Extra 4
Chapter 193
He got home very late today, but fortunately Shen Qi didn't continue to make trouble, so he still had a good sleep.
When he woke up on the third day, Shen Yunzhe opened his eyes and looked into his room, but found that nothing seemed to have changed in the room.
Oh, just a few more notebooks.
Shen Yunzhe sat up from the bed and walked into the living room. He was surprised to find that the living room was full of pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Brush calligraphy was everywhere, turning his home into a huge font library. Shen Yunzhe looked at these calligraphy and paintings curiously.
The doorbell rang and Shen Yunzhe opened the door.
The one who came was still Li Yuluan.
Shen Yunzhe left early yesterday for work reasons. Li Yuluan didn't knock on the door, but he didn't care. After all, this kind of thing happens a few times a month.
Li Yiluan at the door greeted him, "Good morning, great calligrapher."
Shen Yunzhe thought about what he saw in the room, "Your fortune-telling ability is improving day by day."
"This has nothing to do with my fortune-telling abilities," Li Yiluan said. "There's a report on the morning news: the famous calligrapher Shen Yunzhe will be holding an exhibition at the city exhibition hall and will be signing autographs."
Shen Yunzhe: ...
"And the exhibition starts at 8 o'clock. It's half an hour away from here to the Municipal Exhibition Hall."
Shen Yunzhe looked at Li Yulun suspiciously, "Are you really not seeking revenge because I cheated you the day before yesterday?"
"Small-minded." Li Yiluan said disdainfully, "If you don't believe me, just check it out online."
Shen Yunzhe immediately opened his phone and started searching, and sure enough, he saw the message Li Yuluan had mentioned.
This is actually true!
"Shen Yunzhe's Morning" Today's random event: the exhibition of the great calligrapher!
After tidying himself up in the limited time, Shen Yunzhe took a taxi to the exhibition hall. There were already quite a few people outside the exhibition hall. A woman was waiting at the door. When she saw him, she jumped up and waved to him, running over in two steps in high heels.
"Teacher Shen, you are finally here! I thought you were not coming!"
"Your phone isn't turned on, so we can't contact you. I'm so worried!"
Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment. He took out his cell phone from his pocket and then found that the phone was out of battery and turned off. Oh yes, he didn’t charge it last night.
"Sorry, it's not charging."
"Alright, alright, I'm used to it. Let's get in quickly."
Then the woman took Shen Yunzhe in through the back door. It seemed that someone saw Shen Yunzhe. Several people made a lot of noise and seemed to want to come here, but they were stopped by security guards.
Shen Yunzhe frowned slightly, feeling full of resistance.
In fact, this resistance started when I knew I had a random event.
Shen Yunzhe could clearly feel that he was unwilling to go out or participate in activities. His mind was full of ways to escape. This feeling reached its peak after coming here.
Judging from what the woman just said, he probably rarely attends such events, to the point that I thought he wouldn't come, and he habitually keeps his phone off.
Hmm...this seems to be a quail-like personality, a stay-at-home guy who likes to stay at home?
Arriving at the exhibition hall, the woman turned and left, saying she was going to get him the process book, leaving him alone to sit here and rest for a while. Shen Yunzhe looked at his dead phone and began to wonder where Shen Qi would appear today? And how would he appear?
Would he blend in with the tourists and become a day tourist while he works for a day?
At this moment, Shen Yunzhe suddenly heard a strange sound.
"I'm so lucky! This time I've invited such a great calligrapher! This is the first time!"
"It's strange that just writing a few words can have such a big impact. The handwriting doesn't look much better. My son can write it."
"And pretend to respect him."
Shen Yunzhe raised his head and looked outside, only to see two people smiling and talking with gentle faces, and it was obvious that they were having a very pleasant conversation.
Shen Yunzhe could hear their congratulations and hope that the exhibition would be a success.
But those faint whispers still flowed into his ears.
Greed, jealousy, hatred... Shen Yunzhe couldn't help but frown and cover his ears, but it was of no use.
He seemed to know why he didn't like going out. If he could hear this kind of sound when he met people outside, he would not want to go out.
The woman with the process book came back quickly and greeted the two people outside. After introducing them to Shen Yunzhe, he realized that one was the organizer of the exhibition and the other was the owner of the exhibition hall. They smiled and shook hands with Shen Yunzhe, but their inner words did not change at all.
Shen Yunzhe forced himself to smile and then returned to his original position.
The atmosphere was really a bit awkward.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Shen is always like this," the woman explained quickly. "He has a very cold personality and definitely didn't mean it."
"We've heard for a long time that Teacher Shen is a man of character and never speaks harshly to anyone. He's truly worthy of being called Teacher Shen!"
"Yes, yes, this is the persistence of a calligrapher."
Although he said so, Shen Yunzhe had already heard the insults of dissatisfaction in their hearts.
