"Ms. Jiang's star jar has 897 stars?" In the late winter of 2023, Shen Chaosheng held the 898th paper star between his fingers, and his lawyer's robe was stained with the smell of disinfectant in the morgue.
Jiang Wumian chuckled amidst the buzz of the chemotherapy pump: "I heard that people will count all their regrets before they die." The glass window reflected "Chao & Mian ≈ ∞" carved on the blue brick wall in 2008. The crack still stopped on June 7, 2014 - the date when the heavy rain flooded the first day of the college entrance examination.
"Back then you said that once you collect all the missing corner tiles..."
"Lawyer Shen made a mistake." She suddenly turned off the recording function of the ventilator, "It is now 19:21, which is exactly three hours later than the time you discovered that I tampered with the volunteer form fifteen years ago."
When the monitor returned to zero, he tore open the blood-stained paper star. On the back was the outpatient medical record number from 2009 - the date of their first kiss.
