A day in August.
Hai Ri took the coffee from the waiter, sat down at the booth, put on the earphones and listened to music, then turned on the computer and started working.
With a sound of "Dingling—", the wind chime hanging on the door rang, and a tall boy with an inch cut came in. The boy was wearing a gray T-shirt, with a clean and handsome demeanor, ordered a latte, and took a cup of fruit from the free fruit candy basket two candies. Looking around, he sat in the booth opposite Hai Ri.
There were not many people in the coffee shop today, and it was relatively quiet. Sheng Canyang picked up his mobile phone and checked the time. It was three o'clock in the afternoon.
Sheng Canyang took a deep breath, and then worked up his courage. As soon as he stood up, he heard the waiter ask, "The latte is ready, size 38."
Hai Ri glanced this way, and with just this glance, Sheng Canyang gave up again, went to get a latte, and sat back down again.
Sheng Canyang fidgeted for a while, but finally sat up, walked to Hai Ri's table, and knocked on the table.
Hae-il raised his head, squinted his eyes slightly to look at him, and took off his earphones.
Sheng Canyang heard his own heartbeat, swallowed, and said, "Hello."
Hai Ri: "?"
"Hello?" Hai Ri said blankly.
Sheng Canyang began to scold himself.
Hai Ri glanced at him, turned off his computer, and said, "Is there something wrong?"
"I..." Sheng Canyang hesitated for a moment, then sat across from him, put his hands on the table, and finally said, "My name is Sheng Canyang. I'm twenty-two years old and I just came to this world not long ago."
Hai Ri laughed and said, "Really?"
Hai Ri's face shone with a young and soft light. At this time, he has not been mentally damaged by the tasks of the second world, and he is still like a noble son who is happy with the situation.
"I've met you many times," Sheng Canyang pointed to the coffee shop, "Do you love coming here?"
Hai Ri probably understood what he was going to do, and said with a smile, "Yes."
"This is close to where I live," Hai Ri asked subconsciously, "Are you from this district? Where do you live?"
Sheng Canyang: "I live in the dormitory, on the fourth floor."
Hai Ri slightly showed a knowing expression, but didn't say anything.
Sheng Canyang said, "Are you working?"
"Ah," Hai Ri glanced at the computer, "Some reports are always in the wrong format."
Hai Ri looked at him inquisitively, and when he spoke, Sheng Canyang took a deep breath and said, "Can you add a WeChat message?"
Hai Ri: "..."
"No problem." Hai Ri just hesitated a little, then immediately picked up the phone and flashed the code to him.
Sheng Canyang took out his mobile phone in a panic, and searched for a while, but couldn't find where to add friends, Hai Riwei came over and helped him find it, Sheng Canyang: "..."
Sheng Canyang felt that he was going crazy, so he quickly added it, and Hai Ri said, "It's fine."
"That..." Sheng Canyang scratched his hair, and then said, "I'm leaving first."
"Oh." Hai Ri watched him run away, and then said, "Coffee!"
Sheng Canyang ran back again, took coffee, nodded at him, and ran away again.
As soon as he ran out and saw Ivan, Sheng Canyang: "..."
Evie: "Do you want me to pretend I didn't see it?"
Sheng Canyang took out Alipay with a blank face, and Ivan showed the payment|payment code with ease, and said, "I promise I will never forget the four-digit number."
Sheng Canyang scanned the QR code and paid 1,000 yuan, and Ivan made a gesture of pulling the zipper and said, "I forgot."
Sheng Canyang rubbed his short hair, a little annoyed, the two walked back side by side, and Ivan said, "Look, doesn't adding WeChat mean it's interesting?"
Sheng Canyang: "Really?"
"What bad idea did you come up with?" Sheng Canyang felt something was wrong again, "I have such a face, if I ask anyone who wants WeChat, will I give it?"
Evie: "..."
"If someone else said that, I would definitely say put away your big face," Ivan said, "but what you said does make sense."
"I know him," Ivan said, "he must have a crush on you too. Men are gay, don't worry, he's interesting to you."
