The Effect of Reverse!

Living room.

After the thunderclap, the house fell into a brief silence.

"Director? Director?"

"Hm? Ah? What is it?"

"Don't use your hands. You might get cut by the glass. I'll get the broom."

"...Oh, no need. The cup's fine."

Just as Zhou Ynru was about to hurry into the kitchen to fetch a broom and sweep up the glass shards, she froze at his words and looked over suspiciously. Then she saw, to her surprise, that Dong Xuebin had bent down and retrieved the very cup that had fallen to the floor from beneath the table. It was completely intact, without so much as a chip, as if it hadn't been the cup that had fallen at all. "It didn't break? I heard it shatter. Isn't it glass?"

Dong Xuebin didn't know how to answer either. He coughed. "I bought it at the mall. It's pretty sturdy."

"It certainly is." Zhou Ynru still looked somewhat doubtful. "It fell from that high up and nothing happened. The quality must be excellent, but I clearly heard it break."

"Maybe it's made of a different material."

"Oh." Zhou Ynru didn't think much more about it.

Though he looked calm on the surface, a massive wave had risen in Dong Xuebin's heart. One second, two seconds, three seconds... Reverse was still running. Only then did Dong Xuebin come back to his senses and quickly issued the command to cancel Reverse. The remaining time stopped at one minute and eight seconds. What had just happened had shaken him deeply. He had never expected the cup, which should have shattered into pieces, to reassemble itself whole before his eyes. It was as though the glass cup had turned back time and returned to the state it had been in before it broke.

Was that Reverse?