Chapter 112

In the dark space, Codename Hope sat holding a doll.

It was very quiet here, especially after Shen Yunzhe left, the already empty place seemed even emptier.

Codename Hope was lying on the ground humming a song while holding the doll. When he opened his eyes, he saw nothing, so he had to close his eyes. As long as he closed his eyes, he seemed to be able to recall Shen Yunzhe's face in his mind.

After staying in this place for so long, he even forgot what he looked like or what his voice sounded like. It was not until he saw Shen Yunzhe that he vaguely remembered his past and felt like he had found himself again.

Thinking of this, Code Name Hope rolled over happily. He held the doll and rolled from one side to the other, and then rolled back.

After rolling for a while, he stopped, opened his eyes, raised the doll in his arms, looked at the doll's delicate face, and whispered, "Doll, when do you think Shen Yunzhe will remember you're still here?"

"Why hasn't he come yet?"

Code name Hope is used to playing tricks.

He left the doll secretly. After all, Shen Yunzhe loved the doll in his cabinet so much, so Codename hoped to hide the doll behind him when Shen Yunzhe wanted to leave. Maybe Shen Yunzhe was too mentally shocked and left in a hurry, and actually forgot about the doll.

Then he will come and take the doll back.

Codename Hope raised his head proudly, as if he was using a child to kidnap his father.

But proud as he was, Codename Hope lowered his head again. He hugged the doll back into his arms and asked, "Why hasn't he come yet?"

If the baby could talk, it would definitely be cursing now, because Shen Yunzhe has only been away for one day, not even 24 hours. How could he come back in such a short time!

Codename Hope was not at all ashamed of this; he sat up and looked at the doll's face.

After thinking for a while, he said, "How about I tear you apart? Then Shen Yunzhe will hate me."

As he said this he put his hand on the doll's hair.

After leaving it like that for two seconds, Codename Hope pulled his hand back, "No, this way he won't come again."

Shen Yunzhe is still alive, but Codename hopes that he can't bear the thought of not coming to see him. However, in his imagination, Shen Yunzhe has only two states: dead and alive. The dead Shen Yunzhe will always remain in his heart, and the living Shen Yunzhe must stay by his side.

I absolutely cannot be alive and not come to see him.

"So when will it come?" Codename Hope murmured.

After murmured the code name "Hope", he tilted his head slightly. At that moment, a sudden flash of inspiration seemed to come to his mind. He finally realized that his patience in the darkness had changed from emptiness to waiting for Shen Yunzhe's arrival.

It seemed like he had been waiting for Shen Yunzhe to come since he appeared.

Like a person with nothing in the dark, a cute bird in a cage, waiting for his owner to appear occasionally, take him for a walk outside, or simply appear in front of him. There is no way, as long as the owner comes, he will be very happy.

"Hmm." Codename Hope puffed up her lips somewhat reluctantly at the thought.

This expectation, which he had no idea when it started, made him a little confused, but it was impossible to cure it completely, because the expectation for Shen Yunzhe had been engraved into his bones step by step. He began to be reluctant to see Shen Yunzhe die. If Shen Yunzhe died, he would not be able to wait for Shen Yunzhe to come.

"Your master is so mean." Codename Hope complained to the doll, "He's too much. He left me here alone to wait for him to come."

"Scumbag! He's irresponsible!

Unfortunately, Codename Hope doesn't need results, he just needs the present. He is stubborn and wants to put himself in this hopeless situation.

No matter life or death, no matter reality or illusion, it must be now.

What does the future hold? He doesn't know! Anyway, he's stuck in this place, unable to leave. He has no future at all.

As for Shen Yunzhe, who made Shen Yunzhe not only himself, but also someone he just happened to meet?

He just relies on Shen Yunzhe!

So Codename Hope rolled over again and complained to the doll again, "Why hasn't your master come yet?"

“I feel like I’ve been waiting for a year.”

"Shen Yunzhe, come here quickly, I promise not to steal your next doll!"

