(Mouse and Cat) The Desolate Reed Series: Broken Strings

Zhan Zhao's steps slowed slightly. He turned to look at her and saw that the woman's face still held a desperate, almost innocent hope. She looked at him as if clinging to the last straw, and asked in a daze: “He's still alive, isn't he? Isn't he?” “...He's dead.” He looked at her with pity, no longer knowing what to say. The woman silently closed her eyes. Her lips parted and trembled with pain, but in the end she could say nothing. Her tears, however, flowed more fiercely than ever. Then Zhang Long and Ma Han quietly led her past Zhan Zhao. They nodded slightly to him. The woman did not look at him again, but Zhan Zhao heard the final words she murmured, clear as day: She said, “If there is a next life, may we hold hands and gaze at each other. Waking from wine in a dream, we can only sigh at all the wasted years...” Theme: