At night, the gentle summer breeze blew, occasionally carrying bits of white trash. The cicadas' chirping in the trees lining the street had become less frequent, but Zhao Hanyun didn't seem to notice much. She'd just finished working overtime and was exhausted. She didn't feel like cooking dinner. She grabbed a takeaway fried rice from the snack bar downstairs and went upstairs. After showering, she sat at the table, staring at the dry fried rice. Zhao Hanyun lost her appetite. She recalled the call from the HR department at work that day. They politely informed her that her recently submitted transfer application had been rejected due to certain requirements. They also encouraged her by saying they knew she was a hard worker and a good colleague, and hoped she'd continue to work hard next year. Zhao Hanyun didn't pay much attention at the time, but only after listening to her colleagues' conversation that afternoon did she realize it wasn't because she simply didn't have the connections. In this world, relationships are crucial. Zhao Hanyun felt helpless, but she knew her family's situation well. Even if she wanted to ask for help, she had to find someone.
"Forget it, they have already rejected me. There is no point in worrying about it and it will only cause me trouble." Zhao Hanyun accepted the reality and comforted himself, "If I had studied harder in the past, my own conditions would have left them with no excuses. Why should I be here to act according to other people's wishes? It's all my fault that I was too lax back then." Zhao Hanyun kept reflecting on himself, and fatigue came over him, and he fell into a deep sleep.
"Oh my God! Where am I? It's so foggy! Is there anyone here? Help!" Zhao Hanyun felt cooler and cooler as she slept. It was not the coolness that should be in summer at all. When she opened her eyes, she found herself in a vast white fog with no one around her. She was so scared that she woke up immediately. Just as she shouted for help, an old man really came in front of her. He had a white beard, white hair, and even his eyebrows were white. If he was not wearing clothes with golden light, he would have looked like the White Impermanence!
"Little girl, what are you looking at? Can Bai Wuchang compare with me, an old man?" The old man was speechless when he saw Zhao Hanyun's frightened eyes. He had finally come out, how could he compare with that pretty boy in the ghost world? He was much more majestic than Bai Wuchang.
"Um, uncle, who are you? Where am I?" Zhao Hanyun asked tremblingly, trying hard to suppress her fear. It's better to have someone here than no one. Oh my god, she was still scared! Woo woo...
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is whether you want to fulfill your wish?" The old man looked inscrutable. Zhao Hanyun was completely bewildered. What did it mean to fulfill a wish? Whatever. Just say one!
"Well, my latest wish is to get a transfer, is that possible?" Zhao Hanyun's biggest wish now is to get a transfer, but unfortunately his superiors are not happy about it!
"Do you have any ambition at all? Who told you to bring up such a thing? What I asked you was whether you want to go back to the past!" The old man was anxious. He was a great god, and he suddenly had the idea of ​​fulfilling a person's wish to be a good person, no, a good god. Why did he choose such an unenterprising person!
"I was just saying it casually. I don't really want to go back. Besides, if I go back now, I won't exist anymore. How sad will my parents be!" Zhao Hanyun didn't expect this weird old man to want him to go back in time. Although this place is strange, it doesn't seem dangerous. Let's see who this old man is first. He can grant people's wishes. What a lunatic! What a joke! After all, I have received a modern education. Gods and immortals are just clouds, you know!
"How dare you treat me as a liar! Open your eyes and look at me!" The old man was anxious. He flicked his sleeves and the mist dissipated at once. A light curtain appeared, which continuously displayed Zhao Hanyun's life from childhood to adulthood.
Zhao Hanyun's eyes were really frightened. "Oh my god, there really are gods!" He turned around and saw the old man with a smug look on his face. He was a little reluctant to believe that this was what gods looked like nowadays.
"You just said you didn't want to go back because you were afraid of making your current parents sad, right? Don't worry, you won't disappear. Your future has already been determined, and I can't change it at will. Letting you go back won't affect your life in this life!"
"Uncle, what does this mean? I don't understand." Zhao Hanyun was confused and begged for help, as he could only understand half of it!
"You don't understand, right? It doesn't matter. Just keep watching." The old man pointed at the light screen and signaled Zhao Hanyun to continue watching.
On the screen, Zhao Hanyun has grown up, graduated and started working in a company. Soon, Zhao Hanyun saw a familiar scene. He fell asleep sadly because his application was rejected. Then the day broke, and Zhao Hanyun watched himself get up and go to work... There was even a further scene later. Zhao Hanyun resigned and went home because he was not satisfied with his work. He found a job at home, and then went on a blind date at the urging of his parents, got married and lived with him until old age.
"This... this... this is unscientific! I'm here, how could something like this happen later?" Zhao Hanyun shouted out directly. He was more surprised than afraid. Letting a person see his own future is too terrifying!
"Little girl, close your eyes now and think slowly, you will have different discoveries." Zhao Hanyun closed her eyes obediently after hearing this, and pictures emerged in her mind. Slowly, Zhao Hanyun's cheeks were filled with tears. It turned out that she had lived such an unwilling life in this life, but no matter how unwilling she was, it turned into compromise, and she had been compromising.
"Your life is over. I'm just stopping your time when you were young. Have you thought it through now?" The old man looked at Zhao Hanyun with a serious face, but his eyes full of expectation revealed his heart. He really hoped that Zhao Hanyun would agree.
Zhao Hanyun couldn't understand why the old man had to go back by himself, but she had indeed lived a miserable life. If she could start over again, she would never compromise with her so-called fate. "Okay, I promise you."
"Great, I told you, there is nothing I can't do. Just wait for me when I get back!" The old man was very happy. In Zhao Hanyun's eyes, he looked particularly proud. He regretted that he had agreed too quickly. He felt that this god was unreliable.
"You've already agreed, don't go back on your word. I'll take you back right now." The old man seemed to have remembered something, and without waiting for Zhao Hanyun to react, he sent her to a dark cave entrance and threw her in. "By the way, I'll give you a gift for helping me. Remember to make good use of it."
Zhao Hanyun was so frightened by the thought of falling into a black hole that she was about to cry. She didn't even hear the old man's words clearly, and before she could even ask for clarification, she was thrown in. The remaining words of "Can I regret this?" were also carried into the black hole, leaving her with no idea where she was...
With the disappearance of Zhao Hanyun, the old man also disappeared in this unknown space.
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