My girlfriend is from the future!

(Although this article is an extra, it is more or less a supplement to the main text. Please understand the contents of Volume 6 and Chapters 73, 74, and 75 of the Society Chapter before reading.)
The thirty-second year of innocence is... the twenty-second year after He Tianran fulfilled his long-cherished wish.

Due to the port city's vigorous development of the cultural and entertainment industry, Nanzhi Island, which used to be a remote corner of the world, has now become a famous tourist destination in South China. The Nanzhi Island Film Festival, which was first held here eighteen years ago, has experienced It has developed year after year and has become one of the most important film festivals in the entire Chinese film and television industry and even in Asia.

In addition to the film festival, the most important project every year, Nanzhi Island is also favored by various large-scale art and sports projects such as variety show shootings, music festivals, marathons, and island rally.

Fifty years ago, Hong Kong City, which had no historical heritage at all, was dubbed a "cultural desert" by its contemporaries. However, fifty years later, after the efforts of two generations, today's Hong Kong City has become the cultural center of Asia. The bridgehead of industry, and Nanzhi Island, an island now wrapped in a strong atmosphere of movies, music, sports, etc., is a dazzling pearl that relies on the industrial development of the port city.

On the shore of a cliff at the southern end of the island, stands a museum called "Curtain Call". These two words are literally translated as "curtain call" or "end of the play", which fits the atmosphere of the island's film culture very well. , but it is more accurate to say that it is a museum about film culture than to say that it is actually an art gallery and library involved in art transactions.

But no matter what, as one of the must-visit attractions in Nanzhi Island, there is always an endless stream of people checking in here every day, and if you are lucky, you can even meet some newlyweds holding their weddings here.

This is another praiseworthy aspect of the Curtain Call Museum. The museum’s designer, Ms. Cao, won the Pritzker Architecture Prize eighteen years ago and is now well-known in the architectural industry. This museum is her famous early work. Work, because starting from this work, her architectural style can be truly demonstrated. Just like Master Tadao Ando is good at using natural elements, Ms. Cao pays more attention to using architecture to express and freeze some themes that are easy to evaporate.

For example, life, for example, love.

The Curtain Call Museum has three floors as a whole. The first floor is the island library for tourists to rest and read. The second floor is the art gallery. Every once in a while, large and small art exhibitions are held here. The third floor is called The Chasing Light Church is the place where her entire "freezing" theme is most evident.

This top-floor church is based on white, pure and beautiful. When you climb to the platform, you can see a shallow pool, which reflects the flawless blue sky. There is a circular base at the bottom of the pool, and a small triangle on top of the base. The auditorium has only one window opened in the middle, like a gap in time. The auditorium and the platform are connected by a covered bridge, like a clock. It is supplemented by a precise rotation system through a circular base. For 365 days a year, this church They all rotate after the sun, and when the sun sets to the west, the windows of this auditorium can freeze every second of the sunset.

Under the holy light, every newlywed couple will be bathed in splendid splendor, and every second, an ultimate romance will arise spontaneously.

No one knows yet why such a romantic architectural design ended up named Curtain Call, but this does not hinder people's love for this place. Just like today, a new couple is welcomed here again.

"Teacher, my future wedding with Xiao Liu will definitely be held at your place."

The speaker was a young girl in her twenties, and beside her was an older woman with soft eyes and an elegant temperament.

Ms. Cao, who was already known as the "teacher", smiled when she heard this. She looked at the happiness of the newlyweds bathing in the sunset, listened to the cheers of the guests around them, and the petals in the sky slowly scattered on the water. Her eyes seemed to Some emotions were flowing, but in the end, she took two steps back, turned around, and left the venue.

Although the sunset is beautiful, it will eventually set.

The young girls chased after them. They were not wedding guests, they were just tourists who happened to happen upon the wedding, so they stopped to watch the ceremony.

"Did Xiao Liu say when he would come back from England?"

The older woman asked softly.

"Is it estimated that it will take another two years? Maybe... longer? We are actually not sure."

The young girl muttered, apparently very troubled by her foreign relationship.

The young girl is a newcomer to her firm. Every smile and every move she makes looks like her when she was young, including the troubles she encounters now. This made the older woman ask one more question:
"Then you want to wait?"

The girl was not very sure. She put her hands behind her back, shook her head, and said helplessly:
"It's so difficult. After graduation, one of my best friends separated from her boyfriend within three months of living in a different place. Xiao Liu and I are in a different country. The thought of being separated for three, four or even more years is a bit... Don't know what to say."

