Chapter 1: The World Behind the Kaleidoscope
The moment you step out of the plane, the whole space changes.
Wei Ting was surprised to find a rainbow-like bridge under her feet, and it was moving forward like an automatic elevator. On the opposite side of the light bridge, there was a kaleidoscopic whirlpool, and she was standing on the rainbow bridge, involuntarily throwing herself at the kaleidoscope.
She wanted to jump off the rainbow bridge, but her body couldn't move as if she was imprisoned, and in her vision, everything except the rainbow bridge and the Wanhua Cave was distorted and began to shatter...... After entering that vortex, her body suddenly loosened. However, her laptop, watch, mobile phone, clothes, and finally even herself were all twisted and shattered in this whirlpool, and in the end, only one consciousness remained, and she stubbornly rushed into the depths of the whirlpool......
Four years ago, when she came home from overtime, she found her husband asleep in bed, and the woman next to her was not her. Wei Ting didn't get angry, nor did she cry out, she just said lightly: "Even if you look for a woman outside in the future, you should find someone better than me." ”
After saying that, she drifted away, and half a month later, she sent back a registered letter to the man from the headquarters of Microsoft in the United States, which contained a divorce agreement that she had signed.
Time is pushed back...... Three months ago, she led a project team at Microsoft to successfully complete the design and commissioning of Microsoft's next-generation Windows software, which was recognized by the company's senior management. A week ago, when the company announced that the final commissioning of the new generation of windows had been completed and a press conference was held, the name of the project manager was changed to an American...... One of her assistants, and she was also transferred out of the project team, on the grounds that she was not an American citizen, not an American.
Is this a donkey slaughter or racism?
Americans can fight this kind of lawsuit across the century, Wei Ting has no energy and disdain to waste time on this, and after handing over her resignation, she stepped on the plane back to China.
Wei Ting's person looks like her name...... Slim. But her life is far less glamorous than her name. At least until she was admitted to Harvard, life was full of suffering and gloom.
In the year she graduated from junior high school, her father died in a car accident, which caused her exam scores to drop and she only entered a regular middle school. Her mother couldn't afford to fall ill, and finally lingered on the sickbed for many years, she took care of her mother while studying hard, and was finally admitted to Peking University. At that time, in order to cure her mother's illness and expensive tuition, she had to accept the help of her ex-husband's family to complete her studies and be admitted to Harvard University on her own...... A marriage concluded by a transaction is destined not to be the beginning of a comedy and the end of a tragedy, but it is also a relief. But I didn't expect that four years later, I would be hit hard in the workplace.
Although she never fell, she was indeed seriously injured, and she wanted to return to China and find a place to lick her wounds quietly...... She didn't need anyone's mercy, just a private space to give her tired heart a little respite, but she didn't expect this to happen.
Rumble!
The kaleidoscope in front of her suddenly burst, and the strong flash made her dizzy for a while, Wei Ting subconsciously let out an 'ah' sound, and subconsciously made a gesture to cover her eyes.
"This classmate, are you alright?" A gentle, slightly Shandong noise woman's voice sounded in my ears.
"Ah, I ......"
Wei Ting put down her hand and was about to speak, when she suddenly froze...... This is not an airport, there is an old-fashioned table in front of me, a bowl of noodles in front of me, a few spice jars on the table, a few tables and people around me, and an old wall, a middle-aged woman with a somewhat familiar face is looking at her with concern.
It seems familiar...... Wei Ting's gaze wandered away again, and she inadvertently saw an old-fashioned desk calendar on the front desk not far away...... June 13, 1990.
90 years?
It doesn't seem like anyone still has this old desk calendar, right?
Did you wear it yourself?
"Classmate, what's wrong with you?" The middle-aged woman looked a little anxious, wanting to reach out and touch her head, but she was a little hesitant.
"Mom, what's wrong?" A girl in her twenties walked briskly.
"This kid ...... I don't know if I'm sick, why do I look dull? The middle-aged woman rubbed her hands anxiously, if the person was really sick in her shop, it was really unclear.
"Really? I'm about to take the high school entrance exam, maybe I'm tired of studying, right? "The girl's eyebrows are very similar to those of a middle-aged woman, they are really mother and daughter.
The past was stirred up in this moment...... Yes, this ramen restaurant is the one next to the junior high school, and I often come to eat noodles between evening self-study. This middle-aged woman is the proprietress and her husband is an honest and wooden Shandong man, who usually works in the back kitchen and rarely comes to the front, and this young girl is their eldest daughter, as if she has a younger brother.
The family is a good character, sometimes a student forgets to bring money, they don't take it seriously, and tolerate arrears, just because the business is not distinctive, in the first year of her admission to middle school, she collapsed because she couldn't run it, and she hasn't seen them since.
"Thank you, Auntie, I'm fine, it's just that I'm tired from reading for the past two days." A smile appeared on Wei Ting's face, and her demeanor was a little more vivid, not as trance as just now.
"Exams are important, but you should also pay attention to rest."
Seeing that Wei Ting had returned to normal, the mother and daughter put down their hearts and went to greet other guests. Wei Ting sat back in her chair, she still needed time to digest it all.
The aroma of green onions came to her nose, Wei Ting suddenly felt a burst of hunger, she subconsciously reached out to grab the chopsticks, but was startled...... This is my own hand, which is a small circle, like an undeveloped bean sprout.
She looked down at herself, dressed in a tracksuit, with a pair of old-fashioned plastic sandals on her feet, and a backpack with a Mickey Mouse pattern on the chair next to her...... It's really crossed, and it's still worn back to the year when I was fifteen years old, and even my body has changed, only my mind is still the self that has experienced nearly thirty years of ups and downs.
"Forget it, the world is big, the meal is the biggest, and I'll talk about it after eating." She picked up her chopsticks and began to eat noodles.
"This noodle...... It's just ordinary somen noodles. ”
Eating noodles with extremely poor taste and seasoning, Wei Ting now knows why this shop can't continue to operate.
Normally, this is a very prosperous corner, and you can run it with a little understanding of how to operate, but in the end, this store can't be maintained, and it can only be said that the boss's cooking skills are problematic.
Barely finished eating this bowl of noodles, Wei Ting picked up her schoolbag and walked out of the noodle restaurant.
The noodle shop is close to the school, but it's past its rush hour, and only occasionally you can see a few students walking by, most of them adults hurrying home.
Cars sped along the road, a gust of wind, a few bicycles ringing bells past, several shops next to them were bustling, and a few girls came out of one shop, let out a crisp laugh, and hugged each other and walked in the other direction.