My heart wasn't feeling too good, I used all my strength to push him away and said: "What are you doing? Haven't we already made things clear between us? Let go!"

  Wu Miao immediately shut her mouth.

  Wu Yu still held my hand and wouldn't let go, looking at me deeply, saying: "Come out with me." I struggled hard, but was still pulled by him all the way to his room door. He slammed it shut with a "bang" before releasing me.

  I walked over to the window and stood with my back to him, saying nothing.

  He came over to me and was silent for a moment before saying, "I thought I was dreaming."

  I remained silent for several seconds before saying, "What's going on here?"

  He said: "I don't care what's going on, haven't we encountered enough strange things? My eyes, our memories, the distant birds. They're all related to this ship. Now time is really flowing backwards, Tan Jiao, do you know what this means for me?"

  I turned my head to look at him. Looking at his tired eyes, slightly red eye sockets. He had cried. I knew what this meant, it meant he could change history, change fate. He could prevent his sister and mother from passing away one after another.

  My heart was greatly moved and I said: "It's great, really great. Wu Yu, if you can prevent them from coming to harm, you won't have to live that kind of life, you... will be very good."

  He turned his head and looked at me with a very tolerant and gentle gaze. I couldn't bear it. I said, "What are we going to do now?"

  "He said: 'I will use all my strength to prevent murder from happening.' I nodded."

  "He said: 'Will you help me?'"

  "I said without hesitation: 'Of course I'm willing.'"

  "Let's go find Wu Miao now." He turned around and said, suddenly smiling, then paused and said, "You're her idol, Dashen Qizhu. She has always had a rebellious psychology towards me, maybe if you explain the whole thing to her, she'll be more convinced."

  I followed him for two steps and suddenly stopped. The faint guess in my heart could no longer be tolerated.

  I grabbed his collar from behind and lowered my head: "Wu Yu, if history had changed, you wouldn't have become a repairman. Then we... would we not have known each other at all?"

  He halted in his tracks.

  "I won't."

  He turned around, his hand touched my cheek, the palm was white and soft, no longer rough, only a fine callus of a technical man.

  "I will always remember you," he said, "I won't forget."

  His words made me even more sad, I said: "How did you know?"

  He paused for a moment, then said: "It's now June 24th, 2016, 10:55. You're by my side. I still remember everything. If history can be changed, it has been changed from this moment on. I remember you now, so from now on, I will never forget."

  ——

  I and Wu Yu returned to outside of Wu Miao's room.

  He lightly knocked on the door, a hint of a smile flashing across his face. The smile was somewhat bitter, and I suddenly felt that he was actually quite pitiful.

  At this moment, I don't know if it was the noon sun being too dazzling or if I had been too tense since waking up today, but I suddenly felt a wave of dizziness in my head and even saw a bit of white light at the corner of my eyes.

  I'll endure it now, this isn't the time for dawdling.

  Wu Miao opened the door, saw us, and flashed a narrow smile: "Ah, brother, you're back? And sister, how did you manage to tame this super arrogant man?"

  Although Wu Yu said that Wu Miao is afraid of him and doesn't listen to him, I think she's lovely and pleasant to be around. I smiled and said: "Hello Wu Miao, my name is Tan Jiao. The 'Tan' from the word for speech, and the 'Jiao' from bright moonlight."