Wei Guanqing slept in front of the computer for the whole afternoon. When he woke up, the screen was still showing a half-painted painting. The sunset, the beach, the coastline, and the shadows of the coconut trees were the resort he dreamed of.
The notification lights on the forum's mailbox kept flashing. Many of them were letters from fans, and of course, there were also customers who had made reservations. Recently, he had been taking on a lot of work. He wanted to make more money before the new year and then give himself a long vacation.
He caught a glimpse of the familiar grinning orange cat in the flashing profile picture. She was his senior fan. Wei Guanqing had just taken over her job last week and painted her portrait. She was a pretty girl. Now, she was sending him a message to ask for after-sales service.
"Hello, Teacher Qing! I've asked you about the portrait before. Are you free these few days? I want to set a date with you. It's best if it's offline. We can even have a meal and take a photo together. Haha!”
When Wei Guanqing saw the contents of the letter, he thought that the forum had malfunctioned again and sent the previous letters to him again. However, he scrolled up the history and found that the previous records had been cleared. The date of the letter did show that it was sent on Thursday, which was three o'clock in the afternoon.
He sent her a screenshot of the contents of the letter and joked,"I'm free all day. I'm looking forward to serving you for the second time.”
Less than ten seconds after the message was sent, the orange cat's profile picture jumped again." Wow! Teacher Qing, you're actually online! But why is it the second time? You didn't even draw my profile picture, and you didn't get me in the lottery every time!”
"What's wrong? Was he not satisfied with the drawing last week? Didn't you leave happily with the painting? I didn't keep it.”
"Don't joke around. You're so busy that you have to make an appointment for a week. If it's possible, let's meet at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. I'll skip class for half a day to look for you.”
Wei Guanqing was dumbfounded. Could it be that he had really remembered wrongly? Wasn't she the girl with waist-length hair and a striking mole last week? He was puzzled for half a minute before replying in a daze.
When he saw the fan reply with an orange cat emoji, he remembered something and pasted the contact details and address over.
It was really strange. This feeling of deja vu. He could even remember the girl he invited last week wearing a flowery dress. She looked like a student too. Was she really not the same person?
The next afternoon, Wei Guanqing arrived at the studio early. A memory image from last week flashed through his mind. It was also in the studio. He asked the girl who had invited him to draft what drink she wanted. The girl asked for soda without thinking and even asked if he had lemon slices.
He felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles as he stared at the glass door of the studio. He waited for a girl in a white floral dress and a black parasol to knock on the door.
A black umbrella was revealed from the corner, covering the girl's upper body, but her lower body was wearing a flowy white floral dress. Wei Guanqing suddenly felt his entire body tremble, and his stomach churned. He rushed to the bathroom and retched a few times, but there was nothing.
The doorbell rang suddenly. He quickly washed his face and walked to the door, pretending as if nothing had happened.
"It really is Teacher Qing!" The girl was as lively as she remembered. She couldn't wait to take out her phone to take a photo.
"What do you want to drink?" Wei Guanqing felt uneasy and his mind was in a mess. This was clearly the scene he had experienced last week. Was someone trying to make fun of him?
"Soda!" The girl didn't even raise her head as she excitedly swiped through the social media app on her phone.
Wei Guanqing went to the fridge to get some soda. When he opened the fridge door, he saw half a lemon wrapped in plastic wrap on the top of the soda. He turned back to look at the girl who was looking down at her phone and suddenly heard her say,"It would be even better if there were lemon slices.”
Wei Guanqing reflexively reached out to take the lemon, but he hesitated for a moment and said,""I used up all the lemons yesterday and forgot to buy them this morning.”
Wei Guanqing was in a state of extreme self-doubt the entire afternoon. He had lived a very mediocre life for twenty-seven years, and there was no possibility of any enmity. His social circle was even smaller than the painter forum. If someone really made fun of him, then this girl's acting was too outstanding.
The portrait of the girl gradually appeared on the white paper. Wei Guanqing was indeed a popular person on the forum. His drawing skills were quite good. It seemed that he could even draw the subtle state of the girl's heart from her expression.
"Is Teacher Qing usually so quiet when she's painting?”
The silence was broken. Wei Guanqing woke up from his trance. He smiled awkwardly and explained that he would be distracted if he talked too much.
He looked at the drawing on the white paper. It was exactly the same as in his memory. That uneasy feeling filled his heart again. He gritted his teeth and painted the white dress on the drawing red in one go.
"Wow! Teacher, did you do this on purpose?”The girl was obviously stunned by her own image in the painting. She did not expect that under the red dress, she was like a ball of fire emitting a blazing light.
"From the moment you walked in, I imagined that such a beautiful girl would look even more elegant in a red dress!”
Wei Guanqing's flattery made the girl smile and leave the studio in satisfaction.
After her figure disappeared, Wei Guanqing slumped on the sofa. He suspected that something was wrong with his brain, probably because he had been under too much pressure recently. He suddenly remembered that he had once read an article on the Internet called the hippocampi effect, which explained the deja vu of human memory illusions. However, he still felt that the visual sense was too real, so real that it was terrifying.
After a long night of sleep, Wei Guanqing convinced himself to put all those strange feelings to the back of his mind. He even liked the girl from yesterday on social media. His life seemed to be moving towards harmony again until he opened the mailbox of the forum again.
"Hello, Teacher Qing! I've asked you about the portrait before. Are you free these few days? I want to set a date with you. It's best if it's offline. We can even have a meal and take a photo together. Haha!”
The orange cat's picture showed that it was an unread message. He glanced at the time on the bottom right corner of the screen. It showed that it was 5 pm on Thursday. He opened the message in disbelief. It was received two hours ago, but the chat history was still cleared.
Wei Guanqing quickly opened the social media app on his phone and found that the post he liked had disappeared. He found the girl's social media account based on the popular comments, and there was no information about him on the homepage. Everything seemed to have returned to yesterday.
He rejected the girl while trembling, saying that he had not been feeling well recently and might need to rest for a while.
"Wow! Teacher Qing, you're actually online!"
Wei Guanqing could imagine her smiling face through the screen. After all, he had carefully recreated her smile stroke by stroke on the white paper yesterday.
"You have to take good care of yourself if you're not feeling well. It's okay for me to wait a little longer.”
Wei Guanqing typed the word " thank you " in the input box. He thought for a long time but couldn't send it out. He walked to the bed and buried his head under the blanket.
Just as he was about to fall asleep, the evening scenery outside the window suddenly changed rapidly, and in an instant, it turned into the dazzling noon.
Wei Guanqing, who had left his bed, looked at the daytime outside the window with a blank expression. He was wondering why it was already daytime after he had only laid down for a short while. Could it be that he had slept so soundly that he did not even feel anything after the night had passed?
Wei Guanqing returned to his computer and found that the screen was still a message window. He had not sent the two thank you messages he had typed, but the clean chat history made him completely crazy. He looked at the time on the bottom right corner of the screen again. It showed that it was 12 noon on Thursday. He seemed to be completely trapped on Thursday.
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