I just stared at Mi Cai, but my heart, which had been silent in love for several years, was throbbing. I couldn't speak for a long time. On the busy streets, I lit a cigarette for myself. I turned my head and looked at Mi Cai's figure reflected on the window. It was a little dazed and a bit like a dream.

I spit out a long sip of smoke and rushed straight to Mi Cai, but she didn't avoid it, and she still looked at me with the expression she had just now.

I just pinched the cigarette in my hand, and didn't take another sip. I smiled and asked Mi Cai: "Do you know what I'm thinking?"

"have no idea."

"If time is frozen here, then we will get old, with my eyebrows lowered and my temples gray. We support each other across the road, huddled beside the fire to keep warm. If we still have the strength, I am willing to play the guitar for you and let you sing... But you and I are only 26 years old, no, I am just over 27 years old, and there is still a long way to go in the future, but I have the short leg and cannot match your slender leg, so we will walk all the way..."

Mi Cai didn't say anything, but she must understand what I meant. She was so smart.

I popped off the accumulated ash, took a heavy breath, letting the smoke walk around in pain before spitting it out, and said with a smile: "I love your beauty, like your every smile, but these are not as reliable as falling in love with your wrinkles in my twilight years, so..."

Mi Cai interrupted me, and she smiled back: "Zhaoyang, I want to listen to your singing, now..."

I looked at her in confusion, but the cigarette butt in my hand had already reached the end, burning my hand, and quickly threw it away.

"I want you to sing elope... to me?"

Looking at her expectant expression, I could no longer feel refusal, nodded, and sang in a low voice on the street where the crowds were surging.

"...I dream of true love and freedom. I want to take you to elope to the farthest town. I want to take you to elope to be the happiest person. In a familiar foreign land, I exile myself year by year, through flowers and thorns just for the land of freedom. In the city of desire, you are my last faith. As white as a light of joy illuminates my heart. Don't be sad anymore. I see hope. Do you still have the courage to leave with me? I want to take you to elope to the farthest town. I want to take you to elope to be the happiest person..."

The lyrics seem to tear open the most primitive desire in my heart. I can't control it. It transitions from low voice to hoarseness, and many passers-by stop and stand under the same street light as us, watching us...

"Zhaoyang, just like the song, if you desire true love and freedom, you will definitely walk through thorns and flowers... I want to ask you, do you still have the courage to find the last faith in the city of desire and lead me to the farthest town?"

I looked at the crowded crowd around me, dizzy in my eyes, and the world became dazed again. In my script, I had never written such a plot at this time. What happened to Mi Cai? Even if I wanted to confess my love, it should be me, a man, who confessed his love first, not her, a fairy who fell into the mortal world...

I squatted on the ground and signaled Mi Cai to my back. Without hesitation, Mi Cai bent down and lay on my back. I held her and stood up from the ground to overcome the resistance, then broke through the constraints of the crowd and ran towards the distance. However, I unexpectedly looked sideways and found Li Xiaoyun standing in the crowd. Her figure gradually blurred with the voice of discussion until she disappeared.

...

Avoiding the hustle and bustle of the city, I carried Mi Cai to the ancient moat. Unlike the moat in Suzhou, this moat in Xuzhou is more mottled and old, but also quieter.

I stopped and Mi Cai left my body. I bent over and breathed heavily. In addition to releasing madness and joy, the way also brought a heavy burden to my body.

I lay on the withered lawn, Mi Cai sat beside me, she took out a tissue and handed it to me.

"Thank you." I took the tissue from her hand and wiped off the sweat from my face.

A gust of wind blew, and a sound of firecrackers blew up, fireworks in the distance, and we were also silenced.

Mi Cai seemed a little tired, and she lay down beside me.

I wanted to take out the cigarette from my pocket, but found that the cigarette box had been left behind in the violent running just now. I was a little nervous, but I still followed my inner thoughts and said to Mi Cai beside me: "Wait for me... and wait for me to rest for a while and confess my love to you..."

"Well... do you want cigarettes? I'll buy them for you."

"Yes, but you have to go a long way to buy it. Aren't you afraid of being tired?"

Mi Cai shook her head: "Not afraid, I can take a walk and take a break, but don't forget to confess to me later."

"Okay, wait for you to come back."

"Well, what cigarette do you want?"

"Zhongnanhai at point 8."

Mi Cai nodded and was about to leave, but I stopped her again: "Wait..."

"What's wrong?"

"Are you... nervous?"

"Nervous...so, I need a walk, you need smoke."

"You're right, then you can walk slowly, but you must come back."

Mi Cai smiled: "Are you afraid that you won't be able to smoke, or are you afraid that I won't come back?"

"I'm afraid you won't come back, you can always buy cigarettes. If you don't buy them, I can buy them myself."

"I see."

"Well, go, bring you, bring me your faith, come back together... no matter how long it takes."

...

Mi Cai left, and only herself was left in my world, so she sat up from the lawn with melancholy and a little loss, and then looked at the rippling river surface in a daze.

I can imagine what will happen in half an hour or maybe an hour later.

Last year, she was 26 years old, and I met her. She is my landlord or a tenant. This year, she is 27 years old, but she has become my girlfriend and helped me find the long-lost faith.

But what is my mood now? It is hard to explain it clearly, but I know that it's time to fight. I don't want to be the leg that is shorter than her, and I don't want her to accommodate me and support me to move forward.

But what level should I reach to be able to move forward smoothly with her? I feel a little disappointed because I have no plan for my career now, and my thinking is still stuck in seeking a stable job. Obviously, this so-called stable job can no longer satisfy me.

Joy and confusion coexist. I received a message, which was sent by Jian Wei: "Zhaoyang, I have already gotten back with Aji. You can pay off the money you owe Aji yourself."

I know that when Jian Wei saw Aji, she probably already knew that I used this guitar to exchange for another guitar and gave it to Micai, so she didn't give Aji money. This is easy to understand. If she gave Aji money, the taylor guitar would have been given to Micai indirectly. Isn't this black humor?

I read this message many times again, but I felt that the gears of fate seemed to be turning between us. When the guitar returned to Jian Wei again, it means that we had at least completely drawn a boundary in material terms and erased the unforgettable mark from then on. On the same day, I got together with Mi Cai because I liked it. Is this a coincidence or fate?
Chapter completed!