Shi Yanxi's mission
"what is going on?"
On Friday after school, after Jin Can ran out, Ge Ouchen asked the three people in front of him in a cold voice.
“I’ll go check on her; I have a plan.”
Zhou Yu was the first to stand up. After speaking, she picked up her bag and hurriedly left the classroom.
The remaining two looked at each other, and finally Shi Yanxi sighed softly and stepped forward.
"This is the story you started."
Her tone was calm, yet it was like a key that unlocked the door to another story.
Shi Yanxi's true identity is the regional director of the seventh division of the "Time-Space Stability and Reality Maintenance Administration".
Her daily work involves monitoring the stability of various spatiotemporal quadrants.
If the causal chain of a certain world is at risk of being distorted due to abnormal energy fluctuations, she will lead a team to intervene and correct the anomaly.
The source of this anomaly was Ge Ouchen.
At this moment, the young face in front of me seemed to gradually overlap with the slightly aged and strange-looking Ge Ouchen on the screen.
Shi Yanxi began to recount the ins and outs of the entire incident.
In the Administration's database, there is a timeline marked "G-756 Original". On this timeline, Ge Ouchen and Jin Can completely lost contact after graduating from high school.
He was admitted to the top university in the country, while she only entered an ordinary university.
The vast differences and the great distance gradually separated their worlds, and their life trajectories diverged from one another.
Later, Ge Ouchen became a world-class mathematician, receiving countless honors, but he was also enveloped in endless loneliness.
As he got older, his temper became increasingly eccentric and he became difficult to get along with.
Shi Yanxi's narrative dissects a facet of a genius's soul, both calm and cruel.
That night, Ge Ouchen received the country's first Fields Medal.
As the applause subsided, he sat alone in that simple university office, staring at the densely packed formulas on the whiteboard, then looked down and pulled out the only old photo he had saved on his phone.
This is a photo of him and Jin Can from their high school days.
In the photo, the girl is laughing like a fool, while he, unusually, shows a boyish smile.
At that moment, looking at the photograph, he whispered a wish:
"If... reality could be like those fictional stories she liked, offering a chance to start over, how wonderful that would be..."
This thought originated from a lonely soul standing at the top of the world; it was his strongest emotional resonance. Instantly, a massive "reality distortion field" was formed, affecting Ge Ouchen and Jin Can, who were studying at No. 2 Middle School in more than three hundred spacetime quadrants around them, and triggering the highest-level alarm of the Spacetime Administration Bureau.
How can one person's wish directly change reality?
That would mean the collapse of the entire causal chain.
Therefore, the case was urgently handed over to Shi Yanxi and became a top priority task.
Her task is to intervene in this powerful desire in a safe and controllable way, and release the spatiotemporal pressure it brings.
After investigation, Shi Yanxi discovered that Ge Ouchen's wish itself was a logical paradox.
He hoped that "reality would be like a novel," full of dramatic twists and turns, ultimately leading to a happy ending where "the prince and princess lived happily ever after."
And we hope that the final result will be based on "genuine choices".
"There is actually no necessary causal relationship between the two."
Shi Yanxi said.
During a meeting with her department, Shi Yanxi and her colleagues finalized the plan.
Thus, a revision plan codenamed "Realistic Light Novel Adaptation into Manga" was born.
The plan will start with the least affected quadrant of time and space. By gradually improving Jin Can's abilities and adjusting Ge Ouchen's emotional parameters, namely "favorability," the plan aims to complete the fate binding between the two ahead of time, thereby controlling the continued escalation of the situation and ultimately creating a positive chain reaction on other quadrants.
Needing help, she applied to the Bureau's talent pool, requesting the allocation of an assistant who shared a strong "time-space connection" with Ge Ouchen, the key figure in the case.
Soon, two people from the shortlist responded.
One of them is Chao Ningning, the principal of a small-town middle school in the "G-733 Spacetime Quadrant".
She is the beneficiary of Ge Ouchen's kindness and feels the purest gratitude towards you.
The other one is Zhou Yu, an interstellar traveler who was your colleague for three months in the "G-734 Spacetime Quadrant".
She is a witness to Ge Ouchen's kindness and has the purest intention to help you.
In different times and spaces, the two formed a small bond due to Ge Ouchen's unintentional kindness.
"Excellent!" she exclaimed when she first met the two men.
A wish centered on "love" needs to be carried out by people who also understand "love"!
Thus, Ge Ouchen's "harem team" was born.
Shi Yanxi designed the "Empress Development System" based on Ge Ouchen's "wish". In retrospect, it was full of flaws.
That system was based on literature research, using teenage males like Ge Ouchen as a sample, and selecting light novels they preferred as the setting.
From the very beginning, it wasn't about making anyone win, because the very existence of this premise is a "lie".