"Do you usually keep in touch?"

"Contact me. When he first went abroad, he contacted me every day. Later, the number of contacts slowly dropped, from every moment to once a day, and then to now, I don't feel any difference if I don't contact him for several days. The main thing is Maybe there’s a time difference. After all, it’s daytime over there and it’s late at night over here. I didn’t send messages at first because I was afraid of disturbing you. But now that I don’t send messages, it’s more like I’ve forgotten to contact you. I’m really afraid that if this goes on for so long, one day I’ll really Forgot about this boyfriend."

The girl poured out the bitter water, and the woman listened silently and said calmly:
"It's a good thing to forget."

"……what?"

"I mean, if you don't think that your feelings for each other will overcome the distance of space, and instead worry that your feelings will be exhausted by the passage of time, then it is better to forget each other in the world. After all, Xiaosun, you don't have to worry about gains and losses all day long. , it’s better to put down your baggage and strive for something you can touch in the limited time.”

The young girl was shocked by her teacher's straightforward words, but was unable to argue for the moment.

Perhaps when she was silent, she already had an answer in her heart about the importance of love and future...

But in the face of the truth that is contrary to the heart, people will always feel unwilling to accept it. This kind of rebellious thought makes the young girl become a little stubborn. She said:

"But teacher, there are many people in this world who have successfully cultivated in different places while worrying about gains and losses, aren't they?"

The young man's remarks made the woman laugh slightly. She didn't think it was childish, but she just thought that a lot of content that should be included in this sentence was ignored.

"Silly girl, according to what you said, I studied architecture and got the Pritzker. You also studied architecture and will get the Pritzker in the future, right?"

The girl's throat became mute and she didn't know what to say...

Fortunately, the older woman didn't want to embarrass the girl. She just wanted to explain one thing:
"Xiao Sun, I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm for love and your yearning for a better life. It's just that people always focus on results and ignore the weight of the process, just like what was written in "Catching Falling Leaves"——

'We are too obsessed with the ending. There are so many great lives and beautiful loves in this world that can be witnessed and experienced, but as long as the ending is unsatisfactory, we immediately feel that it is a tragedy, or on the contrary, as long as the ending has a moment The redemption, the injustice and pain of a lifetime can be ignored...'

What I want to say is Xiao Sun, don’t worry about gains and losses because of an unknown result. You have to find meaning in the process of love, whether it is happiness, sadness, waiting, forgetfulness...

These are things that everyone must experience. Only if you live in this process and taste the taste, will you be calm about the results of your cultivation. "

The girl seems to understand, but she understands that her teacher must be a warm person who knows how to get along with time. Otherwise, she would not be able to engrave those infatuated moments in the career she loves, and let the past All kinds of things will accompany her in the future, and she will still stand in this world until the end of her life...

Unknowingly, the two of them had reached the gallery on the second floor. The painting recently exhibited here was Millais' famous work "Ophelia in the Water".

The girl held the teacher's hand intimately. The older woman couldn't help but stop in front of the painting. The girl next to her asked enthusiastically:
"Teacher, you must have had many people following you when you were young, right? You are so transparent now. I really want to see with my own eyes how you were in love back then."

The older woman's eyebrows moved, she looked at the painting, and recalled with a smile:
"It is true that some people have liked me, but I have really loved one person, but that person told me... love is very bitter..."

"really……"

The girl believed it, but she didn't know that her teacher at this age would not be able to say the second half of the sentence...

However, after subconsciously replying, the little girl was still excited because the teacher mentioned her "that person"...

Ms. Cao is over 50 years old and is still unmarried. This is something that all colleagues in the office know. No one knows about her relationship history, and she herself has always kept it secret.

There are many rumors in the market, most of which are just that she has always been obsessed with her career, so she neglected her love when she was young; or maybe the person she loved when she was young died unfortunately, and she has never loved anyone else since then...

The latter rumor is much more reliable, because everyone in the office knows that Ms. Cao has a habit, that is, she goes to Chuanling Mountain on the outskirts of the city every year to burn incense and pray for blessings. Sometimes she goes several times in a period, and sometimes she goes I only go there once every six months.

But no matter what, she goes every year, rain or shine.

Many colleagues had accompanied her there several times. In addition to her routine visits to the Guanyin Hall to fulfill her vows, Ms. Cao would always leave the others and go to the Ksitigarbha Hall alone for a while, probably to visit the deceased. Anyway, what are the details? No one knows.

Now she suddenly mentioned "that person" from the past, which made the little girl unable to resist her curiosity. She asked:

"Then...teacher, what kind of person was your lover at that time?"

