Chapter 3

Wait…

No!

There was still one living thing.

Sophia's cat! A ragdoll she had named Snowball.

The cat was her treasure. She had even brought it to the hotel today on purpose, and it had been kept in a cage.

I ran to the cage in the corner.

It was still there!

The white Ragdoll lay inside, watching me with its pair of clear blue eyes. I grabbed the cage and lifted it up. "You're Sophia's cat… She brought you here. You're still here, so that means she existed!"

I carried the cat out of the room and ran straight into Geoff, who had just come back after seeing off the guests.

"Geoff." I grabbed him tightly. "This cat! You know this cat, right?! This is Sophia's cat! You've held it before!"

Geoff looked at the cat in my arms with a strange expression, but he did not deny it. "It's definitely a cat... but Leon, this is your cat. Did you forget? It's the stray you brought home."

"Bull! This is a purebred Ragdoll! Sophia spent two thousand dollars on it!"

Geoff sighed. "You really drank too much. This is just an ordinary Shorthair. When did it become a Ragdoll?"

I looked down.

The elegant long-haired Ragdoll in my arms had somehow become a dirty and skinny Shorthair cat. It meowed at me, its voice weak and fragile.

My hands started to tremble.

The cat had not changed.

Time had.

I suddenly noticed a detail that was extremely strange. This stray looked very familiar.

It was the cat Sophia and I had seen by the side of the road that rainy day eight years ago, when we had just met. Back then, Sophia wanted to save it, but it was already dying. Even after we took it to the vet, it did not survive.

Because of that, Sophia was upset for a long time. Later, when she got a Ragdoll, she named it Snowball in memory of it.

The dead cat had come back to life? The expensive Ragdoll had turned into the dying stray from eight years ago?

I grabbed Geoff's wrist and stared at his watch. I had given him a limited-edition Rolex Submariner as a present for becoming my Best Man. But now, he was wearing a cheap Casio digital watch. It was the common watch I had given him the year we graduated from college.

"Geoff, what year is it?" I asked, my voice shaking.

"It's 2017. Did you drink too much and the fake alcohol got to you?"

2017…

In that instant, my mind went blank. No wonder everyone said I was not married. No wonder Sophia's parents did not know me. No wonder the records at the clerk's office could not find Sophia's information.

In 2017, Sophia had not moved into that apartment yet, and her official records still listed her hometown as her permanent address!

I had not been forgotten by the whole world! Sophia had not disappeared! I had traveled through time!

With my memories and emotions from 2025, I was trapped on this day in 2017! And on this day, I had not even met Sophia yet. We would only meet three months later at a job fair!

"Ah… Ahaha… Ahahahaha!" I couldn't stop myself from laughing until my eyes teared up.

Geoff was so terrified that he thought I had completely lost my mind.

Of course, I had not.

I knew what to do.

Last time, I had been locked up as a mental patient until the day I died because I had tried to prove the existence of 2025 to people in 2017.

In this life, I did not need to prove anything.

I only needed to wait.