The hug was warm and tender.
It took a long time before Xie Roufei was willing to let go of her hands.
"Smoke, smoke..."
Xie Roufei smiled through her tears.
She had a lot to say to Lin Yanran, but all her words were ultimately reduced to a simple name.
Smoke.
Of course.
Xie Roufei whispered her son's name, raised her hands, and gently touched the face that she had missed thousands of times.
Her gentle eyes were full of attachment to her children, as if she could never see enough of them.
She tidied up the loose hair on Lin Yanran's forehead and a happy smile appeared on her face.
The untouchable and unprotected baby in the dream seemed to have grown up overnight, and now he was standing in front of her.
He calls himself mom.
I also really hugged the other person.
All the wishes that she had never been able to realize in her dreams have come true today.
While her fingertips were tidying up her hair, she accidentally touched Lin Yanran's warm forehead.
A tear of joy fell uncontrollably from the corner of Xie Roufei's eye.
For twenty-two years, she repeatedly trapped herself in the scene of seeing her child's dead body.
She had woken up in the middle of the night countless times, and the collapse and heartache always swallowed her up in the darkness.
Fortunately, the truth is now revealed and her Yanran is back.
Lin Yanran, whose brain was still lacking oxygen, saw her mother's tears and gently wiped them away.
"Mom, stop crying."
"good."
Xie Roufei tried hard to hold back her tears and a happy smile appeared on her face.
Although it is many years late, it is enough to hear this word "Mom" now.
All the pains from the past finally healed themselves in that moment.
"Mom, it's cold here, let's go back first."
Among the few people, Lin Yunzhe, the only one who was relatively sober, reminded Xie Roufei.
When Lin Yanran heard the voice, she looked up at her brother opposite her.
Seeing Lin Yunzhe move his head slightly to the right, he immediately understood what he meant.
This isn't the place to say too much.
So he said, "Mom, let's go home."
Xie Roufei was still emotionally agitated, but Lin Yanran's words were very effective for her.
Almost as soon as the other party finished speaking, she happily agreed, and then couldn't wait to take the child home.
As the few people walked towards the basement, Xie Roufei held Lin Yanran's hand tightly the whole time.
It was as if he was afraid that the other person would disappear again if he let go.
Lin Yunzhe was driving the car, and Lin Yanran and her mother sat in the back.
The warmth from the air conditioner in the car dispelled the coldness from Lin Yanran's body.
After a period of buffering, the brain deception effect caused by returning to the family gradually dissipated.
Reason gradually prevailed.
"How did you find me?"
Lin Yanran looked at her mother with a smile, with curiosity and confusion in her eyes.
The temperature in your hands is real.
So he was sure that this was not a dream, and he really saw the family he had been thinking about day and night.
But he is still a little confused as to whether he went back through the book or his family members also went through the book.
He thought about how when he first traveled through the book, it seemed like the world changed in just a moment.
Lin Yanhui, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was afraid that Xie Roufei would feel uncomfortable when she mentioned it, so he turned around and explained to Lin Yanran.
“You may find this a little unbelievable.”
"In fact, when you were born, we all thought you died due to complications during childbirth. But suddenly one day your mother told us that she dreamed that you were not dead, but were taken away by someone."
"So we later re-investigated the original incident and found that it was indeed the case."
Lin Yanhui didn't give too many details, he just told Lin Yanran roughly what happened.
After quickly recalling the whole process, Lin Yanhui's eyes were filled with self-blame, "It's all my fault that Dad was negligent and didn't investigate carefully, which is why you have been alone all these years..."
They all knew about Lin Yanran's previous experiences, including the fact that she was exploited by the agency and couldn't even go to school. He knew it all clearly.
So when Lin Yanhui thought about how his child had suffered so miserably due to his own negligence, he felt more and more heartbroken.
Lin Yanhui's words also touched upon Xie Roufei's pain.
People are always like this, always unsatisfied.
When she couldn't find her child, her biggest wish was to find the other person.
Now that I have found it, I feel regretful that I could not give my child happiness.
Whenever she saw her well-behaved and sensible child, she couldn't help but think about it.
What was Ranran like in his childhood? Was he as rebellious as his brother when he was a teenager?
Thinking about her youngest son's life experience for the first 22 years, which she had not accompanied at all and could not go back to participate, Xie Roufei felt both self-blaming and sad.
