Still Treading the Paths of Old

1983, on a train bound for the New Territories.

Gu Wanxing was flipping through page 3,200 of Gray's Anatomy when someone left a line of writing in her notebook:

"Choi Kwai House, So Uk Estate. Beyond. Saturday, 3 p.m."

The handwriting was ugly, but the strokes were deeply pressed into the page.

She was a top student at HKU's medical school, lived halfway up the Peak, drove a BMW, and had a famous doctor for a father.

He was a rock-loving young man from a back-row apartment in Mong Kok, so poor his trousers had holes in them, but with a light in his eyes.

He asked her, "What are you reading?"

She glanced up at him, then lowered her eyes again.

He didn't know that one day she would become his light.

She didn't know that one day he would write "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies."

From 1983 to 1993: ten years.

From the train to the back-row apartment, from the Peak to Hung Hom.

This is not a story about success.

It's about choices, perseverance, and someone willing to keep a light shining for you on the darkest night.

This is a work of private fiction, written in tribute to Ka Kui and Beyond. It is entirely fictional and not intended for commercial use. Please contact me if anything is inappropriate, and I will remove it.

The story's timeline and the band's development are based on real history.

This story was written to fulfill a single wish: to let him live well and keep singing in another parallel universe.

Cantonese dialogue with Mandarin narration. Each chapter is titled after a Beyond song, and its opening lines are lyrics from that song. Enjoy them together. I'm an amateur Cantonese enthusiast, so corrections are welcome, as is conversation with fellow Beyond fans.

Theme: Persevere in your ideals and protect the ones you love