Chapter 69: The Fallacy of Jumping the River
I really didn't expect that in Noah's Cafe, Ning Qiang and I would turn our rivalry into friendship?
What I didn't expect was that I actually lied to Ning Qiang.
I lied to him and said, "The watch is my family heirloom." I don't know how I came up with this clumsy statement, but I said it anyway. Unexpectedly, he actually believed it?
But so what? He still wouldn't give me back the watch, not even a chance to let me touch it.
But, at least one thing, I convinced him that both me and he were people who had crossed into this world from another parallel dimension, so only I knew his story. Of course I know his past, because I was him. I'll never tell him, though.
He also asked for my name, and I could only tell him the name of "Yu Manli" on the fake ID. However, he asked for my mobile phone number again? What are you trying to do? Is it just to give me back the watch in the future, or is it something else?
Now, I'm a woman, and I can't just give my phone number to a man, even if that man was my old self. So, I made up a fake phone number.
However, Ning Qiang called this number on the spot, and I was almost so scared that my heart was about to jump out.
Luckily, the number he dialed didn't connect, so I had an idea, pretended I had received the call, and lied to him that my phone was vibrating. He didn't even fight any more, and if he found out that the phone number I gave me was fake, I would be dead!
However, this further proves that Ning Qiang, in the past, was really an honest person who trusted others too easily. He believed in Yuting and Wenting. He almost never doubted women. Hey, the sentence that the hero is sad about the beauty is really true.
I don't know exactly how I finished this conversation, but I finally gained Ning Qiang's trust.
The two of us separated, but the moment I walked out of the café, I still had a vague sense of loss.
Why am I still lost? Is it just because I can't get the watch back?
In the days that followed, I still lived a lonely life, please forgive me for using the word "lonely" to describe myself, but I was really lonely.
At the same time, I was a little scared.
I made up a fake mobile phone number, and Ning Qiang also wrote it down. Will he call me again in the next few days?
No, it won't. He must have been in Gentle Township now, with Yuting with him, why did he call me?
But, for some reason, I hope he will find me one day.
It's a very, very strange mentality, but I do feel like I'm living now, wishing it was all over sooner.
Let me go back to 2037, even if I find a random man to marry, it will be much better than continuing to suffer this kind of torment here!
However, the ordeal continues.
For several nights, I actually dreamed of Ning Qiang again, dreaming that he was pressing on my body.
In our dreams, we do things that are hard to talk about. But the strange thing is that the more I dream about it, the more I want to dream again.
Could it be that psychologically, I have completely become a woman? And, I still fall in love with this self? Oh my God, it's okay if it's bent, anyway, I'm resigned to my fate, and it's good to be a woman. But to fall in love with yourself? What the hell is this? Could it be that I really plan to marry another self and be his wife?
I resisted as hard as I could, but the more I did, the more I dreamed about it, the more often I dreamed it.
Every night, I wake up from a dream. I couldn't sleep, so I had to get up and stand by the window and look at the other side. And on the other side, it is precisely Ning Qiang's home.
Ning Qiang will soon catch up with Yuting, and they will definitely love men and women in this house. But that hurts me!
I hate this feeling, but there is nothing I can do but continue to endure it here!
Something unexpected happened to me, this time, Ning Qiang didn't go to Shiwen?
Why didn't he go to Shiwen, why didn't he threaten him to break up with Yuting? Could it be, this time, is he really going to give up?
Ning Qiang's abandonment doesn't seem to be a bad thing to me. At least, I don't have to watch him and Yuting together. Perhaps, it's a good idea to just wait, just wait for the day of August 24th.
According to the past version, if Ning Qiang didn't take the initiative to break up Shi Wen and Yu Ting, then in the end, Shi Wen could only marry Yu Ting, right? In that case, I'll wait and see how it gets better. Anyway, the final result is the same, why don't you do it again?
One day, however, I changed my strategy.
On this day, I saw Ning Qiang, to be exact, I spied on him.
He's in the room opposite. He has been staying at home all day lately, doing nothing but being in a daze.
I really felt a little sorry for him, especially that night, when I saw him holding a mirror and touching the beard that had not been taken care of, getting thicker and thicker, like a mess of grass, I couldn't help it anymore.
Ning Qiang has changed, he has become so decadent? Perhaps, his heart is also dead, right?
I vaguely remember my old self, and although some of my memories have become blurry, I can still feel the feeling of despair at the beginning. The current Ning Qiang, just like me in the past, his heart is dead, he is just silently waiting for that day to come, just like me.
If a person's heart is dead, will he still care about his body?
I'm really worried, I'm worried that Ning Qiang will be like Yuting, and suddenly have the idea of committing suicide?
