[When doing micro-business, Guan Yue Jingan installed this surveillance video. Her original intention was not to find out why her goods were stolen. She already knew that the thief was Yuko Moritani. ]
[She set up surveillance so that she could find the package stolen by her mother in time and replenish it in time.]
[The memory card of the camera clearly recorded the truth at that time, recording the scene in which Yuko Moritani waved a fruit knife in front of her daughter after failing to steal, forcing her daughter to hand over money. After her daughter knocked the fruit knife down, she picked it up again and pointed the blade at herself.]
[She attempted to threaten Guan Yuejing with her own life. As she wished, Guan Yuejing did not want to lose her and tried her best to stop her.]
[During the two tentative pulls, Yuko Moritani determined that Shizuka Kanzuki was still the daughter under her control, so she increased the force of the pull, acting like a person begging for death.]
[Unless you give her money, she will leave this world. ]
[She didn't expect that Guan Yuejing's hand hesitated at this moment, and the strength holding her palm was lost, the fruit knife pierced her heart, and blood dripped onto the ground.]
[This evidence suddenly turned the tide and the trial was suspended.]
[You heaved a sigh of relief and thanked Ichinose Shiori for her cooperation. You had a good idea, this would stimulate Kanzuki Shizuka.]
[After a period of confusion, a new court hearing dismissed Guan Yuejing's murder charge, but the remaining charges could not be erased.]
[Thanks to Ichinose Shiori's intervention, she didn't have to go to jail. ]
[On the day she was released, she stood in the bright sunshine. The sun was blinding, and the houses, roads, trees, everything seemed to melt away in the heat, forming a strange world.]
[The heat wave hit, the air was distorted, the strong light made her close her eyes, and when she opened them again, she noticed you at the edge of her vision.]
[She got into your car.]
[The air conditioner in the nanny car dispelled the heat, and the black glass windows blocked the scorching sun. The world that Guan Yuejing was familiar with, without distortion, returned.]
[She looks at you in front of her, but in her heart she is thinking of another you. ]
[She felt that it was a dream, a dream created by a dying woman who was unwilling to accept her sad fate, using the images of the people around her.]
[The last people she came into contact with and left a deep impression on were you and Ichinose Shiori, so in her dream, you became her father and Ichinose Shiori became her good friend.]
[She asks you why you help her.]
[You tell her that as soon as you saw her, you felt that she was your destined family member.]
[Your answer made Guan Yuejing miss you. In her dream, she asked you why you chose her, and you answered like this.]
[You look at her, and you also miss the girl who loved to lie on your chest. ]
[The confusion in her eyes makes you heartbroken, and you want to keep her by your side. ]
She rejected you.
[Stubbornness is her strength, but also the source of her pain. Now, this stubbornness has hindered her once again.]
[She looked into your deep eyes. Her memories, using those same eyes as a medium, drove her delusions to create a mysterious illusion. She seemed to have returned to her dream, as if she was sitting in front of her stepfather.]
[She wants to ask about your relationship with Ichinose Shiori, and wants to say that it’s not just Shiori now, she can also do it, and wants to hug your waist and push you down on the car seat. ]
[She can make such a move as long as she wants. She has a hunch that you will respond to her delusion.]
[She shook her head.]
[Her stubbornness made her refuse to change her mindset. She knew that the you in her dream was the you now, but she refused to admit that the you now was the you in her dream.]
[What she wants is the you in her dreams, the you who has been with her since childhood and has many happy memories with her. If you don’t have those memories, then you are not you. ]
[She feels that now is enough, the dream is clear enough, your image in the dream is clear enough, she just needs to find a quiet place, ruminate on the memories of this dream, and then she can use the surface of her thoughts to receive the light and shadow of the bright moon and comfort herself.]
[You quickly guessed what Guan Yuejing was thinking, but your bad taste prevented you from telling the truth right away.]
[You invited Guan Yuejing to have dinner with you, but she refused. You then invited Guan Yuejing to treat you to dinner, and she agreed.]
[You choose the dining location, an ordinary family restaurant.]
[That was the restaurant in your dream where you and Guan Yuejing first met and had dinner together.]
[Stepping into the restaurant, Guan Yuejing hadn't noticed anything unusual yet. She sat at the table, lost in her memories.]
