Collapse: Raising a Wife Since Childhood

"Focus on learning." Wendy tapped the drawing board, signaling the boy to pick up the paintbrush. "Next, listen to me and start learning quickly. Honkai users have a cohesive force that exceeds that of normal people. Honkai energy can do a lot of things, so learning quickly is not impossible."

"Okay, teacher." Shen Yunie obeyed and picked up the carbon pencil. His painting skills were just average, and he had strong cohesion, so he could draw better.

Wendy looked down at him, hesitated for a moment, then held the boy's hand and leaned very close to him. "Tell me the facial contour of the person you want to draw."

Shen Yunie stared at Leah's face intently and described it as follows: "She has an oval face that's a little thinner. She's not a melon-seed face because she's not a little girl."

The carbon pencil left marks on the drawing board. Wendy grabbed his hand and drew the most standard one. The boy squinted his eyes and checked for a long time. He erased it with an eraser and re-drew it. Finally, he drew a line that was almost the same as the outline of Leah's face. He nodded with satisfaction and tilted his head to look at Wendy. "Then what?"

"Then……"

Wendy's method worked quickly. She held Shen Yunie's hand, and she was the one who was drawing. The two of them were very close to each other. The girl was inexplicably dazed. She could hear Shen Yunie's words in her ears, and she could also hear her heartbeat faintly, and the heat from the sunlight poured into her mind.

She thought she could let go of what happened two months ago and what was said when they said goodbye, but she never expected that she would still be nervous after meeting again. The shy girl's heart was now wildly agitated.

"What should we do next?" Shen Yunie's voice woke her up again, bringing her back to her senses.

It must be said that Shen Yunie's learning speed is also very fast. Under Wendy's personal teaching method, she has mastered many details of the painting. She carefully looked at the face outline without facial features in the painting, and her black hair fell like a waterfall to her waist.

The painting is of a woman.

Wendy felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on her. All her beautiful thoughts disappeared. That's right! He has a girlfriend, so what are you still thinking about?

She felt a sour feeling in her teeth and subconsciously let go of Shen Yunie's hand. "No, no, next. If you know the basics, just create it yourself. Anyway, I can't see it. I'm going to cook."

Wendy moved away from him with difficulty, and then ran to the girls. Shen Yunie was left staring at her blankly, thinking for a moment, and then holding the pen to start writing alone.

Tachibana Yuki glanced over there and said with emotion: "Another girl who broke up before the relationship even started."

Shen Yunie was concentrating on painting and walking around the lake. Leah, who was already tired from playing, suddenly poked her head in front of him and looked at the painting curiously. "Now there is no reference, can I still paint? Otherwise, I'd better go over and stay still."

"It's okay, Sister Leah, just stay with me." Shen Yunie held her hand and continued to paint, "I've memorized the scene."

Every picture of her was engraved in Shen Yunie's mind very clearly. There were still many shortcomings in the painting, so he slowly changed it, and he could think of those beautiful pictures with his eyes closed.

Leah held her cheek and sat next to him, "No background?"

There is only myself in the painting, and the background is completely blurred.

Shen Yunie pondered for a moment, then smiled and said, "None of that matters."

He still remembered a passage he had seen.

Later you came, you are the tide, you are the birds, you are the starlight, you are the world.

So in his eyes, Leah, who was the whole world, no longer needed a background description. This painting was completed bit by bit under his careful painting, and the record of Leah was completed. Although the painting was not very good, at least there was one more piece of evidence that Leah existed in the world.

When Tachibana Yuxi saw the painting, he was stunned. "Shen Yunie, you didn't paint Yaezakura, did you?"

"It's not her." Shen Yunie admitted frankly.

Several girls came closer to take a look. They didn't know who the woman in the painting was. Tachibana Yuki frowned, "Why... Tsk!"

She suddenly understood something, and her eyes changed when she looked at Shen Yunie. This guy was not as upright as she thought.

……

At Chaoyang Airport, the girl's body and face were hidden under her sportswear and hat, and her ice-green eyes looked through the hall to the azure blue sky outside the glass. A familiar yet strange feeling surged in her heart. Fu Hua hadn't been here for a long time.

