Ming Fei's older brother died.
More precisely, he vanished without a trace.
Everyone told her that after all these years, she should move on.
Ming Fei smiled and always said, "Of course. You have to keep looking forward."
But late at night, she stood by the window on the seventeenth floor, gazing down into the abyss again and again, then turning back each time, waiting for news that would never come.
When she woke up again, Ming Fei had returned to ten years earlier.
Her brother snatched the last strawberry from her hand, grinning mischievously. "Finders keepers."
She stared at him blankly without saying a word.
Wei Linye raised an eyebrow and pretended he was about to eat it. "I'm really going to eat it, okay?"
Then,
Ming Fei suddenly burst into tears, threw her arms around him, and sobbed out the word she'd been unable to say for so many years: "Brother."
"..."
Wei Linye froze, then patted her back awkwardly. "I haven't eaten it yet... All right, all right, your brother was teasing you. I won't take it. Don't cry."
Ming Fei cried hard.
Wei Linye wanted to cry too. He'd never dare steal her strawberries again.
He was just about to reflect on what apology would earn his sister's forgiveness.
But Ming Fei wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him.
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Wei Linye is caught in a sweet dilemma. He's still debating whether to hypocritically warn his sister that what she's doing is wrong, or simply become her accomplice.
After struggling with it, he decides to start with a hypocritical warning. She'll surely refuse, and then he can pretend to give in reluctantly.
That way, if she ever regrets it later, he can condemn her and remind her that she started it, so she isn't allowed to leave him alone.
But when he gets home, he sees himself in the living room.
More precisely, himself from ten years in the future.
They live together, have no blood ties, and aren't registered under the same household.
The brother from ten years ago and the brother from ten years later compete for her.
The girl and the brother from ten years later are both unhinged. Only the brother from ten years ago is normal.
Theme: Only by shedding the past can one be reborn
