If you say...

If Lin Chaoxi had known in advance that she would encounter such a bizarre and absurd thing if she took this step.

Before that, she must have searched on Baidu for the winning numbers of that year's sports lottery and memorized them in her mind.

But she was too late, after all, no one knows that they are going to travel through time before they do.

Yes, that’s right, by the broad definition of internet fiction, after writing the entire formula, she was 12 years old again.

She still kept the posture of holding the chalk and writing on the wall.

But the wall is not that wall, the door is not that door, and even the wild cat on the roadside is not the original vampire.

The surrounding environment has changed dramatically.

Lin Chaoxi took a half step back and looked carefully at his arms which were becoming shorter, darker and fatter.

"Fuck." She cursed, stared at the wall, and fell silent.

The wall is made of red bricks and there is a huge iron door on the right side.

On the upper left side, there is a metal plate. It is old and still has some rust on it, and it reads "Anning City Hope Project Funding Unit".

Not knowing what was happening, she slowly moved her eyes to the left and saw more signs.

The signs are yellow and white, new and old.

Some of them say "Social Practice Base of a Certain University" and some say "Pilot Unit for Heart-to-Heart Mutual Assistance".

The last sign is the largest, with black letters on a white background, and it reads - "Anning Red Star Welfare Home".

It was strange, but after returning to the past, this little strangeness was nothing - at that moment, she clearly realized that she was still herself, but she had returned to the fifth grade of elementary school.

It was like someone tapped her between the eyebrows, and then the information was infused and became a part of her consciousness itself, and she accepted it all naturally.

She even knew clearly that the orphanage behind the iron gate was called Red Star, where she had lived day and night for the twelve years since she was in the fifth grade of elementary school.

She was abandoned here when she was young, without a father or mother, and had a strange temper. Fortunately, she was a good student, and her mother, the dean, liked her very much and tried to send her to a normal local primary school.

Although her life path is completely different from before, she is still the same Lin Chaoxi.

Only this time, not only did she not have a mother, she also did not have a father.

The changes were so huge that even with an adult's mind, she still felt powerless and confused like never before.

Her legs and feet felt weak and her heart was beating wildly, so she couldn't help but sit down on the steps at the entrance of the welfare home.

After sitting down and calming down for a while, she suddenly had an idea and finally found a sentence she had heard before to describe her current situation.

——Every thought and choice of a person will create a different world.

It's like standing in a cake shop, struggling to decide whether to choose strawberry or cheese flavor.

She used to live in a world of strawberry flavored choices, but now, it is obvious that the world she lives in is a world of cheese flavored choices.

I don't know which thought went wrong in her choice. In the cheese-flavored world, she and Lao Lin still have no father-daughter relationship, which is completely different from the plot where they had depended on each other since childhood.

To put it more simply, she came to a parallel world, where Lao Lin didn't raise her for some unknown reason and she was an orphan.

It is also very simple to determine this.

Lin Chaoxi stood up and found a silver-white sign with good reflectivity among the many signs at the entrance of the welfare home and took a photo of it.

Um……

Round face, big eyes, big ears, round nose...

She looks exactly the same as she did when she was a child.

It's almost midsummer and the weather is hot.

Lin Chaoxi confirmed this and felt relieved. She smacked her lips, leaned back, and savored her memories of this world.

The next second, the schoolbag hit the edge of the stairs heavily, and the pencil case and water cup made a loud clanging sound.

She was startled and quickly loosened the straps and held the bag against her chest, fearing that she might break something.

Lin Zhaoxi was stunned.

This is not hers. This series of actions are Xiaolin Chaoxi's instinctive reactions.

She couldn't damage anything. Even ordinary school bags and water cups were very valuable and she couldn't afford to buy a second one.

Lin Chaoxi held the bag strap and looked down.

The backpack was washed white, and the easily broken parts of the straps were fixed with patches with fine stitches.

Then she realized that her description was wrong. To her, this world was not as smooth as cheese at all, but bitter from beginning to end.

Like all orphans, her biggest wish since she was old enough to understand was for her parents to come back and pick her up.

But for twelve years, she never waited for her parents to come.

