i was my mistake

Maybe not temporarily, but forever.

The cool evening breeze blew across her face, and the cicadas in the peach grove were chattering endlessly.

The summer here doesn't seem to be that hot.

He looked over the railing in front of him to the river.

What is reflected in the river is not a bearded man, but a young girl's face.

The slight ripples made this face look a little blurry.

She finally lowered her head slightly as if she had noticed something.

The slightly protruding breasts still look immature, and those white jade-like lotus arms are like works of art carved from heaven.

She was wearing a red and black dress made of cotton, which was soft to the touch.

There was a sort of hoarse smile on her face, which then turned into a mocking smile.

"Can the consciousness before death last so long?" She twisted her arm fiercely, "Or die earlier... hiss?"

It hurts.

The pain was clear.

And it was true that the pain only came from the place where it was twisted.

It made her froze in place like someone who woke up from a dream, only to find that she was still in the dream.

She looked up in a trance—looking into the distance along the river.

It was a row of old houses that looked like they were newly built.

A playful smile appeared on the girl's face: "Is it real? Or a dream... It doesn't matter... Even if it's the consciousness before dying, let me make up for some... past mistakes."

As for her current body, she didn't feel much awkwardness or surprise.

——For a man who has reached middle age, experienced countless failures in his life, and read countless novels, this is nothing at all.

Like the protagonists in those novels who made a fuss about touching up and down, she didn't bother to do that kind of thing.

Even if she just watched the pictures showing all the details of the female body on the Internet, she was getting tired of watching the impactful videos one after another, and now she just changed from someone else to her own, so what's the point? Strange?

"Hmm... So that's how it feels when you wear it on your body." Thinking of this, she lifted the skirt faster than the wind in the next second.

Anyone passing by would be shocked - and call her immoral.

When she lifted up the skirt, she felt that there was something heavy in the hem of the skirt, and she searched around, only to find the very concealed pocket.

It was a key and a student card.

She spread out her student ID card, and a red receipt inside was blown off by the breeze.

"...The long-term rental of the apartment is paid for a total of [-] months, paid in one lump sum..." This is the note on the back of the invoice.

In the rest of the places, the specific location is written in detail.

"No. 139 Yinqi Road, Yinkong Apartment..."

On the start date of the invoice, there was a date that instantly stuck in her memory: "August 1996, 8."

The invoice looks very new, which seems to prove that the current time is not far from what is written on it.

She thought of Yinqilu 30 or [-] years later, but she didn't have much memory.

I just remember that there seemed to be a big hospital there...

After all, for several years later, he went to S City to work hard.

Putting away the invoice, she looked at the student ID card. The school looked familiar to her—she was finally sure when she saw the big characters on the top.

That's right, this is the Yinjiang High School on the edge of the factory area, and many people can't imagine that this year's senior year is its last class, and it will be removed after that. Some teachers will be merged into the junior high school, and some will go to other high schools. ...

"Wan Qing...is this my current name?" The girl raised her lips slightly, but there was no smile on her face.

Because she saw that familiar yet unfamiliar figure appeared in her line of sight...

……

(three)

Ye Chen wandered around the park.

In fact, it's not too close to his home.

So he came by bike.

Just ride the permanent brand bicycle that my father treats like a baby.

The license plate number of the bicycle was chosen by him.

The park was built around this broadened creek, and although he had just arrived, he had already felt the cool breeze blowing across the river and caressing his face.

The setting sun is gradually sinking, and the rippling river water is like a big pot of soup that is slightly boiling.

And here, he really saw the girl in his dream.

Looking from afar, one can only see her arms crossed, but not the expression on her face.

But he thought she must be smiling right now?

"Am I dreaming?" He pinched his thigh fiercely. Although he frowned in pain, he still couldn't help laughing, so that his expression looked distorted.

He really wanted to shout hello, but he couldn't muster up the courage after all.

——It's not bad to look at from a distance, at least the wind is not lonely this night.

Thinking to himself like this, he pulled up the front of his shirt and tugged his trousers, trying to make himself look more formal—but the hair like a chicken coop had already betrayed him.

Ye Chen walked away from her, until he was 'very close' to her and could see the half-smile on her face, then he reluctantly moved to the side.

The evening wind blew through her long hair and onto his face, making him feel as if the wind today had a fragrance.

And just when he turned around slightly and observed her secretly from the corner of his eye, this girl in a black and red dress with fair skin who looked like a wealthy daughter opened her mouth wide without any scruples, and spoke in a rough voice Roared loudly: "Ye Chen!!"

He turned his head with a swish, wondering if the voice came from this delicate girl's body.

"Cough...Ye Chen." As if she had noticed something, she cleared her throat and shouted again in a much more normal voice.

Her voice is like a smoothie in summer, with a hint of cool and hoarseness in the sweetness.

"……calls me?"

Ye Chen pointed at himself in disbelief.

"Yeah, call you, who else is here besides you?" She crossed her arms and looked around pretending to be humorous.

Ye Chen has an intuition - he feels that this delicate-looking girl doesn't seem to have as good a temper as she looks...

