My girlfriend is from the future!

Sunset.

The mobile film screening was held at the only open-air basketball court in Houshan Village.

After He Tianran helped grandpa move the equipment, the old man drove the movie car, playing the loudspeaker that said "Watch a movie at the basketball court at 7 o'clock tonight", and drove around the village.

In order to kill time before the movie started, He Tianran suggested taking a walk around, and Cao Aiqing readily agreed.

The village behind the mountain is not big. You can walk around it in half an hour. They strolled along the coast. The setting sun in the distance was like a salted egg yolk about to sink into the sea, simmering the sparkling waves into a dense golden red. On the rocky beach, old fishermen were bending over to pick up clam cages. The salty mist wrapped around their rubber boots. The fishing boats moored nearby lowered their rusty red anchor chains into the water. Dark green seaweed entangled with rust swayed with the waves.

To their left was the sea, and to their right were residential houses. They walked in tacit understanding without saying a word. The setting sun lengthened their shadows and passed over the faded slogan wall with "Work hard and fast, and ask the ocean for food". It was also dinner time. A faucet that was not closed tightly was dripping water onto the road, forming an irregular rhythm with the sound of waves. A woman in a flowered shirt was squatting in front of the door scraping fish scales. Amid the rustling sound of the blade scraping against the scales, bright silver spots of light fell into the plastic basin, gradually piling up into a small, trembling miniature hill.

At this moment of sunset, the smell of the sea tide carries with it the fireworks of the world, and lovers always have a tacit understanding with each other.

"my mother……"

"Aunt Bai..."

The two spoke in unison, then stopped at the same time. While looking at each other, He Tianran opened his lips, then shrugged and said:
"You speak first."

The girl did not refuse and said with a smile:
"You can't see the sunset at the seaside in Gangcheng, but you can at Nanzhi Island..."

He Tianran turned his head and gave Taiyang a look.

“I didn’t notice it before.”

"I didn't know it at first, Aunt Bai told me..."

"she?"

Cao Aiqing seemed to be telling a secret, observing her boyfriend's expression, "Aunt Bai studied oil painting. When she was very young, she came to Nanzhi Island to collect wind and scenery. She also painted a sunset painting. When her gallery in London had not yet opened, she hung this painting in the center."

"What happened next? Was this painting bought anonymously by He Panshan?"

He Tianran responded with a very malicious tone.

Cao Aiqing patted him on the shoulder, indicating that now was not the time to be indecent, "No, she gave it to me after the gallery opened..."

"…For you?"

"Yeah." Facing the gaze of her lover, Cao Aiqing's face was tinged with a bit of embarrassment in the twilight, "I think, after we get married, we can hang this painting in our house, okay?"

"..."

The man was speechless and suddenly at a loss as to what to do.

The girl saw all of his reactions.

However, the girl now cannot be sure whether her boyfriend’s silence is because of Bai Wenyu’s painting or because of the family they will build in the future.

"You just mentioned Aunt Bai?"

She sensibly changed the subject.

"Ah? Um... has she contacted you in the past few days?"

Bai Wenyu had known something about what happened between him and Yu Naoqiu at the meeting that day. At that time, the mother had warned him to tell Cao Aiqing, and even his younger brother He Yuanchong had said something similar. Although He Tianran did not take it to heart at that time, when he really saw Cao Aiqing at this moment, he still felt uneasy and was considering how to respond.

Call it pity or love, after just one day of spending time together, He Tianran, who wasn't a very kind person at heart, couldn't bear to destroy the beauty that had been revealed on the other's face.

"Aunt Bai contacted me? No."

Cao Aiqing blinked, and He Tianran visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"What? What happened?"

"No... it's just that I told her I would come to see you this week and asked her not to tell you in advance or assign you any work. It's best not to disturb us."

He Tianran spoke out the speech he had prepared long ago. He did not dare to look at his girlfriend and walked forward on his own. After he had walked a distance, he realized that the people around him had stopped.

The girl stood two meters away from him, with her hands behind her back, the sea breeze blowing her long hair. In this moment of solitude, she felt a little more lonely.

"You rarely treated me perfunctorily and lied to me before..."

"Ai Qing...I..."

