Become a one-time character in a comic

Yu Xiaoan was driving attentively in the driver's seat. In the back seat, Gu Mingxing was holding Beibei, who had fallen asleep from playing too much. The car was very quiet, so quiet that one could clearly hear the sound of Yu Xiaoan operating the steering wheel.

After returning, Yu Xiaoan put Beibei on the bed, pulled the quilt beside her to cover her belly, then walked out of the room quietly and closed the door carefully.

Yu Xiaoan went straight to the kitchen and poured two glasses of water. She carried the water to the living room and placed it on the coffee table. She took a sip of water and said, "When we were in the car, I saw that you seemed to have questions to ask me. If you don't ask now, you won't have the chance to ask when the child wakes up."

Gu Mingxing clasped his hands together, lowered his head in thought, and asked, "What kind of world is this to you?"

Yu Xiaoan was stunned for a moment. On the way back, she had thought of the answers to many questions, but she didn't expect him to ask such a question. She laughed secretly and answered, "Comics. This is a world created by a comic book I once read."

After a long silence, Gu Mingxing asked again: "Are Bai Ruan and Gu Sheng the protagonists in the comics?"

"……Um."

Gu Mingxing looked up at her and asked excitedly, "What role am I?" He calmed down and rubbed his face, as if washing it to wake himself up: "No, this is not important. Is it because of these two that you sometimes change your identity?"

"It seems so. And..." Yu Xiaoan held the water cup with both hands, looked at the water in the cup that became turbulent because of his actions, and said: "There is no trace of you in the comics..."

“I’m not even a character…”

Yu Xiaoan looked at him and said, "Do you believe everything I said?"

"Yes, I believe it," Gu Mingxing didn't look at her.

Yu Xiaoan still looked at him: "Don't you think I'm a lunatic or a psychopath talking nonsense here?"

At this time, Gu Ming wanted to turn his head to look at her, with a believing but bitter smile on his face: "If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have said a word to you when I found out that your body and identity had changed, and I wouldn't have become... friends with you..."

"Thank you."

Gu Mingxing drank the water in the cup and asked, "When will Beibei wake up?"

Yu Xiaoan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. Today is my second day as her mother."

"Where's her father? That's...your..."

Yu Xiaoan smiled bitterly, looked towards Beibei's room and said, "This child comes from a single-parent family. Her parents divorced a long time ago. Her father remarried and rarely came to see her. Her mother runs a business and is usually very busy. In fact, she was also very busy today, but I don't know how to run a business, so I contacted my secretary to cancel today's work."

Gu Mingxing smiled and said, "Why do I feel like you are a domineering character from a novel?"

"Maybe, but she's just an ordinary mother who wants to be with her children."

"I see you're acting like a mother very well today. Are you also... a mother in your world?"

Yu Xiaoan looked at him with contempt: "What are you talking about? I'm just an ordinary office worker. Every day I either get up to go to work or go to sleep after work. How can I have time to fall in love, let alone get married and have children? The pressure in a big city is very high, okay..."

Gu Mingxing looked at her. She looked at Beibei's room with sadness and sympathy in her eyes. Yu Xiaoan said, "I also grew up in a single-parent family, but I didn't have the same conditions as her. My family was poor, and my academic performance was not good. I spent a lot of energy and effort to go to a public school with cheap tuition. My childhood was not full of play. It was almost textbooks and farm work. I was not happy, but I don't want this child to be unhappy too."

Gu Mingxing felt a little sorry for her, but when he saw her smile quickly, the pain in his heart disappeared. For some reason, Gu Mingxing just believed that she could live a good life.

"Ah?! Baby is awake," Yu Xiaoan stood up and picked up Beibei. Beibei was still rubbing her eyes in a daze, then she lay on Yu Xiaoan's shoulder and said in her ear with a vague baby voice, "Mom, I'm so happy today."

Yu Xiaoan smiled and asked, "Why are you happy?"

"Because my mom took me to the playground today, and my brother and I won the game."

"As long as you are happy, baby, are you hungry?"

Beibei nodded and said, "Yeah, I want to eat the chicken wings made by my mom."

"Baby, you have to let mommy go so that I can make chicken wings."

Beibei acted coquettishly and hugged him tighter: "No, I want to hold him for a while longer."