After carefully reading the flow chart and confirming that there was still some time before he went on stage, he walked out of the room and into the corridor. He felt around and found a box of cigarettes. He took out a cigarette and lit it very skillfully. Shen Yunzhe stood at the window and let the wind blow the smoke out.
A little bit irritable.
"It turns out that great calligraphers also smoke."
Shen Yunzhe turned his head with a cigarette in his mouth and saw a man in work clothes taking off his hat. He had the same face as Shen Yunzhe and reached out to take the cigarette away from his mouth.
"What is your identity today?" Shen Yunzhe didn't care and just asked another question.
"Didn't you see? I'm a staff member." Shen Qi took a puff of cigarette, exhaled a puff of smoke and watched the white smoke being swallowed by the window in an instant. He watched intently, but he still remembered to ask, "What's wrong? Are you here to smoke to relieve your worries?"
Shen Yunzhe sighed, "I'm feeling irritable, so I smoke to relieve my worries."
"Because you hate crowded places?"
"Yeah." Shen Yunzhe nodded, "I can hear some bad voices."
"I see. The great calligrapher's mind is so sharp, so perceptive, that he can even hear the inner voice of a person."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him helplessly, "Is this your reaction?"
"That can't be helped." Chen Qi held a cigarette between his legs, looking very happy. "By the way, do you have any writing performance or anything like that in this process?"
Shen Yunzhe thought about the process notice he had seen, "No, I have a rule: I will never write when there are people around."
"That's no problem." Shen Qi returned the cigarette to Shen Yunzhe, and then began to take off his work clothes, "Let's exchange identities!"
"Hmm?"
"How about I go to the crowded exhibition for you and you find a place to hide and wait for me to come back?"
Shen Yunzhe looked at Shen Qi in surprise, and finally couldn't help laughing, not feeling happy or helpless. He put out his cigarette and began to take off his coat. After all, this was indeed a good idea. Shen Yunzhe and Shen Qi looked exactly the same, so he just needed to change clothes. How convenient.
So just like that, they exchanged identities without anyone knowing.
Shen Qi went to attend this unexpected event in his place, and he found a place with few people to sit and wait for him to come back.
The exhibition didn't last long, but it was lunchtime when it ended. Shen Qi came out from the back door. He helped Shen Yunzhe decline all the invitations to dinner, and then walked towards the seat Shen Yunzhe had reserved for him. When he arrived, he saw Shen Yunzhe sitting in a quiet coffee shop in a daze.
Shen Qi walked over and asked, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"
"No." Shen Yunzhe took off his coat and threw it to him. "It's very quiet here."
He closed his eyes. There was silence all around him, and only occasionally one or two words entered his ears.
He really likes quietness.
"That way you'll have this afternoon and evening free." Shen Qi thought for a moment, "How about we go out and play?"
"Go out and play?" Shen Yunzhe asked, "Where to?"
"Something like an amusement park?" Shen Qi opened his phone and searched for a while, then pushed the phone to Shen Yunzhe. "There's a new amusement park that's newly opened. There's a fireworks show every night, and it's said to be really beautiful!"
"Fireworks..." Shen Yunzhe looked at the flashing lights on the screen.
"OK."
He nodded in response, because he found that he seemed to have never seen fireworks before, nor had he ever heard such warm and cheerful laughter.
Is this a bit too sentimental for my status? Oh, it seems a bit too pretentious.
After lunch, they strolled all the way to the amusement park. Although Shen Yunzhe was a great calligrapher today, normal people didn't care much about calligraphers. He was not a big star, so he would not be recognized even if he walked outside.
I bought an adult ticket. There were a lot of people in the newly opened amusement park, and the air was filled with screams and laughter.
'So scary!' 'So exciting!'
Shen Yunzhe could only hear sounds like this.
This is much better than those negative emotions, and Shen Yunzhe breathed a sigh of relief.
After thinking about it, it seemed that this was also Shen Yunzhe's first time to come to the amusement park. Shen Qi was obviously more familiar with this place than him, and pulled him around the amusement park.
They played on some small amusement equipment, went on the Ferris wheel, overlooking the entire city from the highest point, and took a sightseeing bus around the amusement park. However, there were many people and they had to queue, and this was the only stage where they heard complaints.
"It's so slow." "Why haven't I got my turn yet?" "I've been to the amusement park all day and have been queuing for half the day."
Chen Qi obviously noticed that Shen Yunzhe didn't like queuing, so they stopped queuing for popular events and instead tried a few unpopular events that didn't require long queues. By the time they finished playing, it was already dark. Chen Qi hummed a song while watching the time, while Shen Yunzhe was drinking a glass of orange juice.
"It's so hard to drink." Shen Yunzhe complained, "It's just powdered drink mixed with water. It's sweet and greasy."
