Chapter 22: Magic Island

Yin Xian, the rabbit, still had something to ask, but Wang Jiexiang raised her hand to stop his question.

“Now it’s my turn to ask you. I’ve been running around for you, but now, I have doubts about your identity.”

“Okay, ask.”

Recalling Yin Xian’s previous strange behavior, she emphasized, “I require you to tell me everything, without holding anything back.”

“Fine.”

Wang Jiexiang’s gaze was sharp. “Are you Yin Xian?”

He answered firmly, “Yes.”

“How old are you?”

“……” Yin Xian fell into a long period of thought.

“Alright. You said you don’t remember me, so from what age do your memories start to fade?”

He sighed and answered honestly, “My memory is broken.”

“If memory is a long chain, then in my mind, that chain has been cut. Even though I can clearly feel that certain parts should connect, when I try to pick them up, I can’t see the cause or the follow-up.”

After a pause, Yin Xian looked into her eyes and said, “Sometimes, by coincidence, I get a fragment of the chain from the outside.”

Wang Jiexiang suddenly felt her heart race. “For example?”

“Feifei, you want to raise a rabbit.”

He wore an unbearably cute rabbit face, and when he called her, his tone carried a unique teasing from Yin Xian.

Wang Jiexiang’s mind flashed with a strange thought: Yin Xian had locked part of himself in this rabbit’s body.

He did it on purpose, watching her mess up, watching her guess wildly, seeing her struggle. She said unkind things to him, disappointed, but still couldn’t resist the rabbit she liked the most. Maybe Yin Xian was hiding somewhere, laughing at her.

This indeed fit his usual cruelty.

“502 times 323, what’s the result?”

Ignoring what he said, Wang Jiexiang rattled off a string of unrelated numbers.

Yin Xian was confused, blinking his rabbit eyes, slowly calculating.

She waited for thirty seconds, then asked again.

“76 times 27, what’s the result?”

He deflated.

“So hard. Do you know the answer?”

“I don’t know, but you do. You used to be able to calculate these numbers quickly. Multiplying hundreds was easy for you. I even had to use a calculator, but you just said the answer.”

Aside from her being the victim of his prank, Wang Jiexiang fell deeper into unease.

“So it’s not just incomplete memories, you’ve also regressed in other areas.”

Compared to her frown, the rabbit seemed much more relaxed.

“Maybe I haven’t rested well. It’ll be fine after a while.”

This sentence…

This damn déjà vu…

Every time Yin Xian got sick, he loved to say this: “It’s nothing, just didn’t rest well.”

The worse he got, the more he tried to cover it up. Getting him to see a doctor was harder than climbing to the sky.

Once, when Yin Xian caught a cold, Wang Jiexiang suggested making ginger tea for him. He refused, saying it tasted bad and wasn’t necessary.

The next day, at work, she saw his face flushed, and he claimed he hadn’t slept well the night before.

Wang Jiexiang blocked the door and demanded he take his temperature. It read 39 degrees Celsius. She told him to ask for leave from his boss and go to the doctor, but he refused, claiming he didn’t have time. She was so angry that she cried, and he compromised, bringing fever medicine, saying he would take it once he got to the office.

In the end, he collapsed, and several coworkers had to carry him to a clinic.

Wang Jiexiang had never seen anyone more stubborn than Yin Xian.

She told him harshly, “You’re so tough. If you can bear it, then don’t go see a doctor. Never go. Maybe you’ll learn your lesson once you get seriously ill.”

“I’m fine,” he stubbornly replied, indifferent, “I know how my body is. Stop making a big deal out of everything.”

It turned out, Wang Jiexiang wasn’t overreacting.

Later, Yin Xian was sent to the hospital several times, all because he hadn’t seen a doctor in time and turned minor illnesses into major ones.

Her harsh words turned out to be prophetic, but even after the lessons, he still didn’t learn…

“Memory loss, functional decline,” Wang Jiexiang rubbed her aching head and said to the rabbit, “Could you have a certain illness? Are these symptoms of being sick?”

Yin Xian returned to his familiar mode again: “I’m fine.”

“Stop!”

She decided to set that question aside for now.

“Let me continue asking my questions.”

He agreed.

“What do you remember about Little Rabbit Island?”

After she mentioned his sickness, Yin Xian was eager to prove he was fine.

“I remember everything,” he replied.

“Recite everything you remember about Little Rabbit Island, specifically.”

Yin Xian began to cooperate and recall.

“At first, my impression was that I was trapped here. There were no other creatures on the island. One day, you appeared riding a Paper Crane. When the sun rose, you vanished. I waited for you for several days, drinking Carrot Juice every day, until you finally came. Then…”

She nodded, signaling him to continue.

“You entered the first house. I waited for you in the dark room. You cleared the level and went home to sleep. You came back to the island, and we went to the second and third houses. In the third house, you spent a particularly long time, and I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was here. You said I died, and my body was a new rabbit.”

Wang Jiexiang pondered for a moment.

“First, two questions. Does Little Rabbit Island ever see daylight? And where did the carrots come from?”

