Inside the villa, the night breeze blew, and the lights flickered on the walls.

The boy gently carried the unconscious person in front of him to the sofa.

He reached out and let her lean on his shoulder.

Then, he looked down at her with red eyes, his gaze filled with reluctance, longing, and an overwhelming sadness.

Is she leaving?

He closed his eyes, his nose brushing against her hair, his voice so low that only he could hear it.

"But I... don't want you to hate me anymore."

"Ningning, please don't leave me..."

In the darkness, the boy's trembling fingers covered her with a blanket, and he squatted alone in a corner.

He maintained a warm smile, but couldn't suppress the pain and reluctance in his eyes, and tears streamed down his face.

A person who has spent too much time in the shadows will even have their shadow curl up.

He thought he would never be touched by the light in his life, and he never expected the light to fall on its own.

But one day, the moon shone on him without warning, its gentle light leaving him completely bewildered.

He couldn't believe it. He cautiously reached out his hand, and then he was surprised to find that the moonlight was real, and the smile in her eyes when she looked at him was real too.

He thought he had finally gotten lucky.

He thought that in the long night, it was finally his turn.

He even thought that even if it was just for a short while, even if the moonlight would disappear after dawn, at least for this moment, he was illuminated.

But it turns out, it wasn't just luck that brought him good fortune.

The moon set, and it shared a little of its light with him, because it was going to find another person, to find "him" in the future.

She was just passing by him; it was only on her way.

The villa was warm at night, but the boy felt cold. He huddled in the corner of the sofa, hugging his arms.

Xu Wuning was fast asleep on the sofa, having a sweet dream, her lips curved into a smile.

The boy looked at her intently, but large tears streamed down his face.

Ningning, she could leave for "him" in the future, but she couldn't stay for him now.

"Is it because the man from the future committed suicide in the villa, so Ningning is going to find him?"

He paused, another tear falling, "If..."

His lips trembled, and his fingertips unconsciously dug into the flesh of his arm. "What if I commit suicide here? Like him, if I fail, will I be able to leave Ningning behind?"

"Can Ningning stay?"

As he asked the question, he didn't even realize that his gaze had already shifted from Xu Wuning's face to the fruit plate on the coffee table next to him.

There, a fruit knife lay.

……

The next day, in the early morning.

Xie Yu and Su Wanyue were still fast asleep upstairs.

Xu Wuning was awakened by Xiao Ke's call.

Xiao Ke's voice was full of excitement and joy: "Host, host! Get ready, we're leaving, host!"

Xu Wuning already had a headache from drinking too much last night, and now, startled by Xiao Ke, she suddenly jumped up and slid off the sofa bed onto the carpet on the floor.

She rubbed her throbbing head, and it took her a while to recover.

I must have drunk too much last night.

"Keep your voice down, you scared me."

"What, are we going home?"

Xiao Ke was delighted: "Yes, yes, are you happy?"

Just as Xu Wuning was about to reply, she suddenly caught sight of someone to the side.

She was stunned.

A person was squatting in the corner of the sofa.

It was Lu Jingci.

He didn't know how long he had been squatting there, curled up in a ball, his trembling eyes red at the corners, looking as dejected as if he hadn't slept all night.

Xu Wuning stared at him blankly. "Why are you squatting here? What's wrong with you?"

The boy's voice was hoarse and barely audible. He shook his head and said, "It's nothing."

Xu Wuning thought he was unhappy, so she walked over, bent down, and smiled as she reached out to pat his head.

"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

Lu Jingci choked back a sob: "Are you leaving?"

When he uttered those five words, tears welled up in his eyes, but he didn't raise his hand to wipe them away. He just looked up at her, like a little animal thrown into the rain, waiting for an answer with a blank yet stubborn expression.

Xu Wuning's hand froze in mid-air.

"What?"

Did she mishear?

How could he know she was leaving? He couldn't possibly have heard her conversation with Xiao Ke just now.

Does he mean that she stayed at his house last night and this morning she should go back to her own home or leave?

It must be like this.

