The Fairy Tale of the Time Tower

The phone buzzed on the table. A text from you.

You said you were on the bus back to school, and the sunlight outside was blindingly bright.

The weather in the provincial capital must be lovely, too. The sky was clear of big clouds, and from the airport waiting room you could see planes with their wings spread.

You said you went to see him off the day before yesterday. You’d always thought you would cry, but you didn’t shed a single tear.

You said he probably wouldn’t be coming back this time.

You said he was flying to Germany today.

I sighed and asked you just one thing:

Xiaobai, if He Yichen had been the one to leave back then, would Zhao Mosheng still have waited there for so long?

Xiang Ye, as innocent as little Xiaobai, you lost Xu Yi. Where will you find someone else like him to bring back?

This is a true story full of wishful thinking... though when it happened right beside me, I felt like the whole world was an illusion...

A fairy-tale romance, from childhood to the rainy season, woven from sweetness and bitterness. As someone listening to the story, I was thrilled, excited, saddened, and caught up in the gossip, but more than anything, I was moved~~

This story is my way of commemorating a friend’s past. I’m not much of a storyteller, so please bear with me~~(*+﹏+*)~

P.S. The names in the story are altered abbreviations of the real names of us bit-part players, A, B, C, and the rest~~ Yeah~~ I’m so hyped~~ That’s how it is~