Prologue to "I am a Butterfly and You Are a Stone": Polyphony of the Sea
We all believed that some love can only be experienced once in a lifetime. Like the tectonic plates of the earth, they violently collide and merge, suddenly rising up on the territory of the soul to become the only and irreplaceable mountain range. Then, everything fell silent. For the rest of his life, he would just live a peaceful life under the shelter and shadow of this huge ruins.
Maria is so convinced.
When she scattered Kai's last handful of ashes into the waves of Carmel, she thought her love was sealed for eternity. That sea was their honeymoon witness and also became the final tombstone. From now on, her life will only have one direction: to be the continuation of Kai's life and to raise their child, Yang, to adulthood. She is willing to give everything she has to this, just like a sacrifice, and like a spiritual practice.
Destiny is never content with a single narrative.
Jeff's appearance was like a warm and lasting sea breeze, quietly blowing into her closed world. In that epidemic that swept the world, life hung on a thread. It was this doctor who used his superb medical skills and sleepless protection to take the child back from the hands of death. At that moment, he not only saved Yang's life, but also saved the entire meaning of Maria's existence.
Gratitude is the starting point. Then comes habit and dependence. Jeff infiltrated her life with a gentleness that was not aggressive. His natural visits during holidays, and his generous back when he took Yang to see the vast world, bit by bit filled the void of fatherly love in Yang's life, and also bit by bit loosened the frozen soil in her heart that she thought was indestructible.
It was a slow but true healing. She began to believe that life might really give people a second chance, allowing a broken heart to find a home in another warmth. In this tenderness, she and Jeff welcomed their flower - a blue-eyed doll, Aaliyah.
It was on that seaside where the sun was shining brightly, on Kai's dark day, that she returned to the place where he had scattered his last handful of ashes, wanting to complete a final soul farewell and a solemn memorial ceremony. She is ready to take off the shackles of her heart and welcome a new and hopeful life
——Destiny, at this moment, showed her the most unpredictable smile.
He showed up.
Kay.
On the seaside where they had said goodbye, they crossed the boundary between life and death, as if they had never left. She thought it was a dream before she woke up, but the clarity of consciousness and the real touch on her forehead screamed to her that this was not a dream.
She shouted subconsciously, and the name she had silently recited thousands of times in her heart blurted out.
And he had no expression. Just looked at her with a smile and a complete, polite detachment. His long windbreaker fluttered in the sea breeze, making him look like a god who had descended from the sky but had forgotten his past. The familiar handsomeness that once fascinated her was now so handsome that it made her shiver all over.
The waves still hit the rocks, over and over again. At that moment, Maria heard the polyphony of her own world: one voice was the stable future brought by Jeff, full of human fireworks, shining in the sun; the other voice was Kai's second coming, tearing apart the curtain of time from the unfathomable past, carrying all the love and mystery.
The butterfly thought the stone had sunk to the bottom of the sea, but little did it know that the tide would bring it back to the shore again. And should she continue flying towards the flowers, or should she rush towards the silent flame again without hesitation?
The story has just begun.
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