She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Chapter 495

When Athena arrived, she found her grandmother had passed away peacefully, a serene smile still resting on her face.

Athena couldn't help but think that her grandmother had probably met the grandfather she'd never known in her dreams.

She truly believed that her grandparents had been deeply in love. Only that kind of love and happiness could have kept her grandmother so warm and forgiving, even after losing her husband so young. "Miss Donovan, please accept our deepest condolences, the nurse and doctor said kindly. "This is a joyful sorrow. Your grandmother would want you to smile as you say goodbye."

Athena wiped away the last of her tears and nodded, her voice steady. "Yes, she's just fallen asleep... into the most beautiful, eternal dream."

She had prepared herself for this moment. What she wanted most was for her grandmother to leave this world without any

regrets.

Over the past few days, Isaac's family had visited daily, doing everything they could to keep Athena's grandmother happy. And they had succeeded-her grandmother was truly happy.

In addition to Athena and the Kennedy family. Matthew and the Donovan family had also made regular visits. Every time Athena's grandmother opened her eyes, she was surrounded by the people who loved her.

The love and attention had worked wonders. Athena's grandmother had been in great spirits these past few days. She ate more than usual, smiled more, and even her wrinkles seemed softer.

peacefully, lost in a dream, almost felt like a relief. Once the nurse had left and the door to the

anyone-you're my grandma, the one I love more than anything. You won't believe this, but when I was five, I met something amazing. I met a

she went on. "Once it was better, I took it home: Since you're allergic to

to use the toilet, flush it, and even shower on its own. When

her thoughts drifting back. "It even knew how to use a computer. It could type faster than anyone I knew and often helped me with my homework by

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skills. It shared everything with me-medicine, physics, astronomy chemistry. It knew

day, my mentor became human. Well, not exactly human. The consciousness of my mentor transferred from

alien worlds-a dimension higher than the three-dimensional space humans live in. Its home had been invaded by

idea of dimensional reduction in The Three-Body Problem. Their level of technology and knowledge was beyond anything humanity could imagine. My mentor didn't

she relived the tale. "What it did explain was that a physical body is too fragile to survive traveling through time and space. Only consciousness can move

my mentor and its people managed to survive-they stored their consciousness in higher-dimensional objects, lowered their dimension, and entered our universe, hoping

"But the new home they found wasn't suitable for living. Some of them boarded spaceships to search for a better place. After a long journey across time and space, they finally reached Earth, thousands of years ago. But by then, their ships were

including the core that held all their important technology and the map to their homeland-the so-called ancient civilization, or what we might call