"President Pei, have you decided?" Mr. Jing stood in the laboratory and pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose. "The Superbrain isn't fully developed yet. If you want to stay in the past for an extended period, you'll have to give up your life in the present."
Mr. Jing paused before continuing, "You could wait a little longer."
Pei Hang asked, "How long?"
How long?
Mr. Jing wasn't sure either.
There were too many problems to solve. They still had a long, difficult road ahead.
Pei Hang wasted no more words. He put on the equipment and lay down on the bed. "Start."
Mr. Jing stared at him for a long while before finally raising his hand and tapping the light screen a few times.
The machine started.
Pei Hang barely felt anything. His eyelids grew heavier and heavier, his mind clouded over, and then he lost consciousness.
The next time he opened his eyes, someone had woken him with their shouting.
"You-you've gone too far!" A familiar voice reached him. Pei Hang opened his eyes to find Qin Buran glaring at him, his eyes red. "Yes, I was the one who asked you out for drinks."
"But what makes you any better?"
"Weren't you the one who leaned in and kissed me?" Qin Buran's chest heaved, his face flushed with anger.
He looked fierce, but large tears kept falling uncontrollably, as though he had suffered the greatest injustice in the world.
As he spoke, Qin Buran lowered his lashes, utterly aggrieved. "Our marriage was arranged when we were children. It's not-it's not like I insisted on marrying you..."
The Pei Family and the Qin family had arranged a marriage between their children.
Back then, the two families had been on roughly equal footing, and the marriage