However, as the author, Yu Mian could only say that remarriage was definitely going to happen.
But the conflict between Caesar and Gu Bai essentially arose due to the existence of the marriage contract, which resulted in an inequality in status between the two parties.
Two parties with unequal status, especially when involving financial transactions, are bound to find it difficult to develop a truly stable and lasting love.
To resolve this problem completely, naturally, it required Caesar to feel anxious as he realized how Gu Bai was becoming more and more successful.
Not only was his career thriving, but there were also so many annoying guys running around him?
Wasn’t it time to chase him again?
It could be said that when the contract expired and their relationship returned to normal, what seemed like a complete and final ending was actually the true beginning of the romance between Gu Bai and Caesar!
In short, during the period when “The Marriage Agreement” entered its second half and was focused on the daily updates on chasing the wife, Yu Mian also took advantage of the weekly updates for “Eternal Night Rose” to visit the library whenever possible to check materials and settings.
Yu Mian aimed to finish as much of the relevant outline, settings, and plot accumulation as possible before the official daily updates of “Eternal Night Rose” began.
Interestingly, Yu Mian also met a like-minded person.
“Are you looking for this book?”
As Yu Mian stood on tiptoe, pulling books from the shelf, a voice suddenly sounded from behind.
“Huh?”
“Yes, this is the one… Thanks?”
Yu Mian subconsciously turned around and saw that it was the same person from last time.
The book handed to him was exactly the one he had been looking for, “Research on the Origins of the Bart Clan”.
“It’s nothing.”
Lu Wei handed the book over to Yu Mian, then subconsciously looked at the young man in front of him.
Although he always wore a mask and hat, those amber eyes were still extremely impressive.
During this time, Lu Wei had been paying attention and noticed that the person in front of him usually came during the day. He read a wide variety of books, but would regularly borrow books about the Bart Clan and interstellar history.
The most important thing was that he had a beautiful handwriting, which was very rare.
When looking through a book that had been borrowed multiple times, Lu Wei accidentally noticed a bookmark with marked handwriting tucked between the pages, and that was how he had discovered this.
Due to his racial habits, Lu Wei was naturally inclined to feel a sense of goodwill toward people who wrote well.
Moreover, Yu Mian had learned classical calligraphy, and in the eyes of Lu Wei, who was unaware of the situation, this kind of handwriting had an indescribable charm.
“Your handwriting is beautiful. It’s rare.”
Lu Wei handed the bookmark back to Yu Mian.
“Huh? I’m really sorry… I probably forgot to take it out when I returned the book.”
Yu Mian was caught off guard, feeling a bit embarrassed when he realized that someone had found the note he’d left inside the book.
Fortunately, he hadn’t written any plot details on it; otherwise, being seen would have been extremely mortifying.
However, this brief interaction led to an unexpected acquaintance between Yu Mian and Lu Wei.
“Your name is Lu Wei…?”
But when Yu Mian heard the other person’s name, he couldn’t react for a while.
After all, it was quite rare for someone to name their child with such an ominous word like “Wei.”
“Wei” means “danger”.
“Does it mean ‘Man is a thinking reed’?”
Yu Mian immediately thought of a phrase he had read before.
“A thinking reed?”
Lu Wei didn’t immediately deny it but instead asked curiously.
“Uh, it’s something a thinker from my hometown once said. Human life is fragile, like a reed, but despite that, humans are still a noble existence in the universe because we have a soul that can think.”
“I think it’s quite fitting. Sometimes, your temperament reminds me of a thinker.”
While holding the book and leaving the library, Yu Mian smiled as he explained.
Although it felt strange to be discussing famous sayings from Earth with a stranger from an interstellar world, Yu Mian didn’t know that his words would make Lu Wei ponder deeply for a long time afterward.
Although he was not human, just a zerg drifting through the major galaxies and star systems, Lu Wei somehow felt that when Yu Mian, as a Federation citizen, spoke this sentence, it seemed that, like himself, Yu Mian was just another traveler passing through this place.
Moreover, he had never read such a sentence before.
Where was Yu the other party’s hometown?
Would there be many books there?
From that day on, the two would occasionally run into each other between the bookshelves and nod at each other in silent acknowledgment.
But they never spoke again. Perhaps because there was no opportunity to talk, and neither of them was the type to engage in small talk.
Although Lu Wei always wanted to correct Yu Mian, saying that his name wasn’t “Reed” but “Lu Wei,” it seemed a bit too forced no matter how he approached it.
The name Lu Wei (陆危-Lù Wēi) sounds like the word reed (芦苇-lúwěi)
In the end, he just let it go.
But then Lu Wei suddenly realized that, although the interpretation was wrong, it didn’t feel too bad.
As a result, many readers on the star network suddenly noticed that the famous big-shot reader, “Interstellar Wanderer,” had changed their ID to “Reed!”
When Yu Mian logged into the Huanyu backend to update, he happened to see a few posts in the comments discussing how “Interstellar Wanderer” had changed their ID to “Reed,” but he didn’t think much of it.
After all, the probability of such a thing happening was indeed extremely small.
