Being trapped on the ceiling of an empty room didn't frighten Lin Yuhui at all, because he had nothing left to lose, so what was there to fear?
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His grandparents, who had been with him since childhood, had passed away many years ago, and it seemed they wouldn't be reincarnated to reunite with him. He could do nothing more for them. His child had her own life; she had no attachment to him, and even if she did, it was too late. He couldn't do anything, nor could he change her life's path. As for that kind-hearted girl in Earth's orbit, so many years had passed; he wondered if she was happy, and he couldn't help her. Only a sliver of concern lingered in his heart; he wondered if she cared, and whether he was bothering her.
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Although his body couldn't move, or rather, his focus of attention was fixed, his thoughts were still free. But these memories were now like kites with broken strings, pasts he couldn't hold onto, love he couldn't give. Even if he forgot the memories of his entire life, there would be nothing left to hold him back.
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The room was dark, and no one came in. He didn't know how much time was passing. Lin Yuhui could see the walls with a certain brightness. In the monotonous boredom, he thought of his most beautiful memories—his childhood, the 1980s.
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Back then, the roads weren't as wide. The main mode of transportation was the bicycle. There were no dedicated bike lanes; bicycles were crowded together with motor vehicles. Fortunately, there weren't many motor vehicles back then.
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The buses were still trolleybuses, some articulated three-axle buses, with light green or light blue bodies and white window frames to the roof. The windows, roof, and windshield all had large, smooth curves—that was the aesthetic of that era.
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Back then, the roadside trees were pruned in autumn, leaving only the trunks. The following spring, new branches and leaves would sprout from the tips of the trunks. These new branches, dancing in the wind, were lush and translucent in the spring sunshine. Sunlight either filtered through the swaying leaves, creating a hazy, green effect, or shone brightly through the gaps in the branches. The vitality of spring was like a babbling child, just beginning its journey, full of hope.
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At that time, the buildings on both sides of the road were mostly three-story apartment buildings with red bricks, blue tiles, and pointed roofs, with narrow doors and windows, in the style of old Soviet architecture. Only near the Fifth Department Store area was there a newer residential building along the street, with a gray terrazzo surface and six stories high. It was an L-shaped building, and the corner apartments had longer balconies.
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Gazing at the railing of the first-floor balcony, the piled-up items inside, the dark green wooden window frames, and the shimmering spring sunlight filtering through the treetops onto the open glass window swaying in the breeze, occasionally letting dazzling sunlight into Lin Yuhui's eyes. In an instant, he suddenly realized that this was the home he had known as a child.
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He flew to the balcony. The morning sun, around nine or ten o'clock, shone brightly. There stood that familiar figure, gray hair, a blue cotton shirt, bustling about. He rushed over, wanting to tell her he was back,
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"Grandma, Grandma, it's me, Xiaohui, Grandma,"
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but his cries seemed to be drowned out by the air, utterly silent.
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He reached out to grab his grandmother's sleeve, wanting her to see that he was back, that Xiaohui had come home.
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But his hand grasped only empty air. As he grasped, his grandmother turned and looked back into the house. From inside came the sound of a child crying.
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Lin Yuhui looked over. It was his younger self, awakened sometime earlier, finding himself alone in the house, crying and calling for his grandmother.
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“Didn’t I tell you I was feeding the chickens? You’re crying because you can’t find them for a little while,” Grandma said, climbing back over the open windowsill to comfort her grandson.
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Lin Yuhui wanted to help Grandma, but he knew there was nothing he could do for her. He could only watch the little boy sitting on the bed wiping away his tears, hoping he would grow up quickly and take care of his grandmother in his place.
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Turning away, he didn’t want to fly anymore. He simply walked along this street he had walked countless times at different times and ages.
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He noticed that he seemed to have broken free from the constraints of that empty room in the underground base. Whether it was real or not, it no longer mattered.
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Walking on the familiar street, he could no longer touch the people he once knew. The scenery along the street was both familiar and strange.
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Standing by the starship's porthole, Leanna's face, illuminated by the interior light, reflected in the vast universe outside. Her calm gaze mirrored the same scenery and street corners Lin Yuhui saw, silently repeating the same monologue:
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"This is your journey, a one-way ticket to life. Those you love have passed through your life." Lin Yuhui, too, had once walked this path, remembering as a child in the winter snow, clinging to his father's back, on his way to the hospital for an injection.
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"Those who should have been the closest of kin have drifted further and further away with the years."
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"Child, leave behind the sorrow in your heart, let go of those hurtful calculations," Leanna's face, reflected in the mirror in the darkness,
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"Where were you then? Were you also alone, without support? Can I find you?" Having experienced the bitterness of life, Lin Yuhui didn't want the person he cherished to suffer the same fate.
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"You have already passed through the years, why dwell on the past? Remember the little good things in those years," Leanna turned away from the window, leaving only the endless void. Her figure receded into the distance,
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lifeless footsteps, aimless gaze. "Alone, I walk the streets I've walked in this life, never encountering another version of myself so perfect. The familiar street scenes before me don't belong to the unfamiliar you. Where else can I search?" Lin Yuhui gazed at the sky, wondering if you, now, were in that sky then,
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Looking down from space at that blue planet, all of life's hardships, all its joys and sorrows, loved ones, hated ones, possessed ones, lost ones—all are played out on that small stage.
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“Do we have to continue like this?” Lydia approached her sister and asked.
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“There’s no need to drag him into this,” Leanna replied simply, glancing at her sister’s still-observant gaze, and further explained,
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“Using the immersion chamber can also heal his soul trauma,”
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“But you know that’s not real,” Lydia pressed,
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“Haven’t you already had a real experience?” Leanna retorted,
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“That was just my memory, okay? It wasn’t me,”
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“Oh, so you want to be with him?” Leanna questioned her sister in an ambiguous tone,
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“No way! He’s the one who pursued you. You two are all lovey-dovey, and you’re using me as a shield. If you keep saying that, I’ll go back in time and change your past too,”
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“Haha, alright, alright, stop it. What’s the difference between you and me?”
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and then Add to home screen.