What did it feel like to arrive in the future and suddenly discover that you had gained someone important?
In prosperous Beijing, at a riverside restaurant,
When the young man across from her spoke softly, that hazy memory flashed through her mind again. Ling, in her adult form, quietly lowered her gaze.
It was happening again.
If the earlier incident, when she had wanted him to change how he addressed her, could still be dismissed as an illusion, then this second flashback proved that these really were memories she had once experienced.
How fascinating. So fascinating that she found it unbelievable.
Setting aside the outside world, merely examining her future self, Ling felt that she had not changed much over these thirty years.
Even surviving in the form of a data soul, along with newly developed technological achievements and new advancements, was all within expectations. They were all ideas she had once had, or would have in the future, as though they had suddenly been realized.
But the young man before her was the sole exception.
Ling simply could not imagine how her future self had managed to acquire someone so immensely important to her.
So what did it feel like to suddenly discover from the records that she had an intimate relationship with a stranger?
What Fang Ran did not know was that, aside from understanding the current situation, Ling had also investigated the cause of her own abnormal state—the hibernation plan.
Then, quite naturally, she discovered that the one who had disregarded the risks and forcibly accelerated the hibernation process had been herself. She discovered that the reason "she" had done so was for someone named "Fang Ran."
After waking up and discovering this, Ling had formed many conjectures amid her disbelief.
What kind of person was he?