Chapter 736 Sorry
Dad, Mom.
Since these two words were used instead of "father and mother", the people Wei Changtian saw at this moment must not be Wei Xianzhi and Qin Caizhen.
It was obvious that he saw his parents from his previous life.
Wei Tian, an ordinary person.
Born in the 1990s and grew up in the new century.
As the only child who received the "good birth and good upbringing" advocated by the family planning policy, he naturally received all the love from his parents like most of his peers.
No matter how hard life is, children should not suffer; no matter how poor life is, education should not be neglected. Wei Tian's parents have implemented this saying very well.
Wei Tian, who grew up in such an environment, barely lived up to their earnest expectations.
A childhood occupied by extracurricular tutoring classes and interest classes.
A high school life when I knew everything about astronomy and geography.
A university full of games and skipping classes.
A social animal running around in a big city.
In the future, he would probably marry a woman in a similar situation to himself, take out a 30-year loan to buy a house, and then have a child under the relentless urging of both sets of parents.
The child will grow up slowly, and Wei Tian will grow old slowly.
If nothing unexpected happens, he will stay by the bed and watch his parents slowly close their eyes, and then one day he will become the old man lying on the bed.
In the end, as the line on the heart rate monitor became stable, he lived out his ordinary life.
But unexpectedly, he traveled through time.
Unlike those online novel protagonists who can forget everything about their past in a very short time no matter what world they travel to, Wei Changtian still thinks of some things from his previous life from time to time.
But since he traveled through time, he has been deliberately avoiding thinking about two people, his parents.
The reason may be that there is always a kind of guilt in your heart that you are unwilling to face.
When time travel, or soul travel, happens, it inevitably brings up a question:
What will become of the “self” in the previous life?
In fact, the answer to this question is not difficult to guess.
Just like Xu Suisui who died of a serious illness, in that world, the young man named Wei Tian was most likely dead.
This means that Wei Tian’s parents lost their son without any warning.
This is the only son whom he raised with great effort and placed all his love and expectations on. This is why Wei Changtian always deliberately avoided this question.
He couldn't imagine how his parents looked when they heard the news of his "death". He couldn't imagine that this couple who had worked hard for him for most of their lives would still have to struggle in pain because of him for the rest of their lives.
He didn't have the time to fulfill his filial duties, didn't have the time to let them meet their daughter-in-law and hold their grandson.
He didn't even have time to say goodbye to them . Wei Changtian had never and could not tell anyone about this guilt.
It has been two years since he traveled through time, and he has only spent four nights not in the "Dream Road".
This is not because he is so "hardworking".
In fact, he just didn't dare to sleep.
He was afraid that if he fell into true sleep he would dream of them.
Wei Changtian didn’t know what he would say if he had the chance to see his parents again, even in a dream.
He has been running away and escaping.
But now, he can no longer "escape".
"dad"
"mom"
The white virtual world seemed both real and illusory. In a trance, Wei Changtian seemed to have returned to the two-bedroom house where he had lived for more than ten years.
A gray fabric sofa with a few cushions made by my mother on it.
The balcony is filled with the smell of laundry detergent, and there are always a few of my own clothes hanging on the clothes rack.
The kitchen is piled with daily necessities, the TV should have been thrown away long ago, the guitar I bought the year I was admitted to university, and the pot of lush green ivy on top of the air conditioner. The sunlight from outside the window, whether it was early morning or late afternoon, shines in, covering everything with a layer of orange-red light.
Wei Changtian stared at all this in a daze, no longer able to distinguish between illusion and reality, and just walked step by step towards the two people standing in the middle of the room.
The man and the woman were looking at him with tears on their faces.
"son."
The man stretched out his hand tremblingly, and his palm gently fell on Wei Changtian's shoulder.
The touch and temperature that could not be more real made Wei Changtian's body tremble violently, and his eyes suddenly became moist.
No matter in the past or present life, he had long forgotten how long it had been since he last cried.
But at this moment, when the man patted his shoulder gently and when the woman held his hand crying, Wei Changtian's tears instantly welled up in his eyes.
"dad!!"
"mom!!!"
"sorry!!"
"I'm sorry!!"
In my previous life, there was a question on Zhihu called "If you had the opportunity to see your deceased relatives again, what would you say to them?"
The answers to the question are varied. Some people tell stories, some make up stories, some play with memes, and some even analyze whether this thing is possible from a scientific perspective.
Among the numerous answers such as "I miss you" and "I love you", there is one answer that has received more likes than all the others.
That means "I'm sorry".
sorry.
These three simple words contain the most complex emotions.
From this perspective, perhaps when a loved one passes away, what really makes people unable to let go are always the regrets and guilt.
Now, for the three people in the illusion, it is difficult to say who is the "passed away" relative.
But for Wei Changtian, this is not important.
At this moment, he is no longer the only son of the Wei family, a third-rank master, or a big shot who dominates the world.
He was just an ordinary young man who died of electric shock, and a close relative of the man and woman in front of him who was separated by death.
"Son, where have you been?"
"Mom misses you so much"
"After you left, your dad started drinking again"
"Didn't you say the other day that you would go home for the New Year this year?"
"But mom and dad have been waiting for two years, why don't you come back?"
"If you are really busy, you can give us a call."
"Mom dreams of you every night when she goes to sleep"
"But why don't you ever look at your mother?"
“.”
The choked female voice echoed in the warm sunset, and every word expressed a mother's most simple feelings.
A gust of wind blew by, and the fresh scent of laundry detergent was pleasant to smell. There seemed to be the sound of children playing outside the window.
As everything around him became more and more real, Wei Changtian seemed to gradually adapt to it all.
"Dad, Mom"
"I"
He opened his mouth, wanting to tell the man and woman in front of him what he had experienced in the past two years, wanting to express his pain and struggle.
But at this moment, the woman suddenly took a small step back, trembling in disbelief and said, "Son, you killed someone!"
“.”
His body suddenly froze as if struck by lightning, and Wei Changtian's breathing became extremely rapid in an instant.
He subconsciously reached out his hand, but the woman dodged it in fear.
Looking at the woman's painful appearance, Wei Changtian felt as if a hand suddenly pinched his throat, and indescribable panic immediately filled his mind.
"Mom! Listen to me!"
"I don't want to kill anyone! I really don't want to kill anyone!"
"But if I don't kill them, they will kill me!!"
"I want to live, I just want to live!"
“I can’t help it!”
“I, I can’t help it!!”
“.”
The sunset outside the window had disappeared at some point, replaced by endless darkness.
Wei Changtian opened his mouth wide and explained quickly, but he couldn't change the woman's desperate expression at all.
Until a heavy sigh was heard.
"Alas, son, if it's wrong, it's wrong."
"But no matter what happens, mom and dad will never give up on you."
"Let's go."
"Come back with us."
(End of this chapter)
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