You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"What exactly do you want to say?" Xiao Yao was completely confused.

"You and Ouyang Qianqian, Yu Luying, Zhao Xiaomei, Daiyu, Xiaoxiong, and everyone else." Shen Jie told him: "If you make a mistake on a certain multiple-choice question in the high school entrance examination, and choose the right one, you may not come to Franciscan Middle School, but to Dominican Middle School. If you make a mistake carelessly when answering a certain big question, you will go to Lu Xun Middle School."

"I have thought about this." Xiao Yao nodded.

"One thought away, and you will no longer know Ouyang, Yu Luying, Xiaomei, Daiyu, Xiaoxiong, and Brother Long in this life. Then you will know other Ouyangs, Yu Luying, Xiaomei, Daiyu, Xiaoxiong, and Brother Long." Shen Jie continued.

"Yes." Xiao Yao said thoughtfully, "And it was precisely because I 'happened' to be admitted to Fangzhong that I 'happened' to know Ouyang and Yu Luying. I don't even want to read these names again. But at the same time, I will never have any contact with my friends from Dominican Middle School and Luxun Middle School again. We are destined to be strangers for the rest of our lives."

"See, I knew you would understand what I'm saying." Shen Jie said with satisfaction: "Whenever you think of our fate being determined by the roll of the dice, do you feel a kind of... a kind of..."

"A sense of panic of nothingness?" Xiao Yao said.

"Yes! It's that sense of panic of nothingness!" said Shen Jie.

"Shen Jie, to be honest," Xiao Yao said slowly, "Although I like you, I always feel that we are from two different worlds. I have been trying to get closer to your world, and I also hope that you can enter mine."

"Ok?"

"But when you said this, it made me feel that we are actually from the same world." Xiao Yao held Shen Jie's hand, and the latter did not refuse.

"Okay, listen to me," Shen Jie said softly, "It's because I hate this...what is it? The sense of panic of nothingness that I hope there is a God in this world who can arrange everything. Didn't Einstein say that God doesn't play dice?"

"I finally understand," Xiao Yao laughed from the bottom of his heart, "Why did Yu Luying laugh at me that day? You and I are both pathetic fatalists."

"It's because I'm a fatalist," Shen Jie chuckled, "that's why I'm with you."

"We have known each other for such a long time and have been dating for such a long time - well, not for a long time, but we have been in close contact. Even now, you still don't like me at all?" Xiao Yao asked dejectedly.

"Yes, I like it a little bit," Shen Jie answered with certainty, "You can't feel it at all, right?"

"Of course I can feel it." Xiao Yao nodded, feeling a little better: "Otherwise, you wouldn't have secretly taken a photo of the two of us while I was asleep."

"It is precisely because of this that I can't allow myself to continue liking you. I'm afraid that I will like you more and more, become dependent on you, and become unable to live without you." Shen Jie told him.

"Why not?" Xiao Yao was a little angry again.

"Because I'm about to enter my third year of high school, this will affect my studies," Shen Jie replied calmly, "and I'm going to study abroad in the United States, and we'll be living in a foreign country for many, many years. I don't like this."

"..."

"I had planned," Shen Jie said while hugging Xiao Yao, "to find a way to get my father to accept you. Then if you work harder, I will take you to the United States."

"Okay, I'm willing to go with you." Xiao Yao expressed eagerly.

"But now, how are you going to get there?" Shen Jie reminded Xiao Yao: "You are holding Yu Luying's rope?"

"We can talk to her and take her with us." Xiao Yao blurted out.

"Don't be childish," Shen Jie said fiercely, "Who is she to you? She's just a high school classmate, a friend. Why do you want to interrupt her life plan and carry her around like a schoolbag?"

"..." Xiao Yao was silent.

"Of course," Shen Jie's tone slowed down a bit, "These are all difficulties that can be overcome as long as we work together to find a solution."

"Yes, everything can be overcome." Xiao Yao wanted to say this, but Shen Jie beat him to it.

"So the key issue is not here." Shen Jie said.

"What's the problem?" Xiao Yao hugged her back.

"Have you ever thought about the possibility that...symbiosis is actually a way for this world's timeline to self-repair?" Shen Jie said.

"What the hell?"

"Look, I just found out today," Shen Jie said, "Although I suspected it before, I only officially confirmed it today. During this period, you should have been dating Yu Luying. We were together a long time ago."

"So what?" Xiao Yao had already begun to guess what Shen Jie wanted to say.

"So, my early appearance objectively squeezed out Yu Luying's position," Shen Jie showed a somewhat helpless smile, "In other words, the mistress turned out to be me."

"Don't say such nasty things!" Xiao Yao scolded, "I don't allow you to say that about yourself."