She had protected the place for thousands of years, but she felt unfamiliar with every blade of grass and every tree here. This time she came back with the intention of killing. She felt ashamed, and seemed to disappear among the crowds, and appeared outside the airport after a moment.

A man's voice with a slight smile came from the headset, "Old friend, you have arrived. Thank you for supporting me at this time. Your firm determination will not betray you."

"Yes." Fu Hua answered in the coldest voice. Then the communication was disconnected, and the girl's eyes were filled with a hazy feeling, like frozen lake water.

Returning here without hesitation did not mean that she had made up her mind completely, but rather it was a sign of her hesitation. Because of her hesitation, she had to come here in person to protect Shen Yunie.

80. A broken life, a cruel reality when waking up from a dream

"Kiana? ...Kiana!"

A serious voice mixed with the sound of electricity came from the headphones. The girl's vision gradually became clear from blurry. She looked around in a trance. The cave was dark and cold. The fishy and sweet sea breeze came from the depths, blowing up the weathered sand and stones. She had to squint her eyes and turn away, and memories came back to her mind.

She was on a mission, clearing out Honkai beasts in a cave on the coast.

Kiana looked at the corpses of Honkai beasts scattered all over the ground, with broken limbs and purple blood flowing on the ground. She had killed them. But her method was too cruel. She used two guns, but the way these Honkai beasts died was like they were torn apart by human hands.

Who did it? Kiana was sure that there was no one else here. The only one who could have done it was her, the one who was unconscious just now.

What was she thinking about just now... Oh, right, the matter about her mother, or that nightmare that she couldn't get over. It not only affected her in her sleep, but also seriously affected her normal life.

Kiana rubbed her brows and sighed helplessly, because it was impossible to pass the level so there was no possibility of solving it.

Because of Shen Yunie's words, she was taken to see a doctor by Ji Zi and Theresa, but the doctor couldn't find any problems with her. Her body was still healthy, but her spirit was a little depressed. The doctor advised her not to think too much.

Kiana followed her advice, but this was not something that could be solved by thinking more or less. The nightmare would appear on time every night when she fell asleep, and she had no way to escape from it.

"Kiana?! How are you? Your communication has not been affected at all!" Ji Zi's serious voice with deep concern sounded again.

"Ah? I'm fine. Sorry, I was just daydreaming." Kiana quickly replied. She was ready to continue the mission, and slowly recalled that she had already cleared all the Honkai beasts. "Aunt Jizi, I've cleared all the Honkai beasts here. I'll come back to find you right away."

The girl's voice was weak, lacking her usual vitality, and she felt listless just by listening to it.

"Do you remember the way back to the original cave entrance?" Ji Zi asked her again.

Kiana looked around. She could vaguely see several deep secret passages in the dark cave. She should have marked them and returned on her own. But now she was not in a good mood and even forgot to mark them. "Remember..."

Hearing this, Ji Zi paused in the air and said, "Stand still, I'll come to you right away. Do you understand? This is an order, Kiana!

And Mei and Bronya, stop cleaning up the Honkai beasts for now and make plans after you find Kiana."

"Got it." The two girls answered in unison.

Kiana was speechless for a moment. No sound came from the headset. Obviously, everyone was rushing towards her. She felt a little ashamed and said weakly, "There's no need to disrupt the mission because of me. I will wait here obediently. Come back to me after you complete the mission."

Jizi frowned slightly and told her calmly, "I promised everyone to take good care of you. Don't say those stupid things. How can the mission be more important than you."

As soon as the voice fell, Mei's voice came, "It's okay, Kiana, it won't waste any time. After completing the mission, I will go back and have time to make your favorite food. Just wait obediently, okay?"

Bronya speaks very little, and usually shows no emotion when she speaks, but she cares about Kiana no less than the other two.

The gentleness conveyed by everyone made Kiana's heart feel warm, and the shame in her heart dissipated. She found a stone in the cave and sat down, propping up her long legs to relieve her mental fatigue.

It is really a joy to have friends and elders who take care of you. All the family love she lost was made up by them.

But Qiana suddenly thought of something, which made her smile and joy disappear. Where were her real relatives? Did they really die long ago as in the dream?

My mother died under the brilliant white light. Even though it was to prevent the danger from spreading further, after I killed the enemy, I was still attacked by artillery fire.

