In the music series, the male protagonist writes a self-help manual for the inner world

If what Aine said is true, then things are getting pretty serious.

Because apparently, the dream showed the members of Tomo's band, but Tomo's band was formed after he and Aine met.

So it was a precognitive dream?

Before I met the band Deng, I dreamed about the members of the band Deng and their ending.

But wait... Thinking about it, Chen Xinghua frowned again.

"You said you had this dream before you met me...but what does that have to do with not dreaming about me?"

He stood up straight and asked Chihaya Aine.

Is there a strong correlation between the two?

Since I've already had a precognitive dream, shouldn't I be more likely to dream about him?

After all, he felt that he and Chihaya Aine were more than just ordinary friends. At least they were closer than those friends who completely forgot each other's names after graduating from school.

"Hmm... maybe it's because you weren't in my dream?"

Chihaya Aine said tentatively.

But after seeing Chen Xinghua's helpless look, she realized that Chen Xinghua might be unable to deduce the truth of the matter because he was lacking some key things.

But he really believed that she was explaining it seriously, not just making up an excuse or simply going crazy.

"It's the butterfly effect."

Chihaya Aine stared at Chen Xinghua's face in a daze, and the corners of her mouth, which had been drooping, gradually smoothed out.

"Because I didn't faint in my dream, I didn't meet you."

"That's why I don't see your character in my dreams."

So is it time travel? Chen Xinghua naturally thought of his own experience and then projected his own experience onto Chihaya Aine.

No, it would be more reasonable to say that it is rebirth rather than time travel.

But the next moment, he shook his head and denied his idea.

Because it is very likely that Aine "dreamed" of the future of Deng's nameless band, rather than traveling to a completely different world line.

...The latter is just like him.

Chen Xinghua, who was thinking, suddenly realized that his hand was being held tighter.

"I think what I said was a bit bullshit."

Chihaya Aine lowered her gray eyes and used her free hand to brush across her forehead, wiping away a few drops of sweat.

"It's like a dream... Sometimes I worry that everything that's happening now is just a dream."

It was just a wonderful dream that Chihaya Aine had while lying in bed drinking heavily after being eliminated from the band.

"If I wake up, I still have to fight against the cruel reality."

Chihaya Aine sighed deeply. She didn't know if she could still muster up the courage to fight the cruel reality like before if her ending was really like this.

After all, this time, Chen Xinghua might not be with her.

The cruelest thing in the world is never despair, but allowing people to see a ray of light in despair and then cruelly taking away that light.

"Dreams are beautiful but fleeting."

Listening to Chihaya Aine's sigh, Chen Xinghua increased the possibility of Chihaya Aine's rebirth a lot.

This also explains why Aine had such a bad attitude towards Deng when she first met him. Chen Xinghua thought about the time when he first knew that Aine had a bad attitude towards Deng, and he was very puzzled as to why Aine was like this, even though she had only been studying at Yuqiu for one day.

But if Chihaya Aine was dreaming, it would completely explain this.

"Let's find a place to sit...at least not in the sun all the time."

Chen Xinghua pulled out a pack of disposable tissues from his pocket, pinched off the sticker on it with his thumb familiarly, and then handed the pack of tissues to Chihaya Aine.

"I'm worried you'll get heatstroke again like the first time we met... huh?"

Chen Xinghua raised his head and looked at Chihaya Aine with some confusion.

Because he felt the sweat flowing down his face like a small river, being gently wiped away by several soft tissues stacked together.

“Aine?”

The owner holding these tissues was Chihaya Aine.

"I mean... rub it for you."

"I'm sorry, I just felt really embarrassed about all the sweat I broke out in from dragging you around all of a sudden."

As Chihaya Aine spoke, she stuffed the tissue soaked with Chen Xinghua's sweat into her pocket.

Because throwing away used tissues casually is a very bad behavior and can be defined as a waste of resources.

"It's okay. I have to take a shower every day in the summer anyway."

As Chen Xinghua spoke, he looked at his arm that was held by Chihaya Aine.

Are you still holding it?

Chihaya Aine followed Chen Xinghua's gaze and saw her own five fingers tightly grasping his hand.

This made her face reveal an awkward smile.

She understood that she should let go of Chen Xinghua's hand now, or at least hold it a little looser.

But...what should she do if she just doesn't want to let go? She is afraid that as soon as she lets go, Chen Xinghua will escape from her hands.

So Chihaya Aine turned around and looked for a cool and shady place with few people.

After a brief glance, Chihaya Aine turned her gaze back to Chen Xinghua.

"That place is perfect for conversation."

“There are few people and it’s very cool.”

"Then let's go."

As he spoke, Chen Xinghua held Chihaya Aine's hand in his, and walked with her towards the shade with big strides.

But after he turned around, Chihaya Aine's face turned red again.

However, after strenuous exercise, anyone's face will turn red.

In this situation, even if she continued to blush with girlish shyness, even someone with extremely keen observation skills would probably not notice it.

But unlike the cheeks where it was difficult to tell anything was wrong, Chihaya Aine's increasingly clenched palms made it easy to see that something was wrong with its owner.

