One Step for a Lifetime

He died in the spring when she was twenty-eight years old. When she was descending from Nama Peak, he fell into a crevasse to save her from slipping and stayed in the snow-capped mountain forever. They were classmates in junior high school. They lost contact for five years after the high school entrance examination, and reunited while hiking in 2022. He silently accompanied her through countless mountains and rivers, walked on the outside of the cliff to protect her, and took hundreds of pictures of her back. Beside the Yubeng fire, the two of them connected with each other and were officially together. At the top of Nama Peak in 2028, he took a picture of her face for the first time. Fifteen minutes after the shutter fell, the accident happened. He grabbed her hand, and eventually they fell together. She survived, but he left forever. Later, she married an ordinary person, got married in spring, gave birth to a daughter after marriage, and lived an ordinary life of daily necessities. She hid her old camera and mobile phone and buried him deep in her heart. When her daughter asked about old things when she was six years old, she just said it was a friend. When she was twelve years old, she took her daughter to Ganzi again and saw Nama Peak. When her daughter asked about the name of the mountain, she whispered that she could not remember it. She walked alone all the mountain roads they agreed on, kept his chat window at the top of his screen for ten years, and finally let it go but never forgot it. She finally understood what he said about love lasting a lifetime. It turns out that there is never more than one look in a lifetime. His life stayed in the snow-capped mountains and warm sunshine; her life, with his love, lived well in the fireworks of the world. She never saw him again, but she always remembered him holding her in his arms next to the prayer flags, the shutter clicked softly, and he said: This one is good. ——One step, a lifetime——