Lan Ling was a third-year student in the art department of a top university. He was nineteen years old this year.
He had made up his mind. He was going to confess to his sister and propose to her!
Ever since he was old enough to understand things as a boy, he had secretly been in love with his sister in his heart. She was the most perfect woman in the world. Her beauty, her gaze, every frown and smile, the curves of her slender waist as it swayed, every single movement she made, all left Lan Ling intoxicated.
He usually did not dare to say it out loud, but sometimes in his sleep-talking, the words would slip out.
Of course, she was not his biological sister.
Lan Ling was an orphan. He had no idea who his parents were. But he was lucky. At four years old, he was adopted.
September the ninth was the day he was adopted, so he made that day his birthday.
His memories of the day he was adopted were already quite hazy. He only remembered that behind his adoptive parents stood a very beautiful sister with extremely large eyes.
After being adopted, Lan Ling lived a happy and warm life. Both his adoptive parents and his sister, who was seven years older than him, treated him extremely well. Especially his sister. She was willing to give him anything.
But good times did not last. When Lan Ling was seven, his adoptive parents died in a car accident.
Lan Ling became an orphan once again, and so did his sister. That day, she was fourteen years old.
Lan Ling was about to be sent back to the orphanage, while his sister was going to live with her aunt. But his sister held onto him tightly and refused to let go. So Lan Ling went with her to that unfamiliar aunt’s house.
Life in the new home did not feel good. That unfamiliar aunt and uncle were not kind to either Lan Ling or his sister. They already had a ten-year-old son who often bullied Lan Ling. His sister, in order to protect him, frequently argued with the aunt’s son, even coming to blows.
After enduring it for two years, when his sister was sixteen, she took Lan Ling and left the aunt’s house. They returned to their own home.
From that day on, at the age of sixteen, she dropped out of school. She not only had to support herself, but also had to support nine-year-old Lan Ling.
In this way, the brother and sister depended on each other for ten years. With her own hands, his sister not only kept them both alive, but also paid for Lan Ling to attend a top university’s art department.
Now, Lan Ling was nineteen and already in his third year. He would graduate next year.
His sister was now twenty-six, precisely the most beautiful age for a woman. She really was stunning. Whether it was her face or her figure, she was one in ten thousand. From the age of eighteen onwards, she had countless suitors around her.
But a few months ago, that incomparably beautiful face of hers was ruined. A rich second-generation heir, rejected in his pursuit and filled with hatred, hired someone to throw sulphuric acid at her face. Although his sister dodged as quickly as she could, half of her face was still completely destroyed.
Her breathtakingly beautiful face, once adored by everyone who saw it, became something people feared at first glance.
The perpetrator was caught and sentenced to several years. But the mastermind behind it remained free and unpunished.
A gentleman takes revenge, even if it takes ten years. But Lan Ling could not wait ten years. He had already scouted the locations, mastered the rich second-generation heir’s daily routine completely, and prepared three different plans. Every single plan ended the same way.
Kill him, then escape cleanly!
He had made all the preparations. He was only waiting for the rich second-generation heir to appear at the right place. After killing him, he would propose to his sister.
But time was running out. After being discharged from hospital, his sister had become depressed and listless. That enchanting smile of hers was gone. She began to fear seeing anyone, even him. Gradually, thoughts of ending her own life started to appear.
So he decided that, regardless of what the world might think, he would confess to his sister ahead of time. He would propose to her.
This was not pity. It came entirely from love. No matter what she became, in his heart, his sister would always be the most perfect woman.
…
Tomorrow was his sister’s birthday, and tonight there happened to be a once-in-a-century meteor shower. So he wanted to specially create a breathtakingly beautiful confession video.
Lan Ling took his DV camera and climbed to the highest mountain. The air here was the purest, allowing him to clearly see the falling meteors.
At an altitude of a thousand metres, there was no light pollution. The pitch-black sky was filled with bright, clear stars.
The once-in-a-century meteor shower was truly spectacular. Every so often, a magnificent meteor streaked across the heavens.
Lan Ling waited. He had heard that at midnight, the meteor shower would reach its peak, with several meteors crossing the sky at once.
While waiting, he thought about how to confess to his sister. He was quite eloquent and had already prepared three versions, yet he still had not decided which one to use. At the same time, he imagined his sister’s reaction after hearing his confession.
His sister must like him too, right? Otherwise, why had she never accepted any suitor all these years? Perhaps she was also afraid of what society would say.
Moreover, after she overheard him talking in his sleep that day, for the next few days her face had been flushed with shyness and joy.
Midnight arrived!
Sure enough, the peak of the meteor shower came. A dreamlike scene unfolded as more than a dozen meteors appeared on the horizon, tracing brilliant arcs across the sky.
Lan Ling stood in front of the DV camera, facing away from the meteor shower, and began his confession.
He had prepared three versions, each written with extreme romance and deep affection.
But now he was so nervous he was about to die. He had completely forgotten everything. Not a single line came to mind.
Even though he was confessing to a camera, Lan Ling felt as nervous as if he were really standing in front of his sister. Even when he had disguised himself and travelled thousands of miles to a small factory to buy chemical reagents, he had not been this nervous.
