When Yan Shijin heard Zhao Anni talking about those supernatural things, he didn’t want to believe it at first. He was even tempted to call his son over to scold him—how could he question his uncle like that?

But since his son was at school, he had to hold back.

Zhao Anni, on the other hand, thought, “It’s better to believe it than not.”

She also wanted to verify whether it was true because if it was… she would have to tell Yan Shijin about their son’s future lover.

So, she asked Yan Shijin to tell his brother that they didn’t need a ride anymore.

Unexpectedly, Yan Shijin’s brother—Yan Shuoyun’s uncle—reacted strongly, insisting that he give them a ride, saying it wouldn’t be inconvenient at all.

His pleading tone made Yan Shijin feel something was off, so he asked his brother what he was wearing that day.

To his shock, it matched exactly the description Zhao Anni had heard from their son—what the police reported his brother had been wearing when they recovered his body.

Yan Shijin was terrified. He suddenly felt like his brother might really harm him.

He firmly refused, deciding instead to drive himself and Zhao Anni for the business trip. But just as they were wrapping up and preparing to head back, he received a phone call from his sister-in-law, crying and wailing about how his brother had committed suicide by crashing his car.

The police on the scene had found a suicide note, in which his brother apologized to him. It turned out that he had been hired by his creditors—who were also his brother’s business rivals—to take his brother and sister-in-law with him to die.

He had secretly fallen into gambling debt, owing an enormous sum. His creditors told him that the only way to spare his wife and child was to kill his own family.

He had originally planned to carry out the plan that day, but for some reason, perhaps divine intervention, his brother seemed to sense something and refused to ride with him. This made him feel guilty.

He wrote in the note that “heaven sees everything” and out of remorse, he chose to end his own life. He hoped his brother could take care of his wife and daughter.

The suicide note explained his reasons and expressed his last wish that his wife and daughter be looked after.

Yan Shijin was furious—angry that his brother hadn’t come to him for help. They were family, he could have solved the problem for him.

Even though Yan’s family had only one successful business—the Yan Corporation—there were many ways to handle this. Trying to drag others down with him was truly unforgivable. Yan Shijin was filled with anger but also pity for his sister-in-law. He could only keep offering her words of comfort.

He reassured his sister-in-law that he would take care of things, then hung up the phone.

The couple sat in the car in silence.

Everything their son said was true… their son was someone who had been reborn…

How much suffering had their son gone through when he lost them? Yan Shijin felt ashamed of his own stubbornness, while Zhao Anni couldn’t stop crying after hearing the news on the phone.

She cried because if they had gotten in the car, it would’ve been three lives lost.

“Thank goodness, thank goodness, Shuoyun is a blessed child,” Yan Shijin sighed, his heart in turmoil.

After experiencing a brush with death, Zhao Anni suddenly felt that their son liking men wasn’t such a big deal anymore.

“Shijin, our son came back for someone.”

Yan Shijin didn’t understand why Zhao Anni suddenly brought this up out of nowhere, but after she explained through her sobs, his face turned pale.

He hadn’t expected their son’s previous life to have been so hard, and… he hadn’t expected him to fall in love with another man.

But without that boy, their son probably wouldn’t have survived, or even had a reason to be reborn…

Nothing is more important than life.

“So, is Shuoyun going to meet that boy today at school?”

The fact that Yan Shijin even asked this showed that he had come to terms with it.

“I don’t know,” Zhao Anni’s eyes were swollen from crying. She really wanted to see that boy.

But perhaps, with the change in their fate, her son and the one he loves might lead lives that never intersect again.

After all, the world has the butterfly effect.