She really wanted to agree to Su Lixian's request, but a voice in her heart kept telling her not to agree to Su Lixian's request.
No.
"There are still some wild fruits in the cave. They will be used up. There are not many of them." Su Lixian said intermittently, "Before... we have been saving them. But two people... are not enough. We have to keep one person alive until we can bring the special medicine out. Do you understand me?"
Lin Yuzi said nothing.
She understood. She certainly understood what Su Lixian meant.
but……
“…”
Su Li first lowered her head, straightened Lin Yuzi's messy hair, brushed off the dust on Lin Yuzi's body, and picked up the lipstick in her pocket - this was something she always carried with her so she could use it when attending certain occasions.
She put a dot of lipstick on Lin Yuzi's cracked and white lips, like a touch of blood on the snow.
"Don't move."
Her voice was low.
"...Tamako, I want to see you, looking pretty."
Don't refuse my request, you have to live well.
I want to remember your beautiful appearance in my mind for the last time.
I want to use my last chance to do the last things I want to do.
Draw, hum songs, and put on a beautiful makeup for you.
Even if I die I will never forget it.
In the dark cave, only a ray of morning light shines through the cracks and falls on the two of them. Lipstick paints their lips, drawing a bright color.
There was an incomprehensible calmness in their eyes, as if they were not the ones about to die.
No one spoke, as if their souls had briefly escaped from this confined cave and rushed into a dawn that had not yet arrived.
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