"Can I take a look?" Liang Shi had been given a lot of alcohol, and his voice was a little slurred.
The system projected an image into her mind: a person with the exact same face as her was surrounded by a group of children, playing games with them and looking very happy.
Looking at her, Liang Shi sighed, "I'm really happy for her."
The system continued: "The portal has been repaired, and Sun Chengcheng's memories have been erased and she has been returned to Earth."
"Huh? Why?" Liang Shi asked.
System: [She came here because of your influence. Now that the cause and effect have been resolved, this is the natural course of events.]
Liang Shi suddenly consulted with it: "The portal to time and space has opened, right? Can we let Chen Mian go find Qi Jiao?"
System: [? Outrageous!]
Liang Shi asked, "Isn't it said that having a strong conviction is enough? Isn't Chen Mian's conviction deep enough?"
system:【……】
The system's mechanical voice replied: "Their wishes will naturally be heard by the gods."
At the same time, Chen Mian, completely drunk, suddenly heard a voice: [Analysis indicates you have unresolved obsessions within you. The Obsession Management Bureau has been activated. Do you wish to resolve these obsessions? If you choose yes, your gland will be removed, and you will be transported to Qi Jiao's world. If you choose no, this memory will be erased.]
Chen Mian hesitated: "Qi Jiao is still alive?"
Mechanical voice: [Yes, she lives in another time and space.]
Chen Mian opened her eyes and looked at the world. She saw Liang Wanwan looking at her. She smiled at Liang Wanwan for the first time, and then waved to her: "Wanwan, forget me. I'm not worth it."
Chen Mian is a materialist, but because of Qi Jiao, he believed in these unfounded things for the first time.
She said firmly, "Send me there, and let go of this obsession."
Mechanical voice: [Then you'll need to do good deeds and accumulate enough goodness points over a hundred years.]
A flash of white light, and Chen Mian lost consciousness.
When she woke up, she found herself sleeping in front of a flower shop, the same flower shop she had seen in her dream, named "Deep Sea Never Sleeps".
She stood up immediately; it was morning and all the shops were still closed.
Chen Mian waited at the flower shop entrance for less than five minutes before the figure appeared before her.
Perhaps startled by her strange look, Qi Jiao took out her keys from her bag and asked, "Miss, would you like to buy flowers?"
Chen Mian stared at her, her eyes reddening.
"I want a lily," Chen Mian said, handing over her phone, "and your contact information."
Qi Jiao: "?"
She should have refused, but Qi Jiao inexplicably entered her number.
When I saw her shed tears, I also shed a tear.
Qi Jiao opened the door of the flower shop and asked her, "What's your name?"
Chen Mian paused slightly, then smiled in the morning sunlight and said, "Chen Mian."
The bookstore next door has opened, and they're playing the song "Lonely Bird Syndrome".
“”
Zhou Yi'an got completely drunk, and Su Meiqi helped her back to her room. Then, exhausted, she lay on the floor and couldn't move, so she simply lay on the carpet and played on her phone.
A moment later, a mechanical voice suddenly sounded in Zhou Yi'an's mind: [Detection indicates you have unresolved obsessions within you. The Obsession Management Bureau has been activated. Do you wish to resolve these obsessions? If you choose yes, you will be transported to another dimension to see the person you've always wanted to see. If you choose no, your memories of this event will be erased.]
Zhou Yi'an was taken aback: "The person I've always wanted to see?"
Mechanical voice: [Liang Shi, ah.]
Zhou Yi'an asked, "Is she alright now?"
Mechanical voice: [Alive.]
Zhou Yi'an closed her eyes briefly: "May I see her?"
The mechanical voice pondered for a moment, then said, "[You have five minutes to travel to that time and space. You must make a choice within those five minutes, otherwise the portal will close, and you will remain in that time and space by default.]"
Zhou Yi'an nodded: "Okay."
Then a flash of white light appeared, and Zhou Yi'an appeared at the entrance of a kindergarten.
Surrounded by parents dropping their children off at school, Zhou Yi'an stood out somewhat out of place.
