One ordinary afternoon, she drove Xiaobai's ashes to the cemetery for burial. While on the bridge, she was distracted for a moment and the car rushed straight into the air from the bridge. Due to gravity, it fell rapidly into the river under the bridge.
At that moment, there was not much fear on her face. Instead of being afraid of death, she felt more relieved.
"What are you doing!" Zhang You stretched out her hand to grab her past self, hoping to make her sober up, but she was still powerless to change anything.
She looked at the rapidly changing scene in front of her with a somewhat dull look in her eyes. It seemed as if her eyes penetrated time and space and looked at her present self. She was saying: I am really tired after so many years.
Zhang You watched herself give up struggling and fall to the bottom of the river with the car, waiting for the river water to rush into the car through the gaps in the windows, waiting for the cold river water to wrap her up, waiting for death to come.
"No, you can't just die like this, you can't do this!
Unbuckle your seatbelt and find a way out! How could you just give up like that?! Have you forgotten how your life was saved? They didn't abandon you! Why would you give up on yourself for someone else?
Zhang You!
Wake up! "
Perhaps she had forgotten this memory in the past few years, got to know that group of people, and started a new life. When Zhang You looked back on her past again, she couldn't even empathize with herself at that time.
Having witnessed with her own eyes the sacrifices her parents made to save her and the people around her trying every possible way to pull her out of the quagmire, she couldn't really die without any worries.
But the self sitting quietly in the car showed no signs of struggle, just sitting there blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.
She once again fell into her own world.
Zhang You wanted to reach out and grab her, but that body seemed to have a suction force, pulling her into the drowning memories.
She really walked alone for a long time... a long time...
That year, when the earthquake struck, her mother, with her faint breath, urged the frightened young girl, "Youyou, you must persevere... Mom and Dad will protect you. Don't be afraid, don't give up... You must hold on until the uncles come to rescue you..."
She obeyed and persisted until rescue, but she lost them forever...
The day her aunt brought her home, she gently touched the top of her head and said softly, "Don't be afraid, Xiaoyou. Come home with me. This will be your home from now on."
She obeyed, but that was not her home, they never really accepted her...
Her brother hated her and complained to his aunt several times. Zhang You had overheard him saying, "I don't want a sister like that. She'll only steal Mom from me. Mom, can you please not take her in? I don't want her to be my sister!"
She was obedient, so she didn't fight or grab, she just didn't want to be kicked out...
After she went to college, her grandmother couldn't wait for her to leave. "I told you, that little girl is already an adult. You raised her safely. Why do you feel sorry for your sister? Do you really have to stay in our house? Are you still planning to use my son's money to subsidize her? She's already in college, why would she need it?"
She was obedient, she rarely went back, and she gave up on them...
But someone was still thinking about the money she spent at her aunt's house over the years, and contacted her to ask for money without telling her aunt. Zhang You knew she was in the wrong, so she transferred the money to her sister-in-law.
After my aunt found out last year, they had a fierce argument on the phone. My sister-in-law scolded my aunt: "Doesn't her food and drink over the years count as money? Why can't I get it back? What does she have to do with you? You have to take care of her so attentively! Can't you even ask me to help buy something? I'm your daughter-in-law! When you're old, your son and I will support you! You got angry at me for an outsider! Believe it or not, I will make sure that no one will care about you until you die!"
In the end, my aunt didn't get any advantage from my sister-in-law. She could only cry on the phone: "Xiaoyou, I'm sorry, aunt... I have my reasons... You... You don't need to contact us anymore in the future. You don't owe us anything..."
She was obedient and didn't tell them a thing about her illness or accident...
She has persisted for a very long time over the years...
Living alone is really tiring...
Zhang You could clearly feel that her heart seemed to be paralyzed and she could not feel any warmth at all. Even though she vaguely remembered that it was not the case, she was still immersed in that memory and could not break free.
Those pessimistic thoughts always pop up uncontrollably; those painful emotions are always suppressed in the heart, making it difficult to breathe.
Really, very tired, very tired...
The cold river water poured into her nostrils and mouth, squeezing her internal organs and even washing away her consciousness.
Her consciousness sank and her memory became fuzzy. She could vaguely remember that she and Chunhua were running for their lives, and many people were chasing them with ferocious looks.
What happened next?
How did you fall into the water?
It seems like there is someone important here?
…
Never mind, it doesn’t matter anymore.
It's all over.
Her soul was falling rapidly, as if a pair of invisible hands were holding her down. However, at this moment, her consciousness was cloudy and she just wanted to end it all quickly.
until……
Familiar voices echoed between heaven and earth. What I could hear in my ears were familiar calls and their sorrowful cries.
"Yuzu!"
"Yuyu! Don't sleep!"
Zhang You suddenly opened his eyes, and what he saw was the familiar ruins and the parents he had been thinking about for many years but could never find.
Dad...Mom...
Zhang You looked at them, but couldn't move at all. She was trapped in the same place, still in the state of a soul. She could only be trapped ten meters away and watch everything that happened to them quietly.
Everything here had a completely different ending from what she remembered.
In this earthquake, it was not her parents who died, but her young daughter.
After the disaster, her parents buried her with great pain.
They moved to a new place and started a new life.
But, the smiles on their faces became less.
There was a photo of the only remaining family of three of them at home. Every night, the mother would hold the photo and cry. The father had also become much more decadent. He no longer loved to joke like before. He would just quietly hold his wife and comfort her with his silent companionship.
"If there really is a parallel world in this world, can our Youyou survive? Will she not leave us?" Mom couldn't stop crying and talked about an unknown possibility while hugging Dad.
Their lives are not satisfactory.
Perhaps because they could not forget her, they did not have any more children and were always keen on doing charity.
Twenty years passed like this, and they died in a traffic accident.
That day, also on that bridge...
"don't want!"
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