"In that dream, the world we lived in was a book, but we were not the protagonists. In fact, I did not officially appear on the scene. My identity was just your wife who died young."
Zong Shao heard every word Lin Wei said and knew what they meant, but when they were put together into a sentence, he didn't understand what they meant.
"I was very scared when I woke up, but I also comforted myself that it was just a dream, not real. But after arriving on the island, I learned about Luo Shuzhi and her niece, Luo Yun."
"What does it have to do with them?" Zong Shao asked.
"Of course they are related. The protagonist of the story is Luo Yun. She also has an aunt named Luo Shuzhi. Her husband is a soldier. He was stationed on Yazhou Island with the army and served as the political commissar of the division. In 1976, her husband retired because he was on the wrong side."
Luo Shuzhi did not have a good life in her later years. After her husband passed away, all the relatives and friends who used to stick with her left. The most important thing is that her son is not ambitious enough. In the 1980s, seeing those around him who went into business becoming millionaires one after another, he also quit his job in the government and went into business. Not only did he lose all his family fortune, he also owed a lot of debts and never recovered from that.
For the sake of her son, Luo Shuzhi called Luo Yun, asking her to arrange a job for her in the company jointly owned by the male protagonist and Zong Shao. Luo Yun agreed and arranged the person to work in the company.
After Luo Yun's cousin joined the company, he accidentally learned that Zong Shao had served in the army on Yazhou Island. He wanted to make friends with him, but he hit a wall and was fired immediately.
Luo Yun's cousin was upset and came to her. She was so angry that she had a few words with the male protagonist. The male protagonist said angrily: "Okay, your aunt has done those immoral things. No one wants her son to be around."
Luo Yun was unwilling to accept it, so he said, "That was all many years ago."
The male protagonist said: "It has been so many years and I still can't get over it. Not only he can't get over it, but I can't get over it in my heart either!"
Because the original novel was vague, Lin Wei didn't quite understand the plot when she first arrived on the island, and she didn't know why Zong Shao targeted Luo Shuzhi. But after her job at the hospital was ruined and her job at the school was almost ruined, she understood.
But these were irrelevant to the topic between them, so Lin Wei didn't say much, and just continued: "Before I had that dream, you never told me about Luo Shuzhi and Luo Yun, and I didn't know them. But through that dream book, I not only got to know them, but also learned a lot about them, and these details are similar to what I learned after I arrived on the island."
Zong Shao asked: "So you believe that dreams are real and we live in a book."
"You don't believe me?" Lin Wei asked, looking up.
"no……"
But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Lin Wei: "What I said is true. After confirming that the dream is true, I also wrote down the things that might happen to us on the island mentioned in the book..."
Lin Wei said as she got off the bed, walked to the closet in her slippers, took out the notebook that was pressed underneath, and turned to the page where she had sorted out her thoughts.
But when she saw the words clearly, she was stunned.
When she was sorting out her thoughts, she wrote down all the details about her time mentioned in the original book. The content seemed to be a lot, but in fact most of them were things that happened before she joined the army, and there were only six or seven things that happened after she joined the army.
Some of these six or seven things had already happened, such as when they first arrived on the island, the whole family went to the movies together, and she taught her two children lessons for more than a year.
Some things have changed, for example, last year she brought her parents over for the New Year, and the six of them celebrated the New Year together. The original book clearly mentioned last year's New Year, and the words revealed that they spent it together as a family of four, and it was the only New Year they celebrated together. It was this sentence that made Lin Wei certain that she died in the second year after she arrived on the island.
There are also a few things that may have been dropped by the butterfly and never happened at all.
Things that have not happened are equivalent to not coming true, and cannot prove that the dream is true.
Things that happened but were changed from the original story further prove that the dream was false.
As for those things that have already happened, how can she prove that the contents of the notebook were written before they happened? After all, this notebook was hidden deep in the closet and had not been exposed to the wind, sun or rain. It was impossible to tell whether the words were written a year or half a year ago.
Even if she could be sure that the words were written when she first arrived on the island, how could she prove that this was because she had foreseen the future rather than a plan?
This notebook cannot be regarded as evidence that she knows the future.
While Lin Wei was stunned, Zong Shao took the notebook from her hand and looked at the words on it. He, who was always calm, began to tremble.
Lin Wei felt that the notebook could not be used as evidence, but in Zong Shao's opinion, this was the most powerful evidence, because he knew that this notebook contained her biggest secret.
And her secret began last summer.
Zong Shao read ten lines at a glance. When he saw the last line, he clenched his hands tightly, and the soft cover of the notebook was completely deformed by him.
The last line is -
8.2 Typhoon day?
If he had seen this notebook a few days earlier, Zong Shao might have been confused, but now, he understood the meaning of this line of words - August 2nd, a typhoon day, what happened?
Zong Shao reached out and hugged Lin Wei, then bent down and kissed her forehead: "It's okay, it's over."
But in fact, he himself didn't know whether he was saying these words to comfort Lin Wei or to himself.
"Do you believe me?" Lin Wei looked up and asked.
"I believe it."
…
Ten minutes later, the two returned to bed. Zong Shao listened to Lin Wei recounting her past year's emotional journey: "The novel didn't mention that Mingming Ruirui had brothers and sisters. I always thought that I wouldn't have a child this year, so that day, Sister Zhao reminded me that I might be pregnant, and I was..."
She always thought that in the novel, she was the only one who died that summer. It was not until that day when Zhao Li reminded her that she realized that there might be two deaths.
At that moment, she was completely stunned. She couldn't control the chills and tears.
It's so cruel.
