Zhang Hanrui and I made a promise in front of the Changming Lantern in the ancient temple in our hometown that we would hang up lanterns here together during the Lantern Festival every year.
He said that where the lights are, there are people.
But when he was eighteen, he didn't come to the lantern festival.
He never fails to make an appointment.
I searched the whole town and found an old copper lamp that I had never seen before in his empty room. That lamp would turn on by itself every night, and in the dancing firelight, I saw him in another world——
It turns out that in order to prevent my destined death, he erased his name from the book of life and death and was trapped in the light forever.
Every night when the lights were on, he could look at me through the flames, but never say a word.
Later I realized that he had not broken the promise.
He used all the lights for the rest of his life to exchange for my peaceful nights.
And what I have to do is to blow out this lamp with my own hands and make it disappear completely——
Or day after day, living in the long night with him.
