Fifteen years ago, midsummer.

Cicadas chirping, pond.

Ice cold strawberry milk.

Two pairs of legs dangling on a park bench.

"If my mother sees me drinking this kind of milk drink, she will definitely blame me." The boy broke the can, "and she still sneaked out."

"Then don't let her know." The young man opened the ring for him.

Cicadas chirp.

"Does mom still send you to dance every day?" the boy said.

"It's so hot in the summer that I don't want to go dancing. I pretended that I sprained my ankle - it's awesome!" the boy said happily, but then became frustrated, "Although I don't have to dance anymore, my mother asked me to use my dancing time to practice my lines.

And every day after school, my mother would come to pick me up, so I had no time to sneak out... The last time I left school ten minutes late, my mother lost her temper again. Why does she care about me so much?"

"...Yeah. Because Xiaoxia is the pride of her mother. She said that you look like her and are talented. You will definitely fulfill her wish and become a big star in the future." The boy said.

And young people have no talent.

When my brother becomes a big star, will my mother end her fight and get his custody back?

Water drops fell from the can and dripped on the ants crawling by.

"But do I have to be a big star?" The boy said ignorantly, "What does my brother want to do when he grows up?"

The afternoon sun was a bit dazzling. Looking at his younger brother's innocent and ignorant face who had everything, he suddenly felt disgusted.

"I'm going to the Children's Palace later. Xiaoxia can go back by herself," the boy said.

"What does the Children's Palace look like?" The boy's attention was diverted.

"The Children's Palace is..."

It was a place where I was left to my grandparents and my father, who didn't care about me, abandoned me.

It’s the place where mom focuses on cultivating you and ignores me.

Mom said you are destined to be a big star, what about me?

"Thank you brother for taking me out and treating me to something to eat," the boy said.

There was complete trust in his eyes.

He waved goodbye to the boy on the other side of the street. Before turning to leave, he hesitated for a moment and sent a text message to his mother on his PHS.

"Mom, can you pick me up this afternoon... and take me back to my grandpa's house?"

Rapid braking sound.

"A kid was hit by a motorcycle."

injured, running, hospital.

Mother's slap and angry tears.

"How could you secretly take him out and then let him go back as a child?!"

"I……"

In fact, you know you shouldn't do this.

But the hatred and jealousy that suddenly arose in his heart at that moment made him think, since his younger brother already had so much, there was nothing wrong with having one less brother to send him back.

Through his dim tearful eyes, he saw the child on the hospital bed reaching out and hooking his finger. The child closed his eyes and seemed to be calling him.

"elder brother……"

His tears fell down at that moment.

Later, the grandparents came and argued with the mother, drawing a clear line and saying that the two children would never see each other again.

Separated hands.

Later, my father went bankrupt and went abroad. He was raised by his grandparents and taken to other cities.

Later, I met again and kept seeing the brothers from the past on television and in advertisements.

Maybe that’s why you chose to become a reporter? My younger brother and mother, who didn’t understand the majors written on the application form and had complicated emotions but never dared to see them, accepted their own mediocrity and chose to continue, even though it seemed like they wouldn’t

Ordinary life without any future waves.

But there may be some bright spots in ordinary life.

For example, I suddenly reunited with my brother in the future. Knowing that he wanted to act in a play behind his mother's back, and knowing that his brother and mother could not let go of each other, he used his years of experience as a reporter to resolve the misunderstanding between the two, and secretly bought his brother's theater tickets.

Give it to your mother, let them give each other a surprise, so that they can finally reconcile with each other, and you can finally forget the guilt that is mixed with jealousy, sadness and unwillingness.

And I had to tell my brother what I had been thinking about for a long time during the interview.

"It's okay not to become a big star. Even if everyone thinks you have talent, even if everyone thinks you enjoy and waste educational resources, even if everyone thinks you are born with talent, you should become a star, and if you get resources, you should become a star.

, thinking that if you don’t become a star, it’s a letdown and a waste, and jealousy scolds you for wasting resources and failing to contribute to the world…”

"But never, any time, as long as you don't want to be a big star."

"It will be all right."

One day many years ago.

Yu Rongshi was in the recording studio again.

A student named "Yi Wan" sits under the shade of a high school tree.

Chi Jixia started performing with her mother on her back.

Chi Qiu, the former actress, finally came. She took the play ticket that she didn't know who sent it, and stared at the painful, struggling, but extremely real and dazzling little son in the center of the stage.

She walked out of the theater with mixed feelings. In the middle of the square, she saw a missed phone call.

There was a voicemail message from my oldest son.

But who would want to listen to the message at this time? She just wanted to call back immediately and say thank you and apologize to her son who she had ignored for many years and who had been in a cold war for two months because of that persuasion.

So she made the call.

"Beep...beep...beep..."

At the same time, a street away, a figure jumped from the building.

His shadow is getting faster and faster. Gravity is blessing the last figure he left in this world. As long as it exceeds the speed of light, all time can be traced back.

But he didn't.

"boom!"

"What's so loud..." someone said in the square.

The endless flow of streets stopped, the colorful neon lights stopped flashing, and people stopped chatting.

The whole world seemed to have its gears stuck for a moment, and then returned to normal.

Even the person who complained earlier kept walking.

It's like nothing unusual has ever happened.

There is only one exception.

"Beep...beep...beep...the number you dialed is unavailable, please call again later."

At the moment when the "bang" sounded, the sound in the receiver changed.

Meanwhile, backstage.

Chi Jixia took off her costume while sweating profusely.

"...Summer is so long." He squinted his eyes and smiled happily, "Isn't it..."

He paused.

"Um……?"

"Who did I want to talk to just now?"

"...It seems that it can only be the system. I deliberately refused its help to act like this. The system won't be angry with me, right?"

…

Yi Wan ran in the dark alley.

He couldn't look back, couldn't stop, because the pale moon was staring at him. He ran under the shadow of the trees, into the buildings, and towards every road he was once familiar with, but no longer due to several years of renovation and expansion.

Running in familiar streets.

——Can’t be caught by the moon.

The old town was so quiet late at night. When turning a corner, Yi Wan's feet turned and got stuck.

He raised his head and stared blankly at the building in front of him.

The familiar Tongzi Tower.
To be continued...