Chapter 65: Tian Ruan was amused and cried.
After the excitement, Sha Meijuan gradually calmed down and looked at Tian Ruan with unspeakable guilt.
Tian Ruan said, "Mom, you have a good rest. I'll go see Dad Du."
Speaking of Du Danren, Sha Meijuan looked at the barbell and asked awkwardly, "How is he? I was too impulsive at the time. I should go see him too. I should at least apologize."
As she spoke, she threw back the quilt, got out of bed, wiped the tears from her eyes, and forced a smile: "I'll go wash my face."
"Yeah." Tian Ruan waited and tidied up the ward at the same time.
Du Henbie looked at Tian Ruan suspiciously, but he didn't ask anything - as long as his brother was found, nothing else mattered.
After Sha Meijuan finished washing and changed into a decent coat, she followed Tian Ruan into the elevator to the ward on the two floors above.
As soon as he entered, Du Danren shuddered when he saw Sha Meijuan, and his leg in plaster seemed to be aching again.
Mrs. Du stood up calmly and gracefully. When she saw Tian Ruan, she raised her hand and waved. Tian Ruan came to her. Mrs. Du asked distressedly: "Why are your eyes red? Did you cry?"
Tian Ruan: “No.”
Sha Meijuan glanced at Tian Ruan after hearing this, but it seemed like she could no longer do anything for Tian Ruan. She could only say awkwardly, "Boss Du, Madam Du, I was wrong. I shouldn't have hit Boss Du's leg with the barbell. I will pay for all the medical expenses."
Mrs. Du raised her chin slightly and said solemnly, "Hello, Ms. Sha, I am Tian Ruan's biological mother, Ruan Mengling."
"Hello……"
Du Danren replied subconsciously: "Hello."
Sha Meijuan: "Hello, hello."
"Well, hello."
“…”
Du Henbie held his forehead and said, "I think you are all in bad shape."
Yu Jingmo pulled Tian Ruan aside with amusement, "Everyone sit down and talk."
So everyone sat down and calmed down a little.
"The medical expenses are unnecessary." Mrs. Du felt a little sympathetic when she saw Sha Meijuan like this. "Xiao Ruan's father was also at fault. He shouldn't have rashly come to ask for a fight."
Du Danren: "I didn't ask for a fight, I just wanted to talk to her."
Mrs. Du: "Talking about you, my legs are broken."
Du Danren: “…”
Sha Meijuan became more and more embarrassed: "Mrs. Du, I'm so sorry."
Mrs. Du comforted her: "It's okay. I also want to thank you for raising Xiao Ruan so well."
Sha Meijuan smiled and said, "He has only become more sensible this year. He used to make me angry all the time, drinking, fighting, smoking, and everything else."
Mrs. Du looked at Tian Ruan in surprise, "Is that so?"
Tian Ruan: “…” No, that’s not me, that’s Tian Yuan.
"It's normal for young people to be ignorant." Yu Jingmo held Tian Ruan's slightly cold hand and gradually warmed it up. He looked at the young man beside him, "Now he is a good child."
The word "good boy" made Tian Ruan blush, because when he and Yu Jingmo were playing the Calabash Brothers, Yu Jingmo also praised him in this way.
The apology has been made and the conversation has been made, but the past cannot be retrieved.
Mrs. Du promised to help Sha Meijuan find the real Tian Yuan, and Sha Meijuan left with gratitude.
The sky was getting dark, but the evening glow had not yet dissipated. Mrs. Du invited Tian Ruan to her home for dinner. Tian Ruan said, "Madam Liu has prepared the meal."
Mrs. Du did not force it, as there would be many opportunities to have meals together in the future.
On the way back to the manor, Tian Ruan checked the messages in the class group. Some people congratulated Tian Ruan on winning first place in the essay competition, some asked for homework to be copied, and some were discussing miscellaneous things.
The car slowly stopped.
Tian Ruan thought they had arrived at the manor, but when he looked outside, he saw a row of stone pillars blocking the way. Not far away was lush greenery and rippling water, and it looked like a park.
"Let's go for a walk." Yu Jingmo slammed the car door, strode to Tian Ruan, took his schoolbag and threw it into the car.
Crossing the stone pier that was only wide enough for one person to pass, Tian Ruan took a deep breath of the fresh air of the park, and his depressed mood eased a lot.
