In 2008.

A year of many calamities.

On the other side of the ocean, shortly after the Olympic Games in Beijing, the U.S. financial community was hit by a major earthquake, and with the sudden declaration of bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, it triggered a financial tsunami that swept the world.

Trillions of dollars of wealth quickly evaporated in a short period of time, and the market was wailing.

At the end of September.

In California, the weather is still hot.

In the seaside town of La Jolla, Southern California, the sky is beautiful in the evening.

A family with a lonely expression was coming out of the Scripps Biomedical Research Institute.

The young Chinese guy led by him was full of helplessness, reached out and patted his mother's shoulder, smiled and comforted:

"There is no cure for ALS, in the past two years, you have taken me to many institutions, and the research funds donated have been five or six million US dollars, to be honest, I have begun to accept my fate, and I don't want to be wronged by them anymore. Mom and Dad, you have to look at it a little bit, the first half of my life has been very wonderful and content. ”

"What resignation? Now that medicine is so developed, there must be a way in the future, son, you have to have confidence......"

The Chinese woman was slightly nervous.

On weekdays, she is used to careful calculations, but she does not feel the slightest distress about the large sum of money she donates.

The young man continued to reply:

"On the bright side, at least I can live like Hawking for many more years, even if I am paralyzed in a wheelchair. When the time comes, I can find two beautiful little nurses to serve me, and life is still going on, last year I smashed the pot and sold iron, and successfully bought Lanai, Hawaii, and then I want to enjoy life quietly and go to a place where every day feels like a vacation......"

The middle-aged man who followed behind didn't speak, just silently lit a cigarette.

The family already has almost everything that others dream of, but they can't cure their baby son, which is a desperate regret for the couple.

The young man's name is Suri and he is twenty-two years old.

As early as more than 20 years ago, he crossed into the belly of the woman next to him in a daze, and he remembered things since he was born, which is equivalent to living with a plug-in.

When other children are a few months old, they eat and sleep in addition to crying.

And Su Rui is different, neither shouting nor wetting the bed, and when his head is more developed, when he is a few months old and lying in the crib, he has already planned his life.

When he was in kindergarten, he set up a stall with a small schoolbag to make money, ambitiously waiting for the rise of the Internet industry, showing surprising business acumen, and also trying to persuade his father, who loves to speculate in stocks, to buy stocks of Intel, Microsoft, Google and other companies in advance.

With the help of Suri, the family is like a fish in water, and life is very exciting.

Back in middle school.

Others were busy with early love, Suri not only learned to write his own scripts and sell them for money, but also became the earliest Internet celebrity singer with videos of himself playing and singing, and then made a lot of money by selling records and mobile phone ringtones, and was successfully admitted to Stanford University at the age of seventeen.

In the past few years, it was a fundraising Facebook, accounting for as much as 20% of the shares at its peak.

With the company's listing, the stake was diluted to 8%, but its value increased day by day, gradually making Suri a legendary teenager who became a household name and successfully appeared on the cover of People magazine once.

Pity.

It's as if all the good luck has been spent in the career.

This happy life against the sky came to an abrupt end after his twentieth birthday.

Because of inexplicable weakness in my legs, I fell a few times at home.

I thought it was moving to Beverly Hills, attending many parties and drinking too much, and teasing the sequelae of too many actresses and supermodels, but I didn't expect to go to the hospital for examination, but I was diagnosed with ALS.

In this regard, it can only be said that God helped Su Rui open a door, but also closed a window for him.

Although it is almost the same as the youth of more than 20 years of white picking, the days of pinching his fingers and counting down still give Su Rui a headache.

Thereupon.

Last year, he bought 98 percent of Lanai Island for $330 million from a pineapple real estate company and invested heavily in renovating it.

Lanai is the sixth-largest island in Hawaii.

With a total area of 365 square kilometers, equivalent to 540,000 acres, it has a coastline of 75 kilometers and beautiful scenery.

When Suri first set foot on this island, he realized that he wanted to spend the rest of his life in such a place, and fame, wealth, etc., no longer meant much to him, and he was forced to start early retirement.

……

Depart La Jolla.

It was just after six o'clock in the evening when I returned to Beverly Hills in Los Angeles in a Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter with a silver-gray livery in it.

Glancing at her watch, Su Rui's mother, Li Wan, remembered something when she got into the car, and said, "The sports car you bought before hasn't been driven for a long time, so you should find someone to maintain it." ”

"Well, I'm afraid that there will be an accident with a sudden illness, so it's estimated that it will be difficult to get on the road again in the future, so I'll sell it directly. Anyway, there are new models every year, and there is a car called Bugatti Veyron, which I have been waiting for for a long time. ”

By "a long time", Su Rui probably means more than twenty years.

In the previous life, I couldn't afford it, but now that the Bugatti Veyron is on the market again, I have the money to buy it but I can't drive it on the road anymore, and it has been so long since the diagnosis that the symptoms of muscle weakness are becoming more and more frequent.

If you still drive a supercar on the road like this, wouldn't it hurt others and yourself?

His mother, Li Wan, shook her head and said:

"It will be fine in the future, didn't the institute also mention it, now there are some latest results. There's an event at church tonight, will you come with me? ”

Science is not enough, metaphysics to make up.

Surie's mother was born in Los Angeles' Chinatown and never went to church before.

Since last year, I have been temporarily hugging the thighs of God and his old man, and reporting to the church every weekend.