She couldn't help but hold Lin Yanran's hands tightly again.
Both husband and wife were in a state of self-blame, so no one noticed that a complicated look flashed across Lin Yanran's eyes at this moment.
Thoughts raced through his mind one after another.
He tried hard to convince himself that this might be a brain disorder caused by traveling through a book.
But those inconsistent and self-consistent logics made it impossible for him to ignore this fact.
There is a huge difference in the information he and his family received!
It seems that only they themselves remember clearly every detail of their loving life.
However, the twenty-two years of companionship that my parents and my brother gave me were missing.
Lin Yanran couldn't figure it out, so she could only hold her mother's hand tightly.
Soon, he returned home with his family.
Before reaching the gate of the villa, I saw four familiar figures.
In the darkness of night, my grandfather, who usually dressed casually, put on the most formal handmade suit, and my grandfather also put on the Zhongshan suit that he loved most in his memory.
Next to them stood the grandmother who had taken care of them since they were young, and the grandma who always had a smile on her face...
"Ran Ran, welcome home."
Grandma opened her arms to him and hugged him gently, just like she had done countless times when she came to pick him up when he was a child.
For a moment, Lin Yanran felt like she was back in her childhood.
After returning to their lively home, the family sat together.
"Your parents were also able to keep it a secret. They didn't inform us until they were almost home."
After asking about Lin Yanran's recent situation, grandpa and grandma took out a beautifully framed calligraphy.
"This was written for you by your grandfather when you were born twenty-two years ago."
Lin Yanran's eyes immediately fell on this calligraphy -
Always be happy and grow happily
The calligraphy is exquisite, vigorous and natural, and it is obviously my grandfather's handwriting.
But after reading this calligraphy, Lin Yanran clenched her fingertips slightly.
When he was born, his grandfather also wrote this couplet for him.
It still hangs in his study, exactly the same.
Being back with my family again, this familiar and warm atmosphere seems so beautiful that it seems unreal.
Lin Yanran felt like she had a lot to say, but she couldn't utter a single word.
So he listened quietly. It would be good to listen to these sounds more often.
Xie Roufei had endless things to say to Lin Yanran. She took him around the house, and seemed to be afraid that the child would not be able to quickly integrate into the big family, so she patiently introduced everything to him.
After Lin Yanran took a look around, he found that this home was actually quite different from what he remembered, but the design was basically the same.
They finally came to a room.
Before opening it, Lin Yanran had guessed what it was.
Sure enough, after opening it, the specially renovated room was filled with a list of all the honors my mother had won.
Lin Yanran walked past the trophies and certificates one by one, listening to her mother's gentle and thoughtful words in her ears, while silently filling in the details of each award in her heart.
He was even present when many awards were received.
"Mom, you looked so beautiful when you received the award."
Lin Yanran picked up a photo, in which Xie Roufei was looking at the camera and smiling gently.
He remembered clearly that the photo was taken when he was six years old, and this was what he said to his mother at that time.
When Xie Roufei heard the words "Mom, you looked so beautiful when you received the award", she felt as if a piece of emptiness suddenly appeared in her heart.
It was as if she had missed something important.
Tears suddenly fell again.
"I'm sorry mom couldn't be a part of your past."
Lin Yanran looked at the photo and recalled the scene when she was eating.
He helped his mother hold the trophy, and his mother held him with the trophy.
Seeing her mother crying, Lin Yanran felt sad too, so she smiled and comforted her.
"It's okay, I just remember it."
It doesn’t matter even if you all forget, as long as I am the only one who still remembers everything that happened.
Xie Roufei's emotions went through ups and downs today. After the excitement, the tension finally relaxed.
So as soon as she and Lin Yanran walked out, her bodies seemed to have lost support and she slid weakly to the ground.
Lin Yanran quickly carried her to the living room, and the housekeeper quickly called a doctor.
After fainting, Xie Roufei woke up quickly and then held Lin Yanran's hand tightly, as if she was afraid that the child would be gone again when she woke up.
Lin Yanran saw what she was thinking, so she stayed by her side and whispered to her, "Mom, I'm here."
Perhaps it was because she heard Lin Yanran's voice that Xie Roufei fell asleep peacefully.
After the doctor had examined her mother and confirmed that she was completely fine, Lin Yanran and Lin Yunzhe went to each other's study.
