"What...week?"
Upon hearing my question, the young man in front of me was dumbfounded.
I understand his shock very well, just like I felt exactly the same way when I sat in his position and listened to the last He Tianran asking me the same question.
"You mean... you are He Tianran who came through time just like me?"
He couldn't believe it, but I was already ready to explain.
"You have to believe that you are not the only special person in this world."
I got up, picked up a notebook next to the computer, opened a page at random, unscrewed the cap of the pen, and drew a straight line in the blank space.
"This line is our life thirteen years ago. There was no difference until September..."
At the end of that line, I connected two branches.
"Starting from Wen Liang's prank, our destiny has a divergence. A good future is the world you live in, and a bad future is the world I live in. I think you should have understood this a long time ago."
The young man He Tianran nodded, and I suddenly blacked out the simple timeline and continued:
"But have you ever thought about a problem, that is, the so-called 'Yuan He Tianran' has been dead long ago, and the existence of you and me is completely the product of the chaos caused by Wen Liang's rebirth. This time you and I Meeting each other is nothing more than the result of a correction of fate.”
"What is... destiny modification?"
I put down my pen, leaned on the sofa, and asked him:
"Do you believe in cause and effect?"
"I believe."
"Then you should understand what Wen Liang means to you after his rebirth. This is the cause. You have undergone tremendous changes and have a bright future. This is the effect. However, you came to my world and still tried to Save her, do you know the chaos caused after saving her?"
"I know this."
I saw the uncertainty on his face and couldn't help but roar:
"No, you don't know! Your narrow eyes only see a little bit of love. You want Wen Liang to get rid of the pain of reincarnation, and you want Cao Aiqing to maintain his original innocence. You have been You’re obsessed with such inconsequential things, but you never thought about me! Or rather, us!”
He was shocked by my sudden outburst of emotions, and I exploded all my grievances:
"Let me tell you what will happen after you save her. Because she did not enter the reincarnation, you returned to September and forgot everything that happened before. You will still be attracted by her at the welcome party. If you play around, you will still fall out with your family, and you will still be helpless as you watch Cao Aiqing become what he is now step by step. Your life will become a complete joke! However, all of this is not the cruelest... …”
Outside, the wind began to howl, rustling the leaves on the street.
My mood at the moment was like the bad weather of this passing typhoon, and I continued gloomily:
"One day thirteen years later, you will suddenly recall a time in the past. Cao Aiqing was your lovely girlfriend. You were admitted to the film school and attracted much attention. As for Wen Liang, as long as you want, you can even step on it The two boats don't have to go through this messy, shit-like life, but all these beautiful things will be broken by a fool who falls from the sky and saves others in his heart, time and time again! Then you... become I!"
After saying these words, all my energy seemed to be drained away. My hands trembled and I lit a cigarette, and my body collapsed on the sofa.
My embarrassed look was reflected in the boy's eyes. He still couldn't accept it all. We were silent to each other, and the room was surprisingly quiet.
A muffled thunder sounded from the distance, and lightning flashed across the sky.
Outside the window, heavy rain poured down.
"Since you know everything Wen Liang has done for us since she was reborn, are you now going to personally push her... into the pit of fire?"
He was in pain and his voice was hoarse. After hearing my words, he struggled internally.
I looked at the smoke coming out of my mouth and said with dull eyes: "I know clearly what you want to save her in your heart. I have also been entangled and contradictory. My sadness will not be less than yours, but when you have experienced When all the good things are gone, you will only be left with regrets.”
After a moment, he murmured: "You know that after listening to your words, I will still choose to save her... right?"
Of course I knew that he would make the same decision that I did at that time.
Then, the cycle begins again.
"Do you think this world is really a real world?"
"What?"
I regained my composure and casually drew a circle next to the originally altered timeline.
"Perhaps, we are all in a state similar to Wen Liang. Her biggest regret in life is to avoid the harm she caused to us. But as you guessed, in comparison, the evil I did to her is even worse. Is it missing? She said that she fell into endless hell, trapped in September that repeats itself forever... But... what about us? "
Having said this, I pondered for a while and slowly exhaled:
"It's also a part of this hell. Just like this circle, our destiny is intertwined with hers. There is no beginning or end. Even if Wenliang changed you after being reborn, she got what she wanted and had no regrets. But she didn't expect it. , you are like this, at this moment, you actually want to save her, and then correct your destiny to me. This is the correction I call, which is also the so-called, endless hell!"
"呲~"
The young man He Tianran finally opened the bottle of Coke. He was so distracted that he took a sip as if to vent his anger.
"Don't save her, jump out of this circle and go back to your beautiful world where everyone is happy. Don't come to hell."
I offer one final piece of advice.
He spent a long time quietly drinking up the can of Coke, and finally shook his head and stood up.
There was light shining in his eyes, and he had already made a decision in his heart.
"If my own happiness depends on Wen Liang's atonement-like sacrifice, then... what's the difference between you and me?"
He stood up and looked at me deeply, as if he wanted to remember my appearance.
I should have scoffed at such naive notions.
He didn't know how much pain he would face due to his choice. Those psychological traumas in life could not be wiped away simply by hindsight.
However, I admire him very much.
This is me when I was seventeen or eighteen years old...
Fearless and naive, even if the cruel truth is placed in front of him, he still holds a foolish spirit that wants to break through the southern wall, trying to deal with the determined fate.
If this kind of thing happened to me now, it would only be labeled as "childish".
He did what he should do at his age.
And I also have to teach him what "reality" is.
I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was almost five o'clock.
"It's useless, it's too late." I said calmly.
His body trembled, "Why is it too late?"
I turned my eyes to the storm outside the balcony and said slowly:
"Today at 5:02, Wen Liang will encounter a typhoon on her way home. Her mind will be distracted because she is thinking about you and me, causing the tire to slip and crash into the guardrail at the beach, killing everyone. The one with the cart fell into the sea.”
The boy opposite had a look of disbelief on his face. He rushed to the door in an instant and hurriedly asked me to lock and unlock the door.
He was very fast, and it only took a few seconds for the lock to open.
I pressed the cigarette in my hand into the Coke can he had just finished drinking, and shouted:
"By the way, the other He Tianran didn't give me a Coke when I rescued her in a critical moment last time."
The boy's movements suddenly stopped, he slowly turned his head, and looked at me viciously with his bloodshot eyes.
I thought he would call me a beast, but he said something that I had never said in my memory.
"How could she like you?"
Yes, how could she fall in love with me...
I remained calm, closed my eyes, and then opened them again.
"This is my story with her, it has nothing to do with you."
"boom!"
He slammed the door and left.
I slowly walked to the balcony and watched his running back disappear into the wind and rain.
(End of chapter)
