She picked up "Love in the Time of Cholera" and touched the notes left by Chen Ya on the title page.
This sentence written by Chen Ya is also a sentence in the book, which was said by a woman:
"After all, love is an instinct. You either get it right the first time or you never get it in your life."
She didn’t quite understand this sentence before, but now she seems to understand it a little in her confusion: getting along with others requires learning, but loving someone does not require learning, it is innate.
Speaking of "Love in the Time of Cholera", it is also a story about waiting.
For love, the man waited for the woman for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days.
From the moment he fell in love with her, he held on to this love like a belief for the rest of his life.
There is no need to ask what the benefits are or doubt why you should do this. This is faith.
Liu Ruyan feels that her love is her faith, even if it seems foolish to others.
She turned over the manuscript paper placed under the book, and page after page was filled with memories of Chen Ya.
That was her way of protecting her memory. She wrote down some memories of him every day and read them every day. In this way, she could imprint him more deeply in her heart.
In recent days, she has always had a feeling that something is about to break out of its shell.
Suddenly, she understood something, as if all the energy in her life was suddenly connected by a thread, forming a complete shape.
She picked up the pen, pressed it on the paper, paused, and then wrote a line:
"Living Together Offside".
Then, she thought for a moment and wrote:
"The story begins when the hyacinths bloom..."
…
One morning in March, Liu Ruyan suddenly noticed that the leaves of the hyacinth pot that Chen Ya gave her had been drooping for a long time.
Before we knew it, it was the season for hyacinths to bloom again.
But the teacher's hyacinths did not bloom.
She put on gloves and, without much effort, pulled up the poor plant along with its roots.
It was undoubtedly dead and its roots were rotten.
Just at this moment, the door opened and Chen Ya pushed it open and came in.
Liu Ruyan had thought of many scenarios of his and her reunion, but she never expected that when she saw him, she would be wearing an apron and holding a rotten hyacinth in her hand.
A girl with long black hair walked out from behind Chen Ya. When she saw Liu Ruyan, she wrinkled her nose and said in stiff Chinese:
"Is this the woman you must see?"
At this moment, Chen Ya was only focused on looking at Liu Ruyan, and nodded in his spare time.
The girl with long black hair walked up to Liu Ruyan, put her hands on her hips in a feigned threatening manner, as if she wanted to compete with him for seniority, while also trying to gather information. After searching her mind for a long time, she asked:
"How long have you and Ya been in love?"
Like Florentino Ariza in Love in the Time of Cholera, she had prepared the answer every day and night for the past fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days (if she had that long):
"For a lifetime," she said.
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