My wife is a witch princess.

“Yes, she feels that her father abandoned her. She is still young and doesn’t understand why ‘hope’ is more important than ‘being together’,” Song Che said. “Or rather, in her heart, ‘being together’ is the greatest hope.”

Murphy wasn't wrong, and neither was Dad... This truly proves the saying: the fault lies not with me, but with the whole world.

Xia Li didn't say anything more, but picked up the bowl and took a small sip of water.

She wasn't particularly thirsty; she just wanted to do something.

Her gaze fell on the screen, where Cooper's spaceship had entered hibernation and was heading into deep space.

She knew this; Song Che had said that people could fly to outer space, where there is a moon and a sun.

As the film progresses into its middle section, the science fiction elements become more prominent.

Wormholes, black holes, time dilation, unknown planets... visual wonders emerge one after another.

Cooper and his teammates land on the first candidate planet—an ocean world ruled by giant waves.

Because of its proximity to the black hole, one hour here is equivalent to seven years on Earth.

This is also a scientific concept. Song Che forgot whether it was a guess or had been confirmed, but excessively strong gravity can affect time.

However, this is cruel.

They encountered danger on the planet, which delayed them.

When they returned to the mothership that carried them through the black hole, the companions who stayed behind had aged more than twenty years.

Twenty-three years have passed on Earth.

It was only a blink of an eye, but then came the long wait.

Cooper eagerly checked the messages coming from Earth.

He witnessed his son graduate, get married, have children, and then experience the pain of losing his son. Finally, in a video message, he said to his neglectful father, "I have my own children now. I understand you, Dad. You can come back now."

He also saw a birthday greeting recorded by an adult Murphy on the same date.

“You told me that when you come back, we might be the same age. Today, I’ve reached the age you were when you left… so it’s time for you to come back, Dad.”

Murphy had been waiting for a long time.

Song Che felt a sudden pang of heartache. He didn't know why, but his heart ached terribly. It wasn't because of Murphy, but because of something else.

The Murphy on the screen is no longer the crying little girl she once was, but a scientist.

She has grown up.

Cooper watched the images, tears streaming down his face, crying like a child.

Song Che sensed that Xia Li beside him had a serious look in her eyes and a tense body. Since she had never been exposed to movies before, her sense of immersion was even stronger than Song Che's.

Xia Li's expression was also very sad.

She can now show expressions of anger and sadness, and Song Che feels that Xia Li has learned quite a bit.

“Time…” she suddenly whispered, “has changed.”

Chapter 105 You Made Me Angry

Xia Li repeated, "It seems a little different now."

Song Che didn't realize that Xia Li's words had any other meaning, and simply explained the physics concept as usual, "Well, because the gravity near a black hole is so strong, the flow of time slows down... Anyway, it's amazing, isn't it?"

“He’s been gone for twenty-three years,” Xia Li said. “Murphy… waited for him for twenty-three years.”

“Longer. For her, it’s twenty-three years. For Cooper, it might just be a few hours,” Song Che said. “But he missed all the important moments of her growth… so the time they spent together before that was incredibly precious.”

Xia Li nodded, "Yes, cherish the present... just like we said last time."

She continued reading, finding the whole thing quite mind-blowing, because normal people tend to think of time as linear.

It wasn't until Cooper shouted "Don't let me leave!" in the movie, using Morse code to transmit crucial data to Murphy in the past, that she spoke again: "He...is changing the past?"

“You can understand it that way. In higher-dimensional space, time may exist like a physical entity, and it can be touched and influenced, just like a coordinate system, with time as the x-axis and space as the y-axis.” Song Che tried his best to explain, “He is using this method to make up for his regrets, and also… to complete his mission.”

"To save humanity?"

"Also, to save Murphy," Song Che said. "The information he gave her was about the truth of that 'ghost,' and it was also the key to solving the withering disease on Earth."

Song Che had roughly figured out the plot, and the foreshadowing from before was beginning to come together; the ghost was Cooper himself.

Xia Li nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Her way of thinking is closer to cause and effect. In the same space and time, there is a cause and an effect. If there is no present, why is there a future? Xia Li's thinking is the same as her belief that only the present is real.

The film's concept is that the present, the future, and the past all exist and influence each other.

It is not linear, but simultaneous.

The movie is entering its final stage, which is also the climax.

Cooper fell into the black hole and entered that magical five-dimensional space—a time-visualized coordinate system formed by the infinite extension of Murphy's bookshelves. He could see Murphy at different points in time: the little girl who was confused by the "ghost" in the past, and the female scientist who was deciphering it now.

