Chapter 336

Is this… the voice of Emma Senior’s mother? After feeling the surging pain in Emma’s heart through her tightly clasped hands, Leon couldn’t help but gently remind her:

“Emma Senior, no matter what you’ve heard, it isn’t true. We don’t have your family behind us. Only by moving forward can we see your daughter.”

“I… uh…”

After hearing Leon’s reminder, the pale-faced Emma nodded slightly and, following the force pulling her hand, stepped into Leon’s memories for the third time. She saw a little girl, covered in dirt with bloody scratches all over her arms from tree branches, happily offering him a nest of bird eggs.

A warm feeling seeped into Emma’s heart through Melanie’s mischievous smile, although it didn’t melt away her regret, it did calm her heart a bit.

The blood-curdling calls from behind still made Emma feel as if being pierced by knives, but with each step on the white blocks, Leon’s family’s impoverished yet affectionate memories turned into a warm hand that not only gently held her heart but also tied the strings of sanity about to snap, giving her the courage to take another step.

On the contrary, Leon, holding Emma’s hand, heard through their linked souls the continuous sorrowful cries and angry curses coming from behind Emma.

“Emma, I liked you so much, why did you betray me?”

“You’re a sinner of the Baohua Family! If you hadn’t leaked the information, would we have died?”

“Traitor! Why do you still have the face to live?”

“I’m disappointed to have a daughter like you.”

“If you know what shame is, look back and see how we died!”

“Go away, don’t come back to disgust us!”

“The last Baohua, good job, live with that shame!”

Even with Emma’s soul acting as a barrier, he could vaguely hear some of the content, but the resentment and grudges in these voices were sharper than knives.

And those soft sighs filled with disappointment from Emma’s direct relatives amidst the curses and accusations chilled Leon’s heart.

After learning that Emma Senior was the “last Baohua,” he had flipped through old newspapers and vaguely learned about the situation more than six years ago.

Six years ago, during the national defense war, when the Baohua Family attempted a coup, they seemed to have colluded with the invading Frostland Country. There was even a rumor that the invasion itself was related to the Baohua Family.

Because the news was leaked early, the Baohua Family had no choice but to hastily launch the coup. The royal family, sensing the crisis, had no choice but to respond with the harshest punishment, leading to the once prestigious Baohua Alman, equal in status to Lionheart Lane, ending up with only Emma Senior and her daughter surviving.

If the leak was indeed related to Emma Senior, then given her character, she must have been tormented by guilt every moment for the past six years. Hearing the curses of her clan and the sighs of her family, it would be hard for her not to look back.

Also, the recent conflict between the Bureau Director and her seemed to carry other meanings.

Although neither of them said it outright, from their words, it seemed that Emma Senior intended to do something, while the Bureau Director didn’t want her to, trying to force her to abandon it by making her “turn back without return.”

So, what was it that Emma Senior, driven by guilt or regret, wanted to do, but the Bureau Director wanted to stop her from doing?

Through the tightly clasped hands, Leon’s increasingly chaotic thoughts were noticed by Emma, who felt a wave of guilt.

She just needed to wait for Leon to step on the white brick and pass safely under his beautiful memories’ protection. But Leon had to repeatedly face his own pain. When encountering consecutive black bricks, he had to keep stepping back and testing until a safe white block appeared.

And because of bad luck, as they progressed, the number of times Leon needed to test increased, sometimes having to step on three or four black bricks before finding a white one.

From getting on the bridge until now, she had taken sixty steps, while Leon had stepped on over a hundred black bricks, proving that he had relived painful memories at least a hundred times.

At such moments, it should have been her, the senior, standing in front to shield him, but because of her weakness and hesitation, he had to bear everything, repeatedly revisiting painful experiences. That was unacceptable.

“Let’s walk together.”

Gently pulling Leon’s hand, Emma, who had almost seen all of Leon’s beautiful life, proposed softly: “Leon, you don’t need to explore the path for me anymore. I think I should be able to…”

“No way!”

Hearing those still sharp words in his ears, Leon rejected without hesitation:

“All content is available on 69 Book Bar!”

“Don’t push yourself! I can sense the state of your soul. You’re just somewhat stable now. If you’re stimulated by those memories, I don’t think you can handle it!”

You telling me not to push myself, aren’t you pushing yourself too? Biting her lips slightly, Emma suggested softly:

“How about this, you continue to step on the bricks for me and share your memories, but you don’t need to deliberately find white bricks anymore. Let me step on the black ones too!

Since these bricks are the ones you stepped on, most of the memories I see belong to you, my memories will only appear briefly. I should be able to handle it!”

“Alright…”

Sensing Emma Senior’s soul and confirming that she wasn’t pushing herself but truly confident, looking at the end of the Black and White Bridge, Leon nodded slightly and moved his foot aside, exposing a corner of the black brick beneath him.

Noticing Leon’s action, Emma took a deep breath and lifted her foot, stepping onto Leon’s painful memories.

“Brother.”

The familiar frail girl appeared before Emma again, but this time Anna’s expression wasn’t the gentle and happy look she used to give “her.” Instead, it was calm with a hint of faint regret.

After a brief silence, the pale girl on the bed turned her head slightly and weakly but stubbornly suggested:

“Maybe, you should just forget about me?”

(End of Chapter)