Wanggui Bridge

Chen Wang has known since he was a child that he is different from others. He could see the "waiting people" on the bridge—an old man waiting for someone, a woman waiting for a letter, and a man waiting for an apology. No one in the village thought he was strange. The candied haws seller Lao Zhou gave him a bunch every day. Aunt Li passed by and stuffed a steamed bun, and Uncle Wang nodded at him. He thought life would go on like this. Until one day, he discovered—— Those who gave him warmth had a faint shadow behind them. On the other side of the bridge, stood a man exactly like him. He is waiting. Waiting for someone to ferry him.