Beibei heard the smacking sound. She had closed her eyes and didn't see it. When she opened her eyes, she saw Gu Mingxing sitting on the sofa, shaking his head and smacking his lips at her. She exclaimed, "Brother, why is he still here?!"

Gu Mingxing stood up and looked at her, shaking his head and said contemptuously: "You're so big and you still need your mother to hold you, aren't you ashamed?"

Yu Xiaoan put the completely sober Beibei on the ground and went to the kitchen.

Bei Bei propped herself up and looked up at Gu Mingxing who was much taller than her and said, "Huh, I still have my mother to hold me, does my brother have one?"

Gu Mingxing was just as calm as ever: "Yes, but I'm grown up now and I won't let my mother hold me."

"That means my brother doesn't have a mother to hug him," Beibei said proudly, "I can still hug my mother today, but my brother can't. My brother loses again."

"When did I compete with you?"

Beibei ran to the edge of the sofa, dragged out a cartoon box from the gap between the sofa and the wall and said, "Beibei said that brother lost, so brother lost. In order to punish brother, brother has to play with me."

"I didn't lose, why should I accept the punishment?"

Beibei came over, pulled at his shirt, looked up at him, and pleaded in a low voice: "Brother, just play with me. Then next time you come, Beibei will welcome you."

Gu Mingxing was soft-hearted and did not respond to hard words, so he agreed to Beibei's request.

Yu Xiaoan poked her head out of the kitchen, looked at Beibei who was sitting on the floor playing with toys, and asked, "Baby, what kind of chicken wings do you like to eat that mommy makes?"

"Coke chicken wings, mom, please don't put green onions in it this time."

"Good~"

Gu Mingxing fiddled with the toy diagnostic tool in his hand and asked, "Have you noticed that your mother is different from usual?"

Beibei was concentrating on finding a toy in the toy box. As he searched, he said, "No, Mom is still Mom."

Gu Mingxing guessed that although Yu Xiaoan was now Beibei's mother, her behavior was different from usual and would not affect the role.

He also began to think about the impact of Yu Xiaoan's transformation on the world, but there seemed to be no impact. So what was the meaning of Yu Xiaoan's existence here?

"Brother! You are a doctor, why don't you pay attention to your patients?"

Beibei's words brought Gu Mingxing back to his senses, but the problem was still buried deep in his heart.

That night, Gu Mingxing had a dream.

It was a vast expanse of white, but it was not white fog.

"Why is it like this every time I come here? Aren't the landscapes beautiful?"

Gu Mingxing only heard the voice but did not see anyone. However, as soon as the words fell, the vast expanse of white around him turned into a fairyland with mountains and waters, light mist, sweet bird sounds, lush greenery all around, and a gurgling stream. There was a chess table next to the stream, and Gu Mingxing stood next to the chess table.

"Take off your shoes," the voice sounded again, "Sit on the chess table, why are you standing?"

Gu Mingxing remained unmoved, looked around and asked, "Who are you?"

The voice suddenly approached: "This is the first time I meet such a calm person." Just as the words fell, a woman in casual clothes came over, took off her slippers, walked onto the chess table, and sat down on the black chess side.

The woman placed a black chess piece on the "Tian Yuan" and said to him with a smile: "Gu Mingxing, it's hard for me to talk while you're standing."

Gu Mingxing was surprised that this woman knew his name. He took off his shoes and asked, "How do you know my name?"

The woman's sitting posture was not like a woman at all. She looked like a man in a woman's skin. The woman leaned back with one hand supporting her body and said with a wicked smile: "Because wherever you are, I belong to you."

"What do you mean?"

The woman did not answer, but glanced at the Go board and said, "It's your turn."

Gu Mingxing glanced at the chessboard and said, "I don't know how to play Go."

The woman said calmly, "I know you can't. You can play based on your feeling. I will tell you whether you can capture the piece and whether you win or lose."

Gu Mingxing really didn’t know how to play Go, but the woman looked at him with a teasing look, and he knew that if he didn’t play Go according to her requirements, the questions he wanted to ask would not be answered.

He pinched a white piece between his thumb and index finger and placed it next to the black piece, then made his move based on his feeling.

The final result is self-evident, Gu Mingxing lost and the woman won.

