The Secret Realm of Time, His and Her Life Through the Changes

“一起倒数，10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、1、新年快乐！”

Shang Yibo held the girl beside him tightly in his arms, his arms wrapped around her shoulders, as if he wanted to merge her into his own body.

The girl in his arms leaned against his chest, trembling slightly, emitting low, sorrowful sobs:

"We've entered the new millennium together, Wang Jie, happy new century!"

"My MSN is installed. You need to write to me every day."

"Wang Jie, look! What's parked on the tarmac is an airplane, not the time machine you were talking about."

"So you can't leave. As long as you're in this world, I can find you."

"I'm not going anywhere. I'll just wait for you here. You have to come."

The girl tiptoed and kissed his lips, which were moist and cool.

Shang Yibo responded enthusiastically, a salty tear sliding between his lips and teeth.

He cupped the girl's face in his hands, wiping away the tears that kept flowing with his thumbs, trying hard to see her face clearly.

Apart from feeling the tears in his palms, which turned from warm to cold, he could see nothing else.

The girl in front of me was moving her lips, as if she was saying something.

But what Shang Yibo heard was a voice coming from afar: "Wang Jie, I'll see you again, right? I've been waiting here all along. You'll come looking for me, right?"

The girl threw herself into his arms again, her hands tightly gripping Shang Yibo's waist.

Just as Shang Yibo was about to put his arms around the girl's shoulders, her body, like a pile of dust, crumbled at the slightest touch, floated into the sky, and then disappeared without a trace...

Suddenly, a deafening explosion rang in his ears, and Shang Yibo plunged into a deep black hole, sinking lower and lower...

"Yibo, Yibo, you're finally awake! Sister Yan, go and call the doctor."

The woman's voice was hurried, yet still gentle and soft.

"Li Xue, inform Chairman Chu," the woman instructed.

Shang Yibo felt the woman's warm hand gently caress his cheek, and her slightly tired voice seemed to come from an empty place, echoing: "It's Mom, it's Mom, don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

His gaze gradually focused, and the woman in front of him became clearer—it was his mother, Fang Xichen.

It felt like lying in a hospital bed, with the beeping of medical equipment. The spacious and bright ward was bathed in warm sunlight, which mingled with the cool light from the incandescent bulbs, creating a hazy, dreamlike atmosphere.

He tried to lift his body, but it felt as if it weighed a ton.

"Yibo, don't move, the doctor will be here soon." Fang Xichen gently reminded Shang Yibo, who was struggling to get up.

Shang Yibo's gaze fell on Li Xue, who was standing behind Fang Xichen, holding an Apple phone.

Then, Aunt Yan, along with four or five doctors, rushed into the ward...

Fang Xichen, Aunt Yan, Li Xue; a spacious and bright hospital room, and an Apple mobile phone.

The doctor said, "As long as you wake up, you'll be fine; all your vital signs are normal."

"They all call me 'Yibo'," Shang Yibo thought to himself, "Am I back?"

With almost no recovery required, Shang Yibo was discharged from the hospital the next day.

After resting at home for a week, everything returned to normal.

Later, it was Aunt Yan who told him, "Yibo, you've been in a coma for almost five months, and your family was extremely worried. Fortunately, you've woken up, and thankfully, you're alright."

……

Shang Yibo finally realized with certainty that he had traveled through time, and that he had traveled back to 1999, the year he was born.

I inexplicably traveled to the past, and then inexplicably traveled back to the past.

Why did he travel back to the year he was born? What people did he meet and what did he experience there? Was it a coincidence or a preordained arrangement?

What do you want him to see? Or what do you not want him to see?

Shang Yibo has been troubled by this, and it seems that only by seeing those people again can he find the answer.

Only in this way can things be aligned, and many questions will be answered.