He Tianran was speechless for a moment. He wanted to explain something, but he was afraid of revealing some of his previous differences in personality. So he could only stand there with a flushed face, his mouth agape, and looked very dull.

But it was this awkward and helpless state that made Cao Aiqing, who was opposite him, suddenly break into a smile on his originally lonely face, and the weather turned from cloudy to sunny in an instant.

"Humph, considering your previous excellent performance, I still believe you this time~!"

She walked up quickly, put her arm around He Tianran, still smiling.

Although this scene was very much like a prank that often happens between lovers, He Tianran couldn't help but wonder whether Cao Aiqing had noticed the changes in him.

Those involved are often confused, while bystanders can see things clearly. A man can easily use various tones to tell Wen Liang how he is different from the usual He Tianran at this moment, and even use a bad excuse like "time travel", without worrying about the other party becoming suspicious and disgusted.

But when facing Cao Aiqing, he couldn't even utter a decent word.

On the coastline in the afterglow of the sunset, the girl gently shook her boyfriend's arm as she walked, and whispered intimately:
"Tianran, actually the distance between Shanhou Village and Shanqian Village is not far. It only takes us less than an hour and a half to walk back now... This road is not too winding, right?"

The writer was already extremely confused at this time and could not understand the hidden meaning of the heroine he was writing about.

He just seemed to answer very reasonably:
"This is my first time here, I don't know..."

Cao Aiqing remained silent and looked at him silently. The man suddenly said:

"...Wait a minute, don't we still have to watch a movie?"

"... um~"

The girl responded heavily and stopped looking at him.

This road is not tortuous.

Such a simple sentence, but it echoed in He Tianran's heart for a long time.

……

……

Just as He Tianran thought, even though Grandpa advertised the movie to be shown in the evening all over the village, only a few people actually came to watch the movie. The owner of the fishing house came over with a bottle of wine and peanuts in his hand, and drank and chatted with Grandpa, his mind was not on the movie.

Several old ladies in the village moved a table over and played mahjong under the bright lights of the stadium. From time to time, they glanced at the plot on the screen, and then talked about whose son was working in the port city and making a lot of money, and whose daughter was about to get married.

There were a few tourists watching the movie with He Tianran and the others, but the stadium was very large and everyone sat very far apart, so there wasn't much interaction.

The movie played was neither old nor new. It was a romance film called "I Want to Be with You", starring Feng Shaofeng and Ni Ni. The plot was nothing more than the trivialities of a love story, but watching it again many years later, the gossip about the two leading actors even overshadowed the plot itself.

"They were together when they were filming this movie, but they broke up later," Cao Aiqing lamented.

"At least they were together in the movie." He Tianran was not surprised. "They also broke up in the end of the movie. I think they had a premonition when they were filming the movie." Cao Aiqing couldn't help but guess.

"That's probably due to the plot. They do whatever the screenwriter writes. We are now standing in the future and looking back. It's hard to explain."

After He Tianran finished speaking, Cao Aiqing turned around and stared at her, saying seriously:
“I’m really looking forward to what kind of movie you’ll make in the future.”

He Tianran raised his hands and said, "That is definitely not a love movie. I don't want to criticize love, nor do I want to recreate any unforgettable experience."

Cao Aiqing rolled his eyes and asked, "So how is your script going now?"

He Tianran, who has a "writer" personality, didn't know anything about the script. He just thought it was an ordinary movie project and said:
"Just keep looking. I don't have any clue. I'm too busy with work right now."

Upon hearing this, Cao Aiqing turned his head, stared at the curtain, supported his chin with one hand, and muttered to himself.

"it's a pity."

"What's a pity?"

"I thought I would have a small presence in the first movie of your life."

"Is it important?"

"I thought I'd be your muse."

"..."

The narcissistic girl didn't wait for her lover's response. She turned her head again with some dissatisfaction, but was greeted by her lover's admiring eyes, which made her feel a little shy.

"Why are you looking at me?" she asked a little stiffly.

"You have always been my goddess."

This answer is the only answer that any He Tianran would blurt out.

"Weird face~"

The girl scolded him and looked away embarrassedly. After a while, she responded in a low voice:
"But I don't want to be your goddess."