The person with the exact same face as Liang Shi stood at the kindergarten gate, smiling and saying good morning to each child.
Very energetic.
There was no hostility in those eyes, yet it was easy to recognize that it was Liang Shi, the man she knew.
Zhou Yi'an stood in the corner watching her. After all the children went inside, she noticed Zhou Yi'an at the door and they looked at each other from a distance.
She smiled slightly, as if taking Zhou Yi'an back to many years ago.
"Do you know me?" she asked as she walked over.
Zhou Yi'an nodded: "Sure."
Liang Shi frowned: "And then what?"
Zhou Yi'an pursed her lips: "Are you in a relationship?"
Liang Shi was taken aback: "Do you want to date me?"
"No," Zhou Yi'an said. "I just asked casually."
Time continued to pass, and before the portal closed, Zhou Yi'an suddenly heard a shrill cry: "Zhou Yi'an!"
Su Meiqi is crying again.
Zhou Yi'an stared at Liang Shi for a while, then waved to her, "Be a good person from now on. I'm leaving."
In the final choice, Zhou Yi'an chose to return to her original world.
However, the Obsession Management Bureau did not erase her memories; it only took away her obsessions.
When Zhou Yi'an woke up, she found Su Meiqi hugging her and crying, and her tears fell onto her face.
Zhou Yi'an wiped her face. "Are you wailing?"
Startled, Su Meiqi immediately jumped up and slammed her head to the ground again: "I thought you were dead."
Zhou Yi'an's head was hit hard. She slowly sat up, clutching her head: "Even if I'm not dead, you'll kill me."
"You just fell off the bed and didn't react at all." Su Meiqi was terrified.
Zhou Yi'an: "..."
"Don't cry so much," Zhou Yi'an said. "It's too ugly."
Su Meiqi kicked her, "Can't you talk properly?"
Zhou Yi'an leaned against the bed, thinking about the person she had just met. What did he ultimately choose?
I still chose this side.
Zhou Yi'an looked up at Su Meiqi, who was still the same lively and energetic girl.
She gently closed her eyes, listening to Su Meiqi chattering in her ear.
They didn't find it troublesome at all.
It seems like it started when she was a teenager.
But what was Zhou Yi'an doing at that time?
It seems like he's thinking about how to destroy the world.
If there were someone like her, that would be the most desirable thing.
But now, Zhou Yi'an seems to want to be a good person.
It's hard to say whether it's better to destroy the world with others or to be a good person for her.
But... that's already been chosen.
"Zhou Yi'an, are you even listening to me?" Su Meiqi shook her arm.
Zhou Yi'an opened her eyes casually, "You're not even calling me 'sister' anymore?"
“I won’t call you that. Zhou Yi’an, Zhou Yi’an.” Su Meiqi continued her antics.
Zhou Yi'an climbed onto the bed, "Whatever you want."
After Liang Shi finished washing up, she returned to her room and found Xu Qingzhu hunched over the table writing something. But when she went over, Xu Qingzhu suddenly put the writing away.
While drying his hair, Liang Shi asked, "What are you writing?"
"It's a secret." Xu Qingzhu said, throwing the greeting card into the drawer before going to blow-dry her hair. As she left, she reminded her, "Don't look at it."
Liang Shi glanced at her back, and after finishing his skincare routine, he didn't even open the drawer to look at her.
After a while, when Xu Qingzhu returned, Liang Shicai asked, "Did you see Chen Mian tonight?"
"Chen Mian? Who is that?" Xu Qingzhu asked.
Liang Shi: "?"
Afterwards, Liang Shi asked Zhao Xuning and Gu Yixue on his phone, but neither of them remembered Chen Mian.
Chen Mian disappeared from this world, but met her love again in another world.
Here, only Liang Shi still remembers Chen Mian.
But it's a good thing nonetheless.
Liang Shi couldn't resist in the end and secretly took out the greeting card while Xu Qingzhu was in the bathroom.
The words Xu Qingzhu wrote above were for her.
Liang Shi, this world is bad, but you are good.
You deserve everyone's love.
My darling, happy marriage.
I love you.