The woman's eyes were fixed on the painting, she raised her finger and pointed at Ophelia, who was drowning in the water, her appearance always stuck in a moment of pure beauty, and said:
"My lover is someone who...even when we were both almost eclipsed, still didn't forget to wake up the best side of me and freeze it..."

"So, is your lover... okay now?"

"...I believe he is living a good life now, and he has always lived in my memory, and he is also the best."

At this point, there is no need to ask about many things in detail. I don’t know whether it is because the young girl mentioned "forgetting to contact" before, which makes her feel ashamed in comparison with her feelings for the teacher, or what, but there is an inexplicable sadness in the young girl. The girl's heart welled up, and her eyes were a little sour...

"Teacher, you must have a lot to say to your lover..."

Unexpectedly, the woman turned her head, looked at her young disciple and shook her head. Her face did not show any sadness. Instead, she smiled comfortingly and said:
"I'm not a person who likes to express all my emotions. If he appears again and there happens to be an empty seat next to him, then I will sit there; if he is still walking alone at night, then I will walk over and pat him. shoulder, letting him know that he is not alone, this is enough.

But if I really want to say something to him, maybe I should tell him seriously——

Love is not everything in life..."

……

……

March 2029, 3, Tate Britain, London, England.

Cao Aiqing took his eyes away from the classic painting "Ophelia in the Water", and his white best friend Emily asked:

"Mia, are you really going to give up your job at BDP and return to Hong Kong City? Your internship period is almost over and you will get a formal offer soon. Why is it so sudden?"

"It's not sudden. The job opportunities at BDP are very valuable. I have learned a lot during this period of internship. Now that the internship is about to end, when everything is settled after graduation in June, I will naturally return to China."

The two started walking around again, and Cao Aiqing felt a little uncomfortable when she felt her best friend holding her arm tightly again.

"What mistakes did you make during your internship?"

"No, my colleagues all praise my abilities very much, hehehe~"

As if to confirm the authenticity of his words, Cao Aiqing hummed contentedly.

"Then I really don't understand why you would give up such a good opportunity..."

Just when Emily had no clue, Cao Aiqing suddenly stopped and saw her looking blankly in one direction. The white girl was also extremely confused. When she followed her friend's gaze, she only saw a glimpse of There was a man's figure flashing past.

"Emily, you go shopping by yourself for a while. I'll call you later..."

"Hey, Mia!"

Cao Aiqing took out the hand held by her best friend and ran in the direction where the man disappeared.

The Tate Museum is very big, and there are so many tourists on different floors and in different exhibition halls. It is not easy to find someone. The girl just went from the permanent exhibition to the special exhibition, and then from the special exhibition to the sculpture exhibition. Exhibitions are usually divided according to the age of the artworks, and then sorted by theme. When Cao Aiqing ran, these classics of the era also shuttled past her.

In this way, the girl ran from the Renaissance of the 16th century into the Baroque of the 17th century, bumped into the Rococo of the 18th century, and then bumped into the romanticism of the 19th century, hastily passing by.

Realism, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian, Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Modernism…

The passage of time seems to have been concretely expressed in this second, and this innocent girl, like Ophelia in the water, has never diminished her innocence and brilliance despite hundreds of years of witnessing.

Her footsteps finally stopped in front of the "Contemporary Art" exhibition hall where the year can be confirmed, and all works can even be accurate to the month and date.

The back of a man was walking in front of him. The girl who was running all the way was panting. She bowed down and put her hands on her knees, but she still shouted a name that even she was not sure of -

"Heaven...natural!"

The man's body visibly trembled, and then his steps slowly stopped.

He slowly turned his head and looked at the girl who was chasing him...

That face was undoubtedly very similar to that of He Tianran, with the same eyebrows, the same height, and the same temperament. Even Cao Aiqing was stunned for several seconds, but just a few seconds later, the girl actually revealed her face. Embarrassed, sorry:

"I'm sorry...I recognized the wrong person."

This sentence surprised the man who looked so much like He Tianran. He came over and helped Cao Aiqing up politely. "It's okay...you...you recognize me as your boyfriend, right?"

Cao Aiqing calmed down and nodded. During this period, she stared at the man in front of her for a few seconds. She did not comment on the word "boyfriend" and asked:
"Do you know a man named He Tianran? He is about the same age and appearance as you."

"...I don't know you, but..."

The man hesitated to speak. The girl looked at him and blinked, waiting for the next words.

"But since they all look the same and I haven't spoken yet, how did you recognize that I'm not your boyfriend?"