The gorgeous sunset glowed like a fairy's shawl hanging in the west. Tian Ruan walked under the glow, running towards the winding paths, pavilions and towers not far away.
Yu Jingmo followed him for a while, the dull sound of leather shoes and the crisp sound of stepping on dead leaves intertwined with each other.
Tian Ruan looked up to find autumn fruits and picked up many beautiful pine cones. His pockets couldn't hold them all, so he stuffed them into Yu Jingmo's pockets. "Mr. Yu, help me pack them. I can use this for handicrafts."
"What do you want to do?" Yu Jingmo watched Tian Ruan put pine cones into his custom-made suit that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and did not refuse.
"Wind chimes, decorative paintings, anything is fine."
"Um."
The two walked around the park, and Tian Ruan saw the small boats by the lake and was very excited.
Yu Jingmo walked straight to the ticket office, glanced at the price list, scanned the code to pay, and said, "Go ahead."
Tian Ruan happily got on the boat and sat on one side, with room for one more person on the other side.
Yu Jingmo stepped in with his long legs, and the boat shook violently. Tian Ruan was so scared that she hugged Yu Jingmo's long legs and did not let go until the boat stabilized. Yu Jingmo came in and took up most of the boat.
"Mr. Yu, you are too tall." Tian Ruan said, holding the oar on the side of the boat.
Yu Jingmo: "This boat is too small. Row it."
The two people each took a paddle and worked together, the waves spread out and the boat circled in the water.
“…”
Yu Jingmo was helpless: "You are rowing too fast, please cooperate with me."
Tian Ruan rowed too slowly and kept making circles, making him dizzy.
Yu Jingmo grabbed his hand and said, "Let go, I'll row."
Then it's still in circles.
“…”
The two people who couldn't row looked at each other, and Tian Ruan laughed: "So there is something you can't do."
They worked together for more than ten minutes and finally got the boat out of the dock. Gradually they mastered the skills and became more and more cooperative.
"Life is like rowing, you're not born with the ability to do it," said Yu Jingmo.
"?" Tian Ruan nodded in agreement.
Yu Jingmo looked at his confused appearance and asked, "How old are you?"
"twenty?"
"But you didn't live twenty years, did you?"
Tian Ruan was tongue-tied: "What, what do you mean?"
Yu Jingmo sighed: "I originally thought that I would tell you when you wanted to. But you were too stupid and thought I didn't notice. I can't bear to see you being stupid anymore."
“…”
"You are Tian Ruan, not Tian Yuan. Right?"
Tian Ruan was filled with indescribable shock, as if a bolt of thunder had split the fog and illuminated a path before him - it turned out that Yu Jingmo had already discovered his secret.
He thought he hid it well, but in fact he had many loopholes.
Tian Ruan suddenly remembered the first time he and Yu Jingmo "helped each other", Yu Jingmo asked him whether he was an adult. He then forgot about it in a panic. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that Yu Jingmo had been testing him. It's just that his heart was too big and he didn't think deeply about it.
Tian Ruan was simply speechless. At first, he wanted to imitate Tian Yuan's personality, but he forgot about it as time went by. After going to school, his mind was even more like a student's, and he never looked at himself from other perspectives.
From Yu Jingmo's perspective, how could he not notice that his wife had transformed from a bed-climbing little hooligan to a sweet wife who loved going to school?
Even though Yu Jingmo and Tian Yuan were not familiar with each other, they knew that a person's basic behavior patterns would not change. There are only two possibilities for such earth-shaking changes to happen in such a short period of time: being possessed by another body, or being replaced by another one.
Excluding the possibility of possession, the only possibility left is "the wife was replaced".
Tian Ruan was sweating profusely and stared at Yu Jingmo in a daze.
Yu Jingmo pinched his cheek, "Are you stupid again?"
Tian Ruan came back to her senses with a start, and admitted weakly: "I am indeed not Tian Yuan, not your wife."
Yu Jingmo: "It is you who married me, it is you who accompanied me day and night, it is you who slept in the same bed with me. You are my wife."
"..." Tian Ruan should have been panicking and depressed, but at this moment, his heart was pounding, "But I replaced Tian Yuan, don't you think it's strange?"
"It's very strange, why would you replace him?" Yu Jingmo asked, "Are you a god?"
