Li Ran imagined many reunion scenarios. Maybe it was the alumni meeting where they were suddenly informed that Jiang Ning had returned from abroad. They were dressed in sharp suits and looked humane, and even the greetings were false and perfunctory. Or maybe it was an accidental meeting in a store where they often went. They passed each other pretending to be strangers, and the wind picked up nothing but dust on the ground.
But the thousands of indifferent or dull scenes that Li Ran had rehearsed in his mind did not happen. Their reunion was like a joke, just like their meeting.
And Li Ran is the protagonist of this joke, no one else.
Intention: It's not that he has to be there, it's just that it would be better to have him.