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.

goodbyes. Athena was too-especially the final, in-person kind. But knowing that her grandmother had passed peacefully, lost in a dream, almost felt like a relief. Once the nurse had left and the door to

unless it was gone from this world, I could never tell anyone. You always taught me to keep my word, and I couldn't break my vow to him. "I'm telling you now because you're not just 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 cat in the park that could write. And it really could, Grandma. Athena's voice softened as she continued, "It was injured at

the memory before she went on. "Once it was better, I took it home: Since you're allergic to cats, I kept it in my room, out of your way. It

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

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

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computer skills-even my hacking skills. It shared everything with me-medicine, physics, astronomy chemistry. It knew it all, like a living, breathing encyclopedia.

deep breath, as though bracing herself for what came next. Then, one day, my mentor became human. Well, not exactly human. The consciousness of

"It told me it came from a place beyond even alien worlds-a dimension higher than the three-dimensional space humans live in. Its home had been invaded by a more advanced civilization,

in The Three-Body Problem. Their level of technology and knowledge was beyond anything humanity could imagine.

did explain was that a physical body is too fragile to survive traveling through time and space. Only consciousness can

their consciousness in higher-dimensional objects, lowered their

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 the map to their homeland-the so-called ancient civilization,