Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2383

The family of four had finally been reunited. If it hadn't been for the unexpected return to the alternate world, Adam would've waited a lifetime and still never seen Thalia or Shannon again.

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Adam still remembered waking from the dream with tears on his face. He knew… None of that had been a dream. Everything had been real.

With that clarity came the crushing realization of exactly what he had lost. It was a life that could've been.

Was he angry, reluctant, or regretful? Of course.

Because even though they were the same person, the other him had lived a life he could only envy. Even though the original Adam had lost Thalia for 18 years, he still found her again in the end.

Things would've been different if she had never appeared in his life. Even if he were to stay single forever, till the day his hair turned white, he still wouldn't feel an ounce of regret.

Yet, she did. She came and then left.

Now that he had basked in her light, the shadows would never feel the same again.

Even after waking up, Adam had considered going after that so-called mystic power and risking everything just to pull her back into his world.

After all, they were both him. Why couldn't he be the one she chose?

For the first time, he realized he had a possessive, almost obsessive side. In modern slang, he had almost entered his villain arc.

Perhaps that was exactly what Vlad wanted when he planted that dream in the first place. In the end, though, reason won out. He chose to let it go.

He still vividly remembered what Thalia had done for him while he was unconscious.

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Long after, when Shannon realized the alternate Adam hadn't treated those memories of Thalia as a fading dream, she finally asked Fennec to seek him out.

Fennec said, "I can help you erase all the memories about Thalia and Shannon and turn it all back into a dream."

That way, he wouldn't have to live with that loneliness forever. That had been Thalia's wish, too.

Yet, when given an option to forget everything, Adam chose to say no after a long pause.

"I don't want to forget her," he said. "Even if there's no future for us in this lifetime, I still want to hold onto those memories. At least, they remind me that, in another world, my life is whole."

Be it fate's cruel trick or a bond that was never meant to be. In the end, humans were bound to live with regrets in their lives.