Using the most common "female competition" trope in novels, we broke down Jin Can's psychological barrier of "lying down" and injected her with the initial motivation to change.
"Speaking of which... what's with the bullet comments?" Chao Ningning asked a question that had been bothering her for a long time.
For the first time, Shi Yanxi's expression showed a subtle change, as if she were explaining an interesting bug that had exceeded her expectations.
“Back then, the ‘wish energy’ that distorted reality was enormous, and we couldn’t make it disappear into thin air. So, we came up with a way to channel it.”
“We are taking the high school reality we are experiencing here and processing it in real time as ‘data’ and ‘story’, and then broadcasting it like an anime series to the ‘G-756 original’ timeline—the world where you and Jin Chan did not end up together, hoping to have a positive counteracting effect on the distortion.”
"The intense emotional energy generated by the audience in that world when they saw their stories was fed back to Jin Can's perception level in the form of 'bullet comments'."
"In a sense, the comments Jin Can saw were from countless viewers in another parallel world, cheering you on. It was their thoughts that maintained the stability of this corrective force field."
“However…” Shi Yanxi’s tone changed abruptly, becoming somewhat strange.
“Our broadcast was also intercepted by Ge Ouchen from that time quadrant. He was on sick leave and was bored, so he casually hacked into the barrage channel.”
"As a result, while reminiscing about their youth, they also became 'science popularizers' in the bullet comments."
Shi Yanxi's lips twitched slightly.
"You're a troublesome presence in every time and space quadrant."
The mystery has now been solved.
It turns out that Ge Ouchen and Jin Can have always been cared for by these three people in the most clumsy yet most sincere way.
Throughout all time and space, his "love" for her never changed.
The energy of the universe is actually very strong; as long as you keep it in mind, there will be a response.
After hearing all this, the young Ge Ouchen in front of him remained silent for a moment, then spoke calmly:
"I've won the Fields Medal, and I'm still this immature? Although it's kind of like me."
Shi Yanxi couldn't help but laugh out loud, shaking her head and speechless.
"If unrequited love reaches that age where even time and space can be distorted, that's not youth literature, that's horror novel."
Ge Ouchen added, "Please tell him truthfully—if you like him, go for it; if you're sick, get treatment. Old Deng has no ability himself, so stop ruining my Jin Can's life."
Shi Yanxi still finds those words amusing when she recalls them.
The young Ge Ouchen was more energetic and direct than the one in the file, no wonder he was the one least affected.
Later, she did indeed go to see Ge Ouchen from the original timeline.
At that time, he was recuperating in a sanatorium arranged by the state, and everyone naturally took good care of this valuable talent.
After listening, he asked in silence, "Jin Can... how is she? You mean the one who's the same age as me?"
"I told you it was against the rules, but never mind."
Shi Yanxi smiled and answered him anyway.
"She divorced a few years ago and has no children. Now she often takes her parents on trips and lives a free and easy life. Your illness was in the news; she couldn't possibly not have seen it..."
"Forget it, I won't ask anymore."
Ge Ouchen interrupted her and said in a low voice.
"What else can I do now?"
Just then, the ward door was pushed open.
His elderly parents came in; they still lived in the same neighborhood and had not moved to Beijing with him.
And accompanying them was none other than Jin Can.
"Um...long time no see, do you still remember me? I'm Jin Can."
Ge Ouchen was stunned, staring at her—
Her long hair was tied up, her eyes looked slightly relaxed, and her smile was gentle. Time had faded away her former tomboyish and immature personality.
But now, she seems to look exactly the same as he remembered her from his childhood.
"This child has gone stupid from studying too much."
Mother Ge patted her son's arm.
“Just last weekend, I ran into Jin Can in the neighborhood. She said she wanted to come see you, so she came with us.”
Mr. Ge added with a smile, "Luckily, she was there with us the whole way. We're old and useless now, so we had to rely on her for help on the road."
The parents chatted away, one after another, making a lively scene that left Ge Ouchen speechless for a long time.
Shi Yanxi stood at the door, quietly watching this scene, and gently closed the door.
"Boss, the system crashed, why are you still laughing?"
Her tech colleagues' teasing pulled her back to reality from her memories of the past two days.
"It's already blown up, there's no use in panicking."
She smiled faintly.
"Don't rush to push this forward. Let's hold a meeting, call on all the upstream and downstream stakeholders, get information flowing and expectations aligned, and make sure everyone is on the same page so we don't go astray."
“The system crashed this time. Let’s do a recap, pull out the key points, and see which step failed.”
"Wow, is this some kind of Earth slang?"
Shi Yanxi smiled and raised her voice: "Anyway!"
“The key point has been corrected. I think Jin Can has found her own strength that does not rely on any external force.”
"Our mission should come to an end now."
Her voice was calm and gentle, carrying a faint hint of farewell.
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