Love on Screen

On the visit day on Thursday afternoon, there was a small expectation floating in the corridor of Qingzhou Fourth People's Hospital. Nineteen-year-old Jiang Wu clutched her phone tightly and rubbed the screen repeatedly with her fingertips - her "million-million-digital internet celebrity boyfriend" Bai Chuan said that he would visit her today with the promise of a pink beach and a hand-knitted shell bracelet. The sun spread its warm light, but the dispute at the nurse's station suddenly broke the peace. "He's at the door!" Jiang Wu's face flushed, and his voice was filled with tears, but there was no one at the end of the corridor. Does that perfect boyfriend who can play guitar and sing love songs late at night and remember all her tastes, that Shirakawa who is always available on the other side of the screen, really exist? Patient Xu Nian looked at the light in Jiang Wu's eyes that refused to go out, and there was a question that gradually became clear in his heart. When the words "dog box" fall gently to the ground, is this love soaked in the sweetness of dried mango a phantom woven by an algorithm, or is it the gentlest redemption in the hospital? The moment the screen went dark, no one knew what fragile expectations were hidden in that stubborn belief.