When Lin Yanran came in, the first thing she saw was a photo album that Lin Yunzhe had casually placed in the corner.
He picked it up and opened a page at random.
The first thing that caught my eye was a photo of Lin Yunzhe during his student days.
The young Lin Yunzhe had a blue headband on his head, wore a jersey with the number 17 printed on it, and was holding a basketball in his hands with a bright smile.
The man in the photo looked exactly the same as he remembered, even his favorite lucky number was 17.
Lin Yanran picked up the photo and asked Lin Yunzhe casually, "Brother, was this taken when you were on the school team?"
Lin Yunzhe hesitated for a moment before answering in a deep voice, "Yes."
Lin Yanran didn't say anything else and just continued to flip through the pages.
In the photos, Lin Yunzhe's appearance gradually became more mature, but the number of photos also became fewer and fewer.
Later on, I would occasionally take one or two photos.
Either skiing, rock climbing, or skydiving.
Lin Yanran set her eyes on the photo of skydiving.
He still remembers that when he was young and went skydiving with his brother for the first time, he was actually a little scared.
Before boarding the plane, he boasted that skydiving was a piece of cake.
But when the moment of jumping really came, his heartbeat suddenly quickened a lot when he looked down, even though he was slightly afraid of heights.
The wind blew on his face, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and counted down to three seconds to prepare himself mentally.
Unexpectedly, before he was fully prepared, his brother pushed him down as a prank.
He didn't hear clearly what the jumping companion said to him.
But at the moment when his heart stopped beating, he opened his eyes and vaguely saw his brother waving and smiling at him.
"elder brother."
Lin Yanran pulled herself away from her memories, suddenly turned around, and met Lin Yunzhe's gaze on her.
He didn't know how long the other person looked at him.
Maybe just now, maybe always.
But none of this matters.
Lin Yanran smiled knowingly, "Don't you want to do a paternity test?"
Lin Yanran's words were as simple as asking the other person what to eat tonight.
There was a hint of surprise in Lin Yunzhe's eyes, but he quickly hid it.
He didn't hypocritically say that it wasn't necessary, but he didn't give a direct answer either.
He took two steps forward, raised his right hand, and ruffled Lin Yanran's hair not too gently, messing up the hairstyle that the stylist had worked so hard to blow.
Lin Yanran lowered her head and dodged with great skill.
But the other person was much stronger and more skilled than him, so he just dodged as he had done before. He could only helplessly say, "Hey brother, my hairstylist took a long time to blow dry my hair. If it's messed up, you have to pay for it."
Lin Yunzhe showed his only relaxed smile today and asked, "How much is the compensation? Is fifty cents enough?"
After coming out of Lin Yunzhe’s study, Lin Yanran returned to her bedroom.
He opened the address book on his cell phone and calmly called Yingying, asking her to help take care of Ultraman.
Afterwards, he sent another message to Gu Siye.
In fact, Lin Yanran really wanted to call Gu Siye now, but because her thoughts were in a mess and she was afraid of affecting the other party, she didn't call.
However, the other party seemed to have the ability to read his mind and sent him a message.
gsy: Come out and see the moon
Lin Yanran leaned on the French window and looked outside.
It was pitch black.
Lin Yanran: It's a lie, there is no such thing
gsy: Yes
gsy: in my heart
Lin Yanran read Gu Siye's words several times.
I don't quite understand.
After telling the other person that he was going to sleep, he took a shower and then lay down on the soft big bed.
However, he, who usually goes to bed early, couldn't sleep tonight.
Every person he just contacted reminded him that he was now in a world of books.
But as soon as he closed his eyes, images of every family member would immediately flash through his mind.
Obviously, every familiar face now makes him feel like he is back with his parents and relatives.
It was obvious that the look in my family's eyes when they looked at me after a long separation was not fake.
But their memories are different from mine.
He had only been separated from his family for four months, but now it had turned into twenty-two years.
Although he has returned to his family, he is so confused at this moment.
Lin Yanran opened his eyes and looked at the pitch-black night. There were so many things he couldn't figure out that his mind was extremely confused.
The next day, Lin Yanran generously collected DNA from her family.
During the two days of waiting for the results, he didn't go anywhere and just stayed at home.
In the process of getting along with his family, he gradually came to understand his own "origin" in this world.
At the same time, he also understood the past of "Yan Ran".