It is impossible to say that there is no hatred. After witnessing her mother's death in front of her own eyes, Kiana's hatred for those people is already very strong.

She kept reminding herself that it was just a dream and she had never heard of such a thing happening. Maybe her mother was not dead yet, but had left her temporarily for some unspeakable reason.

It’s just a dream. You can’t vent your hatred into reality, right?

Kiana stretched her legs, stretched lazily, squinted her eyes and showed a comfortable smile, but the smile gradually became stiff, as if she was forced to smile because she was unwilling to be lonely.

As the footsteps gradually approached, the girl's tense emotions began to relax a little, and her heartbeat slowed down.

Kiana was a little scared. If she continued to think like this, she might not be able to distinguish between reality and dreams, and end up becoming the person she least wanted to be.

Kiana turned around with a smile on her face, but she froze the moment she saw the person coming. She dragged out the words she blurted out unconsciously, "I'm fine. Look, I'm sitting here obediently..."

The person who came was an unfamiliar girl, only about thirteen or fourteen years old. She was wearing loose clothes that looked like hospital gowns, with bandages wrapped around her arms and calves. Her waist-length purple hair was messy and looked like it had not been taken care of in a long time.

The amber pupils stared at him quietly.

Kiana suddenly felt familiar with this girl she had never met before, as if they had known each other for a long time. She couldn't see her eyes clearly, as they were hazy and contained too many emotions. "Who are you?"

"Me?" The girl pointed at her pale face, tilted her head, and smiled with pure joy, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Xilin.

This name may be unfamiliar to you, so there is no need to remember it. What you need to remember is that I am your other half, your other soul.

I am the master of this body, but I have been sleeping for many years, allowing you, the soul, to take the dominant position.

We have everything in common, except hatred."

Kiana's eyes shrank suddenly when she heard those words, and she immediately shook her head in an attempt to shake those words off, "No, you and I are completely different, you are lying to me!"

She wanted to deny it all, but when she tried to do so, more evidence emerged in her mind.

In every life-and-death struggle, I always feel that I am being stared at by a pair of invisible eyes, and every move in my life is being observed and watched.

That sense of familiarity cannot be denied and comes from the deepest part of the soul.

"Am I lying to you? I believe you already have the answer, right? Kiana."

"No!" Kiana was a little angry, and the Moon Guardian raised the gun and pointed it at the girl, "Even if it's true, you are just a parasite! What hatred, it's just your way of bewitching me, and those dreams were made by you?!"

"Bewitched." Xilin looked at her quietly, and walked forward fearlessly under the gun. "Do you think those were dreams or real events?"

Kiana's subconscious words trembled, and her tone was no longer so firm, "Dream, dream."

Xilin, in a trance, had come to her, the muzzle of the gun was just a few centimeters away from her heart, but Kiana couldn't even hold the gun handle tightly, her arms trembled uncontrollably, and the two guns slipped from her palms and fell to the ground.

She stared blankly at the girl as she put her arms around her neck and murmured lovingly in her ear, "There's no way to deny it, although I don't have the heart to do so. But it's time to wake up from the dream, Kiana.

We can't stay in dreams forever, right? Sooner or later we will wake up and face the cruelest facts.

You have full control over this body, but you are not the main soul. This body was built for me by someone who harbored ill will towards this world, and he knew that I would have the day to regain control.

Before that, this body must move, otherwise it will age. Now I am awake, Kiana~"

The nightmare-like fear instantly enveloped the girl's whole body. Every little bit of her life, her hobbies, dreams, loneliness when wandering alone, the heartache when she saw the poor people, the heartbeat when she met the person she liked, and her efforts to become an excellent person in the eyes of others.

All those things that she valued and that valued her were now rejected. They were just dreams that would shatter at the slightest touch.

Warm tears began to fall from the corners of Qiana's eyes. Xilin's hands were so heavy that she had to lower her head and sob.

Xilin remained calm, looking at the crying girl in her arms with pity, and hooked her hair with her fingertips and put it behind her ear, "Since you have woken up, face all the cruel facts. What I am talking about is our common hatred."

A chill rose from the bottom of her heart, making Kiana shiver. She could sense that the cruel reality that was about to happen would make her fall into the abyss.

