They stood on the black-sailed boat. The sounds of fireworks and cheers mixed together in their ears. The sea breeze blew, and a few strands of her white hair fluttered past his eyes.
So many lives, so many years... This was the first time he saw the white hair on her temples.
"What would a centenarian look like?" Yueyue said.
"My body is no longer flexible. I get tired after walking a few steps. I have to take medicine from time to time. My thinking becomes sluggish. I even forget the people around me. It's like I've turned into a child again..." Su Mingan recalled his grandmother's appearance: "Will you regret giving up using the power of life to maintain your youth?"
Yueyue's eyes paused for a moment and she shook her head.
"I have stayed in my youth for too long. I want to give myself to the years. Because I have spent these decades with you... I really feel..."
She covered her heart and said softly:
“…very happy.”
"I thought I would grow old and my soul would lose its vitality, until my entire existence disappeared in a certain world. You would gradually forget me and just think that you couldn't find me. This is the ending that I have imagined countless times, and it belongs to me."
"But now, I seem to have a little pre-apocalyptic vision."
"I cannot live without you, and I am sure that you are someone I cannot give up... someone who is different from family and love."
"I want to grow old...with the memory of this kind of companionship."
The wupeng boats sailed into a remote waterway, and the number of people on the street gradually decreased.
She suddenly grabbed his hand, and under the starry sky, she moved on her toes and began to spin.
His wrist was gently pulled by her, and he spun slightly along with hers. At that moment, he recognized her several steps in advance. This was... the dance she danced at the graduation party that year.
It was her favorite song, her favorite dance move.
Back then, she wore a princess-like puffy skirt and bravely revealed the scars of domestic violence on her body. They condensed into an independent and strong soul named "Yueyue".
At this time, she was wearing a sailing suit, which made a jingling sound when she jumped, which was not suitable for dancing. The Wupeng boat was narrow and even less suitable for staggered dance steps, but she persisted in holding his hand.
Long ago, she had to wear a skirt before she dared to dance in public, but now no clothing can limit her.
Su Mingan vaguely realized that for him, this was just a journey that could be described in a few words, and it passed in the blink of an eye. But for her, she had been with him for a full twenty years.
Their perception of time made it seem as if there was an enormous chasm between them.
But at this moment... when the lady pulled off her veil, bent towards the gentleman, stretched out her hand, blinked, and smiled... all the barriers collapsed in an instant.
The same white hand was stretched out towards him, and the other hand gently pinched his wrist. As long as he nodded, it seemed that a passionate dance music would start immediately.
The lady raised her lips and whispered:
…
"…May I?"
…
The moonlight is like splashed silver.
The black-sailed boat stayed on the river like a leaf, and no one paid attention to where it would drift.
The silent night tells whispers, the moonlight shines through the sparse leaves, sprinkling down in patches, and their shoulders are adorned with moonlit gems.
"…Sure."
The man responded to the woman, gently holding her wrist and slowly spinning with her. Even though there was silence, it seemed as if dance music was playing in their ears - it was the memory of her absence for a hundred years.
Every step is like the reflection of the waves of the river, and every turn is like the rotation of stars in the sky. It seems that what I am wearing is no longer a sailing suit, but a well-fitting suit and dance dress.
Shadows stretched and shortened on the boat deck, and everything seemed to become a dancing partner. Moonlight, starlight, water flow, long wind, swaying branches, mottled light and shadow, the sound of tapping boots, the creaking sound of the tilting boat... It was like an old man whispering a story belonging to the moonlit night, a memory belonging to a girl named "Yueyue", whispering slowly in this flowing sound.
She said the girl never regretted it.
She said that the girl became someone she had never dared to imagine before.
She said...
The girl has gained happiness in her life. This happiness does not come from wealth or love, but from her empty heart which is gradually being filled.
She finally got lasting peace and eternity.
She has never been missing anything in her life.
It seemed that at this moment, in the dance, she became the young girl at the graduation party again, like a blank sheet of paper, not understanding many things but having the courage to sacrifice.
The starlight swirls around her dim eyes, and the moonlight flows around his silent eyes.
They danced in the narrow space, dividing the moonlight in disorder, as if they had returned to the past in an instant. That night, under the dim street lights, she took him to dance in an empty alley, with the only audience being wild cats and moonlight.
For him, that was a year ago.
To her, that was a hundred years ago.
“That day was the first time I felt the center of attention.”
"That was the princess's dance dress I borrowed. It didn't belong to me. I was just a thief who briefly stepped onto the stage, an ugly duckling who pretended to wear Cinderella's crystal shoes."
"…But after leaving the stage, the minutes I spent dancing with you, the minutes I spent dancing with you…I didn't have a single second of it. It was stolen."
"I never thought that we could have such a time together. I am really... happy."
"If one day, you really leave me and you can no longer find me in the endless world...then, please remember that the person named Yueyue has already found happiness."
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