"Feel."

"what?"

"Of course, if you take a closer look, the difference is quite big." Cao Aiqing shook his head and added, then gasped and sighed: "I mean, he is staying well in the country, how could he When you suddenly appeared in London, I was really shocked and couldn’t believe my eyes.”

The man smiled and said, "It seems you have a good relationship."

"It's okay. By the way, uh...it's a rare chance that we'll get to know each other. My name is Cao Aiqing. What's your name?"

"Isn't this... some popular pick-up tactic? Or are you still doubting me?"

"You are overthinking. The sentence 'You look like a friend of mine' has no metaphorical meaning at all. If you don't believe me, I can show you the photo. I just lament that the world is really wonderful. There are still people who look like this in the world." Two people who are so similar, I can’t stop my curiosity if I don’t know each other~”

"Really? Then I have to take a look...Ah, I forgot to introduce you, you can call me...Xiao Sheng or Sheng Zai."

A misunderstanding led to a brief exchange between two strangers who met by chance in a foreign country. Cao Aiqing shared a photo with He Tianran to the man next to her. The man next to her came close to cover her body, feeling that the other person was He is so tall, the girl laughed and said:

"Xiao Sheng, Sheng Zai, it sounds like a nickname for a kid. I'll call you As Sheng."

However, the other party did not seem to hear what Cao Aiqing said. Instead, he lowered his head and looked at the photo of Cao Aiqing and He Tianran when they met in the UK last year with an unusually serious expression. He murmured something in a low voice:

"This Lao Deng... is really... young enough..."

The girl frowned and said:

"What did you say?"

The man called "A Sheng" waved his hands quickly, as if he had been caught doing something wrong, and tried his best to change his words:
"I said... I said this brother is really young enough... and has a lot of promise."

Cao Aiqing was still a little suspicious, "You guys look so similar, you have no reason to praise him so much. It always makes me feel like you are praising yourself."

"No, no, I'm telling you the truth. Oh, that... Cao... Cao..."

"Just call me Ai Qing."

"No...you are older than me, I will call you Ai Qing...sister."

"Uh...it's up to you."

After confirming the title, the man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Judging from his appearance, he should be the same age as the girl. As for how much older or younger he was, he didn't tell her. Cao Aiqing didn't want to ask, otherwise it would really be the same. It's as if I'm really interested in him, and since everyone calls him sister, I can live with it.

"Sister Ai Qing is currently studying in...London?"

"That's right, I studied architectural design at Bayuan. What about you, Asheng? You came here to study too?"

The man shook his head, "No, I came here... to visit relatives."

"Oh, that's it..."

"Sister Ai Qing..."

"Ok?"

"You must love your boyfriend very much, right? Seeing that I look a bit similar, I hurried over to confirm."

"After all, he and I haven't seen each other for more than half a year. I didn't go back to China this year...and he loves surprises. Last year on my birthday, he suddenly came to me. He didn't even say hello. He was so scared. He was scared to death! By the way..." Cao Aiqing changed the topic: "There is something I wanted to correct with you from the beginning."

"what's up?"

"Although the boy in the photo and I are very close, we are not a couple yet, so don't always call him your boyfriend. Call him your boyfriend..." As he said this, Cao Aiqing laughed: "Ha~ If I go back to China and tell him about this, he will probably wake up laughing in his dreams.”

The two of them were walking and chatting. Maybe this man named Asheng was very similar to He Tianran in appearance, so Cao Aiqing felt a sense of intimacy for no reason. When the other party heard this, he also noticed the subtle relationship between the two and pointed out the truth. :
"But you didn't deny it at the beginning, right? Why hasn't this layer of window paper been pierced yet? Because... the distance?"

"There is still time." Cao Aiqing thought for a while, and then added: "Although there are still many details that mean we are not really together yet, the short story is... we are not sure what the future will be like. After I went abroad, the relationship between us The time and space between us has been very long, but in the process, I have become more and more sure of my feelings for him, especially after seeing you today.”

"See me?"

"Um……"

Cao Aiqing nodded and spoke frankly in a slightly shy tone:

"I found that I am still a bit greedy. Just seeing an identical face today can make my whole body jump for joy, which makes this body with few motor cells and the consciousness that cares so much about shame and manners make a desperate move. I made the same decision, maybe this is some kind of 'gravity'? I forgot how to say it, but I really can't imagine what I would be like if you were really him today."

The man listened silently, lowered his head and smiled with emotion, and then made a good joke:
"Only love and gravity can travel through time and space. That's what they say, right?"