He coughed dryly, a little afraid to approach.

But she took the initiative to take steps and approached him.

"You... hello!" The innocent boy blushed a little shyly and scratched his head vigorously.

He usually only sees such a beautiful girl on TV, who is still flawless up close, and for a while, he doesn't know where to put his eyes.

But she stood still not far from him, looked him up and down, then frowned slightly, and grinned a little ironically.

Ye Chen didn't feel well.

Although this is a beautiful girl.

But he has dignity after all, although before reaching the bottom line, he can let her look at him a few more times...

"Cough...um...you, you are...?" Ye Chen shifted his gaze to the maple tree behind her, "You...know me?"

"of course."

"We... ah... that what... uh... see, have you met?"

The girl's gaze was not gentle, but instead seemed to be looking at a piece of garbage that couldn't even be recycled.

"No."

"Then...uh...how do you..."

She interrupted Ye Chen's words impatiently, but stared firmly into his eyes with those quiet eyes, and said word by word: "Because, I am, the future—you."

……

2. Evening Sunny

(One)

The evening wind gently brushed Ye Chen's face, carrying a bit of summer's unique heat.

In the evening, the cicadas kept chattering and screaming, and there seemed to be a few faint crowings of frogs in the river.

The bell tower specially set up for the factory in the distance rang slowly, finally waking Ye Chen up from a blank mind.

"Ah...ah?" He even felt that he didn't hear clearly just now.

So the girl in front of her put her hand on his shoulder directly: "I said——I am the future you."

"The future...the future me?" Ye Chen scratched his head with a smile, as if her palm had thorns, and took two steps back, "Why did the future me become a girl?"

"...Probably because there cannot be two identical people in one time and space, or something else—it doesn't matter." She poked her head with her index finger, "In short, it contains the 'future you' ' soul, that's right."

Ye Chen glanced awkwardly at the reflection of the setting sun by the river, he felt that this was a prank by the girl in front of him.

——Could it be that a vicious young lady is playing tricks on him on purpose?

But this kind of play is not even a cold joke...

"Oh, don't you believe me?" The girl smiled playfully, but her attitude was a little impatient, "There are a lot of sundries in the cabinet next to your desk, and you covered them with a lot of white paper and exercise books. Above, and below, in fact, are several volumes—”

"...?!"

"Porn Magazine."

"what!?"

"And you're 'smart' so you're not placed at the bottom, but in the middle." The girl narrowed her eyes and raised the corners of her mouth slightly, "You're just so clever."

"You you you—how do you know?" He was sure that only he knew about this matter, but he had never seen the girl in front of him.

The friends who came to play at his house never dug out their own things.

"Because I am you, and I need to say it a few times, oh, let me continue, about... how old are you? In short, it was probably in the fifth or sixth grade. You learned to use friction to make yourself comfortable. , when I was in the first grade of junior high school, I learned to do it myself through magazines—do you want me to continue?"

"Cough! Cough!" Ye Chen was dubious, "You...how did you investigate me so carefully? I, I have no money."

Everyone likes beautiful girls, but the beautiful girl who knows him so well makes Ye Chen panic.

He even suspected that this person was trying to trick himself back into doing human experiments—ah, of course, if he could do that kind of experiment in which people are happy with each other in bed before doing human experiments, then he could barely think about it!

——If that kind of human experiment doesn't kill people.

"You won't understand until I say it a few times? I only thought that I was stupid before, but I didn't expect to be so stupid." The girl still spoke with a bit of meanness, and she raised her eyebrows slightly. He is tall, but he has a condescending feeling, "I said, you often come here because you read a novel in which the male protagonist always meets many beautiful girls in a riverside park, so you also Want to try it?"

"Ah..." This is definitely what Ye Chen thought deep in his heart, and most people don't know it at all. After all, he didn't even buy that book, and he read it in Xinhua Bookstore in one sitting.

But the girl didn't intend to stop, but went on to say that all the secrets were known, as if she didn't wear any clothes, which made Ye Chen feel flustered: "Then I actually met girls a few times, and There are many good-looking ones, but you haven’t been able to muster up the courage to talk to them once, so you haven’t met any of them—it’s useless to give you a chance, no wonder you’ve been so miserable in this life.”

"I'm not... that..." He instinctively wanted to defend himself.

The girl in front of me became more and more aggressive: "Just live with your pornographic magazines for the rest of your life, play with your stuff with your hands, anyway - you will never really use it in your life."

Although Ye Chen is a educated person, he doubts whether he encountered some evil or monster in this deserted park.

Could this woman be someone who once stumbled and fell, and now is just a ghost?

Without saying a word, he turned around and ran away.

It seemed that even the girl who knew him well didn't expect him to do this.

So much so that he was stunned for two seconds before reacting, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Stop!"

That smoothie-like voice was as terrifying to Ye Chen as a ghost screaming.

"Don't you want to know what will happen to you in the future? Don't you want to change your own life? Do you know that your mother is dying!"

Ye Chen stopped abruptly.