Fifteen years later.
On the third floor of Kaitan Coffee Bookstore, Anda the cat is lying in the corner next to the sofa.
It closes its eyes and rests, feeling contented.
Anda Cat has lived in this world for eighteen years, which is about eighty-five years old in human years.
Its movements become slower and slower, it never likes to move, and it gradually loses its curiosity about most things in the world.
Starting ten years ago, it no longer slept in the hole under the sofa in Gu Xing's living room at night. Instead, it lay on the balcony and squinted its eyes. If Gu Xing has no case, he can lie on the balcony all day.
Starting from five years ago, it gradually lost interest in the cases that Gu Xing was involved in investigating. It would squat on its owner's shoulders and yawn constantly, occasionally stretching, and often absent from the cases that Gu Xing was responsible for investigating.
Since last year, it has completely stopped appearing at the crime scene. When its owner is busy investigating, it lies on the roof of the Coffee Ghost Story Bookstore, bathing in the warm sunshine and looking up at the blue sky and white clouds.
Occasionally, I sneak into the bookstore run by Chiyo, lie down on a book on a certain bookshelf, smell the fragrance of books and ink, yawn sleepily, and wait for the owner to return from investigating the case.
This year, it doesn't even go out. Except for looking for a bowl when eating and looking for a cat litter box when going to the toilet, it just lies in the corner of the sofa in the living room.
Its appetite has decreased a lot, and now it can't even eat one-third of the cat food it used to. As a result, a lot of the cat food Gu Xing hoarded is at risk of expiration.
"Anda hasn't gone out for a long time,"
Wearing pajamas, Makoto Karasawa walked up to it, squatted down and observed the Anda cat, "I'm really not used to it."
"It's old and too lazy to move."
Gu Xing said, he was lying on the sofa reading a newspaper called "Ghost Talk Weekly".
In these days, ghost stories are no longer a secret that is difficult to pry into in the eyes of the public. There are a large number of scholars in scientific research institutions who study ghost stories. There are specialized hunters of ghost stories among the people. Families are writing about ghost stories. Magazines and newspapers have opened columns on ghost stories. They are on people’s dining tables. There are always weird topics to talk about.
Ghost stories have been openly integrated into this world.
"I'm getting old too!"
Karasawa Makoto sighed in annoyance, stood up, walked to the side mirror, and put his face in front of the mirror, "Look at this face!"
Gu Xing looked away from the newspaper and turned to Karasawa Makoto's face in the mirror.
In order to continue to live an undisturbed life, Gu Xing and Karasawa Makoto chose to get married in secret eleven years ago. After that, they lay on the same bed at night and acted separately during the day, but their relationship was never exposed.
Nowadays, Makoto Karasawa is in her forties. Although the star is well-maintained, if you get very close, you can still see the shallow fine lines at the corners of her eyes. These are the remnants of the passage of time, and no one can escape them. past.
"You are still young and beautiful,"
Gu Xing stood up from the sofa, walked behind Makoto Karasawa, and hugged her gently, "You are exactly the same as when I first saw you on the screen."
"You are,"
Karasawa Makoto suddenly turned around, put her arms around Gu Xing's neck, and stared at his face, "Why don't you age? Did you secretly take some elixir behind my back?"
Indeed, Gu Xing's face showed almost no traces of time. His skin was smooth and firm, as if it had been edited using Photoshop software.
If he compared the photos of him twenty years ago with the photos of himself today, Makoto Karasawa would think that they were taken just yesterday.
Gu Xing: "I'm getting older too, but it's just not that obvious."
"To be honest, I'm a little worried,"
Karasawa Makoto shook his head, "You shouldn't be one of those immortal monsters in the legend, right?"
"Haha, that's much more fun."
At this time, Gu Xing's cell phone rang.
He let go of his wife, picked up the phone, and went to the balcony to answer the phone for a while.
Soon, he returned and told his wife: "There is a new case. I have to go to the scene to take a look."
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