Cao Aiqing, who was favored, nodded happily, "Yes, yes, that's what I want to express. This word seems to come from the theme of a certain movie. Asheng, you have read a lot of movies. If you Once I get to know Tianran, we must have many topics to talk about. He studies film. "

"Yes... there will be a chance..."

The man's lips parted slightly, and he murmured in a low voice. Then, as if he thought of something, he asked a realistic question in a deep voice:
"But Sister Ai Qing, you majored in architecture. Maybe it would be better for you to stay in London to develop this industry than to go back to China? And we are all so young. Even if we have to go back, maybe it would be a good thing to practice outside for two more years?"

Cao Aiqing's eyes darkened, "A Sheng, do you think so too?"

"...Well, if I were in this situation, I might stay for two more years. After all, we...still have so much time. Just like when I was a child...an elder taught me that love...is not life. In the end, people have to think about everything.”

"I also think so."

Cao Aiqing stopped, as if he deeply believed in the man's kind warning.

"Then Sister Ai Qing, what are your plans..."

"But Xiao Sheng, did your elder ever tell you the other meaning of this sentence?"

Facing a tall man who was more than half a head taller than himself, Cao Aiqing raised his head, his eyes full of flexibility but unbreakable firmness.

The man's eyes averted and he hesitated a few words, as if he couldn't remember, and he seemed to be deliberately avoiding...

“Of course love is not everything in life, but there will always be someone who is the only one in your life.

I mean, the kind of person that you can climb over mountains and ridges, cross rivers and seas, and you want to see him under the stars and the moon. In the future that each other envisions, they will not be excluded under any circumstances...the only one.

I have studied abroad for more than three years. I know that staying in London may be more helpful to my career, but if I don’t like him, this matter will not pose any burden to me; if I like him enough, this matter will It will not cause any burden.

It’s not that I haven’t considered it for myself. I haven’t confirmed our relationship with him yet. If anything happens to us in the past three years, we can all get together and relax. So since he has been waiting for me for three years, why should I Can't give a clear response?
Right, love is mutual. This is the scenario I had thought about before getting on the plane. Now that everything is going as I wish, I should be the happiest one.

The emphasis of the sentence "People must consider themselves after all" is "consider" rather than "self", but many people don't even do "consider". They just simply want a "selfish" excuse to let themselves Just feel at ease. "

The girl's sonorous language was probably because she was annoyed by her friends and classmates around her, so there was also a hint of bitterness in her words.

But who is she? She is the Cao Aiqing who has never failed in her life, every word is sincere and every word is God's will!

She didn't talk about it, but in fact, she thought it through better than anyone else.

The man stood there in shock for a long time, until someone behind him shouted "Mia - Mia -", and then he came back to his senses.

At this time, he looked ashamed and apologized, and said:

"I've learned a lesson, Ai Qing...sister, I think I have to go..."

Cao Aiqing thought that her "selfish" remarks had offended the other party, and was about to explain...

"Mia—Mia—!!"

"Stop calling Emily, we are in the museum~!"

Hearing his best friend behind him shouting his name loudly, Cao Aiqing's face turned red, and he stamped his feet in anger, turning around to remind the other party to pay attention to the volume.

"Take care, Ophelia..."

Cao Aiqing was stunned when he heard the man's reluctant farewell, and then slowly turned around again.

The museum was crowded with people, and pedestrians passed by her with different expressions, but the man was nowhere to be seen again.

"Mia~ Huhu~ Who did you see just now? Huh~ You are so anxious~ I rarely see you like that. I am worried to death."

My best friend finally ran up to her, and after she finished speaking, she rested her head on Cao Aiqing's shoulder, panting.

The girl's eyes swept around again, but she couldn't find anyone and had to give up. She explored her hand and said helplessly:
"No, I just saw a man who looked very similar to my boyfriend, but later I realized he was the wrong person."

Upon hearing this, the white girl who was leaning on her shoulder lit up and raised her head.

"Huh??? Boyfriend??!!"

"Just...that boy came to see me for my birthday last year, and he made such a fuss!"

"When we asked you last year, you said you were 'friends'~"

"Then...things change~"

"WOO~ Could it be that you insisted on returning to China because of your 'friend'? Oh, if you had said this earlier, I would have understood."

"Don't come here anymore~"

"Then before you return to Hong Kong City, shall we hold a farewell party for you?"

"It's early. It won't be until June before I can go back. You want me to leave so much~"

"That's not~love u~"

"Humph~" (End of this chapter)