Chapter 871: Chapter 28: Who Am I (Extra Chapter for Monthly Votes)_5 Chapter 871: Chapter 28: Who Am I (Extra Chapter for Monthly Votes)_5 “`
The person who locked this safe those years ago was a teenager; yet the one who came from afar to open it this year, was an old man, advanced in age…
If the spring breeze has a pitying heart for flowers, may it grant me youth once more.
Wei Shengjin pursed his lips tightly.
He could hardly imagine that this time capsule, traversing through time, has actually made such a large, round journey and finally returned to him.
He did not remember having ever been here.
But he had been here.
He did not remember what was inside.
But he had put something inside.
His index finger trembled slightly as he pressed it on the latch, hesitating several times, unable to press down…
“I understand this feeling,”
said a voice from behind.
With grey hair and deep eye sockets, a woman of her years no longer, Angelica said softly:
“When I first woke up from the hibernation pod, my mind was a complete blank, I didn’t know anything, didn’t even know who I was, until a doctor beside me checked and told me that my name was Angelica.”
“Your past life, though glorious, was underlaid with tragedy, chilling and heart-wrenching.
Especially the contents in your notebooks now, mostly about goodbyes and regrets…”
“You could choose not to look at these memories, just forget them completely, pretend they never happened.
Wouldn’t that also be pretty good?”
“You’re still Angelica, but you’re a reborn Angelica, a happy one, without pain, without pressure, without goodbyes and regrets.”
“It’s a thing many people dream of.
In this world, too many people are tormented by painful memories, unable to accept them, unable to move on, and they end up dying of depression or choosing to commit suicide.”
“No matter the era, there are people who cannot bear the sorrow and commit suicide.
For them, amnesia is such a rare and unattainable antidote.
If there was a drug that could completely erase one’s memory and start over, it would surely sell well.”
are you really sure you want to accept your past self, to fall back into regret, pain and torment, to reminisce about those you’re destined never to meet again, to chase those dreams you know can never be fulfilled?”
Angelica crossed her arms and looked at Lin Xian:
“That’s what Jask told me back then.”
“At the time, Jask must have known about his inevitable defeat and end, so he was persuading me not to read the notes, to try to forget who I once was and to accept a completely new life.”
Lin Xian glanced at CC.
They had had a similar conversation in Rhein Village.
At that time, Zheng Xiangyue wanted Lin Xian to tell her the truth about the past, but Lin Xian hesitated…
His reservations were the same as Jask’s.
The past for Zheng Xiangyue was only pain and regret, without a sliver of joy.
Why bother retrieving them?
But CC had said at the time:
“Even if they’re bad, things that make you sad, memories are still memories.
Only complete memories can make up a complete person.
Who has only happy and blissful recollections?
Life is full of joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes…”
“[Is a moon that’s missing half still not a moon?]”
The Person of Theseus.
Does it have a real correct answer?
In fact, Wei Shengjin had also said that on Mars, there were plenty of humans awoken from hibernation who had abandoned their original memories and started new lives, living happily ever after.
Some chose stubbornly to accept their original memories and ended up miserable, depressed, eventually choosing suicide or turning to revenge on society.
And in the final judgment in court.
These people were often regretful, crying their eyes out:
“I shouldn’t have accepted the original memories…
I really can’t get over them, I should have forgotten those memories!”
Does it have a real correct answer?
The three turned their heads, looking at Wei Shengjin, who was undecided.
What would he choose?
Wei Shengjin took a deep breath.
His finger pressed on the latch again and he said softly:
“Thank you for your guidance, my queen.”
in the end, you must have also chosen to accept your former self, right?”
“I often worry that if, when I woke up from hibernation, the notebook they gave us was wrong?
What if it belonged to another person called Wei Shengjin?”
“Is it possible that my name is not really Wei Shengjin, and that I’ve just lived according to the memories recorded in those notes, becoming a person named Wei Shengjin?”
is why I came to Earth.”
Wei Shengjin opened his eyes, his gaze firm:
“[I want to know the answer, to know…
His right hand finally pressed down with force!
The safe, sealed for hundreds of years…
Opened at his command!