The man was puzzled, "Why?"

"Because... I would rather be your lover who is always within your reach than a goddess who is high above you."

As their eyes met, the glow from the curtain made everything tender and tender. The woman slowly closed her eyes. But just as the plot of the movie reached its climax, in the interlude, Song Dongye's deep voice sang out of place -

Life is like this, not as good as poetry, but when you turn around and hit reality, it can only be like this

But he still indulges in reality, waiting for the beautiful story to be corrupted.

The last good dream gradually disappeared, I put down my toys and raised my hands without saying a word
This is a long time ago. In this prosperous city, what I have in my hands is about to be lost...

Looking at his girlfriend's charming face with her eyes closed, He Tianran was ready to make a move. But when he was about to bend down to do something, the girl who had already made some preparations suddenly wrinkled her nose and opened her eyes.

“I don’t really like this song.”

The man shuddered, straightened his body, and replied in a nonchalant tone:
"Ah... Yeah, me too."

Seeing his hypocritical expression, his girlfriend smiled sweetly.

Compared with the real situation, the situation in the movie is just a mess. As a movie that is heading for tragedy from the beginning, the ending is just as Cao Aiqing said, not only the hero and heroine are separated, but the heroine also dies in the end.

Of course, as the plot of the publicly released version, this plot was not played at the end of the film. The plot easter egg about the heroine's death was told to He Tianran by Cao Aiqing after the movie ended.

"It's ridiculous that he died, as if the screenwriter couldn't continue writing the story."

On the way back, He Tianran complained.

"That was an accident." Cao Aiqing corrected.

"It's not okay even if it's an accident."

"Actually, I can understand that. After all, who knows which will come first, an accident or tomorrow."

"Bah, don't say that."

"Okay, okay, we're... here."

He Tianran wanted to say something, but the scenery before him made him fall into a subtle silence.

In sight, the neon tube of the Fisherman's House flickered like a spasm for a while before lighting up again, dyeing the dried squids drying in the yard into a lustful pink. The two stood at the door, both a little...

tension.

……

……

There was a sound of dripping water coming from the private bathroom in the room. Through the bathroom glass, one could vaguely see the beautiful and graceful curves inside. This was something He Tianran had never thought of before coming here.

After all, before landing on the island, he had no memory of "how far his relationship with Cao Aiqing had developed."

There is no doubt that as a normal man, his heartbeat and physiological reactions honestly told him that he was looking forward to everything that was about to happen.

He Tianran, lying on the bed, listened quietly to the noises around him. Soon, the sound of water gradually subsided, followed by the sound of a door opening, and a series of soft footsteps approaching. Then, something softly fell to the ground, and the quilt that was close at hand was pulled up, with a rustling sound...

What came before the physical contact was the sense of smell. A hot and humid fragrance penetrated the man's nostrils. He had no time to tell whether it was shower gel, shampoo or something else. The temperature in the bedding suddenly rose by several degrees. The man's ankle touched the other's skin at this time. In an instant, the girl seemed to be more nervous than himself. She shrank first, then slowly returned to her position.

Afterwards, He Tianran's legs, waist, chest, shoulders, and half of his body were all immersed in this warm and soft touch. It was... the stripped-off Cao Aiqing leaning against him.

He Tianran's breathing gradually became heavier, his eyes fixed on the ceiling. At this moment, the man should have done something, but...

"...Ai Qing?"

“…Don’t talk.”

As soon as he spoke, the woman stopped him. Then, he felt something groping upwards on his waist and resting on the position of his violently beating heart...

That was Cao Aiqing's hand.

Three seconds, thirty seconds, one minute...

He Tianran thought there would be some other movements, but he didn't feel anything. His girlfriend just snuggled up to him tightly, motionless, which made the man gradually calm down. He found that his breathing had returned to normal, but he could still hear a rapid inhalation sound.

A few seconds passed like this, and in addition to the support of his girlfriend, he felt a wetness on his shoulder.

He finally turned his head, and with the help of the moonlight on the sea, he saw the sparkling thing in Cao Aiqing's eyes.

She is crying.

At the same time, a sob that made people feel inexplicably sad rang in their ears:
"Naturally... I'm so useless..." (End of this chapter)