Some people's collapse is silent.
Most of Lin Yin's world collapsed due to his parents' endless quarrels and his brother's fall. The rest is barely held together by his grandfather's love and bitter grapefruit candy.
Until Chen Yan appeared.
His mission is clear and cold: [Rescue Lin Yin, the target with a blackening value of 87. Reward: The truth about mother's death.
He learned quickly, learned to pass by "just in time" when she needed it, learned to hand her favorite candy, and learned to give her that "just in time" hug when she walked into traffic.
The blackening value steadily decreases.
The system said: "The target value continues to decrease."
Then he said: "But host, your numerical value fluctuates abnormally."
Chen Yan ignored the second half of the sentence.
He thought he had everything under control.
Until the night of her grandfather's funeral, she stood in the middle of the road in the early morning, looked at him with those calm and cruel eyes, and asked:
"Chen Yan, of all the 'happens' you gave me..."
"Is there even a minute or a second that is completely 'yours'?"
He didn't answer.
In other words, the very existence of the system is the loudest negative.
[The cruelest way to save a person is to make her believe it first, and then prove it with your own hands that it is all false.
She went to London and disappeared from his world and the system's monitoring list.
A few years later, it was cold rain on the streets of London.
Chen Yan has almost become accustomed to the permanent silence in his mind.
Until the mechanical sound that had disappeared for thousands of days and nights exploded again without warning and coldly:
[Attention, host, the target of the attack, Linyin, is within ten meters of you.
The blood all over his body froze and he suddenly turned around——
Through the humid air and the bustling crowd, he met her eyes.
Time seems to stand still.
Then, she looked at him and smiled very softly.
There was no hate or love in that smile.
There is only a peaceful desolation that has been completely washed away by time.
Chen Yan stood there, rainwater sliding down his face.
The system is still dutifully reporting: [Target detected... Values are being read...]
And with his eyes red, he finally heard his deafening heartbeat.
Intention: There are hundreds of millions of people in the world, there is always someone who loves you