After all, it is in North America, God's territory, which seems to be slightly more reliable than burning incense and worshiping Buddha.

It's probably like running around the research institute, in Suri's opinion, it's just to find some psychological comfort, but since his parents feel the need to go, he doesn't mind wasting some time.

The chaplain was at the door to receive guests when the driver drove the family of three to the church, which was the same model as the Army One, and was converted from a Cadillac DTS.

Seeing them, the old white priest with a round figure on his face, with a smile on his face, came up and said:

"Suri, you look great. Thanks to Ms. Li for the pipe organ donation, the workers have installed them, you can hear the performance with it tonight, Ms. Li has been generous to so many people, I believe that miracles will happen to bless your family. ”

"Thank you."

Su Rui replied nonchalantly.

He wasn't interested in any of that, he just came with his mother, and that's it.

Enter the church.

Sitting on an oak bench in the front row, he crossed his legs and played with his mobile phone, browsing the news related to the financial crisis.

Buying an island that big last year is like a bottomless pit.

Building roads, planting pastures, building cowsheds, stables, and new farms, plus the cost of building villas, cost Suri an additional $70 million for most of the year.

The family's cash flow has almost been squeezed out, and they are looking forward to the income from shorting US stocks and returning to continue to develop the island.

At this moment.

There was a sudden tap on his shoulder.

A girl's voice came from behind her, and the other party said:

"You're Suri, aren't you? I love your songs, the first time I paid for an album was your "Loves me not", and I asked my mother to take me to the Santa Monica Beach Music Festival just to see you. ”

Suri went to play live, at the age of seventeen.

The organizer gave him $300,000, and in the original situation, it was really difficult to refuse, and it was very fragrant.

He often meets fans on weekdays, and he calmly replied: "It was a few years ago, and I rarely attended live events. ”

"Yes, in addition to the Santa Monica Beach Music Festival, it was the 2003 New Year's Eve concert in New York's Times Square, and I had your poster in my room at the time. Then you went to Stanford and started a business, and it didn't seem like you sang anymore......"

Listening to the girl behind her, she cherished her deeds like a family, and even bought a poster, Su Rui realized that she really met an iron fan, not just a polite one.

Pulling his gaze back from his phone's screen, he turned and looked back.

I saw that the girl behind her had a small and delicate face, long brown curly hair, and under the black thick eyebrows, there were a pair of bright eyes, and her smile was very infectious.

Su Rui was immediately stunned.

Coincidentally, they actually knew each other.

In my previous life, I watched "Snow White" starring this girl, but I can't remember the specific name, but I only know that there is a nickname of "Little Hepburn".

I can't take my eyes off this look.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Su Rui immediately smiled and asked:

"Has anyone ever said that you look a lot like Audrey Hepburn? For two or three seconds, I thought I had seen Her Royal Highness. ”

looks and temperament, looks like the screen goddess Audrey Hepburn in the last century, which is already a great appreciation in itself.

The girl blushed instantly, smiled and bent her eyes, and replied:

"Thanks, my name is Lily Collins and I'm currently learning how to be an actor. This is my mother, Jill Taverman, who is the president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club, and you live in Beverly now, right, and occasionally I drop by and pass by your door. ”

His parents, who had rarely seen their son chatting with the girl in the past two years, turned around with a little curiosity and shook hands with Lily and her mother, respectively, and said hello.

Without his parents to speak, Suri knew that there might be trouble.

Recently, the second elder of his family has not persuaded him not to give up the idea of getting married, but he himself doesn't want to delay anyone anymore.

The famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who also suffered from ALS when he was young, has been paralyzed in a wheelchair for more than 40 years, and can no longer even speak.

In today's circumstances, it's really not appropriate to think about that.

So in the face of Lily's enthusiasm, Suri only replied lightly: "I haven't moved yet, I'm going to move recently, maybe you've seen the news from the Internet, and you're going to Hawaii to recuperate." ”

Spending $330 million to take 98% ownership of Lanai Island in one fell swoop, this was the most sensational news in the real estate circle last year, and not many people knew about it.

Lily Collins had obviously heard of it, and nodded:

"Yes, Hawaii is beautiful and I've always wanted to go on vacation. My best friend from childhood to adulthood is also your fan, and when the news of her birth was broken, she was sad for a long time, and I regret it too. ”

Suri didn't invite her, and she didn't want to be pitied by anyone.

In the previous two years, maybe meeting a beautiful girl like Lily Collins would have caused some idle thoughts to try to have a relationship, and then I heard the pastor speak, and only smiled and turned his head.

As with all church meetings, there is a long exposition of what the Bible says.

On the stage, the pastor earnestly introduced what he thought was a miracle, from Noah's Ark to the remarriage of a congregant and the harmony of the family.

Su Rui, who has always been in a lethargic state, thought at first that there was no such miracle in this world.

And yet in an instant.

He suddenly realized...... Isn't this special existence of oneself an inexplicable miracle?

I had never considered the cause of the accident before, but the more Su Rui thought about it at this moment, the more I wondered, thinking that it was just like myths and legends, that he missed the bowl of Meng Po soup when crossing the bridge?

But this still doesn't explain why I'm going back to this era that has passed.

Once a question arises, it lingers.

Think about it.

He felt the need to go back to where the whole thing started and go back to his old house before he moved and set out on his journey to Lanai.

When my mother was pregnant, she lived in the old house, and everything started there......