Until Su Li spoke first:
"You have to grow up to be someone you can be proud of."
Lin Yuzi's lips turned from pale to rosy, and even bright red.
Lipstick was smeared on her lips, and very close to her were Su Lixian's eyelashes. His exhaled breath sprayed on her face.
"You have to grow up to be a free person."
The bright red color painted her lips, making them no longer lose their color.
"Shout out to the white bird, you have grown into a very good person..."
Su Lixian's fingers began to tremble. Gradually, her singing voice became lower and lower, and her eyes became darker and darker...
"Click."
The lipstick fell to the ground.
The bright red color left a long mark from Lin Yuzi's lips to her cheek.
“Bang.”
The glass bottle fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and the starry light still flowed in it, condensing the long history of mankind.
Lin Yuzi didn't pick it up. She leaned over, shaking and crying silently. She pressed her tightly clenched fist against her throat, as if she could suppress the grief and anger that filled her body.
…
Su Lixian was in a coma for several days, and even when she was awake, she refused to be fed by Lin Yuzi. She wanted to leave the remaining food to Lin Yuzi so that she could take the special medicine out.
She even suggested that after her death, Lin Yuzi could eat her corpse.
On the fourteenth day in the cave, both of them seemed to have a premonition. Lin Yuzi held Su Lixian and sat in the sun, listening to her faint breathing, which became smaller and smaller.
Su Lixian was unable to speak, so Lin Yuzi asked finally.
Do you regret it?
Su Lixian moved his fingers slightly and slowly wrote on Lin Yuzi's palm.
--No.
Lin Yuzi asked.
Mr. Li, if you had the chance to do it again, would you take Su Shize's glass bottle?
Su Lixian wrote.
--meeting.
Lin Yuzi asked again.
Is there anything you want to say to your family that I can bring out for you?
Su Lixian's fingers moved with difficulty. She couldn't write long sentences. She could only write short sentences that were concise and clear.
Lin Yuzi felt her palms itchy as she moved her fingers slightly. Su Lixian's handwriting was written very heavily.
——Wen, Sheng.
——Mom, mom, love you.
Lin Yuzi felt as if she was falling.
Fallen in this cruel and glorious war of civilizations, fell in this vast and infinite human love.
She choked and spoke in a trembling voice.
Li Xian, you will always be my best friend. I love you too.
Su Lixian seemed to smile.
Her facial muscles were so stiff that it was hard to tell whether she was smiling or not. But Lin Yuzi felt that Su Lixian must be smiling, and her smile must be very beautiful, even if she couldn't see it.
With a slight movement of her fingers, Lin Yuzi got the answer.
like.
The first word was written lightly and slowly.
like.
Then, the second identical word was written a little faster.
like.
Finally, the third word was written very quickly.
Su Lixian wrote the word "love" three times in a row on her palm.
Love - the answer to all questions.
Do you regret it?
——Because of love, I have no regrets.
Mr. Li, if you had the chance to do it again, would you take Su Shize's glass bottle?
——Because of love, I will accept it.
Is there anything you want to say to your family that I can bring out for you?
——I want to devote all the complicated and trivial words to "love".
I love you all.
So, everything was answered.
The most famous mystic of the time closed her eyes completely. The last trace she left in the world was three words of "love".
Her best doctor friend hugged her tightly, the lipstick on her lips brushing against her cheek, as if a bright flame was burning in their eye sockets.
"like……"
Only repeated sobs echoed in the empty cave, where there was only one life left.
At this moment, Lin Yuzi finally understood why Su Lixian looked at her that way before.
At that moment, when he mentioned the rose, the most famous mystic of the time was not thinking about his bright future or his own life.
She said she wanted to live, and what she cherished was not her own life, but Lin Yuzi's life.
——If Su Lixian died here, the next person to take over the flame would be Lin Yuzi. Once she took over the flame, it would mean that Lin Yuzi would also become the next "Su Lixian" to die.
So, when painting the roses, Su Lixian looked at Lin Yuzi like that because she felt guilty.
Sorry to drag you into this civilized war.
I'm sorry to have you become the next link the fire.
I'm sorry that I didn't survive and that you were forced to accept the same fate as me.
sorry……
I'm sorry.
“…”
After a moment, a sound like the roar of a wild beast was heard from the silent cave, which was so sad that it did not sound like a human.
The scalding water dripped onto the ground, and Lin Yuzi seemed to have turned back into a child. She instinctively hugged her best friend, who was still warm, tightly, rubbing her cheek over and over again, her pupils out of focus.
She placed her hand close to Su Lixian's chest, and stayed on the heart that was no longer beating for a moment. Then she touched the glass bottle in her inner pocket without hesitation.
Until—
An old heart broke.
A new Firebearer is born.
…
"Tamako, we got admitted to the same graduate school! That's great."
"Yuzi, I like the guard named Liu. Even though he can't speak, and people around me advised me that his family conditions are too poor. But I just like him. I think if you like someone, you can't shy away from him just because of his financial conditions, but you have to look at his character. I like him very much."
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