The Family 605

Chapter 605 One More Chance 

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Jean had tried more than once to persuade Spring to stop working, to give up her street tall and focus on resting and healing. 

But Spring was especially stubborn about that. 

If she didn’t work, she said, she couldn’t live with herself. 

Jean had no choice but to let her be. 

Now that Spring was in the hospital, Jean couldn’t help but regret it. She should’ve been tougher, should’ve made her stop pushing herself so hard. 

When she arrived at the hospital, Jean finally learned the truth–Spring cancer had already returned and spread. But to avoid affecting Jean’s SAT, she had kept it a secret, even pretending everything was re 

Lying in bed. Spring was already slipping in and out of consciousness. When she saw Jean’s face, the fog in her dull, lifeless eyes cleared slightly. In a weak whisper, she said, “Don’t cry, sweetheart… h’s not worth it. I knew it couldn’t be cured. Why waste money trying… I know you’ve made a lot from your side jobs, but how could I live off of you? I wanted… to leave something behind for you… 

In the end, with her dry, withered hands, Spring pressed a stack of crumpled old bills into Jean’s pales 

That was the last thing Spring left her. 

That summer, right after the SAIS, Jean lost the only person she had in the world. 

It was as if her taste of family had only been borrowed for a moment. 

And now that it was gone, she was once again back in her lonely, empty world. 

Jean shut herself in her room and didn’t speak to anyone. 

She couldn’t help thinking bitterly: there were so many people in this world living happily–why cosiddet 

she be one of them? 

Why was her life the one full of suffering? 

Why 

Later, Carson broke into her house and dragged her out of her room 

Her face was streaked with tears, her eyes swollen from crying She looked like a shell of herself 

Carson didn’t say much He just told her. “If you’re going to cry, then cry. But Dun staying right here to make sure you don’t do anything stupid” 

His words made her heart ache. The tears came harder 

In the darkest, most confusing myoment of her life, Carson was there 

He told her that even if the world abandoned her, she couldn’t drown in sorrow or sink into the darkness- because once you fall in, you’ll never find your way out. 

He told her to look ahead, to work hard for her own happiness, to climb high–so the people who loved bes 

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could rest in peace, and the people who hated her would grind their teeth in frustration. 

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Jean nodded. She promised Carson she’d keep moving forward–that she’d make her life bright and full of light. 

Later, she and Carson both went on to the best university. 

She continued to refine her medical skills and picked up new passions along the way. 

She said she wanted to sing–Carson encouraged her to become a singer. She said she wanted to act- Carson introduced her to people, helped her get into the industry. 

Eventually, their work pulled them in different directions, and they couldn’t see each other as often..But Carson was still Jean’s closest friend–someone who held a special place in her heart. 

Jean had made it through a desolate and painful youth. In her twenties, she finally entered the springtime of her life. She became more open, more brave, ready to embrace the world. 

She became a renowned doctor–with a loyal fanbase as a singer and actress. She even started her own 

company. 

By the age of twenty–nine, she had achieved total financial freedom. She thought life would be smooth sailing from then on. 

But fate played its final, cruelest trick. 

She died. 

And then–she woke up inside a book. 

Right before her death, she had just read that very novel. In it, there was a character with her exact same name–a minor, tragic figure… 

But now, Jean began to question- 

Which world was the book, really? 

She realized she might have gotten it wrong. 

The world she had struggled through for twenty–nine years–maybe that was the story. Maybe it was nothing more than a fabricated reality. 

So–called “transmigrating into a novel” was really just… returning to her original timeline, 

Her death in that world was inevitable. All the suffering had been part of The Genesis Root’s judgment. She had gritted her teeth through divine punishment–enduring trial after trial, cleansing herself, redeeming 

herself. 

In a way, she had been reborn. And with that, The Genesis Root had achieved its purpose. 

It was time for her to leave that world. 

world. 

When her consciousness was pulled out of the simulation, Jean lay motionless before The Genesis Root, her 

eyes closed. 

A warm light glowed from the divine tree, casting a soft radiance over her pale face–bringing a faint trace 

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of life back to her skin. 

Her memories were wiped clean. 

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From the moment she was born in the fabricated world, Jean had been under The Genesis Root’s watchful eye–facing every hardship it had crafted for her. 

In truth, The Genesis Root had been observing her all along. 

It had even turned her past life into a novel–deliberately placing it where she would read it. 

Because it had no intention of restoring her original memories. 

It wanted to see what Jean would choose when she thought she was just a character in someone else’s book. 

It wanted to give her one more chance. 

If she could truly change, then her redemption would be complete. 

Time was reversed–paused at the moment when Jean, newly awakened and thinking she had “transmigrated,” became the leader of the Abyssal Choir and recruited Ludwig and Jolene. 

The Genesis Root was ready to send this Jean–who had lived for twenty–nine years in a virtual world and now had no memory of her true self–back to that moment. 

In a way, it was like returning her to her childhood. 

Only this time, the tree would erase her true identity and preserve the fake one–so Jean would genuinely believe she was a transmigrator. 

Without her original memories, she could see everything more clearly. 

Wouldn’t that make her decisions more rational? 

If she failed again–if she still chose the path of destruction–then The Genesis Root would erase her completely. 

But if she chose differently…. 

Then The Genesis Root would finally be satisfied. 

And as a parting gift, it had prepared something special for Jean: 

When she returned, her family–and that child–would be able to hear her thoughts. 

Jean’s tragedy had been deeply rooted in her family of origin. 

A home without warmth, without communication–led to everything falling apart. 

But if they could hear each other’s/hearts… maybe things could be different. 

As for Hector, that child–he had contributed greatly. 

But after witnessing Jean’s death in the virtual world, even returning to reality wouldn’t be enough to save him from psychological damage. 

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His “key” to healing was with Jean. 

So The Genesis Root, in a rare act of mercy, left them a “window.” 

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