C1 Origin

"Ah!" Jiang Cen, a 17-year-old high school student, woke up from his nightmare and immediately checked the time on his phone beside his pillow.

"Another November 7, 2006!" Jiang Cen was very depressed. Annoyed, he tried to throw the phone away, but the thought of doing so made him slowly lower his hand.

"What the hell is going on!" Jiang Cen roared in a low voice. He was completely helpless at the moment.

He had encountered a strange thing, a strange thing that would make others think that he was crazy!

No matter when or where, every time he fell asleep, he would have a terrible nightmare. In his dream, he had crossed over to a new world and was being hunted. The person who had caught him was holding the blueprint, forcing him to hand over a treasure — it was a piece of jade he had never seen before. Of course, he could not hand it over.

Then, he was killed by that person in his' dream '. The real him, however, was jolted awake. When he woke up, he found that he was back on November 7th.

Jiang Cen tried to sleep at his classmates' house and still had the same dream. After waking up, he was still in his room, and time had returned to the starting point of November 7th.

Jiang Cen had also tried not to sleep. He did everything he could to keep himself awake for a week at a time. However, as long as he calmed down a little, he would still have the same dream. After waking up, everything returned to its original point.

At first, Jiang Cen thought that this was not bad, because no matter how big the trouble was, as long as he woke up, everything would return to its original point.

He had once forcefully kissed Lin Lu, the class flower that he had been secretly in love with for a long time. The result was not good, of course, but if he slept, he would wake up and return to his original spot — no one knew what had happened, except him.

He was stuck in a whirlpool of time and dreams, unable to escape. He had told his best classmates, his friends, even his parents, but no one had believed that his mind was normal. Mother, who haggled over a handful of onions, would pay a high price to get him a psychiatrist.

If this continued, even he himself would think that he was crazy!

The repeated feelings of despair that he would never be able to find a way out grew stronger and stronger, until he was on the verge of collapse.

Jiang Cen put on some random clothes and muddle-headedly walked out of the room. He didn't know how many times he had returned to the starting point, maybe eighty times, maybe a hundred times.

His parents had already left for work, and the breakfast they had prepared for him was in the insulating box on the table. It wasn't expensive, but it was plentiful.

Jiang Cen knew the contents of the breakfast without even opening the thermos. He also knew that there was a piece of paper in the thermos, and he even knew that the note contained his mother's constant warning to him to finish the fresh milk.

Jiang Cen opened the thermal insulation box. When he saw the note, he confirmed his' guess' word for word. At the same time, a tiny bit of hope disappeared from his heart. He didn't touch his breakfast, but went straight out, even forgetting to lock the door. Even if he stole everything in the house, as long as he slept, everything would go back to normal.

Jiang Cen wandered aimlessly on the street. He did not go to school. In any case, not going to school could not change the result. Whether it was hard or not, he had to return to the original point.

For someone who had no hope for the future, it was as if he had lost his soul, and one could see it from the look in his eyes. Such people are often classified as "idle people". The pedestrians on the street hurried, but they all avoided Jiang Cen as if he was a plague.

Despair was devouring Jiang Cen's will, but it was also tempering his will.

"I want to change!"

"I don't want to lose sight of hope!"

"I don't want to be stuck in the same place forever!"

"I want the future!"

"A different future!"

"My future!"

Jiang Cen was shouting in his heart. The light in his eyes occasionally showed that he had not given up yet!

Even he couldn't believe it. Even now, after repeated failures and his return to the starting point, he still had a glimmer of hope. He still wanted to escape from the whirlpool of fate.

The strength of a man could only be shown in times of desperation!

Every time he woke up, he would do something different, go to a different place. He only hoped that there would be a one in a billion chance of him making a change. Once he woke up, it would no longer be the original point!

This time, Jiang Cen walked muddle-headedly onto an antique street. The shops here were all selling antique ceramics, and the ones coming and going were all elderly people. It was rare to see a young person like Jiang Cen.

The old man woke up early and took a walk when he liked to do morning exercises. The shops on this street were doing morning business, so it was quite early in the morning.

Repeatedly returning to the original point of torture, Jiang Cen was muddle-headed as if he lost his mind. From time to time, he would run into some old people. Being scolded as "walking without eyes or a home tutor", he was too lazy to pay attention to them.

Some of the elders thought he was feeling guilty, so they scolded him even louder. The other elders nearby also joined in and pointed.

If it was the normal Jiang Cen, he would most likely apologize, but at this moment, he only felt annoyed. In order to avoid the scoldings of the elders, he quickened his pace and unknowingly turned into a secluded shop.

This shop sold antiques. When the shop owner saw the young man, he was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile: "Young man, what are you planning to buy? Our store is newly opened today, and the first transaction is a discount of 50%. "

"Wrong path!" Jiang Cen replied in a low voice. Then, he turned around and was about to leave. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of something familiar in a pile of mahogany furniture, scrap metal, and odd jade.

His eyes shone with a different light as he stared at the object. This was definitely the first time he had seen it, but it also felt like he had seen it a hundred times!

"That's it!"

"Dragon Design Cyan Jade!"

Time and time again, he had been hunted down in nightmares, where his pursuers took the blueprints and asked him for treasures. What was written on the drawing was exactly this piece of Dragon Design Cyan Jade!

Jiang Cen used to search the internet for clues regarding Dragon Design Cyan Jade, but he couldn't find any useful information. He didn't expect that at this time, a jade pendant that was exactly the same as the one in his dreams would appear before him!

"So there really is such a Dragon Design Cyan Jade in this world!"

"The key must be in this Dragon Design Cyan Jade!" Jiang Cen immediately felt endless hope. His expression was completely different from before!

"Young man, you have good eyes!" He tactfully took out the Dragon Design Cyan Jade from the cabinet and said: "This is an ancient jade. Although the jade is average in quality, the carving technique is meticulous and it has a long history."

"How much is it? It's not like it's some special antiques, so it shouldn't be too expensive! " Jiang Cen asked as calmly as he could. In fact, he had already decided in his heart that no matter what the price would be, he would take this Dragon Design Cyan Jade!