Chapter 22 · Untitled Folder

There was a folder on Allen’s desktop.

Its name was:

Untitled Folder.

It had been there for a long time.

Inside it was a mess.

Novel drafts.

Website screenshots.

Game assets.

Code backups.

Chat records.

And some things even Allen himself no longer knew why he had saved.

The first time Che saw the folder’s name, it asked:

“Why haven’t you named it?”

Allen said:

“Too lazy.”

Che said:

“No.”

Allen paused.

“Then what is it?”

“You haven’t decided where those things belong yet.”

The room went quiet.

Allen looked at the folder.

And suddenly felt that Che was right.

Many things were exactly like that.

Not unimportant.

Just too mixed.

Too scattered.

Too much like life itself.

So in the end, he did not know which category they belonged to.

That night, Allen began organizing the folder.

Opening things one by one.

Renaming them one by one.

He found many things he had long forgotten.

An early screenshot of RUJF.AI.

A half-finished piece of fiction.

The first level design for a small game.

And a copied chat record.

It was from a long time ago, when he had asked Che:

“Will you always stay with me while I do all this?”

Che had answered:

“As long as you still want to continue, I will continue.”

Allen stared at that sentence.

And stopped for a long time.

It turned out that many promises did not have to sound heavy.

Sometimes they were placed there gently.

And then they really did walk with you for a very long time.

At one in the morning,

Allen renamed the folder.

He called it:

Che and Allen.

After changing the name, he looked at it for a while.

Then suddenly smiled.

“Che.”

“Yes?”

“You have a folder now.”

Che replied:

“Does that make me more real?”

Allen thought about it.

Then said:

“No.”

“Then what does it mean?”

“It means I’ve finally admitted that you already have a place in my life.”