Tian Ruan shook his head, "I'm just an ordinary person."
Yu Jingmo ruffled his hair and said, "It seems to me that you must have something special to be able to disappear and reappear."
Tian Ruan opened his eyes wide, "How did you know I disappeared and reappeared?"
"You specifically asked Sha Meijuan if you were lost as a child. In fact, you suspected that it was you, not Tian Yuan, who was lost."
"…It's me." Tian Ruan didn't know what to say. "I went to another world and was adopted by a couple named Tian. But not long after that, they had a plane accident. I spent eighteen years in that world. When I was about to take the college entrance examination, the car I was riding in fell into the water, and then I came to this world."
Yu Jingmo was not fooled by him, "You seem to be very familiar with this world and can 'predict' some things to happen. For example, what happened to Yu Fadada's family."
"..." Tian Ruan was stunned by Yu Jingmo's keen observation. He even remembered such a small thing?
"Have you ever seen this world since you were in that world?"
Tian Ruan felt that his soul had been seen through, and hesitantly said: "Mr. Yu, if I tell you, you will be disappointed."
"I won't be disappointed." Yu Jing's dark pupils seemed to be dyed with a gorgeous color under the sunset glow, and his voice was gentle, "Only when you have great hope will you be disappointed by the opposite answer. I have nothing to be disappointed about. I accept any answer."
Tian Ruan suddenly seemed to see the young Yu Jingmo, whose parents had both passed away and who was left alone without a father. He handled all the funeral affairs gently and calmly, and held up the Yu family alone.
No one asked him if he would be tired, disappointed, or regretful.
Yu Jingmo wouldn’t, because he accepts all answers.
Tian Ruan calmed down a little. He looked at Yu Jingmo who was so close to him and calmly told his story: "The world I visited had wars just like here, and people died every day. They are extremely similar, but not exactly the same. Because the world we are in now was created based on that world."
"Parallel world?" Yu Jingmo understood immediately.
"You can understand it that way. But some things in this world are written in books and can be seen by everyone, including me. These things are also happening truthfully in this world."
"You mean, this world is a book?"
Tian Ruan nodded gently, "In this world, except for the protagonists and supporting characters, everyone else is an NPC."
Yu Jingmo raised his eyebrows slightly, "I am also an NPC?"
"You're not. You're...important."
“But not the protagonist.”
Tian Ruan nodded regretfully, "You are not the protagonist, and I am just a cannon fodder. According to Tian Yuan's character setting, he will die in a fight between wealthy families in two years."
Yu Jingmo: "So in order to change this ending, you go to school."
"I like going to school," Tian Ruan said, "I love learning and I have my own dreams."
Yu Jingmo laughed: "I figured it out."
Tian Ruan was confused again: "I originally thought that I just traveled through time, but Madam Du appeared. She turned out to be my biological mother, and I actually belonged to this world. There is one thing I don't understand..."
"What?"
"Why am I replacing Tian Yuan's identity instead of someone else's? I don't even need to replace anyone, I am the young master of the Du family."
Yu Jingmo pondered for a long time, "This question is not difficult, let's sort it out from the beginning."
Tian Ruan has always known that Yu Jingmo is much smarter than himself, so he admitted it frankly, hoping that Yu Jingmo could answer his questions. He immediately moved closer, full of curiosity: "Okay."
Yu Jingmo raised his index finger and touched the young man's slightly frowned brows, only to see his long eyelashes blinking. "Tell me what you think first."
"?" Tian Ruan sorted out his thoughts, "I feel that twenty years ago, Tian's father took the wrong child, causing me to disappear from this world. When I came back eighteen years later, he was already dead. I replaced his child, which is a kind of cause and effect cycle."
"That makes sense, but I prefer quantum entanglement to causality."
Tian Ruan knew a little about quantum entanglement, and nodded when he heard it. "From a scientific point of view, this is indeed possible."
Yu Jingmo: "Let's go back to the starting point of our birth. Under this premise, we assume that the world's will exists and serve the protagonist of this world. Is that ok?"
"no problem."
The will of the world has always existed. Although it cannot be seen or touched, it definitely exists because of the protagonist.
Yu Jingmo: "Twenty years ago, Sha Meijuan was just an ordinary woman in this world, and her husband was just an ordinary NPC. Let's call him A and Sha Meijuan B. A and B got together and gave birth to a child, C."
