Chapter 375 The Key to the Story
Yu Xin stood behind her with his hands in his pockets, one step away from her. He looked at her with a strange and distant gaze, like a doctor looking at a terminally ill patient.
"What's wrong with you..." Xiang Nuan felt that he felt very different today, not the person she once knew.
"I know you definitely won't come to see me, even though I asked you to send Elena off and go to the bookstore later." Yu Xin smiled faintly.
"Ah, so what do you want to tell me?"
"It doesn't matter anymore." Yu Xin shrugged.
Xiang Nuan suddenly felt angry and hated his arrogant and cold attitude at the moment.
"Then why did you chase me to the airport?"
Yu Xin shrugged again, wondering if he also felt that his behavior was too nonsensical.
"I wanted to give you a heads up before the finale."
The finale?!
Xiang Nuan felt as if a huge rock had hit her heart, and she suddenly couldn't breathe. She looked at Yu Xin in disbelief, not daring to face the doubts that suddenly rose in her heart.
"Would you like to sit down and have some coffee? You look a little off."
"The story has been changed..." Xiang Nuan's throat was smoking.
"Come on, do you want to drink it at the airport or in my shop?"
Xiang Nuan didn't know what to say. She was seized by an inexplicable fear. Reason told her that all this was her imagination. How could Yu Xin control everything? ! But she just couldn't get rid of this thought. What's more, he was too weird today. This feeling also made her scalp tingle.
"Then I'll make the decision. Let's go."
He reached out and held her, as if he saw through her embarrassing situation of being unable to move.
"You didn't go back. You said your attempt was unsuccessful, which means you can't go back. I've read countless stories about time travel through books. Isn't the ending one of them living happily together? We've never seen anyone go back, right?" Xiang Nuan muttered all the way, as if she was talking to Yu Xin or even more so to herself.
Yu Xin said very little along the way, and did not comment on her various questions and analyses. He always kept a faint smile on his face, as if he was holding the answer and watching those students struggling.
"After all this talk, you already have a premonition, right? Deep down in your heart, you know where things are going." They finally returned to the bookstore. Yu Xin pressed her shoulders and asked her to sit down obediently. "I have learned a new latte art technique these two days. Let me show you."
He stood up to make coffee, while Xiang Nuan sank his mind and body into the chair.
"Are we going back?" She was calm now. Her heartbeat, which had been in a panic all the way, gradually stabilized. Only her voice was still a little trembling.
"How does it taste?" Yu Xin handed the coffee to her.
It was indeed a new skill, the latte art was a bit ugly, twisted and unrecognizable. Xiang Nuan took a sip and gently put it back.
The sudden quietness and silence made Yu Xin feel a little helpless, so he sat down opposite.
"What do you think about me opening a coffee shop after we go back?" His words made Xiang Nuan's nerves, which had been forced to be calm, start beating again. "Maybe a bookstore? But I'm afraid I won't be able to tell the difference between the real and the fake, and I don't know which is the real world and the real me, so opening a coffee shop is not bad either." He pretended to be relaxed and showed his signature smile.
[Has anyone ever said that you look like Kogure Konobu? ]
The first time I saw him it seemed like a lifetime ago.
"How do you know you have to go back? Were there any signs when you came here?" Xiang Nuan tried to keep his tone calm.
Yu Xin shook his head: "The ending of the book is that they live happily together from then on."
Hmm? Xiang Nuan stared at him blankly. Shouldn't this be the result? She is also very happy now, and is happily moving forward on the road to happiness.
No, wait, you mean the ending...
"So accepting the proposal means the end of the story?" Xiang Nuan stood up suddenly. "The story is coming to an end, the mission is over, and we..."
Yu Xin smiled, and seeing how nervous she was, he couldn't help but stand up and hold her shoulders. She was indeed very smart, but at the moment she was also very fragile. He could feel her body trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but wonder if there was any trace of himself in her lingering attachment to this world.
"I don't know, but I guess it wasn't a proposal. If it was last night or this morning we would have been in our own beds." He looked at her, waiting for her reaction.
"Proposing is not..." Her eyelashes fluttered slightly, unable to say the words that were stuck in her mouth. Suddenly, her face changed suddenly, and she laughed mockingly: "You don't know, so you have to guess?!"
Yu Xin let go of his hand, shrugged, and sat back in his seat.
"It's the finale, the story is finished, game over." He spread his hands, meaning that it was over and there would be no more.
"Even if it's really as you said, what will happen to the people here if we leave? What about Jiang Yunhui and Ranran? How will they live next? What about your...your bookstore? Your employees, fans..." Xiang Nuan's voice became increasingly hoarse. She couldn't continue, and she didn't dare to imagine further.
There will be new people coming, right? There will be people traveling through time, or the original owner will just live his life peacefully, isn't that okay? Everyone will have their own dream, and then everything will be normal, isn't that okay?
"I don't believe it." Xiang Nuan sniffed, as if she had made up her mind. "You mean to say that marriage is the key to ending everything? What if I don't get married, and I keep this state forever?"
"I don't know." Yu Xin shook his head.
"Then what do you know?!" Xiang Nuan exploded, "Why are you telling me all this nonsense when you don't know anything?!"
"I know a book will end! A journey will end, and a dream will end!" Yu Xin also raised his voice.
"I don't want to come either! I have my own life. I don't want to be trapped here and experience the life of others as a supporting role, a background board, or a nobody! I want to go back, but I can only go back if you go back, do you understand?! During this time, I have tried to build my own career, find my own lover, and live my own life, but none of them worked. I feel like someone is strangling me by the neck. As long as I go astray, I will return to the original path. How about we work together to change the route? You and I, open a new route. You said you would try to use your true feelings. My true feelings, this damn Yu Xin's true feelings, haven't they always been with you?! Let's rewrite our own stories, and we will live happily together from now on. Can you do it?!"
Xiang Nuan was stunned, as if she was hit by a strong wind and huge waves. She looked at Yu Xin, who was even more out of control than she was, and couldn't help but feel a deep sympathy for him.
"If you really can't control it, just think of it as a dream," she exhaled slowly, "Mine was a beautiful dream, I hope yours can be too."
She turned around and was about to leave. She looked down at the slightly cold coffee and forced a smile: "Practice your skills more. The latte art is too ugly." Then she disappeared behind the bookshelf...
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