Shen Yi said, "You tell him. I didn’t say anything."

Qin Jiao said to Xiao Shi, "Xiao Shi, an immortal gave me this place. It’s a secret just for the three of us. I can bring you here to play often in the future, but we can’t tell anyone else, okay?"

"Not even Mom and Dad? Or Auntie?"

"Mm-hmm. Let’s not tell them for now. When I find the right time, I’ll tell them."

Qin Jiao remembered that before her death, the book had an open-ended finale. One ending had the transmigrator, Lin Nian, and the male lead, Chen Feng, living happily ever after. The other ending was that the world was plunged into an apocalypse.

The first ending was impossible now. Thanks to Lin Nian’s own reckless stupidity, she and her cousin Lin Xiaohua had kidnapped Xiao Shi. That alone was enough to send Lin Nian to prison!

As for the second ending, if it really came to pass, Qin Jiao’s dimensional space would undoubtedly be her greatest asset. Of course, if she had any say in it, Qin Jiao hoped it would never happen.

Besides, both she and Shen Yi had been reborn. Perhaps the future would be completely rewritten, and neither of those two endings would come to pass.

Qin Jiao soothed Xiao Shi, then explained the situation outside to Shen Yi. When she mentioned being surrounded by a few dogs, Shen Yi laughed out loud without a hint of restraint.

Qin Jiao’s pretty face fell. "You’re laughing? How about I send you out there and see if the dogs bite you!"

Shen Yi, trying to suppress a chuckle, said, "All right, all right. Now that you’re not there, the dogs will scatter soon. Let’s hurry up and find the motorcycle, get back to Ping’an Town to report this, and then we still have our exams."

Needless to say, they had a lot to do. And Qin Jiao had no intention of missing her college entrance exams.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly from there. They left the Lin Family Shop, found the motorcycle hidden in a cornfield, and started the long ride back that very night.

It was already two in the morning. Qin Jiao had Xiao Shi rest inside the dimensional space while she sat on the back of the motorcycle, one arm resting loosely around Shen Yi’s waist.

The events of the night had been truly harrowing. Shen Yi’s acceptance of the dimensional space was incredibly high. ’Perhaps it’s because he also came back from the future,’ Qin Jiao thought.

She pursed her lips. ’I’ve always wanted to stay away from Shen Yi, but without my realizing it, our lives are becoming more and more entangled.’

Qin Jiao and Shen Yi had originally planned to head back to Three Families Village first, but they worried about tipping off their enemies. Besides, the people from the Lin Family Shop had relatives in Three Families Village.

So they decided to go back directly, report the crime, hand over the evidence, and have the police arrest the culprits and rescue the other kidnapped children.

If they were too late, what if Lin Xiaohua had already sold the other children?

If the culprits left Ping’an Town, catching them would be much more difficult!

And on top of all that, Qin Jiao and Shen Yi still had to get back for their college entrance exams!

"Are you tired?" Qin Jiao asked, noticing the exhaustion in his eyes. ’He didn’t really have to go through all this trouble with me,’ she thought.

But he had.

’Why?’

Qin Jiao knew she couldn’t ask. If she did, he would know that she had been reborn, too.

The corner of Shen Yi’s mouth lifted into a faint smile. "I’m fine. Not tired."

Qin Jiao lowered her gaze, but her arms tightened, holding onto his waist more firmly.

They arrived at the police station a little after five in the morning. They knocked on the door of the on-duty officer’s room and explained what had happened.

As it happened, the officer on duty was the same one from when Qin Jiao had first reported the kidnapping. The moment he saw Xiao Shi’s bruised state, his expression turned serious, and he immediately went to contact his colleagues.