But the meteor shower would pass in an instant. Lan Ling took a deep breath and said, “Sister… Lan Kou, I love you. Marry me. I swear to the shooting stars, I will take care of you for the rest of my life and make you happy…”
At that moment, one meteor shone especially brightly, flickering with golden light, as if carrying some eerie energy. It came flying from the horizon, getting closer and closer to Lan Ling.
“Boom…”
Just as Lan Ling finished his confession, that eerie meteor smashed directly into his head.
In an instant, Lan Ling was reduced to ashes. His entire body vanished without a trace.
A few days later, Lan Ling’s university reported him missing. When the police went to his home, they found that his sister Lan Kou had also disappeared. There was a hole the size of a volleyball in the wall, with traces of having been scorched by ultra-high temperatures.
Afterwards, the disappearance of Lan Ling and Lan Kou was classified as a top-secret case. All records of the two in this world were completely erased.
…
When Lan Ling woke up again, he was already in a strange world. He was still on a mountain, but definitely not the one where he had filmed the meteor shower.
Moreover, many of the plants here were completely unfamiliar to him.
Most crucially, at night he saw two moons, one large and one small. At first he thought it was an illusion and rubbed his eyes hard, but there were still two moons in the sky.
At that point he still thought it was some unique astronomical phenomenon. But during the day, when he saw a certain animal, all his wishful thinking was shattered.
Because he saw a griffin, a gigantic griffin beast flying high in the sky. Such creatures did not exist on Earth, only in legends.
Soon after, he saw another beautiful yet extremely timid animal: a unicorn!
So he was completely certain. He had transmigrated.
That meteor had struck him and brought him to this unfamiliar world.
Instantly, Lan Ling could not accept the fact that he had transmigrated. His entire mind nearly collapsed.
He frantically searched the mountain in every direction, desperately trying to find a portal back to Earth. Because on Earth, there was still the person he loved most. He still had to propose to his sister, take care of her for the rest of his life, and have two or three children with her.
And that rich second-generation heir. He still had to kill him.
“Damn heavens, cursed God, send me back! Send me back!”
Lan Ling searched madly for a portal that did not exist, then cursed the heavens like a madman.
After ten days of this insanity, he gradually came to understand that he probably could not go back. He would never be able to return.
He became dejected. He found a cave, lay down inside, and did not move. Every moment, he thought of his sister.
He missed every look in her eyes, every expression on her face, every word she had ever said to him.
Every scene played in his mind like a film. In these memories, he became completely certain that his sister loved him too. That look in her eyes, that tone of voice, all revealed it. He had just been too young and foolish to understand before.
Moreover, there was that time when he secretly kissed and touched her while she was sleeping. Her face had flushed red. But he had deceived himself, thinking she was asleep and did not know what he had done.
Recalling these scenes filled Lan Ling’s heart with incomparable sweetness and unbearable pain.
In the midst of this painful yet sweet reminiscence, utterly exhausted in body and mind, Lan Ling finally fell into a deep sleep. Only in sleep could this pain be eased.
Perhaps he could even have a good dream.
…
Lan Ling sank into the deepest sleep he had ever known. Gradually, he seemed to truly enter a mysterious dreamscape.
In the world of the dream, there was first complete darkness. Then a faint light appeared.
This light flickered gently. It was filled with a mysterious energy aura, pulsing softly as if breathing, as though it possessed life.
Lan Ling carefully observed this strange and eerie ball of energy light.
“Hello, my new host.” The energy light actually spoke. Of course, it did not make a sound. It directly interfered with Lan Ling’s brainwaves, injecting its consciousness into his mind.
Lan Ling was startled. “Who are you?”
“I am the Demon Star,” the energy light said.
Lan Ling cried out in shock, “You’re the meteor that hit me? You’re the one who brought me to this world?”
“Yes,” the Demon Star replied.
Lan Ling immediately exploded with rage. “Why did you do this? Send me back right now! Send me back to Earth!”
“You cannot go back,” the Demon Star said. “Bringing you to this world has already consumed most of my energy. Now I am on the verge of death.”
“Why did you do this? Bastard, bastard!” Lan Ling said in pain and fury. “On Earth, my sister needs my care. She needs my protection.”
Lan Ling kept cursing furiously, while the Demon Star listened quietly without any response.
After a long while, Lan Ling gradually calmed down and asked, “Why did you bring me to this world? On what grounds? Why me?”
The Demon Star said, “I was acting on the will of my previous host when I brought you to this world.”
Lan Ling asked, “Who was your previous host? No, I don’t care who he was! On what right did he bring me here?”
The Demon Star replied, “I am sorry. I do not know. I am merely an energy lifeform. After separating from my host, I lost all my memories. So I no longer know who my previous host was.”
Lan Ling fell silent for a moment. Suppressing his agitation, he forced himself to calm down once more and said, “Then why did you bring me to this other world? What exactly do you want me to do? There must be a reason!”
“I do not know,” the Demon Star said after a pause. “In my remaining consciousness, there seems to be a fragment of words. Perhaps it is the mission for which you were brought to this world.”
“What is it?” Lan Ling asked.
“Roughly… to destroy this world,” the Demon Star said.
Instantly, Lan Ling’s body shuddered violently.