Sheng Canyang: "Really?"
"Um," Evie said uncertainly, "about the same?"
Sheng Canyang: "..."
Ivy: "You have to have confidence in yourself. Who wouldn't like your face?"
Sheng Canyang: "..."
He seriously took this as his last card, and then said: "Isn't it good to shave this head?"
Evie: "It's pretty good, don't think too much, just take your time."
The two walked to a corner, and then naturally disappeared from the world while walking.
Sheng Canyang said, "Should I send him a message?"
"Send it," Ivan said, "otherwise you add friends to peek at Moments."
Sheng Canyang: "When and what?"
Evie: "Let the brothers have a meeting to discuss and discuss."
"No one is here," Sheng Canyang said, "Several dispatches have been sent out, and Bai Kai is finishing the final mission."
Evie: "When are you going to let me out?"
"Wait for a while." Sheng Canyang said.
Evie: "You keep me just to chase Hairi, right?"
Sheng Canyang gave him an expression that you know is good, and Ivan went back to the central tower with him, entered the elevator, and chased him to scold him for being shameless.
Same central tower, different timelines.
In the Central Tower seven years ago, Hai Ri added an inexplicable boy, pressed the elevator, and happened to meet Ivie who had just come out.
"The director is looking for you." Ivan said, "You are here to work."
Hai Ri said, "Where are you going?"
"A date." Evie.
Hai Ri: "?"
Ivy said with a straight face, "Mission, what else can I do?"
Hai Ri said goodbye to him, passed by, and got into the elevator.
Seven years later, the elevator turned on, and Sheng Canyang and Evie walked out.
Ivan said behind him: "So what do you want to do? Bring him back directly?"
"It can't be done," Sheng Canyang said flatly, "He only exists in the timeline of his own existence."
Ivan didn't leave, and stood there watching him.
Sheng Canyang had no choice but to stop, looked back at him, and said, "But his reflection is still alive."
"I don't understand," Evie said, "please explain clearly."
Sheng Canyang stretched out his hand and said, "Reflection and him are actually two parts of one person. Ansel is the shadow of Hai Ri. If there is no Hai Ri in the real world, Ansel will be kept as compensation. But what if Ansel disappears in reality?"
Evie: "...you mean, Hai Ri will appear?"
Sheng Canyang said: "I have investigated your reflections, and they didn't exist before. They only appeared after the millennium. Their lifespan is not less than that of normal human beings, and there is no phenomenon of disappearing midway."
"I don't think the will of the earth arranged the wrong reflection work," Sheng Canyang said, "I don't think she just randomly placed the reflections on the chessboard like chess pieces. She just has a new arrangement. She thinks your position Put it upside down."
"Let the reflection stay in the second world, so that the dead will live and die, but in the second world, the will to die is a business," Ivan said, "We are in the real world, let the living have the will to live, is that so?"
Sheng Canyang sat on the desk on the tenth floor, the empty voice echoed in the room, and Hai Ri's smiling face was displayed on the huge screen.
Sheng Canyang said casually: "That's what it means."
"At the end of the year, I will let you all return to the real world," Sheng Canyang said, "Go back to serve your wife and children, and let Huiying come to the second world for garbage recycling and reuse, and start a new life."
Evie said: "..."
Ivan said that it was impossible not to be excited, but his first reaction was still impossible after the great joy fell. He calmed down and said, "Why didn't you tell everyone about this?"
Sheng Canyang said, "Haven't I said it yet?"
"Then go ahead and talk about it," Sheng Canyang said, "I've been a little busy recently."
Ivan couldn't bear it anymore: "Do you want to show your face?"
Sheng Canyang: "?"
"Is there a problem?" Sheng Canyang asked, "Pay attention to your tone, and you will be deducted 0.2 performance this month."
Evie: "..."
Sheng Canyang chased away the guests and said, "You can go out now."
The first rank of the official crushed the man to death, and Ivan suppressed his anger several times, waved at him calmly, and said, "Let's go."
