You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"So," Xiao Yao asked, looking at the ceiling above his head, "How long have we been sleeping?"

"Today seems to be the 17th, October 10th," Yu Luying replied while lying on her bed, "We slept for... 17 days."

"19 days," Xiao Yao pondered, "is two-thirds of a month."

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Yu Luying asked in confusion.

"What day of the week is the 17th?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Luying.

"Sunday?" Yu Luying said hesitantly, "Wait until my phone is fully charged and then I'll know."

"It's Sunday, so we have to go to mass." Xiao Yao smiled.

"The premise is that the doctor allows us to be discharged from the hospital." Yu Luying said: "They said that they will arrange a comprehensive physical examination during the day."

"What the hell is a re-examination? We know clearly that there is nothing wrong with our bodies," Xiao Yao said, "Talk to Brother Bo and ask your uncle to get us three released as soon as possible."

"Um, oh, ah," Yu Luying said, "Okay."

Xiao Yao didn't say anything else, he held his breath.

The ward was completely silent, with only the faint sound of the second hand moving.

"Don't you have anything to explain to me?" After waiting for about a minute, Xiao Yao spoke calmly.

"No." Yu Luying blurted out: "What do I need to explain to you?"

"For example," Xiao Yao saw that she was still playing dumb, and said impatiently, "For example, where did you go after leaving the slaughterhouse? For example, what happened between you and Zhang Zhengkai?"

"Slaughterhouse? What are you talking about? Did you sleep too long and your mind is not clear?" Yu Luying said in surprise: "Zhang Zhengkai? What can happen between me and Zhang Zhengkai? I have never met him alone - it is impossible for me to meet him alone, right?"

"You're still playing dumb, aren't you?"

"Why am I pretending to be stupid?"

"you!"

So, Yu Luying began to tell the story of the long dream she had had over the past 19 days.

It was a completely different and independent dream from Xiao Yao's.

Chapter 397 Shen Jie has become a clingy cat?

2023-12-02

Yu Luying depicts a beautiful dream with video and shadow, which is completely different from the dream Xiao Yao experienced and is completely independent.

The more Xiao Yao listened, the more surprised he became - his first reaction was that Yu Luying was just making up nonsense, but was it possible for her to come up with a dream with such depth, content, and logic in such a short time?

If you think about it carefully, it is entirely possible for a literary girl to have such an idea in mind.

In any case, Xiao Yao felt anxious.

If Yu Luying wasn't lying, he would have to go find Shen Jie to verify it quickly.

If Shen Jie's dream was different from his own, then it meant that the past 19 days were just a meaningless dream?

For example, if you play an online game, work hard to build a foundation, and achieve great achievements in the server, but finally find out that this is just a stand-alone game, and those teammates and brothers you thought were all AI and NPCs, you will definitely feel completely despaired.

Xiao Yao wanted to go downstairs to find Shen Jie again, but Yu Luying had already fallen asleep.

He took out his cell phone to contact Yu Bo, but Yu Bo was still awake.

"What time is it?" Yu Bo said, "I should prepare for the first mass in the morning. You just escaped from inside, so you should have a good rest."

"Inside? Did you send Zhang Zhengkai to our dream?" Xiao Yao asked Yu Bo: "Did Shi Hui escape?"

Yu Bo gave an affirmative answer.

Xiao Yao then felt a little relieved and fell asleep.

Yu Bo did not contribute at all to their discharge arrangements. On Sunday, October 10, the three underwent a comprehensive physical examination and were forced to stay in the hospital for two days of observation before being allowed to be discharged on Wednesday, October 17.

Director Lin conveyed the principal's intention and told them not to rush to school and to rest for two more days. So the three little ones spent the rest of the week at Xiao Yao's grandmother's home.

Xiao Yao and Shen Jie compared statements and confirmed that at least Shen Jie and he were in the same dream.

At the beginning of the dream, Shen Jie and Xiao Yao, like each other, lived peacefully in a happy world without each other.

Her parents had a harmonious family, her test scores were healthy, her interpersonal relationships were good, and she had a fiancé who loved her and whom she didn't dislike very much.

Everything was fine until one day, a silly boy with a cat suddenly broke into her life.

"And you fell in love with me at first sight, too?" Xiao Yao asked expectantly, "Your heart is pounding like a deer?"