"And in order to repair itself," Shen Jie said, "the timeline uses symbiosis to connect you and Silly Girl together."

Xiao Yao was speechless, impressed by Shen Jie's unique imagination.

“So, when Shen Tianyun’s room was connected to your room, symbiosis appeared for the first time.

“When I rejected you for the first time, the symbiosis weakened immediately.

“On the way to the parent-child education center, I decided to give you a chance, and so, the symbiosis regained its strength.

"After I found out that you had concealed the symbiosis from me, I was very sad and wanted to leave you, so the symbiosis weakened again.

“The closer my heart is to you, the stronger our symbiosis will be; the farther my heart is from you, the weaker our symbiosis will be.

"If my marriage to you in the future is arranged by fate, destiny, God, or anything else," Shen Jie announced her conclusion, "then your relationship with Yu Luying at this point in time is also arranged by fate."

"..." Xiao Yao was so shocked that he was speechless.

"This is why I want you and Yu Luying to be together and for the two of us to be good friends for the time being," Shen Jie told him, "It's not because you hid the symbiosis, nor because you asked me to ask for instructions early and report late, but... Xiao Yao, do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand." Xiao Yao told her.

"Of course, we are still lovers now," Shen Jie placed her hand in Xiao Yao's palm, "I told you, this is a discussion, not a notification - you don't have to rush to give me an answer."

"...Your hypothesis is really interesting. I can't completely disprove it at the moment," Xiao Yao thought for about half a minute, "but you have to admit that this is just a hypothesis, not a scientific conclusion that has been proven through a large number of experiments and found objective laws."

"Indeed." Shen Jie agreed.

Chapter 154: What’s wrong if young people act like hooligans occasionally?

2023-04-07

The bus slowly stopped at the terminal of Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, and the melodious saxophone song "Going Home" sounded in the car.

But Xiao Yao just felt that home was getting farther and farther away from him.

"Do you feel any discomfort?" Shen Jie asked with concern, standing on tiptoe slightly and adjusting Xiao Yao's collar.

"No." Xiao Yao tasted it carefully and shook his head.

Shen Jie called someone, who she didn't know was Yu Bo or Yu Luying, and then she put the phone down and told Xiao Yao: "The straight-line distance now may be close to 30 kilometers."

"So, the distance limit for symbiosis has disappeared?" Xiao Yao said happily.

"Or maybe it just became farther away." Shen Jie said.

They began to queue up for the "Zhangnan Line".

As the name suggests, the Zhangnan Line starts from Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park and ends at Nanhui University Town.

Xiao Yao looked up and saw that the people standing in front, behind, and around him, forming a long line, were all college students. They were standing or leaning on the stainless steel railings, playing with their phones or chatting, looking very relaxed.

These guys were dressed in avant-garde clothes. A long-haired man carried a guitar on his back and had a cigarette in his mouth. A quiet and pretty-looking girl wore pants shorter than Shen Jie's and wore a pair of rose-red canvas shoes on her bare feet. A boy wearing glasses and a plaid shirt looked very gentle and refined, giving people the feeling that he was well-read.

"I really want to start my romantic university campus life as soon as possible." Xiao Yao sighed casually.

"Okay, you're already swimming quite fast." Shen Jie said.

"Come to think of it, it's already early July. Isn't the university on summer vacation yet?" Xiao Yao asked curiously.

"I don't know," Shen Jie said, "Every school is different. Maybe some schools let out later."

"Hey, buddy," Xiao Yao was thick-skinned and not afraid of strangers. He approached the boy in the plaid shirt and wanted to ask him something.

"Who is your buddy?" The boy in the plaid shirt looked at Xiao Yao for a few seconds and spoke with an inexplicable anger.

It was the pretty girl with glasses next to him who took over Xiao Yao's words. She told Xiao Yao that she was from T University and that her vacation would not start until mid-July. The students next to her were basically her classmates from T University - and the other schools in the university town were basically deserted.

"Is that so?" Xiao Yao nodded and said, "Then you guys let it out really late."

"Hey, stop talking, get in the car, it's our turn." Shen Jie urged.

"I'm so tired!" Xiao Yao trotted towards the "Zhangnan Line" train that had just entered the station, and the man in the plaid shirt followed closely behind.

Shen Jie ran onto the bus, quickly occupied two good seats by the window, patted the seat next to her, and called out to Xiao Yao to come and sit down.

Xiao Yao felt a little emotional. It had only been ten days or half a month since Shen Jie had been with him. She had shed many of her extravagant habits as a young lady and had absorbed a lot of the flavor of life.

"By the way, what's the matter with you saying you're out of money?" Xiao Yao asked her, "Fifty or sixty thousand, and you've used it up already?"

