In 2012, Su Xiao was diagnosed with "amber lesion of the hippocampus" - a terminal disease that freezes memories and brittles the brain.
I held the diagnosis certificate, looked at her and said with a smile, "It would be nice if we could delay it." I knew we only had ten years left.
Then I died.
When I opened my eyes again, I went back to 2004. She was seventeen years old, healthy and bright, and there were stars in her eyes when she called my name.
This time I have two goals:
Earn enough 20 million before 2012 to buy her imported medicines for ten years
Let her taste sweetness every day before she completely forgets me
I began to steal time: point cards, stocks, real estate, laboratories... Every penny was converted into "how many more days she can live."
She opened a dessert shop, and I secretly invested in amber disease research; she drew "Sweet Map", and I photoshopped fake photos and pretended that we had gone to a distant place.
Before she died, she looked back, held my hand and said, "I know."
"I know everything."
"You... Have a very tiring and miserable life."
I realized that those who steal the light will eventually be swallowed by darkness.
What amber seals is not only the memory, but also the light thief himself.
Purpose: To explore whether the nature of love is a rational weighing or an irrational pursuit when the outcome is known. When time becomes a quantifiable currency and memory becomes gradually brittle amber, two ordinary people spent twenty years completing a grand experiment on "futility" - some battles they knew they would lose, but they always had to fire the last bullet.