Chapter 65 Part 1- Extra 1: Parallel Universe

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Names mentioned in this chapter (which can also be found in the glossary ):

-云舒( yún shū)- Yun Shu, the female lead

– 傅然( Fù rán)- Fu Ran, the male lead in our novel and the original novel

– 乔颜( qiáo yán)- Qiao Yan, the female protagonist of the original novel.

At 10.30 pm, Fu Ran returned home.

Actually, this place could be considered a home. It was at most one of the properties under his name. Because a real home would not be so cold and have no warmth at all.

Fu Ran seemed to be used to this a long time ago. He immediately turned on the living room lights and then walked to the bedroom. He untied the tie that had been binding him all day and let out a silent sigh. Then, just as he was about to take off his jacket, his phone rang.

“Hello.”

“President Fu, the divorce papers have been delivered, but Qiao Yan wants to see you before she signs it.”

In less than a second, Fu Ran opened his mouth and refused, “I won’t meet her.”

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to have expected this. He sighed and said, “Fu Ran, why do you suddenly want a divorce for no reason? Even if you are only married by agreement, you also….”

Fu Ran’s face showed impatience, and he said, “Xu Hao, she stepped on my bottom line.”

Xu Hao thought of Qiao Yan’s crazy love for Fu Ran and probably guessed what had happened. As Fu Ran’s childhood friend, he could not say any words to console him, much less do anything that would rather destroy ten temples than a marriage. [1] He said, “Then how are you going to explain it to your family?”

To be honest, when Fu Ran wanted to marry Qiao Yan, Xu Hao was not in favour of the idea and even predicted that they would go their separate ways sooner or later. However, he did not expect this day would arrive so soon.

The marriage between Fu Ran and Qiao Yan was purely a marriage of agreement. One person did so to deal with his family, and the other did so out of love and admiration. If it happened in normal circumstances, they would probably fall in love after getting married, and familiarity would breed fondness. However, the problem was that none of these two was normal.

It was unknown what Fu Ran had experienced. However, he was increasingly more cold-hearted. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was breathing, had a heartbeat, and his body was warm, he (Xu Hao) really suspected that he was a robot that had no feelings.

And Qiao Yan was even more abnormal.

She claimed to love Fu Ran and even agreed to a marriage agreement to get closer to Fu Ran; however, she was involved with more than one man at the same time. This caused Fu Ran’s reputation to be tarnished and stirred up a commotion in the Fu family.

This marriage had hurt too many people.

Xu Hao sighed.

On the other end of the phone, Fu Ran roughly guessed what Xu Hao was thinking. His eyes turned dark, and he said, “I will tell them the truth. This matter…” He pursed his lips, and his tone contained guilt. “I did a bad job.”

At that time, he was muddle-headed to even impulsively agree to a marriage agreement with Qiao Yan after being urged by his family members to get married. In the end… Fu Ran felt extremely guilty towards his family members.

When has Fu Ran ever been in such a pathetic state? In Xu Hao’s heart, he felt upset, but he was really not good at comforting people. So he could only utter a few comforting words and hung up the phone.

Fu Ran ended the call, washed up and went to bed.

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The sunlight filled the room and shone indiscriminately on the person’s face on the bed. His handsome face shone in the sunlight as if it had been kissed by God.

Then, a large hand pulled the blanket to cover his head at once.

After a short while, the man rolled over and sat up. His body radiated the low pressure from lack of sleep.

— He had clearly drawn the curtains last night… Did the part-time staff take matters into her own hands? Very good. I can block this housekeeping company.

As he thought of this, a person filled with vigour burst into the room and immediately pounced on the bed… towards his body.

“Hubby~” The woman’s voice and her smile were as sweet as honey. She pecked on Fu Ran’s face and said, “Get up quickly. You said you will accompany me to the film set today, so you can’t dawdle in bed~.”

She jumped out of bed and scrunched her nose. “Hurry up, or I won’t make breakfast for you!”

After saying that, she skipped out of the room.

Fu Ran touched the place where he was kissed and was a little unable to come back to his senses.

— What… What happened?

— Who is she?

— But her kiss seems to be also so sweet…

……

Fu Ran found something amiss. He was not in the residence where he slept but in a different place.

But immediately after, he found something that was even more wrong.

