Anna loves taking trains, but has never tried to cross the entire Siberia, from west Belograd to the southern border. After grandpa completed the customs formalities, he comforted softly, "Little Anna... From now on, this will be your new home."
When Anna was twelve years old, she met Han Shubai.
In my impression, Han Shubai is quiet and distant, like the silent snow in the forest or the full moon in winter, out of reach and unspeakable.
The three diaries she wrote as a girl all started with "Han Shubai" and ended with "I don't want to anymore", but under the grand illusion, she still lost her mind, like a train on rails, crashing into an old platform.
Anna thought that their intersection in this life ended at the winter solstice that year.
And when the spring equinox arrived as promised, the vague young man brushed away the old wind and snow and looked at her with a half-smile.
They hadn't seen each other for four years, but Han Shubai had never forgotten the first four years before their separation, four years that belonged to them alone.
Han Shubai thought that the passing of a white horse is just like the winter snow in the north. Day after day, year after year, it is as white as ever, pure and flawless.
Four years later, he could no longer deceive himself into ignoring the haunting man. Lu Zheng was cold, arrogant and impatient. When he lowered his eyes to look at his lover, it was as warm as spring and summer.
Anna didn't write a diary for a long time. Many years later, she opened the last page of the sixteenth-year-old book, and the yellowed handwriting looked like old memories, and she wrote:
"Han Shubai, the trains passing through Siberia are different every year. It's -40℃ here, and even the winter sun can't melt the permanent frozen soil."
Fragment one
Lu Zheng felt that God was very kind to him.
The northern city is about 6,900 kilometers away from Veshenegorod. It takes ten hours to fly, not counting transfers, and the fastest train takes seven days and seven nights... In this way, Lu Zheng can stay with Anna for two months every year, one winter and one summer, for decades, without any change.
Fa Xiao teased him, saying that Yue Lao and Cupid had a lack of performance and had a cross-border marriage. Half the world could not stop them from dating on the Magpie Bridge. They were more like a Weaver Girl than a Cowherd.
Lu Zheng sneered and told them to go away every year, but during the finals week he unconsciously counted the days and secretly looked forward to the arrival of the date.
…
When Lu Zheng was nineteen years old, he landed at Petrov Airport alone, but learned on the other end of the phone that Anna had not returned to Belograd, but had brought a man back to Beicheng.
He sneered and threw his luggage with a box of gifts at the check-in counter and boarded the return flight without looking back.
God damn it.
Fragment 2
Han Shubai grew up in the south and always felt that winter was short and the sun was as bright as ever.
It wasn't until he spent four years alone in New York that he realized how long winter was. Every time he closed his eyes, he always thought of the first time he met Anna, on a sunny winter day.
…
But Anna broke up with him in the wet Southern Xia. She was indifferently hugged under the umbrella by Lu Zheng, and disappeared into his world resolutely and coldly.
From then on, the spring and autumn were colorless, and everything was filled with sadness and snow.
Motto: Growth is always accompanied by pain
