Chapter 64 Correcting the Timeline
"Would my brother be willing to do that? Or was he just trying to stabilize me by forcing me to choose him, regardless of his wishes?"
"Hahaha, of course not. I believe in the fate between you. Even without the light fog, you will meet."
Gu Chuyue was completely stunned, and all his violent emotions receded like a tide.
So...that's how it is.
He didn't snatch his brother away or force him to get him.
He and his brother have a destined bond.
"Now," the light and shadow's voice was filled with a hint of relief, and his figure began to fade away. "Do you see clearly? Do you still want to... tear me apart?"
Gu Chuyue fell silent, and the mental chains wrapped around him dissipated silently.
He looked at the light and shadow that was about to dissipate before him, his lips moved, and finally, he asked in a very complicated whisper: "...Who are you?"
Light and Shadow chuckled one last time, with an undeniable deterrent effect. "A 'bystander' who...hopes for the best for you. Be smarter next time, little lunatic."
As the words fell, the light and shadow completely dissipated, as if merging into the dream itself.
The burning sensation brought by the high fever miraculously began to subside, and an unprecedented sense of clarity and heaviness swept through Gu Chuyue's consciousness.
In the real world, his frown slowly relaxed.
When he opened his eyes again, he looked at Qin Mu, who had been guarding him all night and was exhausted.
There was no more anxiety and madness in Gu Chuyue's eyes, but an extremely complex emotion settled down - guilt, fear, shock, but more of it was a solid certainty that he had never had before.
He shook Qin Mu's hand back, his voice hoarse but unusually calm:
"Brother, I had a dream." He leaned over to the man guarding him and whispered softly, "Now, I know everything."
I also...learned something, he added silently in his mind.
Qin Mu raised his head almost at the moment he finished speaking, and his eyes, which were originally bloodshot and full of fatigue, suddenly lit up.
He held Gu Chuyue's hand tighter with his backhand: "Baby? You...you're awake?"
He immediately touched Gu Chuyue's forehead with his other hand, and there was a slight coolness of the night between his fingertips.
"The fever has subsided a little." He confirmed, his tightly furrowed brows relaxing slightly, but his eyes were still carefully examining Gu Chuyue's face, not missing any trace of discomfort.
"Is there any place that's hurting?" He leaned down, gently rested his forehead against Gu Chuyue's, closed his eyes, and his nerves, which had been tense all night, finally relaxed a little.
Faced with his wife's active approach, Gu Chuyue couldn't help but curl his lips.
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Ten years in the small world is just a day here.
The young man leaned against the crystal podium surrounded by flowing light, his eyes sweeping across the projections of countless small worlds cut into fragments of light and dark.
The man's deep gaze could see through people's hearts, his smile made people shudder, and he habitually stroked the ball of light condensed from the mist in his hand.
In the wrong timelines of different small worlds, the scenes belonging to Gu Chuyue and Qin Mu alternate.
That wasn't the distorted image of Qin Mu and Xu Chi in Gu Chuyue's memory, but rather a fragment of their past before Qin Mu arrived:
Two-year-old Gu Chuyue suffered a car accident and was kidnapped by his "father" and his lover.
The sharp screeching of brakes and crashes ripped through my eardrums. The feel of icy rain on my skin.
The body was violently shaken, the pain and dizziness brought by the collision were like a poisonous sting that penetrated deep into the soul.
Meanwhile, seven-year-old Qin Mu was fighting a stray dog over half a piece of moldy bread beside a garbage can in the dead of winter. His arm was torn, but he stubbornly defended the food, his eyes filled with the fierceness of a wolf cub's survival.
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When Gu Chuyue was ten years old, the cold rainy night and the harsh brake sound deep in his memory had become a nightmare.
Although he was found and brought back home, he was in an extremely unfamiliar environment. He was like a piece of merchandise being evaluated, with empty eyes. His nascent trust was completely extinguished, leaving only dead silence and instinctive uneasiness.
When Qin Mu was fifteen, he first came into contact with the digital world in a leaky shack with a worn-out keyboard and programming books he picked up from an Internet cafe.
The dim light from the screen illuminated the new bruises on his ribs from protecting the phone he had picked up. He was using his knowledge to painstakingly build a ladder to escape the quagmire.
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When Gu Chuyue was eighteen years old, he had been beaten, abandoned and exploited countless times, and the viciousness in the boy's eyes had turned into actual cruelty.
He no longer trusts anyone and only arms himself with deception and violence. The ferocious beast in his heart that only believes in possession and destruction has bared its fangs.
Twenty-three-year-old Qin Mu successfully listed his company with the help of Xu Chi and his father.
At the press conference, he stood under the spotlight, with the old scars faintly visible under the watch on his wrist.
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Twenty-year-old Gu Chuyue inherited the Gu family and suppressed the other two major families with absolute strength.
At the age of 25, Qin Mu's company has a market value of 10 billion and has achieved success.
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Twenty-four-year-old Gu Chuyue became increasingly apathetic and eventually committed suicide.
After signing a huge merger and acquisition agreement, 29-year-old Qin Mu threw the pen, a symbol of wealth and power, into the sea without hesitation.
On an unknown island, feeling the roughness of the sand and the temperature of the sea water barefoot, actively choosing to "let go" and "lie down", I truly touched the reality of life for the first time.
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Guangwu jumped around, his voice like a child, and said coquettishly: "What should I do, sir?"
The man touched it as usual, "Can you handle it?"
Guang Wu volunteered: "I can do it! I can do it!"
The man said leisurely, "Let's take the 29-year-old back to his original world, back to their correct time."
Sending the 29-year-old Qin Mu back to when he was 18 years old was a way of making up for the two of them.
Errors in the timeline will always be corrected.
As his thoughts were withdrawn, the young man lightly tapped his fingertips, and thousands of world channels were silent for three seconds at the same time.
"Coordinates E-77, violator." His voice was soft, but it caused the temperature in the entire control center to drop sharply.
A black ball of light was locked in mid-air by a data link, and the tamper was reduced to powder at the man's fingertips.
"You wasted two minutes of my time." The man raised his eyes, the operating codes of billions of worlds flowing in his pupils.
"You tampered with the character's fate and illegally sent their soul to another world. Now you must go to Data Purgatory to make amends for your mistakes."
He didn't raise his voice, but all the operators lowered their heads at the same time.
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The days in the hospital are cut into fragments of alternating light and dark by the light outside the window.
The wound on Qin Mu's abdomen healed quickly, and the new flesh brought a slight itchiness, replacing the original sharp pain.
When Xiao Jiangran checked for the last time, he pressed the healed area with his fingertips and said in his usual cold tone, "It's healing well. He won't die."
After Xiao Jiangran finished examining the patient, he went to check on other patients.
Xu Chi was not seriously injured, and the few scratches he had had had almost healed under Xiao Jiangran's careful care.
He would occasionally come to Qin Mu's place to visit, and at the beginning, he and Gu Chuyue were not willing to give in to each other.
A man who is dissatisfied with his senior brother is both pretentious and teasing.
A man who is unhappy that his wife has other clingy people around.
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