"My whole brain was in a mess: 'How... how could this be? Why did we wake up here? We were supposed to arrive in Suzhou on July 19th, 15 days later... Now it's the 4th, before that, why are we still here? And your mom and them... already know me?"

  Everything is in chaos. Even though we've been moving backwards with each jump, what's the situation now?

  Wu Yu said: "I'm not clear either. As soon as I woke up, I felt that something was wrong, so I went out to test the waters. My mom said we came a few days ago. But when I asked her which specific day, they couldn't remember. And for things that happened here half a month later, some of them had an impression, while others didn't."

  I suddenly felt a chill: "Why... is it like this?" I suddenly had a feeling that everything around me, where I was, didn't feel real. But they were all too real, the sunlight, the fabric, the encounter... wrapping me in their reality.

  Time, is it really still the time I understand?

  No, it's long gone.

  Wu Yueming had obviously already faced this problem, much calmer than me, holding my hand and saying: "Don't panic. There must be a reason for the existence of things. The current situation is that the two of them have already had an impression of what will happen in the future. Maybe they were also affected by... some kind of curvature of the timeline."

  My heart skipped a beat, and I was still muttering to myself: "But why now, why are they like this? It's never been like this before. As long as we retreated, the people around us would never remember us, and we would appear somewhere else. We wouldn't stay in your house..."

  I met Wu's gaze. His eyes seemed to hold an entire ocean of dark colors.

  He said, "I thought of a possibility. Because we are getting closer and closer to that crossing point in time. That point is both the past and the future. It has mysterious energy. Perhaps that energy also affected the people around us."

  My understanding of that point in my mind was vague and chaotic, but because of Wu's words, a thought suddenly emerged in my heart:

  Because at that point, it is the past of a timeline and also the future of another timeline.

  They are about to merge now.

  So the boundaries between past and future are no longer so clear?

  It is already impossible to clearly define what is past and what is future?

  ——

  This realization is like a bottomless pit, tormenting me. To the point where I was eating and Wu Miao poked me several times with her finger before I snapped back to reality.

  "Great God Auntie, Great God Auntie..." Wu Miao said, "The mobile phone in your pocket seems to be vibrating."

  "Oh." I took out my phone and caught Wu's concerned gaze.

  It was an aunt I knew, my mom's good sister, who made the call. I didn't react until I picked up the phone and she scolded me, saying: "Tan Jiao, I heard you dumped Shen Shiyan, whom I introduced to you? What a great guy! Yesterday I asked him, and he said you didn't like him... Is there really no chance? Can't you try again?"

  My hand shook and my phone almost fell to the ground as I looked up at Wu Yu.

  Shen Shiyan. It was around this time when Shen Shiyan and I had just broken up.

  Auntie called today, doesn't that mean the person is still living their life safely and soundly, 15 days have passed and nothing has happened, he still has absolutely no relation to that case?

  I suddenly feel a lump in my throat, this is great. Wu Yu said it right, we still have the chance to go back and change history, change Shen Shiyan's fate. Can we warn him and save him? Let him not go to that university 15 days later to catch the suspect with us?

  My mind also flashed back to that night when Zhuang Yu saw Shen Shiyan's body, his expression was frozen in an instant like ice.