Just then,
As he awaited the judgment of fate——
Another protagonist finally walked up to him.
"Tick, tick, tick."
It was like a fateful reunion in a movie. The hero leaning against a stone wall in despair, and the heroine with her long black hair flying in the flames.
The girl's cheeks seemed too white in the red vision, and one could even see blue veins on her arms, like clear water flowing under the sun. Her eyes were not sharp, but they reminded people of the gurgling stream under the hills, or the butterfly that was about to wither on the rose. When she looked at him, her eyes were always mixed with a bit of despair and sorrow.
She was wearing pure white clothes, like a drizzle of snow falling from a raging fire.
She didn't carry much obsession or madness, just calmness. It was a kind of calmness that the ending was already determined and there was no need to find it again.
The world was very quiet, the fire isolated everything from the outside world, and for a moment, it seemed that the only sound here was her footsteps.
The two protagonists meet here - the perspective of the film finally reverses, like the intersection of light and shadow.
"Asagao, we've met before, right? Before the reset."
Su Mingan finally asked this question.
She looked at him with complicated eyes, her gaze fixated on him closely.
"...I have seen it." She could finally stop denying it.
"But why do you remember?" the young man asked.
——Until now, Su Mingan still can't understand her.
Asagao just smiled.
——Until now, her efforts have been in vain.
The end of the story has already ended here, but the young man seems to have just reached the beginning of the story. On the screen, the heroine has done everything she can do, and the audience suddenly realizes her existence.
——It turns out that there was a heroine in the shadows in this movie. But why did her name never appear in the cast list until the final announcement?
Chao Yan reached out her hand and wiped the faint tears from her face, and then her whole body began to tremble - she was afraid that everything she had done would return to the starting point, afraid that their intersecting gazes would eventually fall into nothingness. Rolling back was truly the most terrifying power, it would erase all efforts, persistence, and beliefs, and turn a person into a madman after repeated failures.
"Why are you..." Su Mingan spoke slowly, the countdown of the bomb in his body getting louder and louder:
"...Looks like you're about to cry?"
Her smile blossomed like a flower withering in the fire, and her tears fell to the ground.
"How hateful." She whispered to herself, a voice only she could hear.
——Because I love your enthusiasm and miss your persistence.
"How hateful! You still don't remember me." Her voice was as gentle as a breeze in a fire.
——I am sad, but I know it's not your fault.
"Go to hell, go to hell, don't let me start over again."
——But I will still persist until the day of the happy ending. I still hope that you...will live.
They were staring at each other through the raging fire, but it was like they were separated by nine thin layers of time. As she approached him step by step, the first layer, the second layer, the third layer... these thin layers of time were shattered by her fiercely until the ninth layer.
Crash--crash--
She broke through the constraints of time layer by layer, leaping over the witch's shouts and the flames of war, leaping over ignorant believers and hypocritical politicians, passing by the traveling ark and the tower bells, passing by the free wind and the high-flying birds - the protagonist finally broke through all the barriers of time and walked in front of him.
There were traces of burns on her cheeks - these were the purple-black pits left by her burning her life on the seventh day.
There was a shallow knife scar on her neck - this was because she was almost cut in the neck by someone when she was suppressing those politicians.
The circles around her eyes were extremely dark blue - this was the result of taking psychiatric drugs many times in order to stay awake.
There were several wounds caused by coral cuts on her calves - these were the scars caused in the sea water when she pulled the unconscious Alice and Su Mingan out of the water.
These were just the traumas endured in this short eight days. The other traumas buried in time... were too numerous to count.
"Because... I..." Her voice stopped here. She shook her head and smiled again.
The bomb is about to explode, so many misses, so much despair... I don't have time to tell you. What you see is just a strange girl with scars all over her body, not the protagonist who suppresses your shadow.
She suddenly stepped forward and threw herself forward with all her might.
"You--" Su Mingan didn't have time to push her away.
He could only see her last fiery, smiling, tearful, and complicated look. Even though he didn't remember anything, he could still feel this strange girl, no, this familiar girl.
"The...promise of the stars..." His voice faded away.
The melted candy fell on Su Mingan's leg and burned a wound.
“Ding ding ding——Boom——!!!”
The bomb exploded.
The person who was killed in the explosion along with him was the girl who threw herself in front of him.
Flesh and blood exploded, and the two people's clothes and scraps of flesh were mixed together, and no one could tell one from the other.
Only Su Mingan's fallen eyeball was lying on the ground, as if staring forever.
…
The sea breeze blew Su Mingan's hair.
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