That night, Zhang Jingchan dreamed of her again. All night, they were together.

She clutched her flat stomach and said unashamedly: This is your child. He calmly asked: How many months?

She lifted him up, and she actually lifted him, spun around several times, and laughed silly and brightly.

In the dim room, he said, didn't you say, you dare to lift me, I want to return it? Don't you like to lift high?

Zhang Jingchan laughed out loud in her dream.

Then came the hardest days, when he passed out in the hospital, and some people said he was about to become a vegetative state. He couldn't see anything, he couldn't move, but he heard her voice, day by day, month after month, year after year, in his ear. asked him to wake up early, asked him to keep his male morality, and asked him to be good to her and not change his mind; She also said that she was troubled in her studies and troubles in work; She really wants him to wake up soon, wants to know him, wants to fall in love with him, and wants to have a real boyfriend.

Zhang Jingchan seemed to be stunned, desperately trying to open his eyes, but couldn't; Desperately trying to see her clearly, but unable to do anything.

In a trance, there was a soft hand, holding his arm, she lowered her head, the ends of her hair rubbed his skin, and she said: Give you a stamp. Write it once a day to hypnotize you, me and him.

So he lowered his head too, trying to see what she had written on his arm.

What...... All.

He saw a word and immediately understood that it was her name.

What are the first two words?

His eyes widened in the dream, and he was about to burst into tears, but her head kept blocking his view, and he grabbed her arm and shouted, "Weiyi, let me see ......"

Like a hammer, it smashed his chest in half.

Zhang Jingchan, 48, suddenly opened her eyes in the dark night.

He finally remembered her name.

Li Weiyi.

——

Zhang Jingchan's subordinates' efficiency in finding people can be called superb. On the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Jingchan stood in the general manager's office of a subsidiary of Huicui, and through the glass, he had already seen Li Weiyi 21 years later.

He has also found out her experience over the years.

In January 2022, Li Weiyi was laid off by Muchen Group; In September of the same year, she interviewed for another company as a treasurer. Since then, he has jumped to two companies, and has been promoted steadily because of his excellent business ability.

Eight years ago, she joined one of the subsidiaries of Huicui and has been the financial director ever since.

She's always been right under his nose, maybe he's even seen her name on the roster of good employees, or maybe maybe the two of them have passed each other in the elevator at the headquarters, and he doesn't know it.

Three years after Li Weiyi and Xie Zhilu broke up, they accepted the pursuit of a colleague, and the two got married and had a daughter. Five years later, because of her incompatible personality, her daughter followed Li Weiyi. Since then, she has been single ever since.

Zhang Jingchan sat behind the boss's desk and watched her walk in step by step. The assistant next to him, as well as the general manager of the subsidiary, were all confused in their hearts.

Until she looked up and looked at him, the eyes of the two were like glue, neither of them avoided it, and neither of them spoke.

Zhang Jingchan's voice was hoarse, and he said to the others: "You go out first and close the door." ”

After all, the two of them were the only ones left in the room.

Zhang Jingchan said, "Come here." ”

Li Weiyi slowly walked up to him, and when he raised his head again, there were tears in his eyes, obviously no longer young, but still beautiful and fair, just like the girl back then.

"Is that you?" He asked.

She nodded, "It's me." ”

"You only remembered it recently?"

She was silent for a moment and replied, "Do you remember, we met once, on January 13, 2022. You helped me and sent me home. Actually, since then, I've had the feeling that something is wrong. I always feel ...... Life shouldn't be like this, I always feel like I'm waiting for something, but I can't wait. ”

Zhang Jingchan listened in a trance, distant and vague memories hit his heart, the girl crying in the heavy rain, a black umbrella covering the two people, and the back of the strange girl who finally sat in the car, looking at the strange girl going upstairs with her head down.

"Why didn't it happen?" Zhang Jingchan looked up at her, tears staining her black eyes, "Why did the cycle not happen?" ”

"It shouldn't have happened in the first place." Li Weiyi smiled bitterly and said, "Or, it didn't happen in our time and space. ”

"Then you ...... now" Zhang Jingchan wanted to speak and stopped, but he had already held her hand, as if he had shaken it a thousand times.

But she slowly withdrew her hand and said, "We are not young people anymore, and those things did not really happen to you and me. We all think about it, think it through, and then make a decision. ”

Zhang Jingchan knew she was right. What is the point of chasing a memory of nothingness? They are also no longer young, no longer the age of impulsiveness for love.

But on January 12, the night she met Li Weiyi, Zhang Jingchan dreamed more and more. The dimly lit river crossing tunnel, the drizzle falling outside the window, the crowd of people out of the subway in the dark, and the dazzling white light.

And, again and again, slammed into each other.

He fell into a coma again and again in his dreams, woke up again and again, and when he opened his eyes, he returned to the car again, with Li Weiyi sitting next to him.

The next morning, January 13th.

Zhang Jingchan's eyes were sunken, but his eyes woke up extremely calm and quiet, and called his subordinates: "Check someone for me immediately." ”

In the evening, the subordinates brought the most complete, up-to-date and secret news.

Cheng Chuan, who was just released from prison in 2022, was imprisoned again for manslaughter due to a dispute with another cellmate who was released from prison. Three days ago, the already elderly Cheng Chuan had just been released from prison.

He managed to get his hands on an old black SUV.

In the past two days, he has appeared near Xu Yi's house and the company.

Zhang Jingchan stood in front of the twilight window for a long time, and finally smiled. For him, there is no other expectation for such a life. There is nothing that can make him happy or sad. But he had kissed her so madly in his dreams, he had seen his white-haired and healthy and happy parents in his dreams, and he had never regretted this life with his old children in his dreams.

So why not take a gamble?

When he sat in the car alone, Zhang Jingchan picked up his mobile phone, which had just saved Li Weiyi's number yesterday. But after a while, it was put down again.

On the other side of this journey, there may be another time and space.

Perhaps, death.

Zhang Jingchan drove alone to the river tunnel.

——

Zhang Jingchan from 2043 has been cycled three times.

For the first time, when he opened his eyes in a white light, he found himself standing on a bridge, a car, passing through his body.

Then the second, the third.

He lowered his head and looked at his transparent arms and body, but he didn't feel sad, at that time he thought that he had been killed in 2043, and his soul was just floating in the world.

He walked slowly forward alone, in the midst of the traffic, and countless lights and shadows passed by him.

Then Zhang Jingchan saw Cheng Chuan.

To be precise, it is the middle-aged Cheng Chuan, who is neither in his prime in 2014 nor in his old age in 2043. Cheng Chuan looks much thinner than when he was young, and he looks like he is in his forties.

Zhang Jingchan suddenly understood.

It's not 2043 here, and it's not 2014.

Here, for the first time in 2022, their cycle should have happened.

(End of chapter)