Zhong Chengguang said gravely from the driver's seat.

"It's too dangerous to get out of the car now. It's raining so hard, what if a car crashes into us from behind?" Ye Xiaorou said worriedly.

"The explosion was so loud that the cars behind definitely wouldn't dare to go any further. I'm worried that the cars that can still move ahead will also back up. If they stay parked on the side of the road, it will be even more dangerous."

Zhong Chengguang rented this car for a trip, but he didn't expect it to be in such poor condition. Now, not only has the car broken down, but all the headlights are also broken. In the dim rain, it is almost impossible for other vehicles fleeing the disaster to notice it, and it is easy to be hit in the chaos.

Ye Xiaorou looked worried, but she knew her husband was right: "Then where should we go after we get off the bus?"

Zhong Chengguang said decisively, "First, climb over to the outside of the guardrail, walk along the guardrail, turn on your phone flashlight along the way, and if you encounter a landslide, quickly climb back over."

Climbing over the guardrail was dangerous, but there was no time to worry about that now. If they stayed in the car, either a secondary explosion or being hit by a panicked vehicle would be enough to kill their entire family.

He turned around to check on his two daughters: "Are you both alright? Can you walk?"

The two sisters nodded, still shaken.

"Then get off the bus first, and remember what I just said."

With a calm smile on his face, Zhong Chengguang gestured for the two sisters to get out of the car first. However, almost the instant the two stepped out of the car, a loud crash suddenly came from not far away. The road surface undulated violently like waves. The car, which was still carrying their parents, crashed through the guardrail and rolled down the cliff.

"Dad! Mom!"

Zhong Yin was terrified, but she didn't even have time to panic. Almost at the same time, a strong blast of air also threw the two sisters away. She held her younger sister tightly in her arms and fell heavily to the ground. Her body rolled toward the edge of the fence due to inertia, and the ringing in her ears became more and more intense.

By the light of the towering flames, she could barely make out the scene below the cliff. She breathed a sigh of relief, because the vehicle her parents were in had not fallen into the ravine, but was hovering on the anti-slip slope five or six meters below, its chassis caught by exposed steel rebar fragments on the slope.

But then came a wave of despair. The parents' condition was still unknown, but those inside the car obviously didn't need to worry about being impaled by steel bars. However, she and her sister were not so lucky. Once they fell, only death awaited them.

Zhong Yin gritted her teeth and used all her strength to resist the impact of the explosion, but it was all in vain. Even though she tried her best to brace herself against the ground, she could not stop her downward momentum. With half of her body already hanging in the air, all she could do in the end was to push her younger sister in her arms toward the inside of the road. She herself had completely lost her footing.

The moment my body was suspended in mid-air, the sound of the wind suddenly filled my eardrums, causing a sharp pain.

It is said that people see a revolving lantern before they die, but Zhong Yin can't see anything. She lived a very happy life in the first half of her life. Even without recalling it, just closing her eyes will bring those scenes vividly to her mind.

Amidst the towering flames, she felt only resentment.

She didn't even have time to confirm her parents' safety, nor did she know if Xiaoling was out of danger. She was about to see Han Zhou, but she couldn't even see him one last time. How could she be willing to accept this?

She hates tragedies.

But what can you do if you're unwilling to accept it? What can you do if you hate tragedy?

Just as she could never change the awful endings in movies, she could not change her own fate.

She suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if she had lost the ability to feel pain. Not just pain, but all her senses were rapidly fading away, like the receding tide, leaving her body inch by inch.

At that moment, she suddenly remembered the story Han Zhou had told her before.

It's a very old-fashioned story about a girl named Zixia Fairy who was captured by the Bull Demon King. Just when she thought she was going to die, a man named Supreme Treasure appeared on a colorful cloud, defeated the Bull Demon King, and rescued her.

It's really cliché, yet so romantic. I remember when Han Zhou told this story, he was still using the name Sun Wukong. He seemed to think of himself as the protagonist of the story, speaking so earnestly with a smile on his face and bright eyes. He even added the setting that Supreme Treasure's previous life was Sun Wukong. How childish!

I don't know why I fell for such a childish guy in the first place.

But it's been five years now, he shouldn't be so naive anymore. I just told him on the phone to leave immediately, I don't know if he listened. This is an explosion, much more powerful than the Bull Demon King...

As her consciousness began to blur, Zhong Yin's thoughts became increasingly chaotic, and she even began to hallucinate.

The towering flames turned into golden clouds, the billowing smoke and dust transformed into a sky full of flowers, and I myself seemed to have become Zixia, who had been captured by the Bull Demon King.

Through the gaps in the blazing firelight, she seemed to see Han Zhou flying towards her on auspicious seven-colored clouds, his expression so anxious he looked like he was about to cry.

No, that should just be rain. He didn't even cry when they parted, so why would he cry when they meet again? And what he's standing on isn't some auspicious cloud, but rather churning heat and embers. How could he fall from the sky? I must be hallucinating…

Zhong Yin felt a lump in her throat.

In any case, being able to see that guy one last time in my hallucination is some kind of consolation.

I hope it's just a hallucination...

She didn't want to see that guy at this time at all.

The next second, she felt her arm being grabbed tightly, and then she heard the voice that had appeared countless times in her dreams over the past five years.

"Sister Yin, I'm here."

She could no longer hold back, and a torrent of tears welled up in her eyes, mingling with the cold rain and completely blurring her vision.

"You bastard, didn't I tell you not to come..."

She didn't know if Han Zhou could hear her.

Because both sides of his ears were covered in flowing blood.

Chapter 720 (Mini-Finale)

The past is indeed hard to change.

This was Han Zhou's first thought upon seeing Zhong Yin.

Even though he arrived before the accident occurred in the original timeline and even though he made a phone call in advance, he still couldn't prevent the tragedy from happening.

Because of his involvement, the explosion seems to have happened sooner than expected.

Whether his appearance caused the butterfly effect or whether the original intelligence was flawed is no longer important.

The important thing is that he must save Zhong Yin's parents immediately.

On his way there, he had been using the magic telescope almost the entire time because he needed to keep track of the Zhong family's location. As a result, when the explosion occurred, he was unable to cover his ears in time and is now unable to hear anything.

However, it's not a big problem, and it could even be considered a good thing. After all, once he returns to the "present," his body will be fully recovered. This could be considered a kind of cured illness, so he can use his "long-term illness to become a doctor" skills to cure Sister Yin's ears.

In fact, Han Zhou had this idea as early as the beginning of his transmigration, but he hesitated to put it into action, since losing hearing during a rescue was a very dangerous thing.

Therefore, he simply adopted a mindset of not wanting to suffer any loss. Even though he had lost his hearing at this moment, he did not show any panic. In order not to worry Zhong Yin, he even pretended that he could hear.