And because he had been successful in going out more and more recently, and he was able to return just in time before his mental power ran out, Yu Mian had become bolder.
But during this period, Huo Ting gradually began to notice some strange things.
Sometimes, he felt that the position of the documents on his desk had shifted slightly, yet he couldn’t find any reason for it.
On several occasions, before he even reached the door of his study on the second floor, he could faintly hear some odd noises from inside.
But when Huo Ting opened the door, the study, which was empty, was as quiet as ever.
Only the water in the aquarium rippled gently, the shimmering light on the surface of the water calm and dreamlike.
It felt as if it was all just an illusion.
“You haven’t been overworking lately, have you?”
Professor Mori, who was responsible for the regular checkups, also thought this was rather odd.
Logically speaking, with the mental sea being so stable recently, hallucinations shouldn’t be occurring.
“Or could it be related to the injury to your mental sea last time?”
After all, that time he had indeed experienced a shock to his mental power, and although it seemed like no substantial damage was left, could there have been some hidden injury?
Huo Ting seemed to suddenly recall something upon hearing this.
He hesitated for a long time before he looked at Professor Mori, and unusually, took a while before speaking out his suspicion.
After listening quietly, Professor Mori’s eyes widened in silence.
“What? You’re saying that when your mental sea was in chaos, you vaguely saw a young man!?”
Professor Mori had just exclaimed loudly when he was silenced by Huo Ting’s death stare in an instant.
“Ahem, ahem, but… this probably isn’t the case, right? According to all current research on the mental sea, there has never been a case of such hallucinations occurring. Otherwise, would the mental sea not be used as a light brain, and everyone would be watching movies in their minds?”
Huo Ting had long anticipated what kind of reaction he would get when he mentioned the scene he had vaguely seen that day, especially with Professor Mori’s seemingly dignified yet completely unpredictable personality.
However, because of the close relationship between Professor Mori and his grandfather, as well as Mori’s status as a top expert in the field of mental sea research, he came for regular checkups every month.
“Let’s call it a day, thank you for your hard work. Hals…”
Huo Ting stood up again, intending to call Secretary Hals, who had been waiting outside, to end the treatment for the day.
“Hey, you really can’t take a joke, your grandfather was absolutely right, hahaha. Let me, an old man, think about it some more… What could be the cause of this?”
In fact, Professor Mori had seen Huo Ting grow up, watching his personality gradually change from when he was a child to what he had become now.
Though all of this was inevitably linked to the passing of Master Huo Ying.
‘Sigh. This kid, if this keeps going, how will it end?’
“Maybe you should cultivate some hobbies, like reading books. I’ve noticed that young people these days love reading, always holding a light brain and having so much fun.”
“Besides, the military gave you a full half-month vacation, so don’t push yourself too hard.”
Professor Mori gave Huo Ting a pat on the shoulder, trying to encourage him to relax a little.
“Well then, I’ll leave it to you.”
After hearing this, Huo Ting just looked at Professor Mori before leaving.
As for Secretary Hals outside the door, he had also overheard Professor Mori’s loud exclamation, which made his expression a little subtle.
But of course, he dared not show it.
“Any update on that recommendation letter from last time?”
As Huo Ting walked towards the research hall, for some reason, he suddenly thought of Yu Mian from their last meeting.
“Uh, let me check… It seems he hasn’t used it. The military department hasn’t received any news either.”
Secretary Hals was caught off guard by the question and did some serious research.
After checking, he found that the young man, who had seemed to be living in somewhat dire straits last time, had not used the recommendation letter at all.
Did he not understand the weight of the recommendation letter? Or did he think it was just a prank and didn’t expect to land a decent job?
If that’s the case, it would be a real shame.
“Should we check again?”
Secretary Hals vaguely realized that his boss seemed to be quite concerned about the young man from last time.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have made an exception to issue the introduction letter and still be thinking about it now.
“…Never mind.”
Huo Ting also realized his own unusual behavior and felt that he had been influenced by Huo Yan, getting so invested in a stranger.
Since the other person wasn’t planning to accept it, why care so much?
“Hey, isn’t that him? The one from last time…”
Just as Huo Ting was about to get in the car, he unexpectedly saw that familiar figure in the distance when Secretary Hals exclaimed.
Although the distance wasn’t close, he could still easily recognize the person from last time.
But it seemed like he was having some trouble.
“Damn—who’s that?”
Yu Mian, who had just exited the library, really couldn’t believe that in the interstellar era, there were still people who would rob someone’s bag!
The key was that there was nothing valuable inside, just books!
But because it was so heavy, Yu Mian had to hold it tightly, making it look like something very important.
However, when Yu Mian was already distressed about how to compensate the library, the situation unexpectedly took a sudden turn.
The thief was caught!
Unexpectedly seeing the familiar face in front of him, Yu Mian had a strange feeling as if he had met the wrong person in the wrong place.
“Here.”
“Uh, thank you very much!”
Yu Mian took the bag from Huo Ting and thanked him sincerely.
At least he didn’t have to pay compensation to the library, or else some of those ancient interstellar history books would have required ten times the value as compensation, and many of them would even have to be purchased from their original source galaxies.
