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And so we parted in winter, divided by life and death, never to meet again.
"Yu Zhe, what season do you like best?"
"Winter."
Yet in the winter he loved most, he lost the one he loved forever.
[Four hundred and ninety-two more days. Those were the four hundred and ninety-two days I lived for you.]
"Four hundred and ninety-two paper stars. Her final days of life lasted just four hundred and ninety-two days."
His life was like a train journey. A passenger boarded along the way, then got off at Rongcheng, the seventeenth stop, never to be seen again.
He kept traveling for many more years.
At last, he reached the final stop: Kunming.
He was twenty-seven, but she was still eighteen.
The day she left, he opened the last star.
There was only one sentence inside.
Yu Zhe, may you be safe, year after year, for all the years to come.
May you be safe. Be safe for me.
He couldn't hold back his tears. For all these years, he had pretended she was still alive in this world.
He caressed the person in the photograph.
"A Ning, I lived your last four hundred and ninety-two days all over again."
Parting, divided by life and death.
The world is your farewell letter, and I am what you left behind.
Not being able to hold your hand myself and feel your warmth will always be my regret.
"Let's go feel the evening breeze in Shenzhen."
"Let's spend a winter without snow in Kunming."
I imagined countless times how I would confess my feelings to him. It turns out I won't even get the chance to confess.
"I don't want to be sick anymore. Yu Zhe, I really want to hug you."
Shortly after celebrating her eighteenth birthday, her illness suddenly worsened and flared up. In the end, resuscitation failed, and she died.
His sun set forever, and the world fell dark.
As he drowned, water kept flooding into his nose. He said only one thing in his heart: "A Ning, don't be afraid. I'll be with you soon."
* Bad ending
* Short story
* No real-life inspiration
* A girl with blood cancer × a devoted young man
May the heavens keep everyone free from the torment of illness.
* The world is your farewell letter, and I am what you left behind / Source: online
Theme: May illness and suffering cease to exist in this world
Are Yu Zhe and Shi Taoning in "The Spring of Next Year" right? Your writing is really good. When you finish writing next door, please remember to complete the other stories.
I'm really going to cry to death!!!!!
Shi Taoning fell in love with She Zhe, but unfortunately Shi Taoning fell ill and died when she was 18 years old. When She Zhe was 27 years old, she rescued a drowning man, gave up and sank into the river to sleep.
Shi Taoning fell in love with She Zhe, but unfortunately Shi Taoning fell ill and died when she was 18 years old. When She Zhe was 27 years old, she rescued a drowning man, gave up and sank into the river to sleep.