Now let me tell you a story about another woman.
This woman is also called Liudao Lingxia. She also had a happy family and lived a very happy life. The difference is that this one never fell into poverty and has continued her past to the present.
She has always been well protected by her parents and has been living the life of a young lady.
A good primary school, a good middle school, a good university, a good job... It was a smooth and carefree journey. I never worried about life, and never made my family worry.
For most ordinary people, this is probably the most dreamed of day.
Her life was set. After finishing her studies, she would work and gain social experience while waiting for the right person to come along. She would build a happy family like the one she grew up in, give birth to a child as lovely as she was when she was a child, and then slowly raise the child, repeating this happy process - if that incident had not happened.
It was a day after the arrival of the new century. She had just celebrated her 25th birthday and was at the end of her youth that was about to disappear.
The slightly old-fashioned father and the gentle mother first sent their birthday wishes, and then told their daughter in a biased tone that they had met a few young people who were good and they might as well try to date them.
She did not refuse. She had always been a good child in her parents' eyes, and she also thought it was about time to get married.
In Japan, the minimum marriage age for women is sixteen (with the consent of their guardian). Although 25 is not too old, it is not young in traditional Japanese families.
What would her future husband look like? With such a vision in mind, she closed her eyes.
Then she began to dream.
In her dream, she saw a person who was exactly like her, but with very different experiences.
Although it was blurry and unclear, she knew that the other her was living a hard life, a suffering that she, who had been enjoying a happy life, could not understand.
When I woke up, my pillow was wet from the tears I had shed without realizing it.
Reality is the opposite of dreams, it is unreal and will soon be forgotten, she told herself.
In the following days, she no longer dreamed of her miserable and suffering self.
However, just one week later, when she was about to forget the dream, she entered the dream again, continuing from the end of the dream on her birthday night.
Dream - can it continue? It's just a coincidence, she told herself.
The next few days were peaceful again, until the second week passed - the dream came again.
Then the third week, the fourth week, the fifth week, the sixth week...
Starting from the night of her 25th birthday, at the end of every week and the beginning of a new week, she would see another self, having different, continuous dreams.
She had consulted a psychologist, but the doctor was unable to give her a good solution. After making sure that it had no impact on her life and spirit, the doctor advised her to relax and just treat it as watching a weekly midnight TV series, except that she was the lead actress.
She accepted it, and returned to her normal life with peace of mind, waiting for the weekly updates.
Gradually, she began to like this feeling.
Another self, a brand new life.
Despite the suffering and all kinds of unreasonable and unreal scenes, life is indeed getting better little by little - especially after the other two protagonists appear.
A dark and handsome man and an innocent and cute little girl.
Three people who had nothing to do with each other suddenly became father, mother and daughter.
If it were put into reality or on screen, it might be criticized as illogical or a bad movie, but she surprisingly felt it was pretty good.
It's just a dream after all.
Moreover, the father is handsome, the mother is beautiful, and the daughter is cute - what a perfect family, just like what I had always dreamed of.
In comparison, the Holy Grail War, the Hero Wars, the Magic, the Red and Black parties, are not important. They are all incomprehensible things. How can a mother take care of her daughter every day, live a leisurely life, and wait for her father to come home
On days when there are no "updates", she even complains:
Why put so many irrelevant things
I want to see a family of 3 trip through Romania!
I want to see the development of the relationship between the male and female protagonists!
I want to see the heroine and several other beautiful supporting actresses compete for the hero, and finally break through the siege and win!
Isn't this the classic routine of soap operas
Unfortunately, although it was her own dream, it was not affected by her will and continued to update step by step.
The hero first experienced a low point in his life, then he rose up, said goodbye to the heroine and daughter, and rushed to the battlefield. Although he won the final victory, he was unable to come back and was said to have gone to another world.
This scene was the end of a dream. She opened her eyes and threw the pillow away, cursing without caring about her image: "Isn't going to another world the same as dying? After all the hard work, it's hard to get through, but you have to deliberately make it like this! Bad movie! Bad movie! Why should I follow such a bad movie!"
For the following week, she was in a bad mood and even turned down a blind date arranged by her family.
I count the days anxiously every day, worrying about gains and losses.
Counting the days is waiting for the update.
Worrying about gains and losses is to be afraid that this is the end. That would be terrible! What should I do with myself who finally got happiness? What should I do with my lovely daughter
If I don’t update, my 26th birthday will definitely be the worst birthday in my life.
That’s right, it has been exactly one year since I first saw another version of myself.
Fortunately, updates continue as usual and the story is not over.
After all these trials, another her also grew up. She turned herself into a strong woman, and together with the other strong woman, she expanded her power and seized resources, just to find that tiny possibility.
And she also understood that the other world the male protagonist went to was not the world of the dead, but the concept of parallel universe mentioned in more and more literary works.
Although it was a bit fantasy, as long as there was hope, it was fine. She was also very curious about how this TV series would continue, with no one knowing how or why it appeared.
Finally, what she had been waiting for came true. A blue Rubik's Cube with magical power suddenly appeared in front of them, bringing them the method they wanted and also new hope.
Faced with this hope, the two women made different choices. One resolutely gave up everything and embarked on an unknown journey, while the other chose a roundabout way.
Project his memories, his thoughts, and the bond between him and her into another world through the power of the Rubik's Cube.
At the end of the series, the other her waved her hand to disperse the surrounding scenes, and said to the empty space:
"I'll leave my daughter and him in your care."
PS: Can the dream continue? Artoria tells you, yes!
PS2: Speaking of this, I've always felt sorry. Why didn't they stick to the 2006 version and let Noto Mamiko pair with Bedivere? Anyway, there is more than one female version of the moon, so it doesn't matter if there is Xiaobei. Noto and Kawasumi can match more.
PS3: There is an anecdote about this. Kawasumi was dubbing for Daimo at the end of the filming. Noto came to visit the set and was asked to dub a few lines. The most classic one was the line: "Wang, are you watching?" The continuation of the dream.