Shen Yunzhe could not hear his mumbling, and the doll did not wait for its owner. Codename Hope waited for a long, long time but Shen Yunzhe did not come. There was no passage of time here, but the soul had the perception of time. Codename Hope had to hold the doll and calculate how much time had passed.

But he had long lost his normal concept of time, and there was nothing in this world that could prove time.

He didn't know how long it had been, he only knew that Shen Yunzhe hadn't come for a long time.

Why aren't you here? Did you make too much noise before?

But he didn't think that Shen Yunzhe was the type of person who would stop meeting him after making a fuss. He had clearly wanted to pull him in here to accompany him, but Shen Yunzhe had not stopped contacting him.

Just when he was going from confused to angry, Shen Yunzhe finally came and picked up the doll from the ground. He could only say that fortunately there would be no changes here at all, so his doll was still intact. He hung the doll on his shoulder, and then Shen Yunzhe turned his head to look at the code name Hope next to him.

Codename Hope was staring at him dimly.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"You forgot about me." Codename Hope said, "You found new interests and don't like me anymore, so you don't even want your doll anymore."

Shen Yunzhe sighed, "I'm here now, aren't I? Take my doll away."

"Why don't you take me away? Am I not your baby?" Codename Hope looked jealous, but unfortunately, it was just an act.

Shen Yunzhe squatted in front of Codename Hope, holding the doll in his arms. "One week and five hours, you can't help it in just one week?"

"It feels like three autumns since we last met, but we've been apart for twenty-two autumns!" Code Name said confidently.

He also remembered to round off and add the five hours to the value of one autumn.

Shen Yunzhe really smiled helplessly. He sighed, "I just wanted you to think carefully, and I also wanted to think carefully, so I didn't come. I was afraid you would be bored, so I left the doll with you. It seems that my doll has suffered a lot with you."

"I'm so glad it's not alive."

Codename Hope grabbed Shen Yunzhe's sleeve and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"Think of a healthy relationship," Shen Yunzhe said. "One that's healthy, positive, and has a future..."

"Oh." Codename Hope nodded, suddenly realizing, "You think I'm abnormal because you dislike me."

Shen Yunzhe nodded in satisfaction, "At least he has some self-awareness."

After saying that, Shen Yunzhe was ready to leave with the doll, but Codename Hope did not let go of his sleeve.

"Why do we need a future?" Codename Hope looked at Shen Yunzhe. "Can humans only live if they have a future? I've had no future since I was imprisoned here twenty years ago. I never look forward to a future, Shen Yunzhe. The future is not important."

"But I hope you have a future." Shen Yunzhe suddenly interrupted him.

Codename: Hope. This was the first time Shen Yunzhe interrupted his thoughts, and the first time Shen Yunzhe refuted him but he didn't want to refute him.

Because Shen Yunzhe was talking about himself.

"You are me, the person I was born from making different choices. So I know what I am like and I don't have any expectations of you." Shen Yunzhe said, "But do you really want to stay in this place forever? Not even time passes, and you feel so empty that you forget yourself."

"I still hope you can leave, return to reality, and be yourself."

Codename Hope looked at Shen Yunzhe, and Shen Yunzhe also looked at him.

"I quite liked the way you looked when I first met you. You were very obedient because you had forgotten so many things. You were like a little animal, ready to cry in my arms. But that wasn't you, and that wasn't me." Shen Yunzhe squatted down and tugged at his hair. "That's you, isn't it?"

"A damned jerk who's always pretending to be pathetic."

"I will always leave, and when I leave you will always forget yourself again."

Shen Yunzhe said: "I don't like it."

It was not until Shen Yunzhe left that Hou Hao Xiwang seemed to react and fell to the ground hugging his knees.

"Well, Shen Yunzhe hopes that I have a future..." He murmured, "Isn't this even worse?"

"I feel like I like him more."

“No one has really looked forward to my future.”

