Reborn as a short-lived loli who can only live for three years

"I have no interest in changing the world," Ivey said.

“No.” The patriarch shook his head. “You don’t need grand ambitions. Sometimes, just a small thought can make you a reformer. Anyone, including me, can become a reformer.”

"I don't know."

"This is also the reason why the secret of the Sage's Heart has never been revealed to the public."

"When you have a huge regret, a loved one who died because you were unable to save him in time, or just a small thing that was not done well..."

"At this moment, you suddenly heard that there is a magic that can go back in time, take you back to the past, make up for the regrets of the past, save the lost love, or make the messed up things perfect again."

“When you have the thought of wanting to go back, you become a revolutionary.”

It sounds so ridiculous.

"Wouldn't that mean everyone would become a reformist?" Ivy asked.

"So... this is why the secret of the Sage's Heart is not revealed to the public." The head of the family repeated this sentence.

"Not knowing is the best secret."

Ivy digested these words silently.

"So... when I find out that you are leading the world to the third round for your own selfish desires... I will kill you then."

The patriarch's tone remained calm and soothing.

Ivy raised her eyebrows, a little surprised: "Do you think I can still do this?"

The first time was just an accident. Although he did steal the sage's heart at that time, it was just the result of countless luck and coincidences.

The second time... Moreover, it was the second time that the existence of the second round was known to all parties. She could not see the possibility of success.

"Who knows?" The patriarch said slowly, "The future is full of unknowns. If you start over again, the heart of the sage will resonate with you."

Ivy was silent for a long time.

"I'll take it," she said finally.

"But... Regarding the first two, can I ask the reasons?"

'Once', at their third year prom, they managed to steal the magic of the Sage's Heart, but other than that, nothing special seemed to have happened.

At least, her future senior didn't tell her.

"As someone who can travel through time, it's okay for me to tell you, but this matter involves our family's secrets. You have to agree to one more condition of mine."

"You're so stingy." Ivy couldn't help but say.

I have already agreed to his three conditions, but he still wants to agree to more.

It felt like she was selling herself out.

"I am the head of the family, but at the same time, I am also a businessman." The head of the family spread his hands and smiled, "Profits come first."

"What conditions?"

"I hope you... continue to be friends with Xiao Meng."

"...?"

Ivy blinked in surprise.

Seemingly satisfied with her reaction, the owner laughed a few times.

"Surprised? You thought I was going to make some cruel demands?"

Evie nodded.

nonsense.

Before, he asked her to end her life voluntarily, and then he said he would kill her. This time, he suddenly showed his fatherly love. I don’t understand what the head of the family is thinking.

"I can see that you are a very talented and intelligent child. Xiao Meng must be very happy to be with you."

There seemed to be kindness in the owner's eyes.

"The Shi family was once famous for holding the power over time, but what outsiders don't know is that the more supreme the power, the greater the price to pay." The head of the family suddenly got to the point and began to explain the reasons.

"Those who go against time will be worn down by the river of time."

I remember Shi Zhimeng also said this.

"The people of our family have all been worn out by time and died young. Those who are worn out by the long river of time will be erased by the world and history and disappear from everyone's memory. The power of time - to outsiders, it is a power, but to us, it is a curse."

Ivy listened quietly. Almost every word the patriarch said refreshed her cognition.

……

In order to ensure that the Shi family would not be destroyed by time, the new head of the family at that time set a goal to remove the power of time from the bloodline of the Shi family.

In the end, they barely succeeded. The bloodline of the family, which had been stripped of most of its power, had lost the ability to interfere with the long river of time, and accordingly - the wear and tear they had suffered had almost disappeared.

The extracted time power was stored in a special magical instrument, which the Shi family named the Sage's Heart.

This is the origin of the heart of a sage.

……

In order to ensure the long-term survival of the family bloodline, the Sage's Heart became a forbidden word. The head of the family at that time stored it in St. Hobia College. On the one hand, it was to prevent someone from coveting the power of time again. These covetous people gradually developed a reformist organization; on the other hand, it was to deter -

Should anyone from the Shi family attempt to rewrite the world with time, the academy is capable of correcting it at any time. Displaying the Sage's Heart at the graduation ball every year is a means of deterrence.

Ivy was a little confused about this.

According to what the head of the family said before, hasn't the bloodline of the main family already lost the ability to interfere? How can it rewrite the world?

Is there another person or thing in the family who can reset time?

But the head of the family did not answer, but finally began to explain the reasons for the first two conditions.

"The aftereffects of rewriting the world for hundreds of years will not disappear with giving up power. They may all think that the wear and tear has disappeared, but in fact, all this time wear and tear... has been transferred to the head of the family alone."

Evie raised an eyebrow in surprise.

In other words, is the current head of the family also experiencing the backlash of the long river of time like her?

This makes sense, which is why Tokieda Yume has a necklace that can resist backlash.

"This is the secret of the position of the head of the family."

When a person becomes the patriarch of the Shi family, the moment he inherits the power, he will also inherit the time wear and tear that has not yet been repaid by previous generations. They repay it generation after generation until the time wear and tear is completely weakened and disappears.

At the same time, the head of the family will also remember the name of everyone who has been erased by the long river of time.

The names of those people who have been forgotten by the world and history are all remembered by the head of the family alone.

"I will let Xiao Meng officially inherit the position of head of the family the moment she graduates from St. Hobia College."

"I hope she will face the least amount of wear and tear as possible when she takes the throne."

The head of the family looked at her with a loving and gentle gaze: "Therefore, as a time traveler, you must disappear."

Ivy lowered her head in silence.

"As for the second condition, I think you can understand it."

"If the time power that our bloodline has extracted with great difficulty is used again by our bloodline, the wear and tear that it will have to endure... is something that you cannot even imagine now."

"Just as you want to protect your companions, I also--"

"To protect my daughter."