He Was Here Once

[Short novel, 200,000 characters / Road trip story / Bittersweet ending]

Later, Su Ye became a wildly popular singer, and his music could be heard everywhere, on every street and in every alley.

Everyone knew that he had once gone through a long, quiet period, frustrated and unfulfilled, wandering from place to place with a guitar on his back.

But no one knew that those were the memories he treasured most.

Back then, he and Xuan Yang drove a beat-up pickup at full speed along the border roads of Yunnan, sleeping wherever night found them.

He would pick up his guitar and sing for her. They drank and talked about their dreams and tomorrow, laughing as they shared a cigarette, then kissed each other's faces at the edge of the sunrise.

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From obscurity to meeting at the summit, she lifted him into the clouds and took him to see the beauty of the world.

Many years later, he released a song with the lyric: "The love that begins when we have nothing lasts the longest. I've been here before."

A roguishly handsome wandering singer × a washed-up music producer

Theme: Love