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Chapter 286 Xia Shou's Sadness

Xia Shou sat down at the table and started reading from the beginning.

The book begins with Liu Yilong's junior high school, describing the campus life of a junior high school student from Liu Yilong's perspective, as well as the psychological problems that may exist in adolescence, including interpersonal relationships, expectations and confusion about the future, and childish ideas about the opposite sex.

Like the Liu Yilong in Yuezhuo Village, the Liu Yilong in this book is also a handsome academic master and a rich second-generation, and the setting is exactly the same.

But these were not what shocked Xia Shou the most. What shocked Xia Shou the most was that in the book, during an inter-school teacher exchange, Xia Shou saw the name of the counseling director in their grade!
Xia Shou had also heard some of the news described in the book, and the time all matched his memory.

The book writes that US officials visited China and had friendly exchanges with Chinese reception staff in Kyoto, reaching many agreements. In the same year, the World Cup was held in China and domestic fans were enthusiastic, but because of the domestic team's shameful past record and low professional ethics, a fierce war of words broke out on the Internet.

Xia Shou remembered this incident very clearly, it happened when he was in the third grade of junior high school! Many people in the class were discussing it at that time!

Then, in the first year of high school, the United States, relying on its own military strength, shamelessly launched a military operation against a small oil-producing country in the name of peacekeeping, which led to a human tragedy and a boiling international public opinion.

In addition to these major events, the book also describes many small things, such as a local man who killed his girlfriend and fled into the mountains. He was arrested after surviving in the wild for three days. Xia Shou remembered this incident clearly!

The world depicted in this book is the world before Xia Shou traveled through time!

It's just presented from the perspective of another ordinary student.

Perhaps, in the original world, there was indeed a boy named Liu Yilong in the Donghai Middle School, but Xia Shou did not know him before he traveled through time.

Xia Shou flipped through the rough pages of the book with mixed feelings. Liu Yilong would soon take the college entrance examination.

This year, Xia Shou should have taken the college entrance examination.

Turning to the next page, whole pages are filled with descriptions of Liu Yilong's psychological drama. He was finally admitted to Kyoto University with the highest score in the city.

After the farewell banquet, the school beauty in his class confessed to him. Although Liu Yilong had no such intention at first, he half-heartedly kissed her for a minute and they somehow became boyfriend and girlfriend.

But this sudden love only lasted for a short summer vacation, and during this summer vacation, Liu Yilong changed from a boy to a man.

The time in the book has reached the point after Xia Shou traveled through time, so Xia Shou can no longer compare his memory with the contents of the book.

Liu Yilong's life continues and society develops.

Then, Xia Shou saw how the transformation and evolution of GPT set off a new era of Internet industrial revolution, and how Liu Yilong seized the opportunity of artificial intelligence and transformed himself from an ordinary second-generation rich man to a well-known wealthy man in Donghai City in just three months. He then switched to mobile games, further expanded his achievements, and became a business figure.

Xia Shou wanted to see his own name, or his parents' names, in the book.

He wanted to see things that were related to him. If the world described in the book was the world he had lived in, then what would happen to his parents after he left? What about his younger brother?

After Xia Shou traveled through time, he was not too worried about his parents. Although the couple were almost forty years old, their mentality was as young as that of young men and women. Their relationship was as good as first love, which often made him and his brother feel uncomfortable when they were at home.

Because I still have my younger brother. Even if I get missing, he will be with my parents. Although they may be sad for a while, they should be fine in the end.

Xia Shou has been avoiding thinking about these things since he traveled through time. After all, the current situation cannot be changed.

But now after reading this book, Xia Shou suddenly wanted to know what happened after he traveled through time.

Will there be any plot about my parents and younger brother in this book?
Xia Shou continued to flip through the pages quickly. As the pages turned, Liu Yilong's age increased with each page. He met business competitors and the woman who made his heart beat faster. He got married and had children. He went to work, attended meetings, went on business trips, traveled, worried about his children's academic performance, and like many middle-aged men, fell in love with fishing.

Because of the different social classes, there are few ordinary people in Liu Yilong's circle, and Xia Shou's hope of seeing his family in the book is getting slimmer and slimmer. Then, three-quarters of the way through the story, Liu Yilong's game company was hit by the financial storm. The real economy was struggling under the massive unemployment, and the Internet economy collapsed across the board. The workers who became poor had no energy or determination to pay a penny for virtual items. In the end, Liu Yilong's game company went bankrupt, and the artificial intelligence company was overtaken by competitors due to its research direction.

His wife began to quarrel with him, and his own mental state deteriorated and his depression became more severe.

At the end of the book, he starts to hear auditory hallucinations, and his wife's abusive words turn into gentle comfort in his ears, and the book ends there.

From beginning to end, Xia Shou didn't see what he wanted to see, except that the world in the book felt extremely familiar to him.

"Alas——" Xia Shou closed the book dejectedly and looked at the circular coffee stains on the cover sadly.

He never missed home after traveling through time, but now he does.

"What's wrong?" Su Weiyu stared at Xia Shou and asked.

"How should I put it? I miss home a little." Xia Shou said very tactfully and sighed softly.

People need to be pragmatic. We have already traveled through time. Thinking about slim possibilities all day long will only make our current life worse. Xia Shou has always thought so, but as expected... I still miss it a little.

Xia Shou raised his hand and stared at the lines on his palm, thinking about how many people he had killed and how many bloody scenes he had seen.

Sometimes, Xia Shou was surprised at why his adaptability was so strong. If he thought about it carefully, could other high school students do the same as him?
Su Weiyu was fine at first, but after hearing what Xia Shou said, she suddenly became sad.

Xia Shou rarely mentioned it, which made her almost forget that he was a time traveler.

Xia Shou had a home before he traveled through time.

Xia Shou has a home but cannot return, but she can go back, but her home is not there, so she and Xia Shou can be said to be in the same boat.

"Oh, it's okay, maybe you can go back in the future. Life is about the future, not the past. You can't tell what the future will be like!" Su Weiyu forced a smile to comfort him, but her heart was filled with sadness and she felt wronged for herself.

If Xia Shou really goes back, what should she do?
She didn't want to be alone anymore.

Although this idea was a bit unreasonable and forced, and a bit like building happiness on the suffering of others, Su Weiyu still hoped that Xia Shou would not go back. She knew that it was a bad thought, but she also felt that she was quite innocent.

Isn't she pitiful? Can't she have even a little selfish thought?
She couldn't guarantee anything else, but if Xia Shou was willing, she would like to give him a home.

"Why is the minister looking for this book?" Xia Shou suddenly said, with a thoughtful expression.

Su Weiyu stared at Xia Shou, a little shocked, thinking to herself, has your mentality changed so quickly?

Su Weiyu stretched out her hand and placed it on Xia Shou's shoulder, and said sincerely: "You can't numb yourself with work. If you feel uncomfortable, just speak out! If you keep your worries in your heart, you will get sick."

Xia Shou looked at Su Weiyu, his eyes slowly widened, and he looked at her in surprise.

"I'm just feeling a little emotional... But Wei Yu, why are you crying?"

"Ah? I didn't cry?"

Su Weiyu wiped her face, which was already covered with tears.

(End of this chapter)