Extra Chapter: I Walked the Path You Came
"Yangyang, Lin Chaoyang, don't go... Yangyang——"
With a scream, Tian Xin woke up from her dream and sat directly on the bed in shock.
"Yangyang..." She murmured to herself, her eyes still unfocused.
It took a minute to come back to my senses.
A big red wedding quilt, big red curtains, and big red wedding characters.
That’s right, still in the ancient city, still in the new house, and the calendar on the bedside still shows June 2008.
She calmed herself down and turned to look at Lin Zhou.
He was still asleep, his face wrinkle-free and ageless, his breathing as shallow as a baby's.
"Husband——" she couldn't help but scream.
Lin Zhou didn't move or respond.
She was a little distracted and called out again: "Husband——"
Lin Zhou was still sleeping soundly, not even moving to turn over.
It was strange, it was almost 9 o'clock. According to his usual sleep schedule, he should have been awake by now. Why was he sleeping so soundly today?
She couldn't help but feel a little flustered, so she shook Lin Zhou's arm: "Husband, it's time to get up. We have to go to my parents' place today."
“…”
"Why are you staying in bed? Didn't you say you'd get up at 6 o'clock? How come you slept better than me today? Are you... tired... last night?"
He will definitely wake up if he says this, or at least his face will turn red.
She stared at him without blinking. Five minutes passed, and he didn't wake up or blush. His breathing seemed to become shallower.
“…”
A bad suspicion suddenly came over her.
Could it be that...
No! No!
She immediately called Zhou Ruilian.
I didn't know what the person on the other end was busy with, and it rang three times before he picked up.
She was so anxious that she cried and called Lin Zhou's name: "Wake up, don't scare me...husband..."
As soon as Zhou Ruilian answered the phone, she heard crying and was startled: "Girl, why are you crying? What's wrong?"
"Mom, Lin Zhou slept very soundly today and hasn't woken up yet. I... I'm so scared. Please ask the doctor what's wrong with him? Is there something wrong again? I called him several times, but he didn't move..."
She was crying so hard that she was out of breath and couldn't speak clearly.
When Zhou Ruilian heard this, she was also frightened and quickly hung up the phone and rushed over.
When she and Lin Zhenhua arrived, it was already 10 o'clock, and Lin Zhou still hadn't woken up.
Tian Xin's initial panic has turned into a deep fear like a bottomless pit.
She couldn't believe it. Lin Zhou was fine yesterday and had been fine for so many days. How could he suddenly not wake up?
Is all this... just a dream?
He never came back and they never got married. Was it a dream she had created because she missed him too much?
“Snap—”
She slapped herself hard.
It hurts, it's true.
Lin Zhenhua was startled by her and turned to look at her in disbelief: "Girl, why are you hitting yourself for no reason?"
She didn't answer, but looked at Lin Zhenhua with tears in her eyes and asked him, "Dad, am I your daughter-in-law?"
"Is this child scared silly?"
Zhou Ruilian stood up and hugged her: "Of course it is, you call me mom, how can it not be?"
"Dad, tell me."
"Yes, you are the daughter-in-law my son married in a formal ceremony. Of course, you are my daughter-in-law."
Lin Zhenhua patted her and said, "Girl, don't be afraid. He might just be tired and will be fine after a good sleep. You are newly married, so you should be more restrained in your sexual intercourse. His current physical condition cannot..."
"What are you talking about?"
Zhou Ruilian interrupted him with a "tsk" sound: "Speaking of this in front of the child, do you have any shame as a father-in-law?"
"How can I be shameless? I asked them to be more restrained..."
"Ah... all right, all right, Mom and Dad, stop arguing. We... are quite restrained... quite restrained..."
How embarrassing!
After this quarrel, she even forgot to cry.
But even so, Lin Zhou was still sleeping soundly, with no sign of waking up.
The three of them were still worried and asked a doctor to come.
"It's normal for him. He's just tired. He'll be fine after a good night's sleep."
The doctor took a look around the room and tactfully expressed his feelings, "It's normal for young people to be hot-tempered, but you still have to be careful. Weddings and visiting relatives are very tiring. You should be more restrained in some things..."
“…”
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“…”
After sending the doctor away, Lin Zhenhua shouted, "Listen, what did I say?"
He glanced at Tian Xin, then at his son, who was half naked and wrapped in a quilt, and swallowed the rest of his words.
"Dad, I... I'll look after him." Tian Xin blushed and whispered, "You and Mom go back and do your work first. When Lin Zhou wakes up, we'll go over there."
Lin Zhou slept until the sun set before waking up.
Like her, he called out a name and sat up in shock.
"Hubby, are you... awake?"
Lin Zhou seemed not to hear her words and called out the name again: "Yangyang——"
"Where's Yangyang?" Lin Zhou seemed half asleep and half awake. He grabbed her and asked, "Aren't we supposed to send Yangyang to school? You're going to discuss cooperation with Mr. Wang. What's going on? Why am I here?"
"Talk about...talk about cooperation?"
Could it be that Lin Zhou had the same dream as her?
"Who is Yangyang?" she asked tentatively.
"Yangyang, our son, Lin Chaoyang, don't you remember him?"
Lin Zhou seemed to finally wake up.
After he said this, there was finally some light in his eyes.
But things soon went wrong.
"Tian Xin, you...how did you become so young?" He looked Tian Xin up and down, then looked around: "Where's Yang...Yangyang?"
Seeing Tian Xin staring at him blankly without answering, he got anxious and got out of bed and went to the second bedroom. He didn't care that he was now naked in front of Tian Xin.
Tian Xin followed him and called him softly, "Hubby...don't...don't scare me. We just got married and we don't have any children yet."
"No children?"
Lin Zhou seemed to have noticed this as well.
There was nothing related to the child in the second bedroom. There was no desk, clothes, posters or figures of his favorite stars, and even the certificates and trophies that he regarded as treasures were gone.
He was shocked. Tian Xin saw the same thing in his eyes as she saw when she was reborn many years ago - fear and... uneasiness.
"What year is it?"
really.
Tian Xin couldn't bear it any longer, so she clasped his hands tightly and went forward to hug him: "Lin Zhou, we just got married the day before yesterday, and it's 2008 now."
“2008?”
"Then... do you still remember how we got through the past ten years?"
“Of course I do.”
"Our company has grown to a scale where we can negotiate business with entertainment giants. Our son is called Lin Chaoyang and looks exactly like you now. And you are the man behind me. Later, my son asked me to go home and give my position to you. But..."
Tian Xin held his face and couldn't help but pecked it. Then she looked into his eyes and said with great emotion, "My dear CEO, shouldn't you put on your clothes first? Then we can talk about how we've been through all these years?"
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