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Chapter 368 Later, her hope was gone.

That era had its own unique trends.

Going abroad has become the most desired thing for all college students.

Jiang Xue was no exception. She wanted to go abroad, but He Xi didn't have the means.

At this point, Lao Kang stepped forward to provide her with financial assistance and found her a guarantor.

Old Kang likes Jiang Xue.

The other half of the money for He Xi's book was also helped by Lao Kang. Since he had accepted the favor, he naturally felt inferior.

It seems that everything has already been priced.

Jiang Xue wrote to He Xi from abroad, telling him how much she missed him and hoping he could go abroad to be with her soon.

She suffered greatly in a foreign country, feeling lonely, helpless, and without anyone to rely on.

Life abroad was far from the wonderful thing she had imagined, and she longed for the people she loved to be by her side.

But He Xi was powerless to do anything about it.

In her letter, she wrote: "I used to think that true love could conquer all, but now I realize that the only thing invincible in this world is time."

"As I write these words, tears are streaming down my face—not because I love you, but because I hate myself for changing my mind. I never thought this could ever happen."

Upon reading this, everyone fell silent.

He Hongwei also fell silent.

At the premiere, no one blamed Jiang Xue for not being steadfast enough in her love.

Many people even believe that He Xi loves "micro-continuum" and "mathematics" more than "Jiang Xue"!
Those who have experienced long-distance relationships understand Jiang Xue's pain all too well.

Perhaps all of this was planned by Lao Kang, but no one thinks Lao Kang is a "villain"!
He was rich and willing to give up his career in China to be with Jiang Xue.

But for some reason, many people just feel inexplicably sad.

Perhaps the love between He Xi and Jiang Xue is what most people consider "true love"—a genuine love without any other elements mixed in.

And Lao Kang?

Lao Kang represents reality!

Many people can relate to this: Was Jiang Xue wrong? No, she wasn't wrong; she just wanted someone to be with her.

Was He Xi wrong? Perhaps!
In order to publish "Micro Continuum Originals", He Xi gave up everything. In the end, only a whole car full of books and his mother Xia Qunfang accompanied and comforted him.

And those glories and applause are still a very, very long way off in the future.

Almost everyone focuses only on the leaves and flowers of that giant tree, futilely trying to grow even more beautiful leaves and flowers to surpass it. Little do they know that what truly makes them powerful are the inconspicuous roots.

Nobody paid attention to the theory of microcontinuity. The mountain of books piled up remained towering high.

Favors and debts weighed heavily on He Xi, making it hard to breathe. Just as he was inevitably falling into the abyss, his mother, Xia Qunfang, gave him new hope: "Several books have been bought; they're from the C University library."

Although it was said to be a purchase, in reality, it was secretly slipped in by the mother like a crazy old woman.

The books tucked into the libraries of middle and primary schools are all expressions of unspeakable maternal love.

Having already known everything, all He Xi could do was immerse herself in a beautiful fantasy with her mother.

The truth is that not a single copy was sold. This work, which was more than a hundred years ahead of its time, was completely ignored.

This work, which He Hongwei calls a great work, is like a book from heaven in this era.

Who would buy a book like this?

Oh, no!

Teacher Liu Qing bought a set!
He took a set from He Xi! Perhaps this can be considered a way to complete this teacher-student relationship.

Liu Qing looked at the "micro-continuum original" in his hand and shook his head.

Just then, a scrap collector happened to pass by and casually tossed the book onto his scrap truck, where it mingled with the other waste paper and other recyclables.

What he didn't know was that He Xi happened to be going out and just happened to see this scene.

He was stunned. Liu Qing's casual toss shattered all his illusions.

What is reality? The reality is that even his mentor treated his ten years of hard work as garbage, as waste.

At this moment, he was on the verge of collapse!
He ran out frantically and saw his mother secretly slipping the book into a primary school library.

Back home, he was devastated, tearing apart his own hard work.

It's no use! Everything's wrong, completely wrong!

His mother, Xia Qunfang, felt extremely distressed when she saw him like that!
But she didn't know how to comfort him; she didn't understand those things. She just wanted her son to be happy.

She took out all her savings after just one word from him.

Even if no one buys the books, she will give them away; if she can't give them away, she will secretly hide them in the library.

All I wanted was to make my son happy!
This is all that an ordinary mother could do!

She has done her best.

But a fake is still a fake!

At this moment, no one at the premiere was smiling.

If we ask ourselves honestly, without He Hongwei, without the proof, would He Xi's research have become a great study more than a hundred years later, and would he have even successfully created a time machine based on this theory?

Perhaps everyone would think, like Liu Qing, that He Xi is crazy, that He Xi's research is garbage, and that the best place for her is a junkyard!
He Xi was unfortunate; his graduate studies were ill-timed!

