"On the contrary, I think you're just reluctant to tear down the wall in your heart."
"How so?"
"Because you've already defined yourself as an ordinary person, how can the world welcome you with an open attitude... For you, Dali is a wall. You feel there's warmth in the world inside the wall, so you give up all the sunshine in the world. But even in Dali, it snows on Cangshan Mountain in winter!"
Something seemed to strike my heart. I took a deep drag on my cigarette and fell into deep thought…
After a long while, I said to her, "I have thought about what you said, but I still don't want to leave Dali, and I don't want to go back to Shanghai."
"I want to know why you're so stubborn?"
"This is about a promise I made to someone... Actually, we're the same. You never opened your heart to anyone again because of a promise to wait, and I closed myself off in Dali because of a promise... But I'm much luckier than you because I met Coach Ma, Tie Nan, and Bai Lu here, friends I can treat like family, while you've always been so lonely... Compared to that, making money is a difficult thing for me... Genuine happiness is even more difficult for you!"
Ye Zhi forced a smile and replied, "So, we're all pitiful people who were held back by promises."
"I'm alright, because there are so many things in my life that I can't have, so I've gotten used to this kind of regret... But you, I'm afraid you can't!"
Ye Zhi didn't say anything more, and I didn't feel like I had won the debate, because I never considered her my enemy; she was a friend that fate had arranged for me to be.
In theory, if I hadn't helped her on the highway, our class differences would have kept us in two separate worlds, and we would never have met.
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