Three years later.
Gu Yunzheng retired early, basking in glory.
Zhou Yue's travel plans, which she had been working on for three years, finally began.
They set off from the capital and traveled south, stopping in every city they visited, where they took many group photos.
At first, they posted the photos in WeChat groups, but there were so many that they often overshadowed their family's normal communication. So they opened an account on a social media platform and posted all the group photos there.
At first, only Gu Xiaoyue, Zhou Xiaonian, and the Gu family members frequently browsed the site, using the photos to understand their whereabouts and mood.
After all, they were two elderly people in their fifties or sixties. They didn't want to bring an assistant or a tour guide, and they did whatever they wanted.
Perhaps because their photos and captions were of high quality, the platform attracted a lot of traffic, and they became famous travel bloggers in just one or two months.
"I guess I've made a living as an internet celebrity."
After traveling from north to south for half a year, stopping and starting along the way, they finally returned to Jiangcheng, Zhou Yue's birthplace.
Zhou Yue hadn't been back for decades, and everything seemed very unfamiliar.
Kowloon Cafe and Mong Kok Cafe have become memories of the past in Wuhan. Even the original site of McDonald's can no longer be found during urban redevelopment. Only the airport residential area is still inhabited.
Zhou Yue led Gu Yunzheng to the airport living area and found Building 16 by following her memory.
Building No. 16 has remained largely unchanged in appearance and has been maintained and cleaned for decades, so apart from the lack of people in the courtyard, it is well-maintained.
The wampee and pomegranate trees in the yard had grown taller, and Zhou Yue could still find the names she and Zhou Xiaonian had carved on the trunks.
Zhou Yue walked slowly in the courtyard, touching the walls inch by inch. The happy memories of being with her parents when she was a child, the tragic memories after losing her parents, and the memories of being reborn here after Zhou Guiying came were gradually brought back to life.
The couple were slowly touring the place when a hesitant voice came from behind them: "Zhou Yue, are you Zhou Yue?"
She was a woman in her fifties with a kind face.
Zhou Yue recognized her at a glance: "Are you Miss Chang from Building 15?"
Chang Feifei smiled happily: "I thought I had mistaken you for someone else. It really is you."
Chang Feifei was a few years older than Zhou Yue. The two weren't close when they were young, but that didn't stop them from having tea together. After tea, Chang Feifei warmly invited her to stay at her home.
"No, I had someone tidy up the house before I came back, and I'm going back to my own place tonight."
"Okay, I'll stay next door. Just let me know if you need anything. By the way, you're not leaving so soon, are you? Jiangcheng has changed a lot over the years. You haven't been back for so long, you can have a good look around."
"good."
Before returning, Zhou Yue had arranged for someone to deliver a lot of household supplies to her home, including clean bedding, so she and Gu Yunzheng could move in immediately.
That night, Zhou Yue had a dream.
She dreamt that she didn't divorce Zheng Fangshu, but continued to be entangled with him for more than ten years. In the end, her fifteen-year-old daughter suffered a depressive episode and hanged herself with a towel in the closet, while she jumped into the river.
When Zhou Yue woke up from her dream, she was breathing rapidly and covered in sweat.
Gu Yunzheng turned on the light: "What's wrong?"
"I had a dream..."
After hearing about her dream, Gu Yunzheng embraced her: "It was just a dream."
"It's so real, it feels like my past life, that helplessness is so real."
"Were you reading a novel?"
"...Yes, I saw it."
"I won't watch these mindless novels and short dramas anymore; they'll affect my mindset."
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