"I haven't used it up yet, but the situation is not good," Shen Jie replied: "You want to check my account, right? Okay, I'll go back and settle the account with you."

"That's not what I meant," Xiao Yao muttered, "I was just asking."

As he was speaking, the dilapidated "Zhangnan Line" bus made a sound of leaking air, and accompanied by a strong pushing feeling on the back, it slowly drove out of the platform.

Unlike the previous bus, this old bus looked a bit crowded, the leather seats were worn and wrinkled, and there were obvious oil stains and garbage on the floor. There was an unpleasant smell in the air, which seemed to be a mixture of cigarette smoke in the driver's cab and the sweat of the people in the car.

The air conditioning was not very good, and the bus was full of college students, some of whom were reading seriously, some were dozing off, and some were talking in low voices. The bus was bumping and creaking from time to time.

Like all suburban lines, the "Zhangnan Line" also retains the position of ticket sellers and charges according to the number of stops.

"Where to?" the old lady asked in a gruff voice.

"The end...right?" Xiao Yao said uncertainly.

"Seven dollars."

Xiao Yao paid 14 yuan and suddenly thought of the day when he, Yu Luying and the other two went to Qingpu.

It seemed that Yu Luying helped buy the tickets that time, and the three of us also departed from the same bus stop. It was just that we went together at that time, but today we deliberately went in opposite directions...

"You said, if the test shows that the symbiotic distance limit is really gone," Xiao Yao gently asked Shen Jie, "Do we not have to separate? I can go abroad with you."

Shen Jie didn't say anything, so Xiao Yao thought she was asleep.

The boy turned his head and saw the girl looking sadly at the desolate view outside the car window, turning a deaf ear to his questions.

"Wife." Xiao Yao poked her arm.

"Ah," Shen Jie seemed to have just come back to her senses: "Maybe... it should be possible?"

"My dear, you are so pretty. Tell me, why do you have to go abroad?" Xiao Yao asked her, "Can't you take the college entrance examination in China? The admission score in Shanghai is so low."

Shen Jie felt annoyed and thought to herself, you want to arrange things for me now?

"I'm studying in the International Department of Girls' High School, and I'll be in my third year of high school in the second half of the year," Shen Jie thought for a moment and explained calmly, "What we study is not related to the college entrance examination. If I give up studying abroad and take the college entrance examination, I can probably go to a junior college in Shanghai, right?"

Xiao Yao thought to himself, isn't there still a year in high school for me to work hard? After thinking about it, he was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

Besides, even if you try really hard, you still can’t have a normal relationship.

"Actually, don't be angry when I say this, I'm just chatting," Xiao Yao thought for a moment and said, "With a family background like yours, your education is actually useless, right?"

"Yes, academic qualifications are not just a stepping stone to finding a job. If a new head of a company reveals that he has a junior college degree, all investors will be scared away." Shen Jie gave him a strange look: "Where did you learn this lazy thinking from?"

"No, I just feel..." Xiao Yao thought about it and stopped talking.

He realized that now might not be a good time to explore the philosophy of life of "being content with a small fortune" and "being content with what you have".

The conditions proposed by Shen Jie seem very tempting.

From "lovers" to "friends", the identity of "fiancée" is retained by default. They can continue to keep in touch, go on dates, and have intimate contact. There seems to be no essential difference from not breaking up. It is just a nominal transformation.

And, maybe give her more personal space.

And he can "renew his old relationship" with Yu Luying.

In a sense, no, actually, it's like having two people in a relationship at the same time.

Of course, this goes against Xiao Yao's consistent view of love so far.

But it would be dishonest to say that he wasn't moved at all.

Moreover, Xiao Yao felt that he should not be so optimistic.

Just like what his father-in-law said to Shen Jie, "As long as you go back, everything can be discussed," he also had to consider the possibility that this was a scam.

Once Shen Jie returns, she will no longer be able to decide how things develop.

But can I really stop the situation from developing in this direction? If not, Shen Jie's proposal is already the best solution. Is this the balancing act of the "future head of the enterprise"?

Shen Jie's meaning was very clear. Since they would be living in a foreign country for many years in the future, they should simply avoid developing too many emotions. In other words, the emotions should be artificially diluted.

Xiao Yao simulated the scene that would happen after Shen Jie returned after he agreed.

At the beginning, she would reply to my messages quickly and talk to me on the landline for long hours at night.

Meet up...even if once a week is not guaranteed, at least we can meet up every two weeks.

She would come to visit her daughter, and then the two of them would hug each other, chew on her, and roll around.

Gradually, there were fewer and fewer phone calls, fewer and fewer messages, and fewer and fewer topics for the two to talk about.