From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

Some things changed; some things didn't; and still other things developed in unknown directions—

The god of fate is always mocking the insignificance of humanity, struggling like ants.

For example, Evan.

Evan returned to that afternoon, trying to save Crocket from Tommy.

In fact, Evan succeeded.

Evan convinced Tommy that if Tommy killed Crocket, he would 100% go to juvenile detention, which meant that Keller would be left alone to face George, something Tommy didn't want to see.

Tommy wavered.

After a moment's hesitation, Tommy dropped the torch, untied the rope of the burlap sack himself, and let Crocket go.

Unexpectedly, Lenny was blinded by guilt and anger. Even though Tommy had already let Crocket go, he still stabbed Tommy in the back with the metal shard.

The butterfly effect occurred again.

Tommy died.

Keller packed her bags and fled from George.

Lenny was sent to a mental hospital for treatment.

Worse, when those memory fragments surged into Evan's brain like a tide, his brain cells seemed unable to withstand the crowding of the memory tide in a short period. Like a computer crashing, Evan's eyes rolled back, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and he completely passed out in the dormitory.

Hospital brain scans also proved this point, because Evan's brain had been stuffed with more than forty years of memories in a short year, which severely damaged the brain structure, causing continuous bleeding in the cerebral cortex. This had already formed substantial damage and could lead to more hidden dangers in the future.

However, did Evan care?

No, Evan didn't have time to worry about himself now. He realized that he had to save Lenny.

Taking advantage of Andrea's conversation with the doctor, Evan stole the doctor's door card, entered the inpatient department, and found Lenny in the ward—

Lenny was like a dead fish, his limbs bound to the bed, his eyes devoid of any vitality.

Evan tried hard to awaken Lenny, but to no avail; unexpectedly, just as Evan was about to leave, Lenny regained consciousness.

Lenny condemned Evan, saying that when Evan brought the metal shard into Lenny's hand, Evan already knew that bad things would happen; Lenny believed that Evan should be lying here receiving treatment, and that Evan was the mentally deranged patient.

Evan was stunned.

Evan tried to get things back on track, but obviously, this was not an easy task. Countless memories were intertwined like seaweed.

Then, Evan thought of a possibility:

His father.

Perhaps his father had experienced all of this and knew the solution.

Re-reading the diary, Evan returned to that afternoon, when he was seven years old, the afternoon he met his father.

Without further ado, Evan went straight to the point.

And Jason… understood instantly.

Jason: "I prayed that the curse would disappear with me."

Evan: "But it didn't. What I need now is information that can fix things. You are the only one who can tell me."

Jason: "There is no such thing as right. You can't change one person without destroying others."

Evan: "Who says things can't be made better?"

Jason: "You can't play God, son."

Jason was angry, not just angry, but also helpless and sad. He couldn't control his body leaning forward, his eyes staring fixedly at Evan.

"Just by being here, you could kill your mother."

However, Evan didn't buy it. He believed that he could fix everything, and that confident look finally made Jason unable to control himself.

Suddenly, Jason reached across the table, knocked Evan down, and strangled Evan's throat with both hands, a twisted ferocity revealed in his eyes, trying to extinguish the root of all disasters.

When Evan returned to reality, he couldn't help but grab his throat, gasping for breath. The lifelike fear made him vomit on the ground.

In front of the big screen, Nicholas was firmly pressed into his seat and unable to move.

Suddenly, Nicholas realized that Jason's action of strangling Evan's throat was actually to save Andrea!

Nicholas also realized that the reason Jason was in a mental hospital was because he had tried to change the past, even tracing back to Jason's father's generation, and Evan was now repeating the same mistakes.

Things might be far more than that, but the thoughts that surged up in an instant exploded completely, leaving no time for further in-depth thinking, unable to breathe in this storm of information.

So, was Evan heading towards destruction step by step?

Nicholas felt his brain was a little hypoxic. He tried to breathe some fresh air, but found that he couldn't move a finger. An invisible force came over him, and his wildly beating heart was about to explode.

Unable to find answers from Jason, Evan tried to turn the situation around with his own strength.

Evan was looking for Keller, but everything had changed, and he had lost track of her.

As a last resort, Evan found George, a mess of a George.

Through George, Evan finally found Keller, only to find her trapped in a dire situation—

She was in Tijuana, that Tijuana in Mexico. She lived in an apartment comparable to a garbage dump, becoming a "hooker," dragged into a bottomless abyss by alcohol and powder, even worse than when she was a waitress in a restaurant.

This plunged Evan into deep pain.

But worse, Keller had lost faith and was completely eroded by darkness.

Evan spent a lot of effort to finally persuade Keller to go to the restaurant with him and calm down for a conversation. Evan told her everything about the diary, sincerely hoping to turn the situation around.

Keller didn't believe him.

Evan told her the bits and pieces of their time together, as well as secrets about Keller that no one else knew, just hoping to awaken her.

However, this was still not enough.

Keller not only didn't believe him, but also blamed everything on Evan, roaring at Evan with a ferocious expression, mocking and ridiculing him as much as possible. The pain and struggle were clearly visible.

Evan… couldn't turn a blind eye.

Thus.

Evan returned to the root of all misfortunes, the day the mailbox exploded, trying to prevent the woman from approaching the mailbox—

Tommy realized that something was wrong and hurriedly pretended to be a heroic and fearless warrior, knocking down the woman and the baby; while Evan, who was standing in front of the mailbox preventing the woman from approaching, did not escape the explosion.

When Evan returned to reality, he had lost his arms.

Fate played a joke:

Keller and Lenny got together; Tommy completely repented because he saved the woman and the baby, and reformed himself into a five-good youth.

Now, everyone was happy, except for him as the only exception.

And when Evan learned that Keller had always liked him, that she hadn't left George to move in with her mother, not because her mother had remarried and had a brand new family and refused to leave her a place, but because she couldn't bear to leave Evan.

As a result, they prevented the mailbox explosion, but completely destroyed Evan, which led Keller and Lenny to get together.

Evan fell into despair.