This is my best friend, Zhuang Yu.

  From a distance, she is an extremely beautiful and elegant woman. Although at this moment she just casually tied her hair in a ponytail, wearing a black T-shirt and black tight pants, without any makeup, but still cant hide her stunning face. If she would put her photos online, she must be a red-hot beauty writer that explodes the entire network.

  Its just... she looks a bit too mature, with an overly mature aura. A 19-year-old girl, in her own words, "has the face of a middle-aged woman". If you say shes a beautiful young wife, no one would question it either. So she and her nephew Xiao Hua often go to various family-friendly promotions, without even needing to show their ID.

  This is also a heartache for Zhuang Yu. She doesnt mind looking old, but she minds looking too feminine. With her willow-leaf eyebrows, small upturned nose, cherry lips, 34C breasts and 1.8-meter waist, wearing a 10-yuan T-shirt makes her look like a beautiful young wife who is being kept by someone to buy vegetables. How can this match her positioning of playing games all day, drinking beer and writing about Star Wars? In her words: "Damn it, one day Ill shave my head bald to prove the real me!"

  The dishes were served, and Xiao Hua started eating with her head down. I chatted with Zhuang Yu while we ate, and she asked, "Didnt you say you dreamed about the man on the boat? What happened next?"

  I said: "Even a dream needs a sequel. But whats weird is that I met a man who looks just like him." I told her about the encounter with Ou Yu at the repair shop.

  The expression of Zhuang Yu suddenly became serious.

  "Whats wrong?"

  Zhuang Yu put down his chopsticks, his eyes deep in thought, and said slowly: "Maybe one of them is from a parallel space."

  I was stunned for a moment, but she had already sneered and thrown up her hands: "But how could that be possible! Someone as awesome as you from a parallel space, why would you become a phoenix man or a repairman! You must have been stealing resources and biochemistry to steal our spatial intelligence. Who has the time to play with us?"

  I said "cut!" and knew this sci-fi fan was talking nonsense, they were fundamentally two different people.

  Zhuang Yu said, "You cant be really interested in this repairman, can you? Geez, your taste is so heavy." The face of Wu Yu flashed through my mind for an instant, and I said lightly, "Being interested in a young and strong repairman, whats wrong with that? If I liked the old man who opened the repair shop, that would be called having a heavy taste."

  The big fish was immediately convinced by my powerful logic, nodded: "Thats right! Youre still steady."

  I smiled faintly and nodded.

  Just then, Xiao Hua let out a "wow" and dropped her bowl and chopsticks to run to the window. The children at several tables next to us also ran over. Zhuang Yu and I looked up to see what was happening, and found that in the empty space outside the restaurant, many birds had landed. There were dozens or even hundreds of them, a dense black mass.

  The bird is all black, about the same size as a pigeon, with yellow-brown eyes and a straight, long tail. They are scattered everywhere, staring at the restaurant. The birds eyes look very bright. Some staff members went to drive them away, but they flew back in low altitude and landed again. Since the staff saw that they didnt affect the customers, but instead attracted many people to stop and watch, they just let it be.

  "What kind of strange bird is this?" asked Zhuang Yu, "A dove?"

  "I replied: Is your familys pigeon like this?"

  We naturally wouldnt be surprised, and we continued eating with our heads down. After a while, I lifted my head again, looking out the window, and one of the birds was also staring at me. We stared at each other.

  "Whats wrong?"

  "Nothing." I pushed down the strange feeling in my chest, "It feels like Ive seen this bird somewhere before, but I just cant remember where."

  Suddenly I had a feeling that I might have forgotten something, but my mind was completely blank.

  It wasnt long after that day, the birds flew away. After dinner, I sent Zhuang Yu and Xiao Hua back home and drove myself back home. Everything that day still seemed calm and pleasant, Ou Yun, news, sunset, restaurant, Zhuang Yu, Xiao Hua... all of them were.

  Until I returned home.

  From that night on, my originally peaceful life turned upside down.

  The life I thought was quietly flowing away like water.