Although Nuan Yue had left, Jin Cheng remained at the factory and continued living his factory life.
To be fair, he really wanted to restart the Dreamscape, rearrange his schedule, and keep Nuan Yue from leaving.
But he also knew there were many major events still ahead in the Dreamscape. If he didn't experience them properly, then even if he brought Nuan Yue back earlier, she would still leave later on.
According to his memories, the factory would go through a painful period before ultimately choosing agricultural machinery as its direction.
It just hesitated for too long along the way. Too much talent left the factory, frequent purchases of lathes wasted enormous amounts of money, and it gave the factory director and others opportunities to line their own pockets.
Later, it transformed into an agricultural machinery factory and enjoyed another period of glory, but its equipment, lacking technological accumulation, quickly fell behind until the present day.
As he recalled the factory's later history, those experiences flashed through Jin Cheng's mind, making him feel for the first time just how real history was.
Nuan Yue's departure was merely an event in the Dreamscape. Historically, there had never even been such a person.
Yet the feelings he had gained from it were utterly real. At the same time, he vaguely realized that if something like this happened in reality, he would be equally powerless.
Today it might be Nuan Yue. Tomorrow, it might be his younger brother. The day after that, it might be himself. Without any means of changing what happened, whether they stayed or left was in someone else's hands. It was never up to them.
Jin Cheng didn't continue advancing the Dreamscape. Instead, he stood by the window and looked into the distance.
It was summer in the Dreamscape,