He wasn't very capable, and he was completely absorbed in the mathematical microcontinuum. He couldn't find a job, and he didn't have the money to buy his girlfriend expensive gifts or take her out.

His dedicated research was ultimately rejected with the word "useless".

But at the same time, he was also lucky. Because he had a mother who loved him wholeheartedly, asked for nothing in return, cooperated with him and believed in him. She was the only one who was talentless and incompetent, but was wise and brave in protecting him.

However, at that moment, he overlooked this point.

Perhaps like most people, I only learn to cherish things when I lose them.

At this moment, He Xi was completely oblivious to all of this.

Fortunately, there's still Jiang Xue!
Although Jiang Xue is abroad, and although Jiang Xue has become Lao Kang's girlfriend.

But this was He Xi's only thought.

His life was already very monotonous, consisting only of Jiang Xue and Wei Lianxu.

However, even this last remaining beauty will be torn apart; tragedy is the destruction of beautiful things for people to see.

That handkerchief, embroidered with clear rivers and pure white snowflakes, was the token of love between He Xi and Jiang Xue.

It even represented his last hope, the last glimmer of his life!

But Old Kang laughed and wiped his nose on it.

So he went crazy.

That was the disillusionment of his last love, the shattering of his last hope. What he cherished as a treasure became something Old Kang used to wipe his nose.

That was blasphemy! Nobody knows if Lao Kang did it on purpose.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't!

However, the fact that the handkerchief ended up in Lao Kang's hands already explained everything.

Just like his mentor, Liu Qing treated his book, "Micro-Continuous Originals."

Different things, the same fate.

At that moment, he went mad and completely broke down.

He snatched the things back and kissed the handkerchief covered in sticky snot!
That scene was once used by Chen Mo to promote his movie, and it has been used by countless netizens as a meme.

At that moment, no one could laugh; there was only silence and reddened eyes.

He Xi has gone mad!

Finally, he shut his mouth and never spoke another word; he also closed his heart, and no one ever came in again.

Only his mother was by his side now.

Upon learning of her son's accident, Xia Qunfang's gaze changed from the moment she saw He Xi, becoming calm and resolute.

He Xi was right in front of her, her son was right in front of her, and he hadn't been hit by the plane. This gave her an inexplicable sense of peace, and her mood was completely different from before.

Although He Xi was silent at this moment, he pursed his lips, shutting himself off from the world, and it seemed that he might never speak again.

But what does it matter? He Xi couldn't speak when she was born anyway.

In Xia Qunfang's eyes, He Xi is now just like he was when he was a child, so well-behaved that it breaks your heart, so quiet that it breaks your heart.

But does she really not care? Her hope is gone!
But what could she do? All she could do was stay by his side!
For the next twenty years, He Xi did not utter a single word!

Everyone just thought he was crazy, Jiang Xue?

Perhaps in the past twenty years, she has visited her former lover, but by then, she may have already become Lao Kang's wife.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

For the past twenty years, only Xia Qunfang has been lovingly combing the hair of her mentally challenged son.

Time flies, and the scene shifts back to more than a hundred years later, to where He Hongwei is.

He was already in tears.

His "grand unified theory" won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

On the podium.

He told everyone that he could complete the Grand Unified Theory and stand on the podium.

He announced to the world that more than 150 years ago, a man named He Xi had completed this research and published a book.

The image on the screen gradually became clearer, splitting into two images, one on the left and one on the right.

On one side, Xia Qunfang, a young and beautiful woman, sat on a park bench holding her chubby son He Xi, who had just turned one year old, with a happy and hopeful smile on her face.

On the other side was Xia Qunfang, a semi-literate old woman in her twilight years, who was intently combing the hair of her mentally challenged son, He Xi, whose face was covered in a beard and whose eyes were vacant, her eyes filled with affection.

He said, "Without He Xi, the completion of the Grand Unified Theory would be a long way off."

"And it was purely because of his mother, that ordinary yet great mother, Xia Qunfang. Please remember this name!"

It is because of her "Micro-Continuous Original" that it has been preserved to this day.

Of course, she initially just wanted to coax her son and help him get out of his pain.

Looking back now, she must have had a vague feeling that something bad was going to happen, and as a mother, she desperately wanted to stop it all.

Given her level of understanding, she couldn't comprehend what was written in the book, let alone know what a great work it was. That's why she secretly slipped this monumental work, which shines with immortal brilliance, into the library of a primary school.

To outsiders, her behavior may seem ridiculous, but she was simply acting according to a mother's wishes.

From beginning to end, she only knew one thing: her child was good, and this was what her good child chose to do.

I don't deny that the Micro-Continuum was indeed meaningless in that era, but what I want to say is that some things shouldn't be expected to yield too much return. You can't expect them to grow beautiful flowers and leaves because they are the roots.

This is what my mother taught me. A mother never asks for anything in return from her child, but please believe that our lovely child will ultimately repay his mother.

(End of this chapter)