The stuffed closet was divided into men’s and women’s clothing; an intimate photo of the man and woman was placed in front of the bedside table; there was a pair of toiletries in the bathroom… They all signalled that a couple was living here. No, to be more precise, a married couple lived here.

As for why he was so certain, it was because he managed to find two marriage certificates in the safe.

Regarding the safe password… He didn’t know why it opened as soon as he tried.

Once he took a look at the marriage certificate, Fu Ran’s whole body stiffened.

— One party to the marriage was him and the other… From the photo, it should be the girl just now. She is called Yun Shu.

Fu Ran stared at the words “Yun Shu” and silently read them again in his heart.

“Fu Ran!”

The exasperated voice reverberated throughout the room, followed by a small cannonball-like petite body pressed on his back, causing him to almost fall. However, his first reaction was not to protect himself but to protect the little girl behind him.

Fu Ran froze, and his heart was filled with disbelief.

“Fu Ran?” The young girl’s voice was filled with doubt. “You seem a little off today….”

Yun Shu came down from his back and turned his face to face her.

If Fu Ran was acting like his usual self, he would have already gotten angry from this almost offensive behaviour. However, he did not feel like he was being offended when the young girl’s hand touched his face. On the contrary, it was as if his body had long been used to her contact and even liked her touching him.

With knitted eyebrows, Yun Shu meticulously surveyed him. When her eyes met Fu Ran’s, her beautiful eyes suddenly shook. She let go of her hand and took two steps back. Then, she said in a trembling voice, “Who… Who are you? You are not Fu Ran. You are not him… Who are you? Who the hell are you?!!!”

Yun Shu herself had transmigrated. In an instant, her mind was filled with all kinds of bad speculation, and she was at a loss of what to do. What if… What if her Fu Ran can’t return… Tears welled up in Yun Shu’s eyes. She fluttered her eyelashes, causing a tear to trickle down her cheeks. Her body limply began to slide down.

Fu Ran reflexively caught Yun Shu in one swoop. Then, when he looked at Yun Shu’s despairing and listless eyes, he suddenly opened his mouth to say, “I’m Fu Ran.”

“Ah?”

“I’m Fu Ran. I am Fu Ran.” Fu Ran paused and continued, “From my memories, I did not marry you, but I think our childhood should be the same. So you can ask me about my childhood to verify things.”

Yun Shu immediately asked a few questions, and the man really could answer them. He even knew a lot of details that people were unaware of, which made Yun Shu sure that he was also “Fu Ran”.

Yun Shu had a guess and said, “Parallel universe.”

Fu Ran more or less understood a little and said, “I am Fu Ran from the other world, and he shares the same family and experiences as me, except—”

One was married to Qiao Yan and was in a difficult situation; the other was married to this soft little girl in front of him and was happy and blissful.

Yun Shu forced herself to raise her spirits, but tears still rolled down from her eyes. “What… What about my Fu Ran? Can he still come back?”

Fu Ran pursed his lips. He doesn’t know.

When he saw the crying Yun Shu, his heart ached, and he reflexively reached out to wipe her tears. However, when his fingertips touched the little girl’s face, her eyes were filled with unfamiliarity and trepidation from being unfamiliar to him.

He flattened his pale lips, withdrew his hands and remained silent.

The atmosphere in the room instantly became heavy and only had the sound of the young girl’s sobbing.

Yun Shu did not cry for too long and quickly controlled her emotions. She did not like to show too much of her real self in front of strangers.

“Do you want to eat breakfast?”

Fu Ran shook his head. He really had no appetite.

Yun Shu’s face revealed unhappiness. She said, “No, you have to eat. This body is my husband’s, not yours.”

Fu Ran said, “… Alright then.”

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[1] 宁拆十座庙不毁一桩婚(níngchāishízuòmiào, bùhuìyīzhuānghūn)- Rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage. It means that the sin of destroying someone’s marriage is so great that it is worse than the act of tearing down ten temples. Of course, this is just an analogy. Marriage had an extremely noble position in ancient times. Destroying other people’s marriages is also a kind of destruction of a harmonious society. In one of the Taoist classics, Tai Shang Induction Chapter, it states that destroying other people’s marriages is an evil act that cannot be used. Credit: Sohu