It's possible, if he can't save Yuting all the time, but he has to go back to the past again and again, making futile efforts, and if he changes anyone, he will have a nervous breakdown.
Now I am no longer Ning Qiang. I can't stop Ning Qiang in this world from committing suicide, but if he commits suicide, what about me? Will I still exist in this world?
The thought of this made me panic. Although I repeatedly told myself: Ning Qiang will not be so stupid, he will not do that kind of thing, but I am still worried. This worry is even greater than the fear that I will not be able to return to 2037.
No, I have to do something! I can't be like an audience and watch Ning Qiang decadent like this!
Even if I can't change the ending, at least, I can make his next days a little better, right?
That's right, I have to let Ning Qiang rekindle hope in life! But what can I do?
By the way, I can only rekindle his passion if I let Ning Qiang catch up with Yuting again! That's right, I had to get him to change his mind, and that was the idea that fate was predestined! Hey, the fatalism I told him before didn't seem to help him, but hurt him!
However, how to get him and Yuting back together?
According to the previous version, if Ning Qiang didn't take the initiative to break up Yuting and Shiwen, he would only have to wait until the day they got married. However, if I can let Yuting take the initiative to break up with Shiwen this time, Ning Qiang will think that the script has completely changed this time, and he will regain his confidence.
However, with Yuting's personality and the fact that she is still pregnant with Shiwen's child, how could Yuting take the initiative to break up with Shiwen?
By the way, Ning Qiang didn't make a move, so why couldn't I make a move?
This time, let me be a villain, let me break up Yuting and Shiwen!
I just did it, and although I felt a bit mean, I decided to implement my plan B.
This time, I didn't look for Shiwen again, I really couldn't bear to torture this poor guy anymore. I sent an email to Yuting, of course, in an anonymous mailbox. However, when she saw the photo of her boyfriend Shi Wen hooking up with another woman, Yuting didn't even wonder where the email came from.
Sure enough, my plot succeeded. Yuting was so angry that she ran to the school and had a big fight with Shi Wenda. Yuting proposed to break up, and although Shiwen begged the other party to forgive him, it was still useless.
On that day, I followed Yuting to Shiwen's school, and I stood in the distance, holding my glasses, and coldly observed all this. However, I didn't feel any joy, but a little fear.
Although I wanted to save Ning Qiang, I also forced Yuting to the edge of the cliff. Although my thoughts about this woman have changed now, and I am even more jealous than pity, but am I doing the right thing, is it moral? In my subconscious, did I do this to get revenge on her?
There is another question, if Yuting can't think about it and commits suicide again, this time, will Ning Qiang still appear by her side?
However, I am at least very confident in one thing, that is: even if Yuting commits suicide, Ning Qiang will definitely use the watch to save her again!
In the previous versions, there seems to be no case of Yuting succeeding in suicide. If she really succeeded in committing suicide, wouldn't it prove in turn that Yuting must have died of her fate on August 24, 2019, wouldn't it be self-defeating?
I don't know why I have this thought, if I want to save this woman, the only way is to let her die early in this parallel space? Once the fate is broken, in the next parallel space, Ning Qiang can break this curse?
However, I still didn't dare to do this terrible experiment.
But I can't turn back, because I've already lit the fire!
On the day when Yuting jumped into the river last time, I came to the Wangjiang River.
I need to test the facts: will history repeat itself?
I didn't inform Ning Qiang, and if Ning Qiang didn't come over today, I would have watched Yuting jump into the river and die, and the spell on August 24 would seem to be completely broken.
However, if Ning Qiang would come to save her without receiving any notice, it would mean that it was destined that Yuting would not die before August 24, 2019! Well, this endless cycle of death will only last forever!
Inside, I'm very entangled.
But I had no choice.
Ning Qiang, please, don't come! No, Ning Qiang, you better hurry up and save her! Two voices, tangled in my heart.
Even, I was afraid: If Ning Qiang really doesn't come today, then I'm afraid I'll have to go into the water to save Yuting. Anyway, Yuting is the goddess I once loved deeply, and even, she is still my "ex-wife"? Even if a stranger falls into the water, it is impossible for me to die without help?
However, if I save Yuting, how should I face her? She didn't know me now, and there was nothing in touch between us.
Thinking of this, I stood on the shore with my head bowed and walked around anxiously.
Should I call Ning Qiang and ask him to come over immediately? What's the use of me waiting? The probability that he wouldn't run here for no reason is too low.
At this moment, I suddenly saw a man running from a distance, a man.
As soon as I saw this man, I was stunned.
Miracles, it really happened!
Ning Qiang, he is Ning Qiang! He actually came······