Wedge·Many Years Later
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My wife is in good health, and I miss you in Chang'an. May she be healthy and grow old together with you. ——Chen Jingming
The diary was gently closed, with the gentle texture of time. A slender hand belonging to a girl carefully placed it back in its place, as if it was touching a fragile dream.
Su Nian held her breath and gently closed the locked drawer at the bottom of her father's desk - she accidentally found the key today, and accidentally glimpsed another side of her father, Chen Jingming, that she had never imagined.
In her memory, the father always wore a white coat or plain home clothes, smelled of clean disinfectant, had gentle eyes but seemed to always have a professional distance, and devoted most of his attention to medicine and patients. That "Dr. Chen" who is emotionally stable, speaks concisely, and rarely shows his emotions.
But those words in the diary...
"Perhaps it was because I was so stunning when we first met, that there was no one else in my eyes, and it also gave me a place for the rest of my life."
"Su Lan, it is the honor of my life to meet you, and it is also the destination of my life, Chen Jingming."
The handwriting was clear and strong, and it was her father's handwriting, but the almost clumsy affection and determination that filled the lines did not belong to the "Dr. Chen" she was familiar with at all.
Su Nian's heartbeat was a little fast, and her cheeks were slightly warm from peeking, but it was more of a strange emotion that was a mixture of touching and surprise. She quietly exited her father's study, those sentences echoing over and over in her mind.
It turned out that her father, who seemed to only have medical skills and was so calm and self-possessed that he was almost boring, was like this when he met her mother.
It turns out that heartbeat can really change a person so completely, even if that person is her father, who is always known for his rationality.
Intention: True love is not afraid of coming too late. It will allow two mature enough souls at the right time to recognize that each other is the missing home, and then spend the rest of their lives turning the years into stability.
