Chapter 1 The Beginning

Boom!!!!!!!!!

A purple Bugatti Veyron sped through the night in Donghai.

Actually, Lin Xian didn't particularly like this car; the seating position was very uncomfortable. But in the nearby parking lot, this was the fastest car, and VV remotely started it and drove it over.

"When did you buy a Bugatti?"

Zhao Yingjun asked curiously from the passenger seat.

"Borrowed it, from a friend."

Lin Xian smiled:

"A friend who is capable of anything."

"It's been a long time since I've been in such a fast car..." Zhao Yingjun closed her eyes, resting quietly on the headrest of the passenger seat:

"In the past six months, I've often gone to the racetrack you took me to for practice. If you have the chance, you can ride in my car. I consider myself pretty good now."

"I believe that."

Lin Xian signaled a right turn and drove off the elevated road:

"You really have a talent for racing. You're the most talented person I've ever seen... well, although I don't know many people who like to drive fast."

As the car slowed down, Zhao Yingjun sat up straight, lowered the car window, and looked at the scattered scenery outside:

"Where are we going?"

"Disney," Lin Xian answered truthfully.

"Disney?" Zhao Yingjun was amused and repeated in disbelief:

"You're taking me to Disney?"

"Ah... does it feel a little childish?" Lin Xian's foot on the accelerator began to feel a little awkward. VV's plan was indeed very childish, and he was actually very reluctant in his heart.

Rather...

All the suggestions and plans VV gave him were very childish, very chuuni, and very dramatic, and he basically wouldn't cooperate with VV anymore.

But...

Just thinking of that trash can robot at the end of the third dream, Lin Xian's ears softened again for some reason, and he didn't refuse VV.

"Not really."

Zhao Yingjun let the night wind blow, letting her hair scatter, and tucked it behind her ears with her hand, looking at the black Disney castle in the distance that had long been extinguished:

"Actually, I find it a bit novel, because I've never been to Disney since I was a child. I've definitely heard of it, and I've seen videos and pictures... but of all the Disney parks in the world, I've never been to one."

"Really?" Lin Xian turned his head, a little disbelieving.

In his view, someone like Zhao Yingjun, a young lady from the capital, backed by the powerful Zhao Group, and an only child, must be spoiled to the heavens.

Why hasn't she even been to Disneyland?

However...

Then thinking of what Zhao Yingjun had said before, her parents' strict and severe education, this was also possible.

Or perhaps, a woman of Zhao Yingjun's character, from childhood on, was a strong woman, an unconventional firework. Maybe she didn't like what ordinary little girls liked.

Recalling the projections of Zhao Yingjun's life that he saw in the projection corridor of the third dream, indeed, during her childhood, she spent more time learning skills, reading books, at the horse farm, at golf, in French restaurants, in the Louvre...

She had seen the world's most supreme art, the Mona Lisa, but had never hugged a Mickey Mouse;

At a young age, she could tame a wild horse and gallop around the horse farm, but she had never sat on a childish carousel and grabbed the golden ring on the long pole.

"But... we probably can't enter the park at night, right?"

Clang!

As soon as Zhao Yingjun finished speaking, a normally closed-off passage door opened with a bang, and the Bugatti Veyron, flashing its dazzling headlights, drove straight through.

All the way unobstructed, all the way opening doors, all the way green lights.

The Bugatti Veyron didn't slow down, just like the time that never turns back.

The sparse and dim streetlights on the road formed a continuous comic strip of years, just like the projection corridor in the third dream exhibition hall, freezing every frame of the Bugatti passing by like a slideshow.

"You..."

Zhao Yingjun's mouth was slightly open, looking in disbelief at the gate that automatically opened in front of her, turning her head to look at Lin Xian:

"Did you buy the entire Disney?"

"Borrowed it."

Lin Xian smiled again with the same old trick:

"From a friend."

Pfft--

Zhao Yingjun was also amused:

"I was just calculating whether selling MX company could help you pay off the loan. But I feel like it wouldn't be enough... Actually, it's not just a question of whether there's enough money, but mainly that Disney officials couldn't possibly sell this piece of land."

She unfastened her seat belt.

Half her body leaned against the Bugatti window frame, looking at the Disney park outside, which was already dark and unlit.

"Actually, when I was a child, I also asked my parents if I could go to the amusement park."

Zhao Yingjun said softly:

"But my parents always had a habit of adding a condition to any request from their child. For example, if you get top marks on the next test, I'll take you to the amusement park; if you practice the piano well for a week, I'll buy you the toy you like; you can only eat this pastry after you run and exercise for a few hours."

"They were all very small things, but they always liked to add conditions to these small, insignificant requests. So... gradually, those things that I originally liked, in an instant, would be associated with studying, homework, and exhaustion. Slowly, no matter how much I used to like something, it would be exchanged for an equal amount of pain, and I would slowly stop liking it."

