Elal said that she would come here to pick me up today and take me back to the world where I had been away for ten years.
I am the young master of Hedu, and my name is Xia Bai.
Ten years ago, I had another identity: Guan Ning's fiancée.
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However, I don't know how to dance at all. After stepping on Guan Ning's feet many times, I simply let go. I spun around, jumped, and laughed. Suddenly, I seemed to have returned to my youthful days when nothing was too late and there was still time. I could still speak arrogantly and be cynical. Or we are back to our childhood days when everything has not yet begun and there is still a chance to make a new choice. We are like two children who are ignorant of the world and dance happily after getting a piece of candy, until their foreheads touch each other and the dream is gone.
He suddenly squeezed my hand tightly. "White..."
"I do."
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I also thought of the vast blue sky. On the banks of the Old Man River, where traces of the human world have not completely disappeared, we saw little flowers blooming here and there, grasshoppers jumping in the weeds half as tall as a man, the wheels of a scrapped off-road vehicle and a little rabbit using the car shell as a nest. Guan Ning sat next to me and wanted to introduce the names of plants to me using the plant knowledge he had learned in the human world. He also gently touched my head.
Yes, it was an afternoon with lingering wind and mist, much like every relaxed and lazy afternoon since we met and fell in love. But why did I twist this memory to look like a downpour?
Maybe I also knew in my heart that it was not a suitable day to say goodbye.
Intention: Tonight ten years later, there will be a real heavy rain, a leaden sky, and the traffic will merge into a river of light. We are standing on both sides of the river of light. This is a day to say goodbye.