[Based on the original Slay the Gods story + Wang Mian dream girl + open ending + past and present lives + rebirth + redemption + time loop]
In the torrent of time, her final farewell fell like a feather. Her dissolving body turned into fireflies, carrying me upstream along the river of time. “If everything could start over... I’d still want to see you again, and... meet you.”
When Ye Wuyi opened her eyes once more, she was standing atop the phantom stone bridge of “Eternal Helplessness.” The weapon in her hand, “Promise of Another Life,” trembled uncontrollably, as if beating in rhythm with her pounding heart. A storm swept in, carrying fragments of memory and tearing through time and space.
She looked down and saw her own small, childish hands. Then she looked up and saw Shangjing City, which in her memories had long since become a ruin, now whole again beneath the faint morning light.
In that moment, she understood: Wang Mian had succeeded. Having become the God of Time, he had sent her back to a time before anything had happened, with a god’s own hands.
But in this world, beginning anew, where was he?
