Chapter 57 The Troublemaker in the 1980s 27 Extra

On the first day that Shen Qian left, Zhou Shengmo discovered that she had left.

That morning, he woke up feeling uneasy for no apparent reason.

It was already the mid-1990s. After Zhou Shengmo's leg recovered, he took the driving test and bought a car.

The couple's activity radius has expanded a lot. Sometimes, Zhou Shengmo will take Chen Qian out for a drive. Eight years ago, Chen Qian proposed to build an orchid garden, so the two bought a piece of land in the west of the city and built a 200-acre orchid plantation. In the past few years, when the price of orchids soared, Chen Qian wanted to travel, so Zhou Shengmo reduced the scale of orchids in the orchid garden to 20% of the original. He used the money earned from selling orchids to buy a courtyard house in the city center, modified it himself, and then took his wife to travel around the world.

Now his family's living conditions have changed dramatically, but sometimes Zhou Shengmo still thinks of the welfare house that Chen Qian designed for him.

Although the first floor is a bit damp and there are indeed many mosquitoes in the summer, Zhou Shengmo's happiest memories of his life are there.

When he woke up that day, he felt a sense of emptiness and despair in his heart. He thought about waiting for his wife to get up, and then suggested that they drive to Fuxiang Street after breakfast. Although the old houses had been demolished, the old street was still there, some old neighbors were still there, and the small shops he used to frequent were still there.

Chen Qian is still there.

He will feel at ease.

However, after Chen Qian got up, Zhou Shengmo realized that his world had collapsed.

My daughter-in-law... has changed. She is no longer the same person she used to be.

Zhou Shengmo couldn't clearly explain what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong with just one look. The person's appearance, voice, smile, and caring words hadn't changed.

But he just knew that she was gone...

From that moment on, Zhou Shengmo felt that his life was derailing from its original track and heading in a completely uncontrollable direction.

Zhou Shengmo spent some time in a daze. He knew that he could pretend that she was still there and that nothing had changed. In theory, he could still live a good life. After all, he had achieved success in the secular sense.

But he couldn't do it.

She left, taking away all the goals he had fought for. Everything he had became meaningless, even breathing seemed unnecessary.

Zhou Shengmo fell into darkness in a daze, and a strange mechanical sound appeared in his mind.

The voice told him that the world he lived in was a novel. He traveled to a novel after accidentally dying in his original world. However, due to a system error, a tasker from the Space-Time Administration Bureau appeared in this world. Now that the system has corrected the error, he can continue to stay in this world, or accept the compensation plan and immediately go to the next book with the golden finger, or return to the original world. The system will make up for his lost lifespan and he can return to his original life.

Zhou Shengmo opened his eyes in the darkness, and some details of his past with Chen Qian emerged in his mind like a kaleidoscope.

"So...the person who did the task is Shen Qian?"

"Yes, she originally wanted to divorce you and didn't plan to raise the two children. She traveled through time to change the two children's fate of being cannon fodder."

The mechanical voice replied.

"What about me?"

"You are not within her scope of responsibility."

"What was my original ending?"

"In the original book, you lived to be 35. After your divorce, you were bedridden, lived a miserable life, and died alone."

Now he is 37 years old. She did not choose to divorce him, but accompanied him through twelve very fulfilling and happy years.

In fact, he had doubts before. He learned from Shen Jianguo by chance a few years ago that none of their relatives and friends in their hometown grew orchids, and he had never seen Shen Qian grow orchids since he was a child.

He had suspected it at the time, and when he accidentally saw the silver needles she hid deep in the closet, he also suspected that she actually knew much more about medicine than he did.

Coupled with Shen Qian's near-miraculous predictions about various investments, he should have noticed it long ago, but...

Zhou Shengmo thought of this and pulled the corners of his lips with a wry smile.

It's just that his life is too perfect, so he confidently thinks that all this will last forever and they can stay together forever.

But he didn't expect that when he woke up from the dream, happiness was so short-lived. It turned out that... after she left, he really couldn't bear it for a moment.

"Have you decided? Do you want to travel to the next book, or return to your original world? I suggest traveling through the book. After all, it comes with a cheat code, and you'll experience pleasures that ordinary people can't even imagine!"

Zhou Shengmo had already made up his mind and interrupted the mechanical voice: "Can I choose the world with Chen Qian? Didn't you say that she is a tasker of the Space-Time Administration? Send me to the world with her. It doesn't matter if there is no golden finger. I just want to be with her."

The mechanical voice paused. "If you don't have the cheat code... it's not impossible. It's just... she's the mission leader. If you rashly go there and reveal your identity to her, it could disrupt her mission and the world order, causing her mission to fail, or even threaten her life."

Zhou Shengmo quickly asked, "If I don't reveal my identity, can I go?"

"Hey, why are you doing this? If you don't reveal your identity, you and her could be strangers, each living your own life. You will also be punished and restricted for giving up your original world and the opportunity to travel through the book."

"What kind of punishment?"

"That's hard to say. Maybe she doesn't exist in the world you go to. Maybe you need to complete many tasks before you can see her again. And you may not even have any intersection with her."

"As long as I can see her again, I can accept all of this!" Zhou Shengmo said firmly.

The mechanical voice finally compromised: "Alright then, but I need to record the reason why you gave up your original two choices and became a fast-travel tasker."

Zhou Shengmo was silent in the darkness for a long time. Finally, he said, "She has been with me all my life, and I will follow her forever."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a countdown in his ears.

【ten……】

【Nine……】

【eight……】

"I remind you again, after you enter those worlds, you must not mention your former identity or name. Even if you meet her, you must not overly influence her life trajectory in that world."

【three……】

【two……】

【one……】

In the last few seconds, Zhou Shengmo made his last wish in his heart. No matter where he would go next, what his identity would be, or how many worlds he would experience in the future, he hoped that he would never forget every detail of their twelve years together.

It doesn't matter if she has forgotten, as long as he still remembers it!