"I'm also very envious of those little girls who are pampered and loved." Zhao Yingjun turned her head and smiled, watching Lin Xian concentrate on driving in the night, heading towards the increasingly tall Disney castle:

"Like... Chu Anqing."

She blinked:

"The entire Donghai city dotes on this little princess."

"Now that I'm grown up, free, and can decide everything for myself, I naturally won't envy her anymore. But in reality, what I see in her is my childhood self... It may sound a bit pretentious, after all, my living conditions as a child were much happier than most children's, and I had everything I could want materially."

Squeak--

Lin Xian stepped on the brakes, stopping the lightning-fast Bugatti Veyron directly in front of the Disney castle, looking at Zhao Yingjun leaning against the car window frame:

"Everyone is urging you to grow up, but Disney will always treat you like a child."

Zhao Yingjun suddenly turned her head, looking at Lin Xian.

"I saw it in the comments section of Douyin."

He honestly confessed:

"Let's get out of the car, we've arrived at our destination."

Pressing the button, the scissor doors on both sides of the Bugatti slowly rose, and the two bent over, crawling out of the low-slung car body, circling around the car to the front of the Bugatti, looking up at the dark and motionless Disney castle.

"It looks gloomy."

Zhao Yingjun put her hands in her pockets, raised her head, and looked at the towering castle spires:

"Okay, can you tell me now? Why did you bring me here? So mysterious."

Lin Xian nodded.

Sitting back on the Bugatti's hood:

"Some time ago, I had a dream."

He said:

"I dreamed of the little dog you raised."

"VV?" Zhao Yingjun smiled.

"Yes." Lin Xian also smiled:

"But... in the dream, it turned into a tattered trash can. Its name was still VV, but it wasn't that Pomeranian anymore. It was like a cleaning robot, always around you, picking up your trash. It would pick up the paper balls you threw away, like a puppy retrieving a frisbee or bone, using its mechanical claws to clamp the paper balls and throw them into its stomach."

"How pitiful."

Zhao Yingjun said:

"How long did it play for?"

"600 years," Lin Xian said softly.

Zhao Yingjun looked at Lin Xian like he was crazy, but then she thought that it was just a dream after all, and she was relieved:

"I also lived for 600 years in your dream? Wouldn't I turn into an old witch?"

"Not really."

Lin Xian lowered his head and rubbed the Bugatti's cooling grid with his shoe:

"You turned into a statue, a white jade statue, in a sparsely populated square. There was never anyone else around, just that trash can robot VV, spending hundreds of years with your statue, exposed to the wind and sun, and battered by rain."

"It has a bit of a 'Grimm's Fairy Tale' feel to it." Zhao Yingjun nodded:

"Let me guess? According to the creative techniques of general fairy tales, at this time, either a prince will appear and kiss the statue, turning her back into a person; or some magical spell will be used, and once it's recited to the statue, it will undo the curse and turn her back into a person."

"Indeed."

Lin Xian nodded:

"There is a magical spell, 'show me the flower.' After reciting it, something very magical happened."

Zhao Yingjun raised her eyebrows:

"What magical thing?"

"Want to give it a try?" Lin Xian smiled slightly:

"You can try reciting the spell."

"Ugh..."

Zhao Yingjun felt goosebumps all over her body and almost lost her balance:

"Do we have to play it so awkwardly?"

"Try it, there's no harm in trying."

Lin Xian spread his hands:

"Anyway, there are no outsiders."

Hiss...

Zhao Yingjun took a deep breath.

"Okay."

She turned her back to the Disney castle, facing Lin Xian sitting on the Bugatti's hood.

For some reason.

In that instant.

It was as if all the awkward goosebumps had disappeared.

She looked at Lin Xian's serious face, and her slightly open mouth closed again.

Suddenly she felt...

This didn't seem like a joke.

It seemed...

That for a moment, she was really facing Lin Xian like that, like that white jade statue overlooking the dilapidated and rusty trash can robot.

...

It seemed...

That it really was a very weighty spell.

It actually prevented her from saying it casually, with a casual attitude.

After briefly brewing for a few seconds.

On this cold winter night.

She tightened her coat collar and exhaled a light white breath:

"show me the flower..."

Suddenly! Lights flashed behind her!

The originally extinguished and dark Disney castle, as if suddenly powered on, all the lights instantly lit up! Turning this area into a colorful and bright spectacle!

The huge commotion made Zhao Yingjun open her eyes wide and turn her head back--

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet!

Above the brightly lit Disney castle, countless colorful fireworks flew into the sky in a radial pattern!

Boom!!!!!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!!!!!

Boom!!!!!!!!!!

Fireworks exploded in the sky at the same time!

Making the already colorful world even more dazzling!

Illuminating the night sky, illuminating the earth, illuminating Zhao Yingjun's pupils, illuminating her childhood.

