It Seems I’m Not The Only One Who Reincarnated

“…Idiot.”

Tian Shui muttered softly, pouting and crossing her arms as she turned her face away.

This man was too clever…

But precisely because he was too clever, he often overthought things, sometimes arriving at completely misguided conclusions.

Stupid man!

It’s true that I don’t want to be treated like a pet anymore…

But that’s because what I really want is to be your wife!

Of course, if Shi Hai became her husband, Tian Shui hoped he would listen to her completely and devote himself entirely to her…

Just like he was now, washing her feet. She wished such scenes would become a “normal part of married life.”

So, Jian Sichun’s judgment wasn’t wrong at all.

Tian Shui truly wanted to make Shi Hai a henpecked husband.

That’s the “upper hand” she wanted!

Except, it wasn’t about gaining status in society—it was about establishing her status within their home.

Tian Shui’s goal was still to be a queen, but now she no longer cared about external opinions; she only wanted to be Shi Hai’s queen.

As long as you’re willing to give everything to me…

I will also “bestow” all of myself to you.

“But why are all the reborn individuals women? Could it be some kind of restriction?”

For example, maybe only women could be reborn…

But Shi Hai found it strange to limit reborn based on gender.

However, since the mechanics of reborn were entirely unknown—a bizarre phenomenon with no clear principles—even if such a restriction existed, he could only accept it.

“Gender isn’t the restriction. The reason they’re all women is simple—it’s because you like women.”

“Huh? This has something to do with my sexual orientation?”

“Of course it does. But before explaining that, let’s start with the most fundamental issue.”

“I’m all ears.”

“First, let me explain what reborn is. You must be very curious about how so-called ‘reborn’ actually happens, right?”

“Yes, I’m extremely curious.”

This was one of the things Shi Hai was most interested in.

“Well, first of all, I can tell you that reborn isn’t a special ability of a certain individual, nor is it a supernatural phenomenon.”

Hearing this, Shi Hai’s eyes slowly widened.

What Tian Shui said eliminated the possibility of “random chance.”

“So, it’s… technology?!”

reborn was a form of “reproducible science.”

But what kind of scientific technology could send a person’s consciousness back to the past?

“That’s right. Amazing, isn’t it?”

“How is that even possible? Sending someone back in time? This tech tree is way out of whack!”

Shi Hai was visibly excited.

If reborn was indeed a technology, it meant its principles were something anyone could understand.

Even if it involved extremely complex theories, as long as the principles were known, anyone could reproduce it!

Seeing Shi Hai’s expression, Tian Shui knew he was deeply interested in the mechanics of reborn. Unfortunately, this was an area where her own knowledge was lacking.

That woman wouldn’t share the core technology with her.

“As for the specific principles, I don’t really understand them. After all, I’m not a researcher…”

“That makes sense. reborn’s underlying principles must be incredibly complex.”

“But there are some confirmed phenomena I can tell you about. For example… parallel worlds don’t actually exist.”

“What?”

Parallel worlds don’t exist?

How is that possible?

Clearly, Tian Shui and Shi Meng come from different futures, don’t they?

“Have you heard of Schrödinger’s cat?” Tian Shui asked.

“Of course, the superposition of life and death in quantum mechanics, right?”

“Exactly. But we’re not discussing quantum mechanics itself; rather, we’re exploring the difference between ‘possibility’ and ‘reality.'”

“The difference between possibility and reality?”

“Before you open the box, Schrödinger’s cat may exist in a superposition of life and death. But once the box is opened, there can only be one outcome—either life or death.”

In other words, the future holds countless possibilities, but out of those possibilities, only one is ultimately recognized as reality.

“This involves the person who opens the box—the ‘observer,’ right?”

“Yes. For the observer, there are infinite possibilities, but only one reality that can be reached.”

“The observer effect…”

In other words, the shape of the future depends on who the observer is.

“And now, it’s time to talk about her.”

Tian Shui steered the conversation back to herself.

“There is someone who developed the technology of reborn. Using it, she returned to the past. Then, in the future of her ‘second timeline,’ she sent someone else back to the past, while she herself also returned to the past. As a result, the future changed again, creating a third timeline.”

“This—! Does the future itself have a sequential order?”

“So, do you still think this counts as parallel worlds?”

“No… From the perspective of the world, it’s not ‘parallel’ but ‘continuous’!”

The timeline was looped back on itself!

Now it made sense why Tian Shui referred to herself as the ‘original reborn.’

Shi Hai finally understood the truth about reborn.

Although from his perspective, this was his “one and only life,” for some reborn individuals, this could already be their second, or even nth timeline!

“So, from 2012 to 2021, these nine years have already been repeated many times without your knowledge.”

Hearing this, Shi Hai couldn’t help but think…

From a certain perspective, this could be seen as a “world-ending scenario.”

After all, the future had stagnated at that point.

“In sequence, she was the first. Then it should have been either Jian Sichun or Zhu Lingjie. I’m not sure which of them came next, but I was after both of them.”

“So, in the future you experienced, Jian Sichun and Zhu Lingjie were already reborn… but they didn’t ‘reborn back to the past’ again?”

“Exactly. They remained in their ‘second timeline’ and never reached the ‘third timeline,’ myself included.”

“Only that original reborn individual keeps going back, creating new futures?”

“Yes.”

“Why is she doing this?”

“Shi Hai, you’re so smart. Haven’t you already figured it out?”

“In nine years, I must encounter some kind of fatal accident…”

“To change that future, she began her ‘time travel,’ trying to find a world where you don’t meet with disaster.”

“Ugh…”

Hearing this startling truth, Shi Hai clutched his chest, feeling deeply unsettled.

“What’s wrong? Is your chest hurting? Want me to massage it for you?”

“No… It’s just that I feel overwhelmed, like someone has quietly sacrificed so much for me without me even knowing it…”

Shi Hai felt as though he had suddenly incurred a massive “debt of gratitude.”

“Why would she do this…”

“Why else? For someone to go to such lengths… it could only be because of ‘love,’ right?”

And yet, Shi Hai found it hard to believe.

Was it truly for love?

After all, each reborn cost nine years of a person’s life…

There were already four known reborn individuals.

Including the original reborn, that’s five cycles—forty-five years, two-thirds of an average lifetime.

And this calculation only included the known reborn individuals.

With every additional reborn, the time she had experienced would extend further…

If it was for love—

Then that love was far too heavy to bear.

An obsession, carved into the bone.