The room became quiet again, Sheng Canyang turned back to the swivel chair, faced the huge screen, and typed on the keyboard, the video of Hai Ri's farewell by the sea was played again.
Sheng Canyang was already able to memorize those lines backwards, and then paused and played it again before Hai Ri was about to disappear.
Ivey said that Hai Ri once worried that Sheng Canyang didn't really like him, but was just attracted by his status as a defender.
Sheng Canyang thought for a while, turned the swivel chair, made a circle, and flicked his wrist casually, time and space changed, and the surrounding aura changed instantly. The timeline has changed.
Hai Ri came down from the director's office on the ninth floor, returned to the dormitory, and put a few photos in his hand on the table. On it was an ordinary girl.
Hai Ri pulled out the chair and sat down, taking a closer look at the photo. Before each mission, he had to get acquainted with this person's photo for two days, so as to eliminate the slight sense of hostility towards strangers and cultivate his own sense of intimacy with a person. The task does not require you to be a couple, you just need to stay around the task object, and the effect will gradually appear, but if the task object is a girl, you will often develop in the direction of a couple in the end, because there is no way to make the task object sad , when the other party has this intention, Hai Ri usually can't refuse, but this time it's a girl again, Hai Ri is a little worried.
"Ah," Hai Ri sighed, and lay down on the table, "The last one just ended."
It’s a very tiring thing to fall in love with someone you don’t like. You have to go out to eat and watch movies intimately, even if you don’t feel like it, and you’re afraid that the other person will find out that you’re absent-minded. Hai Ri has always found this kind of thing difficult. Bear.
But other people have also said that the worse thing than meeting a task target that you don't like is that you really like the task target.
If you really like it, it is really a dead end. They will leave sooner or later, only you will stay, the other party will completely forget about yourself, only you will remember, and the other party will not know until the day you die.
Evie once said: "It's best not to like it, but bad luck if you like it."
Hai Ri has no sense of crisis, he has never been attracted to anyone in particular, anyone can make friends, but if he is a lover, Hai Ri feels that this is a problem and that is not good, everyone has more or less. There's something about it that he doesn't like. He observed the couples around him, and felt that these people were too picky, and it was a bit hasty to find someone who wanted to be with him for a lifetime.
Hai Ri suddenly remembered the boy who just asked for WeChat. He took out his phone and looked at it. The profile picture was a photo taken by the sea. He clicked on Moments and looked. .
Just as Hai Ri left, the phone vibrated, and a message from Sheng Canyang arrived.
"busy?"
Hai Ri thought for a while and said, "It's okay."
Sheng Canyang was sitting on the swivel chair on the tenth floor at this time, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I wrote a song, which is very similar to you, and I want to share it with you, is that okay?"
Hae Il asked, "Are you a singer?"
Hai Ri: "Okay."
Sheng Canyang sent him the file and said, "I can't find it on the platform yet, and it will be released later. Can you give me some advice?"
Hai Ri received a file in MP3 format called "Hai Hai". He pressed the play button without earphones, and Sheng Canyang also clicked on it at the same time, and the prelude sounded in the room of the two of them at the same time.
Although Hai Ri is a layman, he was still a little surprised. When the prelude of this song sounded, he felt that Sheng Canyang was very professional, and then he heard the first sentence: "Why don't I trade my life for the most ordinary day by your side—"
Hai Ri: "..."
Hairi's goosebumps suddenly popped up, and then he heard: "Why don't you let me exchange my life, the most ordinary day by your side / I asked you a question, but you never answered / Can you exchange a tooth for a tooth on your body?" Button/Blood, in exchange for a drop of tears of joy/It is better to let me spend my whole life, in exchange for you to look at me/I will take it as you have answered."
"I shouldn't have lived to be twenty years old to know that I have faith / I shouldn't know who to be superstitious, so I followed you / asked you questions, and you never answered."
"The honor of this life is to come back to you / to be a drop of water, pouring into your ocean / the sea of life, mountains and rivers."
Hai Ri withdrew and typed: "That's amazing."
