At three o'clock in the morning, he held her wrist: "Will you leave?"
She didn't answer. It's too late and I don't dare.
Later he pretended to be sick and she went to the appointment. He asked, "What are you afraid of?" But she couldn't answer. He said, "I'll wait for you until the day you can't bear it anymore."
What was waiting was the husband's divorce agreement and a sentence from his mother:
"He left. He went to Tibet. I don't know if he will come back."
Three months later, in the hospital elevator that could not be repaired, she looked up——
There is a line of writing hidden on the top board. I don't know when it was written or who wrote it.
"Being needed is not a disease."
And below, there is a new line.
"So is being seen."
——Some codes can only be understood by one person.