It turned out that the child was picked up by someone after he was born, but was soon adopted by the Xuan family. When he was almost sixteen years old, he was sent to an Internet addiction treatment center. He became good friends with the monk Cheng Cheng, but was finally kicked out of the wealthy family.
The Lin family was originally very grateful to the Xuan family for adopting Lin Yanran, but when they saw that they later kicked their son out of the house so heartlessly, they treated them coldly again.
Especially regarding sending their child to an Internet addiction treatment center, although they didn't know the real reason, they have been feeling aggrieved about it.
No parent who truly loves their child would do such a thing.
After Lin Yanran learned this, she hardly spoke a word because she didn't know much about the past.
But his family members mistakenly thought that he did not want to mention that tragic past. Thinking of how he had lived through so many hard times at such a young age, they felt even more distressed for him and wanted to treat him even better.
The paternity test was processed on an expedited basis and the results were available two days later.
There is no doubt that Lin Yanran and the Lin family are biological relatives.
After the results came out, Lin Yanran returned to her room immediately after accompanying her mother for a walk in the evening, took out paper and pen, and started writing things down.
The current relationship is a bit messy and he has to sort it out.
Lin Yanran held her forehead with her hand, feeling a bit of a headache.
He had never encountered anything so difficult in his life.
Even though he was poor and miserable when he first came here, it didn't bother him as much as it does now.
Lin Yanran held a pen in her right hand, wrote down the things she couldn't figure out on a piece of white paper, and then categorized and analyzed them.
He made two assumptions for himself.
1. Travel through the book
After entering the book, I jumped out of the world setting, so I didn't die tragically. Even the family members who were not mentioned in the novel had their blank family settings automatically filled in with the plot based on my background because of my arrival?
But in this case, why do family members receive completely different information from themselves?
Lin Yanran put a question mark after this speculation.
He then wrote down a second conjecture.
2. Parallel world.
If I were like in “The Night the Comet Came”, I would accidentally enter a parallel world.
In this case, what you are now in is another real world that exists in theory.
In this world, "Yanran"'s settings and family are the same as hers, but her life trajectory has changed because of some things.
So the information his parents received was completely different from his own.
Lin Yanran felt that this theory of a parallel world could temporarily explain her current situation.
But then, his pen paused and he also typed a question mark after the parallel world.
But if I was an intruder, then where did the previous "Yanran" go?
Where is the entrance to the parallel world and time?
Since he can come, is there a third "Yanran" coming?
Also, if it's a parallel world, why did he subconsciously establish the worldview of traveling through a book when he came here? And he also forgot some things in his previous world?
Apart from that, the unintentional intrusion should be like the whole person arriving in another world together.
But he could clearly feel that this body was somewhat different from his previous one.
Although their appearance and body shape are similar, their physical fitness is far inferior to mine.
Could it be that my consciousness traveled from one time and space to another?
Lin Yanran wrote and drew on the paper, but she couldn't convince herself.
Even though he felt that the parallel world was closest to the truth, it was still full of weirdness and contradictions.
This was like an unknown variable without sufficient conditions. No matter how he tried to solve it, he couldn't get the correct answer.
After thinking for a while, Lin Yanran simply closed her eyes.
He always felt that he had missed some very crucial information, but now he had no way to figure it out.
Unable to think of a solution, Lin Yanran didn't make it difficult for himself, so he took a risky but simpler approach.
Find Lin Yunzhe.
Through these two days of contact, he found that except for the information his family received about his background which was inconsistent with his own, everything else, including his personality, was exactly the same as he remembered.
So based on his understanding of his brother, it is impossible that such a meticulous and rational person did not notice his abnormality.
But because he was afraid of upsetting his mother, and because he was very tolerant of his younger brother, he must have endured it and said nothing.
Thinking of this, Lin Yanran suddenly remembered the other party's extremely restrained reaction when they first met. She thought that her brother must have a lot of questions in it.
There were three knocks on the door.
Lin Yanran came back to her senses.
“Of course.”
Lin Yunzhe's voice came from outside the door.
Lin Yanran didn't expect the other party to come at this time, so she quickly went to open the door.
"elder brother."
Lin Yanran took the hot milk brought to him by the other party, and immediately locked the door after the person came in.
Lin Yunzhe noticed Lin Yanran's little move and raised his eyebrows to look at him, "Do you have something to say?"