…

After putting his doll in the cabinet, Shen Yunzhe picked out a new favorite and placed it next to the sofa. Shen Yunzhe turned around and went to the refrigerator to find something to eat. When he opened the refrigerator, he saw a refrigerator full of cold drinks.

Apart from drinks, his refrigerator was empty, without even a root vegetable.

Shen Yunzhe doesn't like cooking because cooking means washing dishes, and washing dishes is the thing Shen Yunzhe hates most in his life.

Forget it, let’s just order takeout.

Less than ten minutes after ordering the takeaway, Shen Yunzhe received a call from the security guard, telling him that his package was outside. Shen Yunzhe was surprised. Could the takeaway be delivered so quickly?

He just put on a coat and went out. When Shen Yunzhe walked to the guardhouse, he saw the big package. Shen Yunzhe was a little surprised. The package didn't look like his food, but like his doll.

Thinking of this, Shen Yunzhe asked the guard for a pair of scissors to open the package, and it turned out that there was not his doll inside, but a box of flowers.

Flowers, fresh, still covered with dew...

"Wow, is she a girlfriend or a suitor?" The guard looked at her curiously. "It's not common to see a girl giving flowers to a man."

Shen Yunzhe looked at the box of flowers. He thought for a long time but couldn't think of anyone who would give him a box of flowers. It couldn't be Codename Hope, could it? It was impossible. Codename Hope didn't have that kind of romantic instinct. Even if he did, he hadn't been out for a while. How could he order flowers? It would still be cash on delivery.

He flipped through the paper and found a card inside.

There was only one line of words on the card: Happy Birthday.

Shen Yunzhe was confused, but finally walked out with the box. He thought about it, and then threw the box of flowers and the card into the trash can under the guard's puzzled eyes. Then he clapped his hands and turned around to leave. Before he left, his takeaway arrived, so he picked up the takeaway and turned back home.

The guard looked at Shen Yunzhe blankly as he left, then turned to look at the flowers in the trash can.

"Oh, this is still unrequited love?" The guard was surprised. "Poor girl."

Shen Yunzhe would not accept inexplicable gifts, even if it was just a bouquet of flowers. He grew up in an orphanage and then went to school. He encountered more things than he could imagine. The innocent malice of children was very scary. There were so many jealous children in the orphanage, and the gifts he casually handed out might contain a dead mouse.

He had long learned to return the gifts he received, and if he couldn't return them, he would just throw them in the trash. He would only accept gifts from people he knew.

After returning home, Shen Yunzhe opened the takeaway and started eating. He ate absent-mindedly because the takeaway didn't taste very good.

Just then, his cell phone rang. Shen Yunzhe picked up the phone and found that it was Qiao Dong who called.

Shen Yunzhe picked up the phone, "Director Qiao?"

"Nothing." Qiao Dong was the first to say that this call was not about business. "I ordered a cake for you. It will be delivered in about an hour."

Shen Yunzhe bit his chopsticks and asked, "Why did you order a cake?"

"Today is your birthday."

"Today is not..." Shen Yunzhe stopped talking abruptly. He suddenly realized that today might really be his birthday.

All his memories from childhood to adulthood were in the orphanage. He was a child in the orphanage and celebrated his birthday with them. Every year, the director would order a big cake and celebrate the birthday of each child on the same day. They were all people without parents, and that cake seemed to be everything that was best in their birthday fantasies.

After leaving the orphanage, Shen Yunzhe never celebrated his birthday again because he knew that day was not his birthday.

But today…is Shen Wei’s child’s birthday.

A birthday with a date, recorded in the household register, and remembered by parents.

Shen Yunzhe was silent for a moment, then he asked tentatively, "Did you send those flowers?"

"What flowers?" Qiao Dong suddenly emphasized, "Who sent you flowers?!"

"I don't know. They sent it to me directly, wishing me a happy birthday. I threw it into the trash can outside the community." Shen Yunzhe took a sip of water silently.