Shen Jie glanced at him, nodded and said softly: "Yeah."

"Tell the truth!" Xiao Yao demanded seriously.

"That's not the case," Shen Jie recalled seriously, "but I just felt that you were very familiar, and that cat was also very familiar, as if I had raised one myself."

Xiao Yao shrugged: "Normal."

The next story is that Shen Jie was kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby underground room.

For reasons that are still unclear, the butcher Zhang Zhengkai tore her soul into countless pieces while she was sleeping.

But the two most important fragments are the girl in a sweater and a blue skirt, and the six-year-old girl who loves lollipops.

The girl in the blue skirt had no idea what the butcher had done to her. After escaping from prison, she found the room full of photos and ran into Xiao Yao who had just come out of Qiangui KTV.

Lu Xiu Ling Tong only retained his memories and mental state before the age of six. He was released and then integrated into the life in the "city".

What follows is a plot that everyone is familiar with - Shen Jie in a blue dress and Xiao Yao are separated because of the trampling of the female giant, and then they meet the "butcher" who is anxiously searching for her.

"How can it be such a coincidence?" Xiao Yao pointed out: "Maybe the female giant was released by Kaizi the Butcher."

"We can't completely rule out this possibility," Shen Jie agreed, "He knew he couldn't beat you, so he had to use this method to separate the two of us."

"Then," Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie, "he kidnapped you?"

"Actually," Shen Jie hesitated for a moment, "If I said I went with him on my own, would you be angry?"

"It's okay," Xiao Yao said, "After all, you at that time haven't recovered your memory yet. To you, he is still the so-called future..."

Shen Jie stretched out a finger and placed it vertically on Xiao Yao's lips.

After Blue Skirt's Shen Jie was taken away by the butcher, Liu Xiao Ling Tong met him again by chance. With the help of the mysterious telepathy between the two fragments, the little princess once again brought Xiao Yao to Blue Skirt's side.

"I have a few questions," Xiao Yao lowered his head and pondered. "First, the city is so big, how come it just happened that the kindergarten version of you ran into me? Is it really just a pure coincidence?"

"I don't know," Shen Jie shook her head and said, "I don't know. On the bright side, could it be that there is a spiritual connection between the two of us?"

Xiao Yao found these words quite useful, and he felt that this possibility did exist.

"Question two," Xiao Yao said, "Why did he tear you in half?"

"I don't know either - in fact, it's not two halves," Shen Jie corrected him, "I can feel that the little girl and the girl in the blue skirt you met are just the two biggest pieces of me."

In the deepest room of the slaughterhouse, the room where the "butcher" was, the little princess and the girl in the blue dress completed their fusion, forming a relatively - basically complete soul.

"I'm worried about those fragments," Xiao Yao told Shen Jie, "and what kind of harm and impact those fragments that might be lost will cause to you."

"I still don't know," the clueless girl replied, "but..."

"but what?"

"I feel fine now, nothing unusual." Shen Jie told Xiao Yao.

Even though Shen Jie said this, Xiao Yao was still worried and he was still concerned about this matter.

Furthermore, he began to feel resentment towards Zhang Zhengkai.

In the past, Zhang Zhengkai kept pestering his wife, but he didn't hate him that much. Instead, he felt a little sympathy for him and felt a little sorry for him. Now that he is peaceful, he feels resentful.

For example, you accidentally - let's just say you accidentally - hit my wife with your car. Although she didn't have any external injuries and the hospital check-up showed only a mild concussion, I am always worried that there might be some undetectable internal injuries or sequelae, and I feel uneasy inside.

And all you have done, so far, is say "sorry" to us, that's all.

"So," Xiao Yao asked Shen Jie, "what does it feel like to be two or even more people at the same time?"

October 10, Friday, is also the Double Ninth Festival this year.

Xiao Yao was sitting on the hard sofa in his room. Shen Jie was lying flat on the sofa with her head resting on Xiao Yao's knees and her legs raised high. She was describing to Xiao Yao what it was like to be "two people" or even more people at the same time.

The room was very quiet, and the only sound that could be heard was the slight sound of Yu Luying's pen tip scratching across her exercise book.

The weather was getting a little cold, and Yu Luying and Shen Jie both changed into nice autumn clothes, which made Xiao Yao feel pleasing to the eye.

