Genius Club.

Chapter 498 From the Angel
Harley motorcycles are riding on Fifth Avenue, the widest street in Manhattan.

It is now late at night and there are few vehicles on the road, but the surrounding buildings are still brightly lit; it seems that as the capital of the world, Manhattan still has a relatively rich nightlife.

Lin Xian exhaled, and in an instant it turned into a light white mist.

This cold wave is really strong, the temperature has dropped a lot, and it might really snow.

"CC."

Lin Xian turned around while driving his motorcycle. CC, who was sitting on the back seat, was looking at the scenery of Manhattan on the side of the road, and was overwhelmed:

"Is there any place in particular you'd like to go?"

"Yes!"

CC looked up and saw the highest point in Manhattan in the distance, the skyline that could be seen from anywhere in the city, and the tallest man-made building on earth.

Empire State Building

“The Empire State Building.”

CC said softly:

"That's the highest point in Manhattan, and you can see the whole of Manhattan... I want to go and see it, I want to see it completely, to see what the center of the world looks like."

"no problem."

Lin Xian smiled like Aladdin's magic lamp that received an order:

"We're going now."

He turned the accelerator.

Continue along Fifth Avenue.

Since the target is the Empire State Building, there is no need for a map or navigation. Just look up and you can see the majestic Empire State Building standing between heaven and earth.

Especially at night.

For flight safety reasons, the top floor of the Empire State Building is brightly lit, including the top antenna which flashes a dazzling blue light... No one will get lost while looking for the Empire State Building because it is always within sight.

"But, it's so late, can we still go up?"

CC held the wedding dress fluttering in the night wind and shouted in Lin Xian's ear:

"The time now... should be past midnight, right? Can the Empire State Building still let us in?"

"should be no problem."

Lin Xian recalled the chat on the plane when he returned from a competition in the United States, and said:

"It is said that the observation deck of the Empire State Building is open until 2 a.m., and the last elevator to the observation deck should be around 1 a.m. So if we hurry over, we can still buy tickets for the view."

The Empire State Building has a total of 102 floors, and the elevators are very crowded, so you can't go to the observation deck to enjoy the view just by buying a ticket. You have to wait for the special observation elevator like waiting for a train.

It took half an hour.

Lin Xian used his full driving skills and finally arrived at the Empire State Building before 1 a.m. to check the sign at the ticket office...

Sure enough, the tradition has not changed over the years.

The last elevator to the observation deck was indeed at 1:15 in the morning.

I turned my head and looked at the clock and calendar hanging in the lobby.

1952年10月30日，00：50分。

"Very good, totally in time."

He turned around and smiled at CC:

"Fortunately I was driving fast. Sorry, I messed up your hair."

"Oh, let it be a mess."

CC smiled, refreshing:

"It's a mess anyway, and it's not for others to see. We just have to be happy."

Lin Xian looked around.

He thought that CC would attract a lot of attention and turn heads when she went out in her wedding dress.

But, it was unexpected.

In free America, perhaps everyone has long been accustomed to this level of pranks, and not many people cast deliberate glances at CC... at most they just glance at him, then look away, completely unmoved.

Especially since it was already 1 a.m., there weren't many tourists and only a handful of people in the lobby.

Lin Xian and CC walked to the elevator with their tickets and waited.

The staff member was a white-haired gentleman, and when he saw CC's outfit, he suddenly realized:
"Oh! Are you here to take wedding photos at night? That's the right place. Few people would choose to take wedding photos on the top of the Empire State Building... But believe me, kids, this is definitely the best place to take photos. You can overlook the whole world!"

He checked his watch and saw that it was exactly 1:15 in the morning. He smiled at Lin Xian:
"You are so lucky, sir. There are only two of you on the last elevator tonight. You paid the same ticket price but can enjoy the entire Empire State Building observation deck to yourself. You really got it."

Ding----

The elevator door opened and the previous group of sightseeing tourists came out.

Wait until the elevator is clear.

The staff bowed to Lin Xian and CC:

"Please come in, I hope you can enjoy this hard-earned private time."

Enter the elevator.

There was a uniformed woman inside, professionally operating the elevator. After greeting the two, she pressed the button for the observation deck floor, and the elevator began to slowly accelerate as it rose.

This is an express elevator. It goes very fast, at least faster than any elevator Lin Xian has ever taken.

Lin Xian was a little worried and turned to look at CC beside him.

But found...

It is worthy of being called the innate holy body of space travel.

Despite the discomfort and high speed of acceleration, CC remained calm as if nothing had happened, and lowered her head to adjust her layered wedding dress.

Even though the elevator was so fast, it still took several minutes to reach the observation deck, which shows how tall the world's tallest building is in this era.

When the elevator door opened again, Lin Xian and CC were already hundreds of meters above the ground.

The elevator operator stood up and saw them off:
"Sir, Madam, we have arrived at the observation deck. Please feel free to enjoy the view. Please be careful. The observation deck will be closed at 2 a.m., so please come here and take the elevator back."

CC can't wait any longer.

She trotted out of the elevator, then walked out of the building, came to the edge of the observation deck, and looked down at everything on the ground—

"Wow!"

She opened her eyes wide and couldn't help but exclaim:
"This is the center of the world! It's magnificent!"

Lin Xian walked behind her, facing the cold night wind from high in the sky, and looked down.

This was also the first time he stood at the highest point in Manhattan and looked down at the city. It was higher than the Aman Hotel when he was with Chu Anqing before, and the view was wider.

Manhattan in 1952...

It is indeed luxurious and noble, full of technology and endless wealth.

A row of skyscrapers tower over the Empire State Building, making them seem dwarfed by the rest of the world; but their lights connect into a line and form a net in the night, turning into the brightest lattice on the planet.

"Is it the same as you imagined?"

Lin Xian looked down at CC.

"Exactly the same..."

CC breathed in the white mist, and was reluctant to take his eyes off the lights below.

This was the scene she had been waiting for.

It is her biggest dream in life.

She, a helpless, fatherless, motherless, extremely poor girl from Brooklyn, finally got what she wanted... wearing the most beautiful white dress, standing at the highest point in Manhattan!

The neon lights in front of me gradually became blurred.

That's CC's eyes becoming moist:

"I actually came... I can't believe this is real."

"this is the truth."

Lin Xian walked forward and ruffled her long hair that was messed up by the evening breeze.

Thinking back to the time when Chu Anqing and I stood on the top floor of the Aman Hotel, we were both like that.

only.

One is summer and the other is winter.

One is in 2023 and the other is in 1952. One is called Chu Anqing and the other is called CC.

The same is true...

Lin Xian is still Lin Xian, and the two girls are both thousand-year-old stakes with a common destiny.

"so good."

CC did not object to being touched on the head by Lin Xian. Instead, she raised her head and looked at Lin Xian with a smile:

"Thank you for fulfilling my dream."

"Do not."

Lin Xian smiled slightly:
"This is just the beginning of your dream, it's far from over."

"CC, we have a lot of money now, we can let you do whatever you want; this is only your first night in Manhattan... Tomorrow, we can go to more places to play, to the best restaurants, the biggest movie theaters, the most prosperous shopping malls, and... anywhere you want to go."

“Even like I said, you could stay in Manhattan forever and never have to go back to seedy Brooklyn.”

CC heard this and shook his head:

"That's enough, Lin Xian."

She chuckled:
"Really... this is enough for me. You don't need to do more for me. I am already very satisfied."

"You should keep the money for yourself. After all... my dream has come true, but what about your dream? Your dream has not yet come true."

CC jumped off the observation deck railing.

Hands behind back.

He tilted his head and looked at Lin Xian:

"To be honest, I'm very curious. You said that your dream is... to live up to everyone's expectations, to successfully save everything, and to become a qualified savior."

"Can you tell me...why is this?"

"It's hard for me to imagine that before today, you were just a homeless person with no clothes to cover your body and no food to eat. You couldn't even get enough food to eat and were starving on the streets... Why did you have such a great dream of saving the world?"

Lin Xian took a deep breath through his nose.

Then exhale slowly.

Lower your head:
"Because I promised a lot of people and a lot of things."

"But... this is not the main reason."

He raised his head:

"In the past, I really just went with the flow, being pushed by fate and circumstances, and I felt like I was forced to be a savior."

"But it's different now. Now I am proactive and I sincerely want to save this, undo the tragedy, and fulfill all my promises."