Earlier, when she drank Carrot Juice, she thought Little Rabbit Island had long carrots. The rabbit would grunt as it pulled carrots out and juiced them for himself. When he fainted, she also thought about pulling carrots.

But no matter how hard Wang Jiexiang searched, she couldn’t find any.

This island! This place! There were no carrots, no food of any kind!

Her first question had made the rabbit stumped.

“There’s no daylight. When I’m here, it’s always night.”

He struggled to recall, his eyes blank, “What happened after daylight? I don’t know.”

Wang Jiexiang was already used to his “I don’t know.”

“What about the carrots?”

He hopped off the small bed. “Let me show you something.”

Yin Xian led her to Feifei’s Home’s rabbit-exclusive kitchen, where there was a small, multifunctional juicer.

With one paw pressing the juicer, the other hovering in the air.

He opened his rabbit mouth and clearly said to the machine, “I want carrots.”

In the next moment, a mini carrot appeared out of thin air, held in his paw.

“……” Wang Jiexiang’s jaw nearly dropped. “Just one?”

“Carrot, carrot, carrot, carrot.”

As soon as Yin Xian finished speaking, four carrots sprang out of his paws, and he had to hold them with both hands to prevent them from falling to the floor.

Wang Jiexiang clapped in awe.

“I’d pay to watch this performance.”

She, purely out of curiosity, asked, “Will it work for other things too?”

Yin Xian raised an eyebrow. “What do you want?”

Wang Jiexiang felt embarrassed to tell him.

She extended her finger and pressed the juicer, saying softly, “I want a diamond ring.”

The air froze for half a minute.

“Why isn’t it working?” Wang Jiexiang gave up. “Diamond ring, diamond ring, diamond ring.”

Her palm was empty. She coughed lightly and withdrew her finger.

Placing the carrots down, Yin Xian resumed pressing the juicer.

Slowly and deliberately, he spoke to the machine, “She wants a diamond ring.”

Wang Jiexiang lowered her eyes.

A sparkling, large diamond ring appeared in her palm.

Around the dazzling diamond, a pair of playful rabbit ears were set in the design.

“So cute.”

She couldn’t wait to put it on.

The size of the ring was just perfect for her ring finger.

Wang Jiexiang had been won over!

A while later.

With all ten fingers adorned with diamond rings and draped in luxurious silk, Wang Jiexiang leaned against a beach chair. The table in front of her was filled with delicacies. She took a bite of lobster meat and, swaying to the rhythm of lively music, she completely changed her view of Little Rabbit Island.

“So this is another way to experience it. This place is amazing.”

Aside from some special, unreasonable requests, like: turning Yin Xian back into a human, having Yin Xian leave Little Rabbit Island, summoning a doctor to the island, asking for a luxury villa… the juicer couldn’t do these things. For the rest, any simple item that Yin Xian wished for, could appear on the island.

“You only used it for juicing before?” Wang Jiexiang couldn’t help but feel sorry for the juicer.

“Yep,” the rabbit Yin Xian replied honestly. “Carrot Juice.”

“Why are you so honest? Even if it’s just for juicing, you could juice something else, like watermelon juice, pear juice, or tomato juice.”

She truly felt he was wasting the machine.

“I think you misunderstand Little Rabbit Island. You always thought you were trapped by it, but you might actually be the creator of this place.”

Wang Jiexiang picked up the rabbit and placed him on her lap. Together, they looked at the island from a new perspective.

“All the houses on the island are filled with your past.”

“All the grass, trees, the moon, the wind, the lights—they are all influenced by you, because you exist.”

“If you die on the island, you will be revived on the island.”

Being trapped on the island, unable to escape all of this, the suffering it caused, made Yin Xian completely unable to accept her words.

“Creator? Who would want to create such a prison to make themselves suffer?”

The dark rabbit eyes stared at her. He asked, “This island doesn’t just have me. It has you too. If I’m the creator, then what are you, someone who can come and go freely?”

“Ask yourself.”

Wang Jiexiang stopped eating, becoming quiet.

“What am I?”

He had never seen her show such a look before. Wang Jiexiang was usually lively, never sparing a word, like a prawn constantly waving its pincers. Now, her long lashes covered her eyes, and there was a fragility in her brows—sorrow, or perhaps, grievance.

“The ‘Come to My Island’ written on the Paper Crane was crooked. At first, I didn’t notice, but later I saw it and realized it was your handwriting. Feifei’s Home on Little Rabbit Island, you always had called Feifei; you turned into a rabbit, and I love rabbits. Also, what did you mean by saying ‘I bought a rabbit’ to me? Why did you make me drink Carrot Juice? Don’t you remember, I have temporary Night Blindness?”

She bit her lip, speaking softly.

“You can’t keep bullying me like this, Yin Xian. If you don’t remember me, then forget everything about me. Just forget me completely. You called me a pig brain, a rotten good person. If you’re not satisfied with me, I accept it. I suggested we break up, and I truly don’t intend to bother you anymore.”

Wang Jiexiang curled her legs up, awkwardly rubbing her knee.

“Yin Xian, you brought me here. You really pissed me off.”

She asked him, “So tell me, what am I?”