What is it that he wants to remember?
Wang Ye×Wu You Meng Nuwen
While sorting out old friends' belongings, I found a manuscript in the deepest part of the drawer. Kraft cover, no title. Turning it over, there is a slightly sloppy but stretched handwriting. It starts with a sentence without beginning or end. The owner of the handwriting is Wang Ye.
The manuscript calmly recounts an encounter that no one remembers. At that time, he had left Wudang and was like an ordinary, somewhat lazy young man, hiding under a tree by the lake for some peace and quiet. Among the group of children who woke him up was a blue-eyed girl named Wu You. She is a bit old-fashioned and responsible. He squinted his eyes for a while and thought to himself, this little girl is interesting, but that's all.
Later, due to a chance meeting or the closeness of the goal, he watched her live clumsily and protect her shortcomings forcefully, and the confusion she occasionally showed disappeared in the blink of an eye. There was something about her that he couldn't even identify that was quietly drawing him closer, breaking his usual rules. The manuscript contains a lot of trivial daily life, the porridge she cooked, the profile of her face competing with the withered potted plant, and the silent moments of sitting opposite each other in the dark living room at night.
Until the end, the brush strokes were no longer stable, recording the white light that covered the world and the gradually cold nothingness in his arms. And after that, the complete blankness about her that enveloped everyone.
He was the only one who left these words.
It took me a long time to compile these intermittent, personal, sometimes clear and sometimes hazy records, together with the clues I could find, into a document. This may not be her real life. Indeed, the only thing that can prove that she has been here is the faint echo.
Intent: This story is not about the pursuit after forgetting, there is no miracle of retrieving memory, there is no consummation of reunion, only the daily life that is treated seriously before forgetting and annihilation.
