"Your singing voice is very beautiful."
The old woman is standing in front of Yuexin. Yuexin is surprised to see her. The old woman understands her situation and smiles.
"Why are you staring like this? Seen a ghost or something?"
Yuexin pinches her left hand. Immediately, she lets out a cry of pain.
Ahhhh....
She realizes that this is not a dream or reality. The old woman is really standing in front of her. Talking to her.
Yuexin crawls quickly to the old woman.
Yuexin stands in front of her. She frowns at her once. The old woman looks at her with a puzzled look.
Yuexin smiles and says,"Is this really you, or is it my imagination?"
"Can't you understand after a pinch? Let me give you another..."
With that, the old woman extends her hand towards her. Yuexin immediately takes a step back.
"I've never seen you in this village before! Are you from this village?" Yuexin asked suspiciously.
"Nah, not only from this village—also, I don't belong to any village."
"Ohhhh, I see. You live in the city then. So you came here to see me?"
"Yes," a mysterious smile appeared on the old woman's face.
"Wait, you look exactly the same now as you did when we first met in 2025! How is this possible? How can a person look identical 40 years before and after? You should look much younger now! Hold on... do you time travel too?"
Yuexin said in surprise when she realized.
The old woman laughs at her excitement and sudden realization.
"Maybe... Who knows?"
Yuexin looks at her with side eyes. Although the old woman has answered, there is still a mystery hidden in her answer.
"You changed your school, right?" the old woman asked. Her question was understandable, as if she was asking after knowing everything.
"Hmm. I first met Weisheng at that school. So I don't want to meet with him. I decided to rewrite my future myself. If our paths didn't cross, then we will never be together. And everything will be all right."
The old woman walked past Yuexin and walked to the river ahead. She sat down on the bank of the river and dipped her hand in the water. Then she looked at the water and said,
"You know, a lot depends on the flow of the river. If the flow of the river is in the same direction as your goal, then it will not be difficult for you to sail your boat. And if it is in the opposite direction, then you will have to work very hard to reach your goal."
"What do you mean?" Yuexin said without understanding.
"You have the opportunity to change your future. However, if you change the future, everything will change. The more changes you make in your past, the more unrecognizable that future will become from the future you. Everything you had will be lost. What you didn't have will have to be obtained with difficulty. If you work hard, that's the only way."
"That's what I want. My previous future should change. I want a beautiful future for myself."
"Everyone wants a beautiful future in everyone's life. But to get this beautiful future, you have to sacrifice a lot. You have to suffer a lot. You have to work a lot."
"I'm ready for it."
"Are you really ready?"
The old woman's question sent Yuexin into a world of thought. As she saw her thinking, she said,
"Think, think. There is time. There is still a lot of time. You have two chances, two... So be careful in every action."
Yuexin looks at her questioningly. The old woman realizes that everything has gone over her head.
"I will make it a little easier for you to think. There are rules for everything. Doing time travel is a very good thing, but it has some rules.
The first rule is, if you make any changes in the past, your future will be affected. The future you have lived will change.
The second rule is if you make a big change, like you didn't go to your previous school. You changed schools. So your friends from your previous school don't know you exist. They won't recognize you. No matter what you do, you will be forgotten.
The third rule, the part of your future that changes, will be erased from your memory.
That is, just as your friends forget about you, you will forget them."
"Does that mean that if Weisheng and I don't meet now, it will never happen again? Will all his memories be erased from my head?"
"Hmm."
"And my children?"
"If your first marriage is okay, of course you will get them. But I don't know if you will get your granddaughter or not."
Yuexin looked surprised.
It was as if he had suffered a big blow. She didn't know that if the future changed, she could lose her granddaughter.
She didn't know what to say. What should she do now? Should she think about herself or her children and grandchildren?
In an instant, her world seemed to break into two pieces. All her plans, hopes, and fantasies were shattered and shattered.
While she was deep in thought, she suddenly realized something. She looked at the old woman in surprise, shock.
"Wait, I didn't tell you about my marriage... How did you know all this?"
"You still didn't recognize me!" The old woman said, smirks.
She looks at her with confusion.
The old woman looks at her bicycle and says, "You are close to everything. Just need to find it. But soon, you will find out everything."
Yuexin follows her gaze and looks at the bicycle.
She doesn't understand why she said that while looking at the bicycle. She looks at the old woman and the bicycle several times.
And finally, following the old woman's gaze, she realizes that she is looking at the books on the bicycle. She looks at the books in surprise.
Yuexin looked ahead at the old woman for answers. As she looked ahead, she saw that the old woman was no longer there. She had vanished into thin air. Yuexin searched the entire riverbank. But she couldn't find her.
Yet a moment ago, she was in front of her. So where did she go? Did she disappear in an instant? Did she fly away with the wind? Or did she become Venice by magic!
She didn't know anything about what was happening to her. She didn't understand anything. It seems like her life is changing in a matter of seconds. Every moment, a new twist is coming—which she is unaware of.
Yuexin's mind becomes sad again. It seems like sadness is not leaving her life. To improve her mind, she goes to the riverbank and sits down again. She closes her eyes and thinks coldly.
What will she do?
Will she go to the future or live this time? Which life will she choose? The ledger lies empty. No calculations add up.
If she wants to solve all the lies of the ledger, she must search within those books that she took from the library—only there will she find the answers to her questions.
At least, that's what Yuexin believes.
Life is becoming more and more horrible day by day. However, Yuexin does not know the end of it. New and more mysteries are being revealed before her. From which will she never be able to turn?