"No way, this is food from the amusement park, it would be strange if it tasted good." Shen Qi raised his head, "Shen Yunzhe, it's time!"
Shen Yunzhe raised his head as he did, and saw fireworks explode in the sky with a bang.
The colorful fireworks were so obvious in the dark night. Shen Yunzhe heard the sounds of surprise around him. Various fireworks flashed in the night sky, igniting their own light. Even if it was only for a moment, it left a mark in everyone's heart that was difficult to erase for a long time.
At this moment, Shen Yunzhe felt a warm hand touching him. He lowered his head and saw Shen Qi's hand trying to hold his hand carefully. He looked at the fireworks, but glanced here from time to time.
Seeing that Shen Yunzhe had noticed, he coughed and pretended to be watching the fireworks seriously, but his hands were much bigger than before, and he just clenched his hand and never let go.
Shen Yunzhe couldn't help but smile. He shook his hand back and looked at the fireworks in the night again.
But the fireworks that were so beautiful just now seemed to have become a foil. His heart was filled with the warmth in Chen Qi's palm. This heat seemed to have penetrated into his heart, disturbing his new home from time to time. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at this person. Only the afterglow of the fireworks and the faint smell of gunpowder remained in the corners of his eyes.
Even if all the good things are not as good as having this person by his side.
That's about it.
As if he had noticed Shen Yunzhe's gaze, Shen Qi turned around and looked at Shen Yunzhe, his eyes full of smiles.
He said, "Happy birthday, Shen Yunzhe."
"Birthday?" Shen Yunzhe blinked. "Mine?"
"But I don't remember my birthday is today."
"This is my own decision. I have no choice. I don't know when your birthday is, so I can only consider the day I met you as your birthday." Shen Qi said confidently, "This is Shen Yunzhe's birthday, the birthday of the one and only Shen Yunzhe. It's not some identity that you change every day, but simply you."
Shen Yunzhe looked at Shen Qi, "Simple me?"
"An individual named Shen Yunzhe has a complete life. He is not someone in the eyes of others, and he will not suddenly become someone else's simple you."
"It's time to wake up." Shen Qi reached out and poked Shen Yunzhe's forehead. "The game needs to end. Dreams always end. I'm still waiting for you to come home."
Shen Yunzhe was stunned for a moment.
"I prepared a birthday cake for you and also made a carrot feast. Okay, no, I lied to you. If you want to know what I prepared, you have to come out." Shen Qi said all kinds of words that made him confused. "Hurry up, I will be sad without you in the future."
"We have an appointment."
The moment he finished speaking, Shen Yunzhe saw that Shen Qi's figure seemed to be disappearing. He was like the fireworks exploding in the sky, dissipating in the air after a moment of light.
It leaves no trace and cannot be caught.
Shen Yunzhe subconsciously reached out to grab him, but suddenly opened his eyes.
His hands were still in the posture of wanting to grasp something, but the environment in front of him had changed. He was surrounded by a pure white space that stretched as far as the eye could see. It was so quiet that even the air seemed unable to flow.
Shen Yunzhe sat up.
【Finally woke up.】
"System?" Shen Yunzhe asked with some confusion, "What happened?"
After the Virgin Mary disappeared, you took her place and liberated all parallel worlds. However, there was a problem: you had never synchronized with your counterparts and had no knowledge of their lives. After instantly achieving 100% synchronization with all of them, you fell into a dream due to the information overload.
[In the dream, you created a real world where countless identities were condensed together, and it was difficult to wake up consciously.]
Shen Yunzhe gradually recalled everything, and frowned slightly, "Then Shen Qi..."
[Codenamed Hope is the helper I specifically sought out after discovering your situation. His special ability prevents his mind from being eroded. He stayed with you in your dreams until he thought the time was right to wake you. It seems he succeeded.]
Shen Yunzhe stood up and stood in this pure white space.
"What's the situation now?"
[The Virgin Mary disappeared, the playground disappeared, and the world was completely liberated. In other words: we succeeded.]
Shen Yunzhe smiled and said, "Then it's time to go home."
He walked forward step by step, leaving the pure white space behind him. Soon a door appeared in front of Shen Yunzhe. The door opened in front of him, and when he stepped through the door, he saw the familiar world.
There are hustle and bustle of traffic and tall buildings, and everywhere is prosperous.
In front of him was a bridge. Under the bridge, there were large patches of lotus flowers in the stream. On the bridge, there was a person lying on the railing looking at the lotus flowers.
As he looked at it, he suddenly said, "I wonder if the lotus root inside is delicious."
Shen Yunzhe couldn't help but wonder: Does he have any misunderstandings about himself?
He said that he was a timid person who could not look forward to the future, but he always knew how to make someone look forward to the future.
How can there be such people in this world?
But fortunately, this person now belongs to him.
So it’s actually the sequel to if!
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