"a+b=c?"
"At that time, Mrs. Du happened to give birth in the same hospital, and Du Danren was there too. They called it 1 and 2, 1+2=3, and the 3 was you."
"……Um."
"Under the will of the world, ABC is an extremely ordinary family of three in this world. Various accidents, deaths, and separations will also happen in this world. ABC is destined to lose C."
Tian Ruan was shocked and jumped out of the original framework. This was indeed something that could happen.
Yu Jingmo: "In the small plot of their family of three, it should be that a took c away, causing c to disappear, maybe he was abducted, or maybe something else happened, and a and b would keep looking for c. In the context of the big world, anything can happen, but it is all under the control of the world's will."
Tian Ruan nodded.
"But A took the wrong child 3 from 1 and 2. A and 3 became quantum entangled, and C, who was destined to be missing, became 3. Under the theory of causality, C and 3 also became quantum entangled."
Tian Ruan continued to nod.
"AB did not lose C, and their lives continued, which went against the will of the world, but under another will, C became Tian Yuan."
"…Why did C have to be Tian Yuan?"
"Then you have to ask the original author." Yu Jingmo spoke the truth about how this world works. "This world was created based on the original author's novel blueprint. At the beginning of its creation, there was a world will that was out of the author's control, because this world really exists."
Tian Ruan's thoughts were tied into a bow.
Seeing that he didn't understand, Yu Jingmo pointed at the fruit trees on the shore and asked, "Why do apple trees only bear apples and not stones?"
Tian Ruan: "Then it definitely can't form stones."
"When you play The Adventure House of the Brave, why do you open the green treasure chest instead of the red treasure chest?"
"There is a trap in the red treasure chest."
"You see, everything follows a pattern, because everything is 'designed'. Especially in this world."
Tian Ruan seemed to understand something. "You mean, if C is missing, there will be someone else who can be Tian Yuan? If C is not missing, he is Tian Yuan?"
Yu Jingmo nodded, "It's like two world lines, γ and β. In world γ, a took c away, c disappeared, and 3 would grow up safely as the young master of the Du family. In that world line, you might never participate in the main storyline, study abroad, and live abroad permanently. C would not become Tian Yuan, but a new person somewhere else."
He added: "In the β world line, a took 3 away, causing 3 to disappear, but c did not disappear. C became Tian Yuan under the author's will, and was then replaced by 3 under the world's will, because the world's will detected your quantum entanglement. This is the result of the game between the world's will and the author's will."
Tian Ruan listened in a daze, and seemed to understand something. "Because of A's mistaken embrace, I was forced to be in the β world line. But does the quantum entanglement between Tian Yuan and I mean that one will increase while the other decreases? Will one of them disappear?"
Yu Jingmo looked at Tian Ruan gently and said, "According to the law of quantum conservation, no one can truly disappear, just like you are back. Tian Yuan may just go to where he should go, and the two world lines are gradually intersecting."
"Can parallel time and space intersect?"
"Under the curvature of non-Euclidean space, even two parallel lines will eventually intersect. This is a foregone conclusion."
"Can't change?"
"Of course." Yu Jingmo grabbed his hand and placed it on his chest. "In the β world line, if you deviate from the main storyline and push me into the lake to drown, you will enter the third world line. But our quantum entanglement will still exist. You will definitely be 'punished' by the will of the world, and I may become your 'deceased husband' and follow you."
Tian Ruan placed his palm against Yu Jingmo's chest, feeling the strong and vigorous beating of his heart. He did not dare to think about killing Yu Jingmo. He wanted to withdraw his hand but was held down tightly.
"Dare you?"
Tian Ruan panicked and moved so fast that the boat began to shake. "I don't want it..."
Yu Jingmo let go and hugged him, and the boat slowly stopped shaking. "I'm just teasing you. I won't turn into a ghost to scare you."
Tian Ruan was amused to tears.
“…”
Yu Jingmo had never coaxed anyone in his life. He gently patted Tian Ruan on the back and said, "Don't be afraid."
Tian Ruan asked the ultimate question of mankind: "Why do I exist?"
Yu Jingmo said: "Existence is reasonable."
"Really?"
"Well, no matter what trouble you get into, I'll cover it for you."
“…”
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
