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"I took the school entrance exam, and a black cat guided me through it... Did those things really happen, or were they merely a dream?"
"They were real, and they were a dream. There is no conflict between the two."
"Which came first, and which came later? Did I guide myself into becoming a wizard, or did I become a wizard and then turn back to 'ferry' myself across?"
"Time was linear, but life was not." The gentleman's answer to this question was somewhat vague. He did not give Zheng Qing a direct answer. "Life is always full of forks, cycles, and paradoxes. When we observe this world beyond the constraints of dimensions, it is difficult for us to determine which Timeline's history is real... because they are all equally real."
Zheng Qing tried hard to ponder the gentleman's words.
Then he asked the final question, and the one that concerned him most. "Was my life... planned out?"
"That depends on how you define 'planning.'" The gentleman looked seriously into his eyes and replied softly, "A life without planning can only be called existing; a life with planning is a true life. As I just said, life has many divergent paths. Without a certain degree of planning, stepping onto a wrong path is a tragedy for anyone."
"You would be like someone walking through a boundless desert, thirsty and starving, stretching out your hands only to grasp wind and sand."
"If you are merely worried that your life is being 'controlled' or 'manipulated' by others, then you may rest assured. No, I do not mean to comfort you. I only want to tell you that 99.9 percent of people in this world spend their entire lives being controlled by others. That is not something