To this day, Lin Wei can't help but tear up when she thinks of how she felt at that time.
Zong Shao hugged Lin Wei and asked in a low voice: "Why didn't you tell me?"
If he had known these things earlier, he would have hugged Lin Wei instead of wanting to comfort her but not knowing where to start. With him by her side, Lin Wei might feel better.
Lin Wei did not answer, but asked in return: "If it were you, knowing that you might not live long, would you tell me this?"
Zong Shao fell silent.
But Lin Wei answered for him: "You won't, you will endure it all by yourself, just like me."
Their personalities are not exactly the same, but in some ways, they are the same people. He doesn’t mind telling others about the little things he encounters and asking them to give him advice, but when he encounters a big problem that he cannot solve, he wants to handle it himself so as not to make the other person worry about him.
Zong Shao was also very clear about this, it was just too hard. She had worked too hard this year.
Lin Wei rested her head on Zong Shao's chest, closed her eyes and said, "At that time, I thought, if I can survive, I will tell you everything. If I die, I hope you don't know anything."
Sometimes, not knowing is bliss.
Although Lin Wei didn't know whether it was good or bad for Zong Shao to live his life like in the original novel, she couldn't think so much and could only make a choice based on her own feelings.
Zong Shao felt that, rather than knowing everything and living his life in confusion, he would rather know everything and live his life soberly and painfully.
But at the same time, he also understood Lin Wei's choice. Just as she said, if it were him, he would also choose to hide it.
They just want the other person to live a good life.
Besides, the matter had already passed, so there was no need for them to argue about who was right or wrong. Zong Shao lowered his head, kissed Lin Wei's hair and said, "Fortunately, you survived."
Lin Wei sighed: "Yes, luckily I survived."
It’s great to be alive.
…
Although she was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night, after talking it out, Lin Wei had her first sound sleep since July. What was rare was that she slept in the next day and only got up when the sun shone through the window onto the bed.
After opening her eyes, Lin Wei stretched and looked to the side. Not seeing Zong Shao, she lifted the sheet covering her body, got out of bed, and walked out in her slippers.
As soon as she walked out of the room and saw the familiar corridor, Lin Wei stopped.
After last night's dream, it was hard for her not to have a shadow in her mind about the corridor in front of her. Even though the doors to the second bedroom and the balcony were open, the corridor was brighter than it had been that night.
Lin Wei was hesitating when she suddenly heard a rustling sound above her head and took a step back in fright.
But the next second, she saw a tile above the stairs being peeled off, revealing a palm-sized hole. Through the hole, Lin Wei saw Zong Shao's white military uniform and asked, "Zong Shao, is that you?"
Hearing the sound, the figure above moved, and then a face approached appeared in the cave and asked, "Are you awake? Are you hungry? I bought breakfast."
"I'm not hungry," Lin Wei shook her head and asked, "What are you doing up there?"
"I want to take advantage of today's free time to check if there are any tiles with problems, and replace them as soon as possible." Zong Shao saw that Lin Wei did not move after he finished speaking. Thinking of her dream yesterday, he put down the tiles in his hand and said, "Wait for me for a moment."
"What?" Lin Wei asked.
Zong Shao did not answer, but stood up and left the cave. Then, he heard the sound of footsteps, and Lin Wei guessed that he might have come down from the building.
She was right. Soon, Zong Shao came into the house, took two or three steps at a time and went up to the second floor. He walked up to her and asked, "Are we going downstairs now?"
"Are you here just to pick me up?" Lin Wei asked.
Zong Shao nodded: "I think you might be scared."
Lin Wei felt warm in her heart, but she said, "I can overcome it."
"I believe you, but I hope to be with you during your husband-killing fear." Zong Shao held her hand and asked, "Are you going down?"
Lin Wei clenched her hands, looked at the stairs not far away, and nodded: "Yeah."
Zong Shao did not raise his foot immediately. Instead, he took Lin Wei's hand, opened her clenched fist with his fingers, and interlocked his fingers with hers: "Let's go."
Lin Wei walked forward and when she reached the stairs, she stopped and looked at the not-so-high stairs below. She actually felt a little dizzy.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Zong Shao said.
Lin Wei looked up, met his encouraging gaze, took a deep breath, and walked forward.
She walked down the upper staircase smoothly, but when she turned a corner and saw the lower staircase, she stopped again.
Everything around her seemed to darken, and she saw the "her" in her dream again, walking down step by step, then slipping, and bleeding all over the floor.
She couldn't help biting her lip and clenched her hands again, but this time, one of her hands was clenched into a fist, while the other hand was tightly held by someone. She raised her head and looked at him again.
But the moment they looked at each other, Zong Shao gave in: "Let me carry you down."
Lin Wei was stunned: "What?"
Zong Shao said: "If you are scared, forget it. I will carry you down."
After hearing his words, Lin Wei was no longer so scared. She smiled and said, "How are you going to hold me? Even if you hold me down today, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow?"
Zong Shao was speechless: "I will find a way to find someone to change the house."
But there is no place like home, so how can it be so easy to change houses? What's more, if she moves to an old house, she will still have to go up and down the stairs.
It was impossible for her to never go up and down stairs for the rest of her life. Moreover, from the time she had that dream until now, she had already walked the first ninety-nine steps. How could she be willing to fall at this last step?
She had to take this step.
Lin Wei took a deep breath, cleared her mind of the images, and walked downstairs.
step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
…
She walked past the place where she had slid in the dream, walked past the steps where she had sat for a long time in the dream, stepped over the ground where blood and rain gathered in the dream, came to the living room, turned around and smiled at Zong Shao: "See, I can do it."
She finally regained her life.
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