Xilin said slowly: "I have done very little. You dream about your mother because of longing. But you don't have any memory about her, so you can only dream about that nightmare that will never be solved.

So let's look at the reality, come and say it with me, Lch liebe dich~"

Kiana was like a puppet being manipulated by strings. When she opened her mouth, bitter tears fell into her mouth, "lch liebe dich..."

Everything in front of her was blurry and she had no sense. Kiana felt like she had traveled through time and space and came to a place that was too familiar to her. She had been here dozens of times, but this was the clearest time she saw it, with trees burned to charcoal, melted snow flowing, and the wind blowing through her face burning and hurting.

This place seemed like hell on earth. The sky was dyed blood red. A large amount of Honkai energy crystals formed a vortex in the air and spread outward. The corpses of Honkai beasts were eaten away by the flames bit by bit. In the very center, a tall, silver-haired woman was trying to hug the girl in her arms tightly. That was not Kiana, but Sirin.

Kiana could see the woman's appearance clearly. She was wearing a tight Valkyrie combat suit and holding a pure white knight's spear in her hand. Her skin was fair and delicate, and her facial features were charming. She had a pair of azure blue eyes, which were still calm.

Just like the ocean with occasional ripples, her expression was firm and she was not afraid of death.

When she lowered her eyes to look at the girl in her arms, her tenderness of maternal love was revealed.

The best expression of maternal love is that when a mother encounters danger, she will always protect her daughter in the safest place, and will not bear to let her suffer any harm even if she herself dies.

The roar was deafening, the heat even made the earth melt, and the space was distorted by the heat. Kiana looked up, and the light pierced her eyes, and her tears could not help but flow out and evaporate.

Here comes the missile that killed the mother and the monster.

The woman lowered her eyes, looked at Xilin tenderly, and comforted her softly, "It's okay, my daughter. Mom will protect you. Don't be afraid. We will face it together."

Her fair arms were wrapped with vicious thorns, wantonly piercing her skin to draw blood. The woman slowly raised her head and looked towards the vortex where the missile was about to hit. "Holy Blood Liberation."

A huge white flower bloomed and enveloped the two of them. The scorching wind became gentle as if being gently caressed. The condensed vortex of collapse was dissolved by the light, and the missile was shaken by the touch. The light was transmitting outwards, and the distance of tens of millions of meters was surrounded by this gentle light.

The release of the Honkai energy fission bomb will cause the death of everyone on this land. The woman is willing to give up her own life to save everyone. When she looks at her daughter in her arms, she has the urge to send her away.

She knew it was too late, so she just bent down and used one hand to protect her daughter tightly, with tenderness in her eyes, "Xilin, Lch liebe dich."

The moment the missile shattered, Kiana, a bystander, could no longer see anything. The blazing fire and the melting snowfield all disappeared in that instant.

Her heart stopped beating for a while, and she didn't know how long she stopped breathing. It was only when she felt suffocated that she remembered that she had to breathe.

Why? All the problems had been solved, why did they release the missiles? Everyone could have survived... Why should she accept such an outcome?

This was a kind of despair, a despair that Kiana could not deny had happened in reality. The second kind of despair followed and unfolded before her eyes.

In the dark laboratory, the little girl's whole body was soaked in glassware. She was put on a ventilator, her bloodless white palms had many needle holes, and several finger-thick threads pierced into her body from her back, transmitting unknown energy.

The man with a blurred face stood in front of the glassware, listening to the people around him reporting the data to him.

"Xilin's gene fusion is very high. K423 is now the most perfect experimental clone. She has a high chance of survival."

The man seemed to smile when he heard this, his voice full of joy, "K423, the most perfect vessel~ Xilin's soul will be revived in your body, and that brilliance will bloom again in this world.

Before that, let the other soul with the implanted memory take control. I hope you won't hate this body. The dead Cecilia will not affect you. Let you exert the greatest power of the Apostle of God. "

Your mother is called Cecilia, she is the strongest Valkyrie in the world, she can handle all dangers alone, and she does everything with the heart of saving everyone.

However, she was regarded as a threat despite being so strong and gentle. Even when she faced the Herrscher in the end, she was killed even though the crisis had been resolved. Her strength made the world full of malice towards her, and her gentleness was met with cruel murder.