The Immortal Will Never Return

A young man in the late Qin Dynasty said to a girl, "Wait until I come back." Two thousand years later, the museum displayed the last letter she wrote to him. There is only one sentence at the end of the letter: May you live forever and may you always remember that you are not coming back. He thought that when the war was over, he would go back and marry her. He thought that when the world was at peace, he could compensate his old friend. He thought he would be able to explain it clearly by waiting for the next spring. He thought that when he was ready, he could say goodbye to the past. But people will die, cities will be destroyed, letters will be burned, ships will sail away, and old friends will stop waiting in some ordinary dusk.