Timeless Love (When Bright Moon Encounter the Dark Clouds) Chapter 83: Wu Yu 11 (2)

The first instance we ever talked about time was in that small shack I lived in. Back then, Tan Jiao looked extremely pale as if her soul had left her body. Even though I was reluctant at that time, I still made it very clear to her the date and time. ‘It’s the 18th of July 2017, and a year has already passed.’

That was the third day after we first saw each other, which was on the 16th of July.

A month later, we solved the Yan Yuan case. It was also around the end of the month that both of us returned to that ship.

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Logically, shouldn’t the date be the 1st of August 2017 when we got back from the ship?

And not the 1st of July roughly half a month before the two of us met.

It appeared that our time was not going forward.

Yet, none of the people around us noticed anything odd.

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“Tan Jiao, you… haven’t noticed anything strange?”

She looked at me puzzled and innocently with her sparkling eyes. Her awareness of time did not seem very good; this was evident from the fact that she did not realize that one year had passed. Now, even though the obvious fact that it was the 15th of July had been placed in front of her, she still had not realized that there was something wrong with our time.

“Tan Jiao…” I said slowly. “Only our time has gone backward.”

Her eyes immediately widened. For a brief moment, I saw numerous emotions flash through her eyes: fear, realization, disbelief, and panic. Just like me, her mind had sunken into deep thinking. She opened her mouth as if to say something, but closed it again. Then she looked at me, pale-faced and shocked. “How could this be… How could this happen? How?”

I knew she had awoken now and realized the time.

After arriving back at the inn, the two of us still felt tense and shocked. Sitting at the end of the bed, I smoked several cigarettes before I finally calmed down. She sat on the head of the bed, not saying anything at first, probably because she had her wits shocked out of her. Soon, she began to babble. “No wonder it felt odd to me when I realized Zhuang Yu was having a test again… That d

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