Since these two words were used instead of "father and mother", what Wei Changtian saw at this moment was definitely not Wei Xianzhi and Qin Caizhen.
Obviously, what he saw was his parents in the previous life.
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Wei Tian, an ordinary person.
Born in the 1990s and grew up in the new century.
As an only child of the "eugenics and good education" advocated by family planning, he naturally received all the love from his parents like most of his peers.
No matter how hard it is, you can’t give up on your children, no matter how poor you are, you can’t give up on education. Wei Tian’s parents implemented this sentence very well.
And Wei Tian, who grew up in this environment, barely lived up to their ardent expectations.
A childhood occupied by extracurricular tutoring classes and interest classes.
A middle school age in which "one learns about astronomy from above and geography from below".
A university full of games and skipping classes.
A social beast running around in the big city.
In the future, he should marry a woman in a similar situation to himself, take on a 30-year loan to buy a house, and then have a child with the tireless urging of both parents.
Children will grow up slowly, and Wei Tian will grow old slowly.
If nothing else happens, he will stay by the hospital bed and watch his parents slowly close their eyes, and then one day become the old man lying on the hospital bed again.
Finally, as the line on the heart rate monitor became stable, he spent his life in an ordinary way.
But unexpectedly, he traveled through time.
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Unlike those Internet protagonists who can forget everything in a very short period of time no matter what world they travel to, Wei Changtian still thinks of some things from his previous life from time to time.
But until now, he has been deliberately not thinking about two people, and that is his parents.
The reason may be that there is always a kind of guilt in my heart that I don't want to face.
Time travel, or soul travel... When this super-scientific thing happens, it naturally inevitably brings about a problem——
What will happen to the "self" in the previous life?
In fact, the answer to this question is not difficult to guess.
Just like Xu Suisui who died of a serious illness, in that world, the young man named Wei Tian was most likely dead.
And this means that Wei Tian's parents lost their son without any warning.
The only son I raised with all my hard work and placed all my love and expectations on...
This is why Wei Changtian has always deliberately avoided this issue.
He couldn't imagine what his parents would look like when they heard the news of his "death". He couldn't imagine that the man and woman who had worked hard for him for most of their lives would still have to struggle in pain because of him for the rest of their lives.
He didn't have time to fulfill his filial piety, and he didn't have time to let them see his daughter-in-law and hold his grandson.
He didn't even have time to say goodbye to them...
Wei Changtian has never felt this guilt and cannot tell anyone.
It has been two years since he traveled through time, and he has only spent four nights in the "Dream Path".
This is not because of how "hard-working" he is.
In fact, he just didn't dare to sleep.
He was afraid that once he fell into real sleep, he would dream about them.
Wei Changtian didn't know what he would say if he had the chance to see his parents again, even in a dream.
He has been running away and running away.
But now, he can no longer "escape".
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"dad......"
"mom......"
The white virtual environment seemed to be both illusion and reality. In a trance, Wei Changtian seemed to have returned to the two-bedroom house where he had lived for more than ten years.
A gray fabric sofa with several cushions made by my mother.
The balcony is filled with the smell of washing powder, and there are always a few pieces of my own clothes hanging on the hangers.
The kitchen is piled with firewood, rice, oil and salt, the TV that should have been eliminated long ago, the guitar I bought when I was admitted to college, the green pot of pothos on top of the air conditioner...
The sunlight coming in from the window, whether it was early morning or dusk, cast a layer of orange-red light on everything.
Wei Changtian stared at all this in a daze, unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality. He just walked step by step towards the two people standing in the middle of the room.
The man and woman were looking at him with tears on their faces.
"son......"
He stretched out his hand tremblingly, and the man's palm gently fell on Wei Changtian's shoulder.
The most real touch and temperature made Wei Changtian's body tremble suddenly, and his eyes suddenly became moist.
Regardless of past and present life, he has long forgotten how long it has been since he cried.
But at this moment, when the man patted his shoulder gently, and when the woman cried and held his hand, Wei Changtian's tears instantly burst into his eyes.
"dad!!"
"mom!!!"
"sorry!!"
"I'm sorry for you!!"
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There was a question on Zhihu in my previous life called "If you had the chance to see your deceased relatives again, what would you say to them?"
The answers to the questions were varied. Some told stories, some made up stories, some made jokes, and some even analyzed whether this matter was possible from a scientific perspective.
And among the countless "I miss you" and "I love you" answers, one answer has far more likes than all the others.
That's "I'm sorry".
sorry.
Three simple words contain the most complex emotions.
From this perspective, perhaps when a loved one passes away, the regrets and guilt that really make people unable to let go are always those.
Now, for the three people living in the illusion, it is difficult to say who is the "passed" relative.
But as far as Wei Changtian is concerned, this is not important.
At this moment, he is no longer the only son of the Wei family, a third-grade master, or a powerful figure in this world.
He was just an ordinary young man who died due to electrocution, and he was just a close relative separated from the man and woman in front of him.
"Son, son, where have you been..."
"Mom misses you so much..."
"After you left, your dad started drinking again..."
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"But mom and dad have been waiting for two years, why don't you come back..."
"You're really busy, you might as well give us a call..."
"Mom dreams about you every day when she sleeps..."
"But why do you never look at mom..."
"..."
The choked female voice echoed in the warm sunset, each sentence expressing a mother's most simple feelings.
A gust of wind blew by, the fragrance of washing powder smelled very good, and there seemed to be the sound of children playing outside the window.
As everything around him became more and more real, Wei Changtian seemed to gradually adapt to it all.
"Dad, Mom..."
"I......"
He opened his mouth, wanting to tell the man and woman in front of him what he had experienced in the past two years, and wanted to talk about his pain and struggle.
But at this moment, the woman suddenly took a small step back, trembling in disbelief and said:
"Son, son, you killed someone..."
"..."
His body suddenly froze as if struck by lightning, and Wei Changtian's breathing became extremely rapid in an instant.
He subconsciously reached out his hand, but the woman avoided it in fear.
Seeing the woman's painful look, Wei Changtian felt a hand suddenly pinch his throat, and overwhelming panic suddenly filled his mind.
"Mom! Listen to me!"
"I don't want to kill anyone! I really don't want to kill anyone!"
"But if I don't kill them, they will kill me!!"
"I want to live, I just want to live!"
"I have no idea!"
"I, I can't help it!!"
"..."
The setting sun outside the window had disappeared without knowing when, and was replaced by endless darkness.
Wei Changtian opened his mouth wide and explained hurriedly, but it could not change the woman's desperate expression at all.
Until a heavy sigh sounded.
"Oh, son, if you are wrong, you are wrong."
"But no matter what happens, your parents will never give up on you."