Sheng Canyang finally waited for a reply, and felt that his reaction seemed a little perfunctory, and he was a little frustrated, when he received a message from Hairi: "Are you a singer?"
Hai Ri: "Where can I hear your songs? Do you have a stage name?"
Sheng Canyang: "..."
"I haven't made my debut yet," Sheng Canyang said, "My dream is to be a singer."
Hai Ri: "You are really talented."
Sheng Canyang laughed, sent an expression, and then turned his wrist, time and space turned, and he returned to the future. When he turned his chair, he saw the director standing in the office with a blank expression on his face, waiting for him.
Sheng Canyang was taken aback, and then said, "What are you doing?"
The director said, "You asked me to come at three o'clock."
"Oh yes," Sheng Canyang said, "How about what I asked you to do?"
Director: "Excuse me, I have twenty jobs a week, which one do you ask?"
Sheng Canyang: "Reflection."
"I didn't go, I couldn't find anyone," said the director, "You can only go by yourself. We and the reflection are mutually exclusive. If I approach them, they will avoid me. You can only come. Just imagine Can you imagine how the two of us who are exactly the same are sitting and chatting together?"
Sheng Canyang said: "In this timeline, I'm still lying in the hospital."
"Let me wake you up in the hospital," said the director, "Isn't your old man omnipotent now?"
Sheng Canyang frowned and said, "Don't be weird."
The director said angrily, "I don't dare to work in a lowly position."
Sheng Canyang: "..."
Sheng Canyang said with a headache: "I have no plan to go back and change the past, why are you all dissatisfied?"
The director said: "If you keep meddling in the past, eventually, sooner or later, you will not be able to resist changing what has happened."
"It's impossible," Sheng Canyang said decisively, "This is an agreement between me and the will of the earth, and I will not use time to change the past."
"I want Hai Ri to come back," Sheng Canyang said, "I don't need to take advantage of this, I have already figured out a way, as long as you can get in touch with the reflection, I will succeed soon."
Director: "I can't do it!"
Sheng Canyang: "Work hard, you are not working for me, you are working for the world!"
"Don't draw cakes for me," the director said immediately, "I'm already thirty-seven years old, Sheng Canyang, I don't eat this, I work fourteen hours a day now, you are exploiting me. Are you going to stop in a few days? Want us to clock in to work, 996 every week?"
Sheng Canyang: "..."
Sheng Canyang was almost laughed at by him, he rolled up a piece of paper and threw it over, saying, "Hurry up and get out."
The director said: "It's fine for me to leave, don't deduct my performance."
Sheng Canyang: "Your salary is gone this month, and if you say more, it will be gone in the second half of the year. Try it."
director:"… "
The director gave him a middle finger, then slammed the door and left.
Sheng Canyang couldn't help it, but he was in a good mood and hummed the tune of the song he wrote.
Three months ago, the fourth month when Sheng Canyang took over the job, Sheng Canyang got in touch with his "mother", maybe it wasn't "mother", but just a kind of spokesperson, just like the fake Lingsheng that he met in the afterlife world Similarly, he represents part of the will of the "mother". Sheng Canyang needs to send all the defenders back to the real world, bring the reflection back to the second world, let the reflection play a real role, send the dead back to reality, and put the two worlds back together. After bringing this up, he said, "Need a little pay."
Sheng Canyang made a promise that he would never affect what happened in the past, and then gained the ability to go back in time in the second world.
He can only observe, not change.
Just like he can go to the coffee shop that Hai Ri goes to every day to drink coffee together, but he can't suggest to Hai Ri: "Let's have a latte today." Change what Hai Ri used to be on this day. He can't change the course that Hairi should have in the past, and affect his next actions.
Sheng Canyang stayed by Hai Ri's side for three months, sometimes in a coffee shop, sometimes outside his room door, sometimes just casually passing him by, Sheng Canyang didn't stay in the past all the time, most of the The time is at night, after finishing a lot of chores, go to Hai Ri and rest by his side for a while.