She stood there in a daze.

She had never imagined...

That one day, all the fireworks in Disney would belong only to her!

Like that noble girl galloping on horseback, finally fulfilling her wish to ride the carousel... She leaned forward in the music of the music box, reached out and grabbed the golden ring on the long pole, and held it high! Gaining the chance to ride again for free!

"You..."

She turned her head stiffly, looking at Lin Xian:

"Did you really buy Disney?"

Lin Xian smiled without saying a word, getting up from the Bugatti's hood:

"I'm sorry, every birthday is always messed up, either with a Bentley crashing on the elevated road, or like today, only remembering a day late."

"But better late than never, I still want to wish you..."

He walked up to Zhao Yingjun, looking at her eyes filled with fireworks:

"Happy birthday."

...

Zhao Yingjun didn't speak, just like the expression she had when she turned around, listening to the booming fireworks behind her, staring at Lin Xian in front of her.

Suddenly, she smiled softly.

Then she understood everything:

"You really... put in a lot of effort."

Despite her mastery of the business world, she couldn't imagine how long it would take, how troublesome it would be, and how much effort it would take to arrange and organize such a grand, private fireworks show...

"Thank you, Lin Xian."

She brushed her hair back and smiled slightly:

"Thank you... for remembering my birthday and preparing such a surprising gift."

She recalled the story Lin Xian had told earlier, about VV, about her statue...

It seemed she understood something.

Raising her head, she looked at Lin Xian meaningfully:

"That dream you had... is it finished? Is there more to the story? What happened after the spell was recited?"

Uh...

Lin Xian scratched his head and began to improvise:

"Later, your statue did return, it was resurrected. But that trash can robot VV didn't turn back into a Pomeranian. Because it was too old, 600 years was too long. In the end, it didn't wait for you to turn from a statue back into a person, but short-circuited and died in a rainstorm."

"At the end of its life, this broken trash can robot entrusted me to say hello to you, and to bring you a message--"

Lin Xian raised his head, pressed the Bluetooth headset in his ear, which seemed to have a sobbing sound, and looked at Zhao Yingjun;

"[VV... misses you very much.]"

...

...

Zhao Yingjun patiently listened to the story.

She nodded:

"If you ever have the chance to have this dream again... please also give that VV, my little Pomeranian that turned into a trash can, a message."

She paused.

"Tell it--"

Zhao Yingjun raised her head, looking at Lin Xian:

"[Even if it turns into a trash can, I will still like it.]"

...

...

Far away, on Guanjing Mountain.

A woman with a voluptuous figure stood in the shadows of the trees, watching the fireworks exploding over the Disney castle across the way.

There were plenty of fireworks.

Like a saturated barrage that didn't skimp on ammunition, the amount of fireworks released in those short two minutes was the same as what was usually released in several days.

These weren't the biggest fireworks in the world, not the biggest fireworks in history.

But they were definitely in this Disneyland, which held the dreams of countless children...

The most unique and most magnificent fireworks.

"These kinds of fireworks... this is the first time..."

Her bright, crystal blue eyes blinked:

"It seems that the history I know has ended... Cough cough cough! Cough cough cough--cough cough cough!!"

The woman's body shuddered, and she coughed violently.

Her body tilted, and she reached out to support herself on the willow tree next to her, which had shed all its leaves, bending over to steady herself.

She gasped for breath.

The white mist spread.

She struggled to open her eyes...

The bright, crystal blue in her eyes, like a light bulb that was out of power, flickered on and off.

Finally.

It calmed down.

The crystal blue went out.

And then gradually brightened again.

But the brightness was obviously dimmer than before, changing from a clear blue to a light blue glow.

"Hoo..."

She took a few deep breaths, straightened up, and coughed twice, closing one eye:

"Really, when are you coming to find me, Little Lin Xian... There should be a limit to being late, right?"

"There's... really not much time left..."

...

Ding-a-ling-a-ling, ding-a-ling-a-ling, ding-a-ling-a-ling, ding-a-ling-a-ling!

As the last firework exploded above the castle, midnight in Disney finally quieted down, and Lin Xian finally heard that his phone had been ringing for a long time.

The sound of the fireworks had been too loud just now, and he couldn't hear it at all.

He picked up the phone and looked at it.

The caller ID showed that it was Liu Feng.

So late...

Was there something urgent?

"Hello?"

Lin Xian answered the phone.

"Lin Xian!!!!"

On the other end of the phone, Liu Feng shouted excitedly, laughing more ugly than crying:

"I found it... I found it! I found it! I found it!!"

"Time... particle... spacetime particle!"

He swallowed his saliva, calmed his excitement, but still said in a trembling voice:

"Lin Xian, I I I used the Tianyan radio telescope..."

"And successfully found the [spacetime particle]!"