He attempted to communicate with his daughter from the past, knocking over books, moving the hands of a watch, and ultimately using gravity to manipulate the second hand of the watch, thus transmitting Morse code.

On Earth, Murphy, now an adult, was about to give up and leave his hometown when, at the last moment, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and returned to his childhood room.

She looked at the watch her father had left her; the second hand was ticking erratically…

“Stay here…” Xia Li murmured aloud.

Xia Li understood.

Murphy understood it, of course.

She rushed back to the lab and cracked the data.

Humanity is saved.

The five-dimensional space begins to close.

Cooper was ejected and drifted in space before being rescued.

When he woke up, he was already 124 years old.

On the space station, he met the elderly Murphy. Murphy, at his bedside, said to him, "Parents shouldn't see their children die. I have my children here... You should go."

Xia Li's eyes were bright. She didn't know much about the spaceships and rockets, but she did know about the emotional storyline that ran through the entire movie, and she thought it was very good.

Song Che opened his phone and saw the time; they had stayed up until 2 a.m. "So, do you still want to watch?"

"It's getting late."

"Okay, let's go to sleep then."

"Okay." Xia Li suddenly pouted at Song Che, "Is this considered being affectionate?"

"...I guess so."

You even asked me if I counted as a child while you were being affectionate.

Song Che didn't know if she was being coquettish.

When Xia Li pouted, her blue eyes looked even clearer, clearer than a college student's. Song Che suddenly felt that she was like a Pallas's rabbit, sitting upright and asking him if she was being coquettish.

Song Che pouted.

"Goodnight, Xia Li. Is this considered being affectionate?"

"Good night." Xia Li got up and went back to her bedroom.

……

Although they both stayed up all night, they both got up very early the next day.

Song Che remembered to buy New Year's goods, or at least go out for a stroll.

Xia Li remembered that Song Che had said he wanted to go out and play.

She leaned against the stairwell, fiddling with her scarf. She was almost there; she was just one step away from success.

last step.

He was just one step away from strangling himself.

Song Che was already used to it. After tidying up, he wrapped a scarf around her neck. In fact, he didn't have many opportunities to be close to Xia Li. Most of the time, it was Xia Li who took the initiative to ask him to get close to her. For example, he would give her a lap pillow and hold her hand a few times later. They rarely even hugged.

If his girlfriend wasn't Xia Li but some other girl, Song Che, with his shameless personality, would definitely have clung to her leg or been hugging her while watching the movie last night.

But Xia Li sat so dignifiedly, as if she were sitting on a throne in a magic castle, that Song Che couldn't find an opportunity to make a move. He could only move a small stool to sit next to the sofa and act like a little fool.

Song Che continued to wrap the scarf until it was finished. Only then did Xia Li withdraw her clear and sharp gaze. To be honest, Song Che couldn't stand Xia Li staring at him. Her gaze was too sharp. But as a man, what kind of thing is it to feel embarrassed by a woman's stare?

So Song Che would always retaliate without backing down, but in the end, he always lost.

Damn it, why am I so insecure?!

It's clearly Xia Li who's insecure!

Song Che would often feel a sudden pang of shyness or inferiority. Ever since he fell in love with Xia Li, he had discovered that Xia Li was full of virtues, except for her love of eating.

Oh, being able to eat a lot isn't a disadvantage.

Xia Li even learns things faster than him, yet he always calls her an idiot. Song Che thinks to himself that he's the idiot.

Damn it, you idiot Xia Li, so what if your memory is a little better than a human's?

Song Che comforted himself.

Song Che followed Xia Li downstairs. When they got downstairs, it was still very cold. It seemed that the temperature wouldn't rise until spring.

He felt he should buy Xia Li some new clothes and baby clothes.

New Year, new clothes.

You should also buy some clothes for spring and summer to have on hand.

Song Che glanced at Xia Li, who was walking in the cold wind, her silver hair swaying slightly behind her. Xia Li turned to look at him, "Why did you suddenly stop?"

Xia Li was walking towards the Nanhui Street area. She had a good memory and could remember the way after walking it only once.

She turned around and saw that Song Che's face was a little red... mostly from the cold, but his shy appearance was pleasing to Song Che's eye.

"Are you cold?" Song Che asked with concern.

“…Me.” Xia Li paused. “Oh, you need to warm your hands? Here you go.”