21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 775 - 771: Miracle in the Movie (Please Subscribe, Request for Monthly Tickets)

Though the elderly man was quite old, his post-surgery recovery was very good. Consequently, after being checked and found to have no serious issues, he successfully completed his hospital discharge procedures.

When the time came to leave the hospital, the woman naturally came to take him home. Yet she behaved as usual, allowing the elderly man to do everything by himself. She only helped to pack his belongings.

It wasn’t until the elderly man exerted much effort to move himself into the wheelchair that the woman began to push him out of the ward.

However, as she was pushing the elderly man out of the ward, he suddenly stopped and handed a stack of neatly organized manuscript pages to Chen Yu, who was standing at the door of the ward.

"Doctor Chen, this script is something I wrote a long time ago, and it is the product of much hard work. It would be a pity to waste it, so I’m giving it to you as a keepsake," the old man said as he handed the manuscript to Chen Yu.

Accepting the stack of yellowed pages, a testament to their age, Chen Yu nodded at the elderly man and said, "Rest assured, I will take good care of it. This story will not be buried."

"Much obliged," said the old man, seeming quite pleased and somewhat excitedly saying to Chen Yu, "If it were in the past, I would definitely invite Doctor Chen to go watch a movie. Unfortunately, my health won’t allow it now. If there’s a next time, I must invite Doctor Chen to watch a movie with me. There’s one I’ve loved all my life, and I really want to share it with someone!"

"There will be a chance," Chen Yu replied with a smile, seeing the old man’s excited expression.

After these words, the old man finally left, pushed in his wheelchair by the woman.

For some reason, as they were leaving, the woman awkwardly avoided Chen Yu before pushing the elderly man out of the ward.

Watching the pair leave and looking down at the script in his hands, Chen Yu sighed and shook his head in resignation, "Is this the ending you wanted? Perhaps this is the best conclusion for you both?"

Chen Yu could tell that the woman was not the old man’s granddaughter because their interactions and conversations seemed more like those of a husband and wife or lovers than those of a grandfather and his granddaughter.

Moreover, it wasn’t a scandalous May-December romance. The reason was that the woman wasn’t human, something clearly written in the script left by the old man.

The woman wasn’t composed of flesh and blood, which Chen Yu could naturally discern. However, her origins were quite astonishing even to Chen Yu, a well-versed Necromancer, because the woman was a character from a movie.

Literally, a character from a movie—the woman came from a film that the elderly man had loved in his youth. freewebnσvel.cøm

Due to an accident, the woman had come from the movie world to the real world and, after a series of laughable yet sweet incidents with the young man, they ended up together. Having weathered decades of storms, the young man had aged into the venerable elderly man before him, nearing the end of his life.

Yet, the woman remained unchanged, just as she was back then, never aging a day.

In some ways, the woman was the perfect lifelong partner, maintaining the beauty of her youth without enduring the human cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death.

But this also proved to be the cruelest form of companionship because one would have to watch their other half age irreversibly from the prime of youth to an old man who could barely walk without assistance, his hair turned completely white, his back hunched over, his once-strong arms growing increasingly thin and feeble...

And the more pitiless truth was that the woman could only watch.

As the price for her journey from the movie world to reality, she couldn’t touch anyone. The instant she felt human warmth, she would vanish.

This was why the woman always just watched the old man do everything himself and didn’t help him even when he fell; if she did, she would disappear.

Two people clearly in love, yet never having touched one another throughout their lifetimes, not even holding hands without a handkerchief between them... Chen Yu couldn’t help but be moved by the love between the elderly man and the woman, for it takes a rare fortitude to resist the temptation of never touching the one you love.

However, since this was the choice the two of them made, Chen Yu had no intention of interfering. They had spent a lifetime together, and although they were soon to face the ultimate separation of life and death, it’s the final stage everyone will eventually reach. As a Necromancer who reveres death, Chen Yu had no reason to meddle in the matter.

In fact, their story already had a perfect ending; the male lead and the female lead had lived happily ever after, having shared a lifetime. That was already the most perfect conclusion in fairy tales.

And if the male lead turned from a young man into an old man, and his life was drawing to a close, is it a tragedy to die in the company of one’s lover?

Perhaps to many, parting through death is one of the most heartbreaking aspects of life. But in truth, everyone faces their own mortality and end—it’s merely a matter of sooner or later.

You will die, I will die, he will die, every one of us will die. The only difference is whether death comes unexpectedly or naturally through the process of aging and illness.

If there is anything that could be said to be fair in this world, it surely must be death.

For it equally bestows the end of life upon every creature, even though each individual dies in a different manner.

So, regarding the upcoming conclusion for the old man and the woman, Chen Yu had no intention to intervene, even though the script he acquired from the old man was a rare treasure.

The script, imbued with the elderly man’s life’s passion and the story of his time with the woman, perhaps because she was from the movie world or because the elderly man poured too much affection and emotion into it, has conceived a small world within it over the past decades, in accordance with the world depicted in the script.

But this world was still lifeless, everything in the stages of gestation—the protagonists required to bring this world into motion were missing.

Chen Yu didn’t know if this was a phenomenon inherent to every movie, but this was a miracle, a mundane miracle created by an ordinary person.

The Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium recorded that if an artist poured their entire soul into their work, there’s a slight chance it might come to life, as if by miracle, and create a living thing.

Perhaps this script represented a similar situation? Chen Yu didn’t know, nor did he want to investigate. This was a beautiful story, and he had no need or desire to spoil it with such investigations.