Epilogue (1)

Ji Qu rigidly stared at the examination report in his hands and sighed. Not cured again! The doctor pointed out that the blood clot in his brain must be eliminated naturally. Naturally my ass, he thought. God knows how long that would even take. Thinking of that, he wished he could just throw this piece of report in his hand to the floor and ruthlessly stomp on it to relieve his anger.

He had a car accident three years ago. After he woke up, his mind was empty. He nearly lost all of his memories. He only knew that his name was Shen Qu. That was what he had discovered on his treatment bill when he was discharged from the hospital. At that time, his IDs that were all lost in the car accident were later reissued.

Ji Qu sat on a seat in the hospital’s corridor. He rolled the report into a tube and stuffed it into a pocket in his pants while taking out his phone to scroll through the forums.

Like most young people, Ji Qu was also a modern age person that suffers severe anxiety from leaving their phones. He was currently scrolling through a small forum with about 300 people called Urban Syndrome. Majority of its members have some sort of mental illness. Ji Qu also has one. Since the car accident, he had been suffering from claustrophobia.

He had registered when he accidentally found the forum’s website and code. It was about a year ago, when he was still distressed from losing his memories.

He opened the top post in the forum. Indeed, it was an invitation for an offline gathering. It said that this was the first offline gathering since the establishment of the forum. It was to be held in City B. Ji Qu decided to attend not only because of his roommate Xiao Hua but also because the mysterious moderator of the forum will be attending the gathering.

He was currently waiting to meet with Xiao Hua.

It had been a little boring these days. Ji Qu exited the thread. He searched for a bit and found that the forum moderator had opened a new poll discussion thread. The theme of the previous one was “Discussing the choices two living beings in love in love will make under a major crisis”. The title this time was clearly a lot simpler, “Once the birds are all shot, there’d be no arrows to renew. Once the rabbits are all caught, the hounds are eaten too. [1] Discussing one hundred methods on cooking the hound.”

But Ji Qu wasn’t interested in this, what he was interested in was the online novel written by the forum moderator that was published in the forum. The novel titled <<The robins together in a cage>> was published three years ago. Ji Qu really liked the novel, to some extent, he has already read it more than ten times and can nearly recite the plot backwards.

While waiting, Ji Qu once again read through the post and sighed again at the ending of the two robins in the story— one of the robins pecked the other’s eyes blind and even ate its body after the other had already died to live.

Ai , Ji Qu deeply sighed. At this moment, Xiao Hua called his phone and told him to go downstairs. He put his phone away and exited the hospital.

[1] Original 飞鸟尽,良弓藏;狡兔死,走狗烹. – lit. once the birds are gone, the bows are put away, once the rabbits are caught, the hounds are boiled. I took a bit of creative liberty in making this sound more poetic in translation. Basically, means to get rid of the subject once it lost its purpose

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T/N: For the first time! We get a name folks! A real name!!! Oh, and I bet you can guess who this Ji Qu is.

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