Ji Hanzhou had less than thirty days left to live.
When Jiang Yu heard this, he was sitting on the old sofa in the living room, browsing short videos. There was the sound of oil popping in the kitchen, and Ji Hanzhou's slippers clicked on the tiles, just like every Friday evening in the past ten years.
"Put it there, I'm not hungry." Jiang Yu didn't even raise his head, and moved his thumb across the screen mechanically.
Ji Hanzhou placed the white porcelain plate on the coffee table. The shrimp shells were shiny and covered in amber sauce. The green onions still had the green flavor of just leaving the pot. He took out a paper towel, peeled a shrimp, dipped it in the sauce and handed it to her mouth: "You haven't eaten for lunch, so take a bite."
The shrimp meat was still hot, and it made her shrink back when it touched her lips. She frowned: "Ji Hanzhou, are you annoyed?"
"Well, annoying." He smiled and his eyes curved into two arcs, as if he never knew how to get angry. "Then you eat first, and then bother after eating."
She opened her mouth to bite the shrimp meat, but before she could chew it, a cold electronic sound exploded in her head.
[The regretful love system has been bound to the host Jiang Yu. Warning: The target character, Ji Hanzhou, only has 30 days left in his life. The countdown begins.
Jiang Yu froze, biting the shrimp with his teeth, and the sauce rubbed along the corners of his mouth and onto his chin. She looked up suddenly. There was no one else in the living room. The TV was not on, but the phone screen was still on. Ji Hanzhou was putting the second shrimp into her bowl, with bits of shrimp shell still embedded in his fingernails.
"What's wrong?" He noticed her expression and took out a tissue to wipe her mouth. "Is it burned?"
The voice sounded again, like someone putting a piece of ice into her ear canal: [Do you want to view the future clip immediately?
Before she could say "no", her vision went dark.