Lu Jingci's tears were still streaming down her face, her voice broken and choked with sobs: "Last night...you got drunk last night, and you told me everything. You were going to the future to find him, right?"

Xu Wuning's eyes widened in shock.

What? She let something slip when she was drunk?

He knew everything?!

She looked at Lu Jingci in shock, and he stared at her with his red eyes, tears streaming down his face.

Looking at his face, which was covered in tears, Xu Wuning felt that he was disheveled and vulnerable, like a kitten that had been soaked in the rain and had nowhere to go.

Her heart clenched instantly.

She knelt down in front of him and reached out to wipe away his tears: "Don't cry, he is you, you are the same, I..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Jingci could no longer hold back his tears, which streamed down his face.

"It's different..." He kept shaking his head, his voice broken and sobbing, "It's different, Ningning..."

Xu Wuning cupped his face in her hands, feeling his hot tears fall one by one, and she couldn't help but cry too.

Lu Jingci raised his hand and covered the hand that was pressed against his face. He smiled, but his smile was more heartbreaking than crying.

"I sat here last night... I was afraid you would leave suddenly, afraid I wouldn't have time to say goodbye, so I waited patiently all night."

"Because 'he' committed suicide, and you wanted to go find him, so I tried to commit suicide too," his voice trailed off, "I picked up a knife..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Wuning almost stopped breathing.

Lu Jingci cried, her voice broken and shattered: "But I don't want to make things difficult for you. Your father is still waiting for you in the future. You dreamed about him last night. He has been looking for you for two years, and his hair has turned white."

He repeated it again, his lips trembling even more, "I didn't want to make you sad... so I put the knife down again."

As he spoke, he grasped her hand. He was still smiling, but tears streamed down his face.

"During this time... the days you spent with me," he struggled to hold back his sobs, "I was truly happy."

"Ningning, I'm so happy..."

"You can go now. I'm already very content, really."

Tears had already blurred his vision, and he could no longer see her face, but he still forced a smile in her direction.

"Go find him, I'm fine... I just wanted to say goodbye, go now, Ningning."

"In the future, you must take good care of yourself, don't skip breakfast... go to bed on time, and love yourself well, okay?"

"Ningning, it's getting cold, remember to wear more clothes and don't catch a cold... Please, please take good care of yourself."

"I don't know how he'll treat you in the future, whether he'll be paranoid and scary... Ningning, remember to run. If you can't escape, kill him, okay?"

"Please, don't die again. Live well in the future."

"Please..."

He kept saying, "Go find him," but tears kept falling from the corners of his eyes, wetting Xu Wuning's entire hand.

"I can't bear to part with it..."

He finally uttered those four words, and his voice suddenly collapsed.

He gripped her hand so tightly his knuckles trembled, forcing a smile through his tears: "But I can't bear to part with you..."

Xu Wuning had been crying so hard she couldn't speak.

She hugged his waist tightly, buried her face in his shoulder, and her tears pattered down, wetting his shoulder.

She was crying herself, but kept comforting him: "Don't cry, Lu Jingci, don't be sad, don't cry..."

Accompanied by a buzzing sound of electricity, Xiao Ke's voice came again:

"Host, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you saying anything? Your signal is bad, we can't see your screen. What are you doing?"

"Shall we activate the teleportation button now? My dad is ready."

Inside the villa, the two embraced, the boy's shoulders trembling as he cried, repeatedly and painfully calling her name.

"Ningning... Ningning..."

Xu Wuning, tears streaming down her face, cried to Xiao Ke, "I won't leave. Give me two more days. Time is frozen over there. Let me comfort the boy first, okay?"

Tears streaming down her face, she shook her head: "Xiao Ke... I can't leave, I really can't leave, I can't bear to..."

Xiao Ke was about to reply, "Okay, then I'll wait a bit longer."

It can happen suddenly.

The piercing alarm and blinding red light blared deafeningly, and everything around us began to gradually fade away.

That incredibly familiar feeling has returned once again.

A line of text appeared above the small world: "Final time travel, end."

Xiao Ke didn't teleport her away, but this world was constantly disappearing, so she had to leave...

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