"Even if the authorities are sending you something, they will tell you in advance. They will definitely not send it privately." Qiao Dong was anxious. "The gate of the community, right? Don't come out for the time being. I'll go over and take a look first."

Shen Yunzhe responded obediently, "Oh."

Ten minutes later, the vehicle stopped at the gate of the community. Qiao Dong jumped out of the car before it stopped. He quickly walked to the trash can and started looking for flowers next to it without paying any attention to the trash can. Fortunately, he arrived in time and the garbage had not been collected, nor was it covered with new garbage.

He quickly found the box of flowers in the trash can and the card in the box.

Qiao Dong placed the flowers on the ground and looked at them, then put the card on the flowers and fell into deep thought.

The guard in the guard room watched what was happening outside carefully, and after seeing the box of flowers, he couldn't help but start thinking.

Were the flowers sent to the wrong person? Could it be that the person who sent the flowers was also a man?

Who knows, after all, Shen Yunzhe refused so firmly that the flowers were thrown into the trash can!

Young people nowadays really know how to have fun.

Qiao Dong looked at it for a while and reached out to pick up the card. Then he turned to look at the person behind him and said, "Check the surveillance and find the person who sent the flowers."

The people behind him set off immediately. The security guard looked at these people blankly as they entered the security room, and asked him with a smile to cooperate, saying that he needed to investigate the surveillance.

Huh? Not sending flowers?

Are they plainclothes policemen?!

Qiao Dong got in the car and started to make a phone call. The call was quickly connected. "Mr. Shi."

"Something happened?"

"Yes, someone sent flowers to Shen Yunzhe." Qiao Dong looked at the card, "There is a card inside, wishing him a happy birthday."

Mr. Shi fell silent.

The official knew that Shen Yunzhe was Shen Wei's son and that it was his birthday today, but it was impossible for the official to send anything to Shen Yunzhe without notifying him. Even if Qiao Dong ordered a cake, he had to tell Shen Yunzhe in advance. Therefore, the person who sent the flowers was definitely not from their official team.

Someone who is not an official but knows that today is Shen Yunzhe's birthday.

"There's one more thing I don't know whether I should tell Shen Yunzhe or not."

Mr. Shi was a little confused, "What can't you tell him? You even told him about Shen Wei."

Qiao Dong was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "This handwriting looks like Shen Wei."

"What?!"

"I said this handwriting is very similar to the one in the record left by Shen Wei." Qiao Dong replied: "The handwriting is very fresh, it must have been written recently. I'm not sure what's going on, and I don't know whether I should tell Shen Yunzhe about this."

Now Mr. Shi didn't know how to respond.

Shen Wei, a mystic who left their official team twenty years ago, is a missing person who disappeared without a trace after sending his child to an orphanage. He may still possess abilities that no one knows about.

Today, his handwriting suddenly appeared, wishing Shen Yunzhe a happy birthday?

"Tell him." Mr. Shi said, "Like you said, Shen Yunzhe is an adult and he has the ability to judge."

This is simply a laughable and bad plan.

Twenty years have passed, and Shen Wei's handwriting has not changed at all. Shen Wei personally sent Shen Yunzhe to the orphanage, and his life trajectory was clearly set since he started in the orphanage. As a result, it was not until now that Shen Yunzhe was discovered by the authorities that he jumped out to wish him a happy birthday?

It's simply a stupid operation that has no use other than disturbing people's emotions.

Mr. Shi said helplessly, "Do they think Shen Yunzhe is as stupid as them?"

Please, Shen Yunzhe was able to survive five game fields safely. In addition to his ability, this shows that he is a smart person, so he can survive until now.

"You've read too many novels." Qiao Dong also sighed, "I never expected that Shen Yunzhe actually doesn't care that much about Shen Wei. He doesn't have any feelings for Shen Wei."

Shen Yunzhe even called Shen Wei's name directly and used Shen Wei's name to deceive people in the game field, not caring at all that this was his father.

How could there be a problem just because of a piece of handwriting?