"You have also seen that I do have some abilities that ordinary people do not have, so I should take on things that others cannot do."

"A high position brings with it great responsibility. History will not blame the powerless, but it will certainly blame every incompetent ruler."

"I never became a savior just because I wanted to be a savior, and I never became a savior just for the sake of being a savior."

After a pause, Lin Xian continued:

"The reason is not that complicated at all, and there is no need to consider it so complicatedly, because..."

The colorful fluorescence of the Empire State Building's rooftop was reflected in his pupils, and his eyes were firm:

“This is my responsibility and my mission.”

……

CC looked at Lin Xian and was silent for a long time.

"Feel sorry."

She smiled embarrassedly:

“Maybe I really don’t understand.”

"It's ok."

Lin Xian also smiled:
“This is also a very long journey of the heart, a very long story.”

CC walked forward and looked into Lin Xian's colorful pupils:
"But... I believe you will save the world as you wish and become the true savior."

She put her hands forward, pulled up Lin Xian's fingertips, and said softly:
"When we were little, the grandmother at the orphanage took care of us and told us girls... that [every girl is an angel left behind in the mortal world, and every little angel has one wish that will be fulfilled no matter what, and there is only one wish.]"

"So, the orphanage grandmother asked us girls to put our hands together and make a sincere wish. She said... 'This is a chance that every girl only has once. It is a wish that will come true as long as you make it, so you must be sincere, cautious, and serious in making the wish.'"

"At that time, we were no more than five or six years old, and we all started praying and making sincere wishes."

Lin Xian blinked:

"What about you? What did you wish for? To come to Manhattan?"

however……

CC shook his head:
“【I didn’t promise anything.】”

"I was the only girl who didn't make a wish, because I felt that there was only one chance to make a wish in a lifetime, and it would definitely come true... That wish was so precious that I couldn't bear to waste it."

"I asked the old lady if I could keep this opportunity to make a wish. I wanted to save it for a more important time. She smiled and said yes, saying that this opportunity to make a wish can be kept at any time and will always be effective."

Lin Xian chuckled:
"This really sounds like words to coax a child."

"Yes."

CC did not deny:

"But...what if it's true?"

She raised her head:

"At least I have kept this opportunity to make a wish until now. No matter how hard or tiring my life has been over the years, I have never been willing to waste this opportunity."

"Even though I wanted to come to Manhattan every day and every night, I was reluctant to use this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a wish."

"I always feel that... such a precious opportunity should be used on more important, more precious, and more meaningful things."

A faint dimple appeared at the corner of CC's mouth.

She looked at Lin Xian with a smile and said softly:
"Now, I think it's time."

CC took Lin Xian's hand and held it between the two of them.

Then he put his hands together and held Lin Xian's broad palm in the middle.

Close your eyes.

Her expression became pious and serious, just like when she was praying in church, even... much more serious than that time.

And just then...

Suddenly, a little bit of coolness fell on Lin Xian's face.

He raised his head and looked towards the sky:
“It’s…snowing.”

Hundreds of meters in the sky, snowflakes fell in the night wind. Standing at the highest point in Manhattan, Lin Xian was the first to touch the first falling snowflake before anyone else.

"Lin Xian, I must apologize to you."

Bow down.

CC in front of me still closed his eyes devoutly, as if he was confessing, as if he was praying:

"That day you took me to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade to look at Manhattan, and you said you wished me to be the most beautiful princess in all of Manhattan; I said I wished you to be the greatest savior in the world."

"But... I'm sorry, you must have really thought so at the time, but I was really joking at the time. I wasn't serious at all. I was just agreeing with what you said."

"But now, I don't think like that anymore, I mean it."

snow.

It’s raining heavily.

The strong night wind made the snowflakes gather and swirl at the edge of the observation deck, piecing together behind CC, as if she had really grown a pair of pure white and clean wings like an angel.

"God, I want to use the only chance in my life to make a wish."

CC is like chanting a spell.

The two of them were surrounded by swirling snowflakes, as if the elves were singing with her, performing a ritual that every girl undergoes only once in her lifetime.

"I hope Lin Xian can defeat everything, save everything, and possess everything..."

She pressed Lin Xian's palm closer, turning the cold into warm:

"Become a true savior!"

(End of this chapter)