Summer clothes are too thin and winter clothes are too bulky, so spring and autumn girls' clothes are Xiao Yao's favorite - unfortunately, there is almost no spring and autumn in the city of Magic City, it is either a hot summer or a severe winter, and the transition period in between is often only a short dozen days.

The young man casually stroked Shen Jie's slightly thick white socks and listened to her with his eyes narrowed.

"It sounds like," Xiao Yao commented, "When you are a six-year-old girl and Shen Jie in a blue dress at the same time, it's a bit like opening two windows and logging into two accounts at the same time when playing games."

"It's a bit similar, but not exactly the same - completely different," Shen Jie frowned and thought for a while, then told Xiao Yao, "It's more like two images superimposed on each other, and you can operate them freely at the same time. Your brain will respond at the same time, and it won't slow down due to distraction."

"It's hard to imagine." Xiao Yao tilted his head and thought for a while.

"I find it hard to imagine myself," Shen Jie turned over and lay on her side, rubbing her nose against Xiao Yao's belly button - of course, through his clothes. Yu Luying looked unhappy and gently rubbed her own belly: "It's been almost a week since I woke up from the dream. Now when I think back to what I experienced at that time...what I saw and heard, those scenes, and all kinds of feelings at that time, have all become blurry."

"Well, that's it." Xiao Yao casually tried to find the strap protruding from Shen Jie's back, but he couldn't find it because the autumn clothes were too thick: "After all, it was just a dream."

As he said this, he glanced at Yu Luying intentionally or unintentionally.

"Yes, just like when we are in a dream, sometimes we do some very strange things seriously, and we don't feel it's strange," Shen Jie said, "Sometimes we encounter very strange things, but we will feel that they are very normal, as if we are used to it. In fact, when we wake up and think about it, they are all suspicious points, and we can tell at a glance that they are not normal. It was the same when I felt that there were two or even many of myself in my dream. At that time, I thought it was very natural. How to control so many bodies at the same time was also instinctive and natural, just like that..."

During this week's break, Xiao Yao and Shen Jie talked about many things, including but not limited to metaphysical topics such as "What does it feel like to be multiple you at the same time?"

But there are two topics that they have always tacitly avoided talking about and no one has touched on.

The first topic is about the fact that Yu Luying and the two little ones are "sleeping in the same bed but having different dreams".

Of course, Xiao Yao and Shen Jie both remembered how "Yu Luying" betrayed them in this dream.

Not completely betrayed though.

Since Yu Luying announced that she knew nothing about the matter, she just said it, and Xiao and Shen believed it for the time being. No one raised any questions in person.

After all, it's better to be ignorant, right?

But deep down inside.

Xiao Yao knew he didn't believe it.

Xiao Yao also knew that Shen Jie didn't believe it either.

Xiao Yao also knew, and Shen Jie also knew that he didn't believe it.

Xiao Yao also knew that Shen Jie also knew that he knew she didn't believe it.

...Okay, that’s enough tongue twisters.

The two kids kept silent about this matter, firstly because they knew it was a rare ignorance, and secondly because Yu Luying was within five meters most of the time.

But in the final analysis, the main thing is "one come".

However, once suspicion takes root deep in one's heart, it will not affect the formation of estrangement whether it is expressed out loud or not.

The above sentence may also be applicable to the following matter.

Another topic that Shen Jie and Xiao Yao tacitly avoided talking about was the so-called son claimed by the butcher Zhang Zhengkai.

When the butcher said this without any reason, Shen Jie also heard it outside the room.

Xiao Yao knew in his heart that this was just fucking nonsense.

He also knew that if he rashly brought up the matter with Shen Jie, if it was not handled properly, it might lead to a quarrel between the two of them.

It's not worth it.

No matter what, the most valuable thing is always the present, isn't it?

As long as in this world, in this timeline, the most real and only reality for me, I am her first and last man, and we live together forever, that's enough, isn't it?

Of course.

Of course, of course...

Sunday, January 2004, 10.

After the morning mass, Shen Jie did not go home with Xiao Yao, but said that she had some things of her own to take care of.

Xiao Yao took Yu Luying back to his grandmother's house, went straight into Shen Tianyun's room alone, asked his daughter for her cell phone, and called Shen Jie in 2034.

It was almost late at night in the United States, but fortunately Shen Jie had not yet gone to bed.