The woman knocked on the table, and the black and white pieces on the chessboard automatically separated and fell into the corresponding boxes.

Gu Mingxing looked at him and asked abruptly, "Are you not a human?"

The woman glared at him and said, "You are not a human being."

"I may not really be a human. Recently, someone told me that I live in the world of comics and I am considered a two-dimensional person."

The woman waved her hand and the chess table turned into a tea table. There was brewed tea in the teapot. The woman poured two cups of tea and placed one of them in front of Gu Mingxing.

Gu Mingxing looked at the tea in front of him and didn't intend to touch it: "Are you quite old?"

The woman did not stop what she was doing and asked, "Why do you ask?"

"I can't see your face clearly. I only know that you have long hair and a body that looks like a woman, but your movements are like a man's. And playing chess and drinking tea seem like something only retired people would do."

The woman said in an angry tone: "You will offend a lot of people with what you said. It's not only retired people who play chess and make tea. And if a woman hears what you just said, you will be remembered."

The woman sighed and said, "Let's get back to the point. Do you know why we lost the game just now?"

Gu Mingxing replied self-deprecatingly: "I don't even know how to play, how can I possibly know why I lost?"

"This is Yu Xiaoan's current situation."

As soon as "Yu Xiaoan" was mentioned, Gu Mingxing immediately sat up, with an anxious expression on his face: "How do you know her?"

The woman took a sip of tea and said, "I invited her here."

"Invite? What do you mean by that?"

The woman took a second sip of tea and said, "This is a comic book world. In comic books, there are protagonists, supporting characters, and passersby. On her birthday, Yu Xiaoan was reading comic books and said she wanted to live a life in comic books, so I invited her here. Now she is living a life in comic books."

"But she wants to go back."

The woman shrugged. "So what? The story in the comics hasn't ended yet." The woman leaned her arms on the tea table, supported her head with her hands and looked at him. "Your story with her hasn't ended in this world yet. How can she go back?"

Gu Mingxing felt a chill on his back and a slight tingling sensation on his neck: "Who are you?"

The woman smiled without saying anything. She took the third sip of tea. The cup in her hand was empty. She put it down and said to him with a smile, "I have finished my tea. It is time for you to leave."

"Wait! I still..."

Gu Mingxing was "asked" to wake up from the dream before he could finish his words.

The man walked out of the woods, sat down opposite the woman naturally, smiled gently and asked, "Did you send him away because I came?"

"The God has come to live in the place where a little fairy like me lives. As a low-level fairy, I naturally have to make the best room for him to entertain me," the woman picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for the man and placed it in front of him.

The man pinched the teacup with three fingers and tasted the tea in the cup: "The tea here is still the best."

The woman smiled and said, "Since you have drunk my tea, please answer my question."

The man smiled and put down the cup: "I knew this tea wasn't free. Tell me, what's the problem?"

"With what I'm doing now, can Yu Xiaoan and Gu Mingxing be together?" The woman couldn't hide the worry on her face.

The man looked at her and asked, "Is that what you're worried about?"

"What else could it be?" The woman said as a matter of course: "She is my last believer. No one has worshipped me since her. Her situation is completely different from yours, God."

"Apart from this, you don't worry about anything else?"

"The God hasn't answered my question yet, why are you asking me now?"

The man sighed helplessly and said, "Destiny is not the only one, but now they have a path that is what you want. Can you answer my question now?"

The woman lowered her eyebrows and smiled, "Other than that, I'm not worried about anything else."

"You know exactly what I'm asking."

"God also knows what my answer is."

After waking up, Gu Mingxing felt that he had a dream, which seemed to be an important dream, but he could not remember the content of the dream. He saw several text messages on his mobile phone, which were sent by Yu Xiaoan.

"Beibei invites you to come to her house. Do you have time? I have to go to the company. Can you take care of her for a day? I will be back as soon as possible."

Gu Mingxing looked at the text message in the phone with both hands, replied with an "OK" and threw the phone on the bed. He picked out clothes in the closet, washed up, and packed up to go out.

The sun was still shining brightly outside, and the sky seemed like it would never rain, but two unnoticed dark clouds appeared in this bright blue sky.

However, in such a clear sky, two dark clouds will not have any impact on the good weather.