Lin Yanran nodded.
The tacit understanding between the brothers has not changed at all.
Although she knew something was different in her heart, Lin Yanran looked at this familiar face and still couldn't help but feel close to the other person as before.
He and his brother always talk about everything.
"Don't you have anything to ask me?" Lin Yanran didn't keep her in suspense and went straight to the point, "Don't you think my reaction is weird?"
Lin Yunzhe's expression did not change. Instead, he smiled faintly and admitted directly, "Yes, your call of 'Mom' was very abrupt, as if you knew we would come to find you."
Lin Yanran took a sip of the hot milk and shook her head. “Although I thought you would definitely look for me, I was actually the one who had been looking for you.”
Lin Yunzhe's low laugh came from the room, "Same."
Lin Yanran lowered her head and took another sip of milk.
He actually wanted to say different.
But there was no point in dwelling on this at this time, so he brought up another topic.
"You hate sweets."
"But you always finish the cake your mother makes for you with a smile."
"You hate animals with pointy beaks."
"But I like fencing."
Having said that, Lin Yanran silently added a sentence in her heart.
But I don’t like it, but you always ask me to practice with you, and I lose badly every time.
Lin Yanran turned her head to observe Lin Yunzhe's expression and continued, "You fell off a horse when you were seventeen, and there are scars on your calves, so you don't like to wear shorts."
"You have a PhD in finance, but what you wanted to study the most was philosophy."
"Others study the conservation of energy in physics, but you insist on exploring its philosophical meaning."
"You hate animals with pointed beaks because when you were a kid, someone tricked you into thinking it was a Pikachu. You actually believed it and carefully raised it for several months, but then..."
Lin Yanran talked about some things one by one that only the two brothers knew.
Lin Yunzhe, who was standing by, looked much more embarrassed as he listened. "Okay, there's no need to explain this in such detail."
He coughed dryly to cover up his embarrassment.
Then I became curious as to why the other party knew such private matters of mine.
After all, there are some things here that even his parents don't know.
But soon he had another confused idea in his mind, and this feeling made him feel that all this seemed natural.
Lin Yanran didn't explain, she just smiled, walked up to Lin Yunzhe, and asked him, "Brother, don't you doubt me? I know you and your family so well, aren't you afraid that I have some purpose?"
The two brothers are always honest with each other.
Lin Yunzhe had no intention of deceiving Lin Yanran, so he nodded and admitted, “I did have doubts before, but by blood, you are indeed my brother.”
After that, he spoke again, his tone much softer than before, "Ran Ran, has something happened to you?"
"yes."
Lin Yanran looked into Lin Yunzhe's eyes.
They grew up together and were his closest relatives in the world.
They had countless memories together, quarreling, fighting, getting angry and making up.
He is one of the people he relies on the most.
They promised to never cheat on each other or betray each other.
So he decided to take a gamble and confess his experience to the other party.
"Brother, we actually spent twenty-two years together in another time and space, so I know everything about you."
Lin Yanran lowered her eyes, looked at the milk in her hand that was no longer so hot, and told Lin Yunzhe everything about her past experiences.
Originally, before she spoke, Lin Yanran thought she could make it clear in just a few words.
But when he really started talking about it, especially recalling the little things they had done together, he found that he kept talking about it, one thing after another, as if he could never finish even if he talked for three days and three nights.
Lin Yanran talked for a long time until the milk in her hand turned completely cold.
He did not draw any conclusions about the relationship between himself and Lin Yunzhe. He just looked at the other party after explaining it clearly.
"That's all, I hope it helps."
Lin Yunzhe stood up, smoothed out the wrinkles on his suit, and did not make any subjective comments on what had just happened.
"Thank you for telling me that."
After saying that, he took two steps towards Lin Yanran, and just like before, he reached out and rubbed the other's hair again.
"Don't tell mom yet. She's emotionally unstable right now."
Lin Yanran did not resist this time. She nodded and agreed, and her expression became much more relaxed.
"I know, that's why I came to find you."
A faint smile appeared on Lin Yunzhe's lips.
He glanced out the window at the dark night sky.
After a long while, he slowly spoke.
"Yan Ran, the law of conservation of energy still holds true."
The man's voice cutting through the darkness was as deep and melodious as a cello.
"No matter which time and space, you are my brother."
"We will always be your family."
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