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[Song Recommendation: Ahn Yeeun - Night Flower, OST of Painter of the Night.]1

[The English translation lyric of this song and overall mood portrays the end of the Homewrecker System perfectly, give it a listen while reading.]

Bai Yunyu woke up after watching Pupa's long-hidden plot. His face paled after knowing the truth, and he looked at Pupa, Han Yuzhong, and Han Ye. 

He couldn't accept the truth at all.

He always thought of himself as a good man. He might do bad things here and there, but never in his mind would he ever think about torturing and tormenting Han Ye Gege to insanity.

"Remember everything now?" Han Ye asked. He had a malicious grin as he kept staring at his wife. "What do you think, Wife? Don't you think that I'm an evil bastard? I'm the one who ruined your life!"

"I'm the monster who killed your disciple, tricked you into conceiving my son, and destroyed your world, so you will be trapped with me in my dimension, hehe," Han Ye started laughing. It was a small laugh at first, but it slowly developed into a full-blown maniacal laugh. 

"You know what's funny? Even after all that happened between us…." Han Ye paused and pointed at Han Yuzhong floating in the sky, watching them in silence. "I STILL HAVE NO REGRET FOR KILLING HAN SHUN! I HAD NO REGRET WHEN I TRICKED YOU TO BEAR MY CHILD, AND I HAVE NO REGRET IN RUINING YOUR LIFE!"

"BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY FOR ME TO MAKE YOU MINE, BAI SHIJUE! HAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Han Yuzhong looked away as if he didn't have the heart to watch his father getting insane again.

He would always do this right after he absorbed all his souls, regaining his full power as the God of Nothingness.

He would act crazy, though it was so convincing. Even Han Yuzhong didn't know if his father was actually crazy or if he was just pretending. 

"That man is our fruit of love, Bai Shijue! No matter how many times you're trying to deny us, you won't be able to deny OUR son! He's been watching us doing this over and over, and he will watch us ruining each other for eternity!"

Han Ye, who used Han Shun's body, raised his hand, and his body started to get covered with a pitch-black aura.

The air around them started thinning, making it heavy for Bai Yunyu to move. 

He opened his palm, and an ominous dark ball started gathering on his palm. Han Ye smirked, "Do you want to know why I keep doing this, Bai Shijue?"

…

Bai Yunyu zipped his mouth, not wanting to aggravate his husband even more, but even his silence was seen as a mistake by Han Ye. 

"I keep destroying this world over and over, because I know that you'll never love me," Han Ye said. "I know that you will never forgive me, so I'll just destroy my creation repeatedly."

"Bai Shijue, if you don't want me and Yuzhong to be part of your family— if you truly think that you have nobody in this world, then let me destroy it."

"You will be satisfied when everything I have is destroyed, right?"

Bai Yunyu gasped upon hearing that sentence. It was more of a statement than a question.

That he— Bai Shijue or Bai Yunyu— never saw Han Ye and Han Yuzhong as part of his family.

He wanted the world to be destroyed, just like Han Ye destroyed everything he had.

Yunyu kept his silence, but he clenched his fists and tried his best not to yell at Han Ye for being a reckless idiot who wouldn't listen to him.

Han Ye might look and act crazy, but Bai Yunyu could see a trace of deep sadness in his eyes.

He looked empty— probably numb at this point.

He must've endured so much pain that he felt this was more of a chore he needed to do. 

"Husband…" Yunyu muttered. Based on his memory, they had been doing this for countless cycles, but Bai Yunyu would always get a fresh start by erasing his memory, but Han Ye and Han Yuzhong didn't have the same privilege.

They experienced and clearly remembered every cycle. They witnessed everything, while Yunyu could always get a free reset where he could be his ignorant self, repeating the world for fun without knowing the pain Yuzhong and Han Ye had to bear. 

"Pupa…" Pupa floated down towards Yunyu, waiting for an order, "Is this your first time to accompany me as Pupa— not Larva?"

"Yes," Pupa replied. "This is my first time accompanying you as Pupa, not Larva. I evolved very recently and got my memory erased with you as always. Why do you ask?"

…

"Pupa, what do you think I should do?" 

Pupa got startled when Yunyu suddenly asked the system what to do. Because it always served as a tool for Yunyu, no one needed to be heard of, "I don't think I'm capable of giving you a fair judgment."

"It's fine, even if it's biased, I still want to know your opinion," Bai Yunyu smiled at his system. "You're my friend, Pupa. You're not just a tool for me. You've always been my friend, even when you were just a larva."

Pupa went silent for a while. It circled around Yunyu before carefully gliding down and nestling in Yunyu's embrace like a cold pillow.

"If you want to take my opinion as a friend then…." Pupa's mechanical eyes glanced at Master Han Ye, gathering dark energy in its palm. It would soon explode like a big bang and erase everything except the three original Gods.

Pupa knew what Bai Yunyu of past cycles would do. He would attack Han Ye and stop the explosion, then seal Han Ye back to his empty realm.

Then, Bai Yunyu— or Bai Shijue, would wail out of depression and grief, unable to cope before his son, Han Yuzhong, erased his memory to restart the cycle.

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