[She finally came to her senses when the waiter brought the food. She was shocked when she looked at the food on the table.]
[These dishes are the ones she liked in her dream. ]
[Due to differences in experience, the dishes she likes in the dream are slightly different from those she likes now. Others cannot know her preferences in the dream.]
[You didn't explain and sent her to the hotel after dinner.]
[Guan Yuejing had quit her original job a long time ago. The house she rented turned into a haunted house, so the landlord took it back and made her pay a large sum of money. She refused to live in your house and could only live in a hotel first.]
[Lying on the soft bed in the hotel, her mind was full of your image. She defined what happened in the restaurant as a coincidence, but this coincidence refused to obey this definition and kept making trouble in her heart.]
[The next day, you asked her out for shopping, and she agreed.]
[You kidnapped her to an ACGN exhibition. In the dream, she was somewhat interested in it under your influence, but at this moment, she was a little confused and had no intention of watching it.]
[You pointed out the three characters in the exhibition and said they were good, which made her even more confused.]
[The three roles you are referring to are exactly the three roles she often played in her dreams when she was a child.]
[Before this, she didn't know you liked these three characters. If the dream was really just her fantasy, she couldn't have accurately fabricated your preferences.]
[On the third day, you didn’t take the initiative to ask her out, but she took the initiative to ask you out. She didn’t gain anything today.]
[On the fourth day, Guan Yuejing took a different approach and found Ichinose Shiori. ]
[She asked for a photo of Shiori Ichinose's late mother. In the photo, Mrs. Ichinose looked exactly like the one in her dream.]
[Her abnormality aroused the interest of Shiori Ichinose. The girl thought of your abnormal attention to her and made some guesses.]
[Guan Yuejing did not hide anything. She was in urgent need of verifying her dream. She told everything to Ichinose Shiori, hiding only a little bit and tampering with it a little bit.]
Memory scenes emerge.
The air conditioner was blowing slowly, and the study was silent. Shiori Ichinose buried her body in the leather sofa, her legs crossed and her head lowered, processing the information that Shizuku Kanzuki said.
After a long time, she raised her head and looked at the woman in front of her who was clenching her fists in anxiety.
She said: "All the information I can verify is correct. There is no doubt that your memories are from the future."
Guan Yuejing had guessed the answer from Ichinose Shiori's silence. She was not surprised, but puzzled: "But my experience since I was in grade six is different."
"That could be a difference in world lines. You should have heard of the parallel world hypothesis."
"Dad... Yuuki's age doesn't match, but everything else does."
"Oh? How old was he then?"
Ichinose Shiori became interested. They had just talked about information about the world and didn't talk about specific people.
"I don't know, he has always kept it a secret." Guan Yuejing shook her head, "But when I met him in sixth grade, he looked more mature than he does now."
"It's impossible to keep his age secret. What about his parents? How old are they?" Shiori Ichinose asked.
"No, nothing. He just has some connection with your family."
Ichinose Shiori wrote down this information. She recalled the science fiction movies she had watched and hesitantly offered an explanation: "Time traveler?"
Guan Yuejing opened her mouth to ask, but closed it again. She already knew the truth. Nan Youxi must have the memory of that world line, and the boy was the father in her dreams that she missed.
However, this father is younger than his daughter...
Her face became hot, and she quickly lowered her head so that Shiori Ichinose would not notice the blush on her face.
"In your world line, what kind of future will there be for me, Yuki, and you?" asked Shiori Ichinose curiously.
She learned from Minami Yuuki about her future as Prime Minister, and wondered if it was the same in Guan Yuejing's timeline.
She looked at Yuejing expectantly with a smile on her face.
There was something wrong with Guan Yuejing's understanding. Ichinose Shiori wanted to ask about career, but Guan Yuejing thought she wanted to ask about love.
Guan Yuejing was silent for a moment, and then said, "Yuuki married Mrs. Ichinose first, and after Mrs. Ichinose passed away, he married me. You and I were originally best friends, and later our relationship... was a little complicated, but it was still good."
"…?"
The smile on Ichinose Shiori's face froze.
I'm just asking about the future, why would there be an extra pair of stepparents
(End of this chapter)