1 everything is blue

It was a busy afternoon, it was rush hour, so students and workers were in and out of there. Zhao Yun had been working in that cafeteria for over a year, but despite that, it wasn't easy to get used to rush hour. His hands moved fast, writing down what people wanted and delivering it.

He knew that his co-workers were just as rushed and stressed as he was so he couldn't be complaining, he just had to do his job and wait out the rush hour.

What was not expected was that out of nowhere while he was delivering an order his whole world turned black, it was not uncommon for most of them to see the world between gray, white and black, after all, those who had not yet found their soul mate would see the world that way, the only way to see how the world really was and see the colors was to find your soul mate.

There were different types of soul mates and different problems that people might have in finding them.

One of the rare cases was that your soul mate had not yet been born, that an accident happened to him, or that even your soul mate was blind. All these were strange and rare cases but Zhao Yun realized that he was part of these strange cases when he opened his eyes and instead of seeing everything in black and white, everything was different shades of blue.

Another of the few common cases was seeing everything blue when your soul mate tried to commit suicide.

He left the orders on the table and asked for extra time, the manager looked at him worried but he didn't have time for that. He was panicking, he didn't know how he got into the employee room as if his body was on automatic pilot.

He had pain in his chest and lungs, the latter of which he assumed had to do with his soul mate, he also felt wet. There were times when he could feel what his soul mate felt, but it was only when it was a strong emotion or feeling. Those last days he had felt nothing but calm, which must have made him suspicious since most of the time he felt emotions of sadness, anger, anxiety.

He must have suspected that something was going on, but what would he have done anyway? He had no idea who his soul mate was and apparently it was not so easy to find them anymore. If you saw blue the only way to know who your soul mate was to make some act of love towards them, but that involved a lot of things.

Everything had gotten complicated.

Zhao Yun since he was a child stopped believing in the fairy tale of soul mates, he lived in his own experience how little it mattered to be someone's soul mate, that did not mean that as soon as they saw them they would fall in love or love each other platonically, his parents hated each other and he got caught in the crossfire, a being who was born not out of love but out of obligation. His parents were never affectionate with him, the scars on his back were proof enough of that.

Although he did not believe in that beautiful story of finding your soul mate, even knowing how bad that system was, he hoped to find his and live happily, it was the only thing he asked for, but of course, life did not want that. He was not even surprised, just disappointed.

His life was just a joke. A very bad one.

After washing his face and calming the sea of emotions he was feeling, he went back to work, everything was the same and at the same time different, having spent 22 years of his life seeing in black and white, seeing everything blue was a big change, but at that moment he couldn't think about it, he had to work. The only thing that calmed him was knowing that he was seeing blue and not all the colors.

If that had happened, that would have meant that his soul mate had succeeded.

He was lucky.

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