In this world, she is really fierce. She argues with teachers in class and classmates after class. She is rebellious and no one will submit to her. Her most recent heroic act was to pin the head teacher's son to the ground and beat him.

Now at noon, she came back to eat, and her class teacher asked her to inform her parents to go to school in the afternoon. But she didn't dare to let her mother, the director, know, so she could only hesitate at the door of the welfare home.

The scene at that time should have been very simple and pure.

The her in this world took a step back at the door of the orphanage, but the her in that world took a step forward at the door of her home.

In the process of advancing and retreating, the 5th-year-old Lin Chaoxi was replaced by the 22-year-old Lin Chaoxi.

Now, the fifth-grade Lin Chaoxi is neither eccentric due to lack of love nor anxious and miserable due to fear of the dean's blame.

But then another emotion came flooding back.

She looked up, but could only see a thin strip of sky through the eaves.

Lao Lin, where are you?

Without me, would your life still be a mess?

…

Lin Chaoxi thought about it for a long time.

Finally, she patted her butt and stood up from the door of the welfare house. Anyway, she was here, so she had to try to find Lao Lin.

Walking out of the alley, the city scene unfolds.

In those days, Anning City had not yet experienced large-scale construction. The buildings were short and small, and the shops were crowded, such as roast chicken shops, noodle shops, clothing shops... The waiters were busy in aprons, and the old man used chicken feathers to sweep the dust on the shelves. Although Chen Xianyuan was not as beautiful as later lights, he was inexplicably friendly.

Lin Chaoxi was walking on the road, looking around.

Having lived in Anning City for so many years, she had of course heard of the Red Star Welfare Home, but she only had a general idea of ​​where it was.

A familiar aroma wafted through the air. She took a few quick steps and saw a squid stand. Now, all the general concepts became concrete. Hey, the Red Star Welfare House was not far from where she and Lao Lin used to live. She didn't need to walk across the city.

There was a big banner hanging above the iron plate squid stall with the three characters "Chen Dayan" written on it. Later, Anning TV Station made a food program and honored the owner Chen as the God of Squid.

However, in those days, the reward for elementary school students to wash dishes was generally 10 cents, so three skewers of grilled squid for five yuan was still not cheap.

The stall was surrounded by students in three layers inside and three layers outside, and Lin Chaoxi also squeezed in to watch.

There was a little kid who was probably eating it for the first time and he held his grandmother’s hand.

The stall owner asked them what kind of sauce they wanted, and the grandmother said without hesitation that she didn't want any sauce and that children couldn't eat spicy food.

Lin Chaoxi looked at the three cups of sauce that were later praised by the media, pulled the child's clothes, and whispered, "The sweet and spicy sauce is delicious, you should try it."

The grandmother glared at her, took the squid, took the child's hand and left.

The child looked back every three steps.

Lin Chaoxi pointed at the sweet and spicy sauce and made an exaggerated gesture with his mouth, saying "super delicious".

The boss burst out laughing, probably feeling very happy, and held up a grilled squid and insisted on giving it to her.

"No need! I'll let my dad bring me to buy it next time!" Lin Chaoxi waved to the boss, put on his schoolbag, and continued walking forward.

At the end of the road there is another street.

There are two primary schools near the Red Star Welfare Home. Around one o'clock, the children who had gone home for lunch began to return to school one after another.

The streets are full of primary school students wearing school uniforms of different colors.

Most of the children are picked up by their parents.

Lin Zhaoxi was alone, and felt lonelier and lonelier as he walked.

But the reason why she felt lonely was not because of Lao Lin. Instead, when she passed by the familiar magazine store and snack shop, she felt the loneliness that belonged to Xiao Lin Chaoxi in the cheese world.

Every day when she goes to and from school, Xiaolin, who is alone, misses her parents whom she has never met. She hopes that someone can hold her hand and buy her the automatic pen and exercise book that she has wanted for a long time in the store.

She will call the other person dad or mom, act coquettishly, and be filial to the other person.

The wish was so simple and plain that Lin Chaoxi's eyes suddenly became red for no apparent reason.

She tapped her nose: You are so easy to please, little girl.

The author has something to say:

Economy, environmental protection, green, low carbon... parallel worlds... returning to three pasts... how come Pei Zhi and Lao Lin are not here? I am so alone (hey)