Snow Covers the City When the Old Man Returns

"Snow Covers the City When the Old Man Returns" Author: Ling Qi "All the good luck in my life has gone to meeting him. All the bad luck was given to him. " Ten years ago, Jian Wei met Lu Zhi while hiding from the rain under the awning of a second-hand bookstore. The boy's shirt was soaked and he held half a cigarette between his fingertips. He thrust an out-of-print copy of "Flying to the West" into her arms and said, "Take it, don't get it wet." After that day, they walked side by side through every rain in Jinling City, thinking that they could spend each other's lives together. Ten years later, Lu Zhi returned to China. Three minutes after the plane landed, he received Jian Wei's wedding invitation. On the gilded card, the bride's name is hers, and the groom's name is not his. He stood in front of the hotel all night, with snow falling on his shoulders, and finally understood: It turns out that the three cruelest words in the world are not "no more love" but "too late". Later, it rained again in Jinling. Jian Wei held an umbrella and flipped through the yellowed copy of "Flying to the West at Night" in the ruins of the old bookstore. On the title page, Lu Zhi's handwriting is still arrogant—— "Give me the only little rose. Wait until I come back." She closed the book and burst into tears. She had waited for him, really. But the day he came back, her rose had withered. ——— "If I look back that day, will you come with me?" "No." "Why?" "Because you have your life, and I am just an old person passing by."