Chapter 877 Going Home? Or Running Away?

The two roads illuminated by candlelight look exactly the same, but they are actually completely different.

Standing at the intersection, Hong Jiang had a feeling that the ends of his two roads connected to two different worlds, and he only needed to cast his eyes to see that world.

He looked to the left, beyond the candlelight, and saw a person, that was him in his previous life - Hong Jiang.

In the picture, he was still holding his chest with a painful expression on his face, but as time passed, his huddled facial features gradually relaxed, but he was still breathing heavily, and sweat almost completely wet his shirt.

Perhaps because he was still in shock, he did not dare to make large movements. He trembled and picked up the water cup and slowly drank half a cup of water.

After sitting for nearly an hour, he finally made sure that he was fine, turned off the computer, put on his backpack and returned to the relatively tidy rental house.

But the feeling of horror still lingered in his heart and could not be shaken off. That night he only dared to close his eyes, but his brain remained awake.

The next day, he took a long-awaited leave and went to the hospital for a check-up. The results showed that he was in very good health, which finally made him feel relieved. He even found a nice restaurant and celebrated alone.

Then he finally returned to work, as if he had been reborn. Whether it was work efficiency or the speed of learning new technologies, he had a significant improvement, which made him achieve some results in a short time and successfully moved to a better platform.

While achieving success in his career, he also met his love. The other party was not a very beautiful and stunning type, but it was very comfortable and pleasant to be with her.

Soon you and she formed a family, and soon there were two new members in this family, a cat and a dog. She and them would make you feel like you had unloaded a burden when you returned home. Happiness sometimes does not need to be complicated.

After a long time, an extremely important life came, it was you and her child.

You and she, who have grown from children to adults, have also ushered in a change of identity. It will be very hard at the beginning, but when you see the young life grow up day by day and hear her say the first complete word, you will feel relieved, happy and have a sense of accomplishment, and this sense of accomplishment is incomparable to work.

Time will not stop, life seems to be conserved, you will have gains and losses, happiness and sorrow, welcome the arrival of new life, and also accept birth, aging, sickness and death.

Your parents finally left you one after another one day. This is the second time you are close to death. Although it did not come to you, the grief it brought is not much weaker.

You lost two important people in your life, and the vacancy left by these two people cannot be made up by anyone or anything, and it will never be made up.

However, time will make this wound a thick scab, it will remind you what you have lost, but it will no longer feel so painful.

You finally founded a small studio, not asking for how much money you can make, just hoping that you can have more time to enjoy life with your girlfriend and children.

Yes, enjoy life. When you want to travel, pack your luggage and go. When you want to sleep in, don't set the alarm. You and she don't have big goals or ambitions. Although you are not rich, it is not difficult to live a smooth life.

Your children are also excellent, but they are too excellent. Your daughter is always worried that she can't find a suitable partner. At this time, you will smile and comfort her, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, just live our lives well."

You are also getting older day by day, but your body is much better than hers. Don't say serious illness. Since that terrible experience, you haven't even had a cold.

So she went to that world before you. When she closed her eyes, your heart was cut again, and a piece of empty space flowed out, but at this time you have seen too many things.

In the days that followed, you carefully took care of the flowers and plants she had planted. This place has become the place where you stay most often. From time to time, you will talk and laugh with them as if they were hers. When your daughter joked that you were crazy from time to time, you would gently tap her forehead.

But even if you are healthy, you are still just a mortal body. You have finally reached the end of your life. Lying on the hospital bed, you look back on your life. You have had great ambitions, but you have finally returned to the ordinary.

But this does not mean that you have regrets. Of course, life is not perfect, but you did not feel regretful at the last moment, because you have lived a happy life and you have no regrets.

Hongjiang saw the old and turbid eyes slowly close, and the picture in front of him disappeared and turned into the road illuminated by candlelight again.

He just seemed to have really walked through the life in that picture, which was real, comfortable, ordinary and happy, and even made his eyes wet.

That might be the life he should have lived, and that was his real home.

So, can I go back after taking this road? No, he was sure that if he took this road, he would definitely be able to go back and have that ordinary beauty.

This is the life he dreamed of, at least the life he most wanted to have after two hundred years in the Soul Society.

There is no urgency of racing with Yhwach, no danger of competing with Aizen in a battle of wits and courage, and no need to carry the world on your shoulders, because that world is much gentler than this world.

Hong Jiang had already raised his foot and was about to step onto the road on the left, but when he was about to land, he hesitated.

Since that side was where his heart was, it was his home, and it was the life he wanted, what about this side?

Just treat it as a dream?

Just treat it as a falsehood?

Taking this step would allow him to harvest that ordinary beauty, but there would be losses if there were gains. What would he lose?

He would lose an elder who was strict with him but had high expectations for him - Yamamoto Genryusai Shigekuni.

He would lose a close friend - Urahara Kisuke.

He would also lose his girl, the one who always quarreled with him but loved him - Shifengyuan Yoruichi.

He would also lose the respect and trust of many people, such as Kurosaki Ichigo, Ginjo Kūgo, Ichimaru Gin, and countless others.

In fact, at this point, he was like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly. How could he tell which side was home and which side was true?

The so-called over there is where he came from is just a lie to comfort himself. The ordinary beauty is real, but it is just a choice he made.

Setting foot on that road is not going home, but running away.