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I didn't leave the ancient city; I just found a very quiet alley and ordered a dozen "Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon" books to while away the seemingly peaceful night, which left me with very complicated feelings.
After finishing two bottles of beer, I lit a cigarette. After smoking half of it, I fiddled with the lighter, thinking that this would distract me. But I still thought about Shanghai and all the rights and wrongs that were related to me there.
It has to be said that the world's fate is truly ingenious... Before I met Yang Sisi and Ye Zhi, there were Wang Lei and Lu Jia in Shanghai... After they left in different ways, Yang Sisi and Ye Zhi returned to Shanghai in different ways.
It seems that Shanghai holds a place I can't let go of, whether in the past, present, or future. It's not necessarily a particular person, but rather the things we experienced together.
I took a deep drag on my cigarette and forced myself to stop thinking about anything related to Shanghai. I focused all my attention on the female singer singing in the bar across the street. She seemed quite lonely, because apart from a waiter and a bartender, the only other people in the bar were her and the bar owner smoking by the window.
She didn't have a real audience, but she still sat professionally on that dimly lit stage, the guitar in her hand looking more like a toy than a musical instrument at first glance.
After finishing one song, she performed another. Before singing, she murmured to herself, "This is a song that means a lot to me, from Zheng Jun's 'Run Away'... I don't know how many people are like me, who eloped to Dali with someone else? I also don't know how many people are different from me, who choose to stay in Dali even after someone has left... Staying in Dali isn't about waiting for anyone, but because that spirit in my heart is still there... If, in this life, another man I love appears... I'm still willing to elope with him to find happiness in life... That's the spirit in my heart... If you love him, you have to be with him, no matter how difficult it is!"
After saying all that, she began to sing...
The way a woman sings this song is certainly not as fierce as a man's, but it has a captivating gentleness that I found myself completely mesmerized...
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