Holding hands tightly, is she afraid of running away? It seems that Aine is unusually insecure. Is it because of that "dream"? Chen Xinghua stopped while thinking, and Chihaya Aine also stopped.

Because in the "dream", Aine becomes the most unwanted member of Tou's nameless band.

...It seems that Lenai is the same.

Just as Chen Xinghua was thinking about this, the image of a cute cat lazily tasting matcha parfait suddenly flashed through his mind.

But if Lenai realized that he was redundant, he would probably be like a free cat, dragging his instrument case containing all his luggage and setting out again to find a new home.

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Chapter 244 Why did it disband?

However, even now, he couldn't be completely sure whether Aiyin's "dream" was real or not. It was just speculation. Chen Xinghua felt that he had to be more rigorous in this regard.

Besides, Deng doesn't seem like the kind of high school student who would abandon others.

Perhaps when Deng grows up she will realize how heavy and difficult life is, but she cannot realize it now.

"By the way, Aine, do you know the lottery numbers for the next few draws?"

Chen Xinghua looked at the intersection where not many people happened to pass by, and spoke casually to Chihaya Aine.

“No one would remember such things.”

Chihaya Aine took out a few tissues from the disposable tissue bag that Chen Xinghua had just handed her and wiped her face vigorously several times.

Will he believe me?

Or was it just out of pure politeness that he played the game of pretending she was reborn?

Thinking of this, a look of disappointment flashed across Chihaya Aine's face.

"And the second and first rounds of many games are very different."

"Even if I did remember the lottery numbers from the previous round, they would be very different from the numbers from the second round."

"makes sense."

Chen Xinghua first nodded in agreement, then turned his head and glanced at Chihaya Aine's lonely expression.

He thought Chihaya Aine probably felt that no one would believe her... After all, whether it was "precognitive dreams" or rebirth, it was all nonsense on the same level as time travel.

Although there is a time traveler here.

“Aine, I feel like there are so many incredible things in this world… It would be too hasty to dismiss them all without any investigation.”

Chen Xinghua said in a low voice.

After all, true materialism will not deny the existence of ghosts, as long as ghosts are real things and not something people make up out of fear.

Since time travel has happened before, it wouldn't be too much to expect some other low-probability events to happen as well.

Although Chen Xinghua was not sure whether Chihaya Aine's explanation was completely correct, or whether it was really just a dream.

"And this approach is not scientific at all."

Hearing Chen Xinghua's words, Chihaya Aine felt that she should complain a few times.

Shouldn't anyone with common sense think that it is scientific to immediately deny her statement?

"By the way, Aine, I still don't understand why you ran away when you saw Shoko."

Chen Xinghua's somewhat confused voice made Chihaya Aine raise her face, and also made her blood run cold.

He knew himself very well. Chihaya Aine knew this.

He knew that he wasn't particularly concerned about the band's affairs, and that he didn't particularly want to save the band. Recalling his past experience of slacking off with Chen Xinghua, Chihaya Aine knew this.

"It might be my imagination...but I feel like you, Aine, don't seem particularly sad about the band's second disbanding."

Amidst Chihaya Aine's icy-sounding words, she met Chen Xinghua's somewhat confused black eyes. Those black eyes seemed to be asking, "Why? Aine, can you tell me in person?"

Because Chen Xinghua knew Chihaya Aine very well, Chihaya Aine was sure that she could not use the reason that she was afraid that Toyokawa Shoko would resurrect 'CRYCHIC' on the corpse of the nameless band to explain her previous extreme behavior.

"Feel sorry."

Chihaya Aine suddenly said this word, but she also knew that confession was the clarion call for the final charge, not the first charge.

Chen Xinghua raised the corner of his eyes, as if speaking silently to Chihaya Aine: "Why are you feeling sorry?"

Chihaya Aine lowered her eyes, not wanting to look at Chen Xinghua.

If he said that he was afraid that Xinghua would be taken away by Toyokawa Shoko like 'CRYCHIC', even a fool would know what he thought of Chen Xinghua.

Besides, he is not a fool.

But Chihaya Aine knew that no matter what, as long as she expressed her desire to confess to him, whether he refused or not, it would cause a strange relationship between their friendship.

It would be fine if the confession was successful, but that's not right... Thinking of this, Chihaya Aine immediately denied her idea in her heart, because she felt that she had no intention of doing anything sexual with Chen Xinghua for the time being.

At most, it's just some ambiguous thoughts.

But if the confession fails, it means that you can’t go back to the previous atmosphere of getting along.

What's more, Xinghua would most likely refuse... Chihaya Aine felt that she was not the heroine in a romance comic, so she was sure that she had been slacking off during this period, waiting to be optimized out by the band, and had not chosen to spend as much time with Chen Xinghua as possible, so she would not be able to gain Chen Xinghua's favorability.

"Sorry……"

Chihaya Aine said, "Because I was afraid that you wouldn't believe me, so I..."

At this time, I have to use something else to divert his attention. Chihaya Aine made up her mind and showed a sincere apology on her face.

This apology is sincere and without any pretense.

She took a deep breath, and her gray pupils dimmed again.

"In the dream I had at that time, the band broke up."