The next day, Zhang Yixi and Anqi set out from Shanghai and took Osaka, Japan as the first stop of their global journey. At the same time, they also took away my expectations. I look forward to one day in the future they will bring me a reply from Mi Cai.

As usual, after having a simple breakfast at the bun shop downstairs, I went to the company and I convened members of the game development department to hold a long exchange meeting. At this time, our game development progress was in the middle and late stages, and it would not take long for the first internal test to be conducted.

At the meeting, we discussed some operation methods in the game. I told them about my own experience of trying out "Dragon Travels in the World". I hope they can be more humane in the research and development of game operations. In my philosophy, game quality is the basis of all competitive means and marketing strategies. If a game cannot surpass its opponent in quality, why should it seize customer resources from its opponents?

At noon, while I was having a working meal in the company, I received a notice from the company's operation department that the "Mochou Coffee Shop" in Nanjing had completed all the renovation work, which was 2 days ahead of schedule. They hoped that I could go to the review this afternoon. If there was no problem here, the coffee shop would start trial business the day after tomorrow.

I was full of expectations for "Mochou Coffee Shop". Even though I moved the work at hand to tomorrow, I notified my assistant to book a train ticket to Nanjing in the afternoon. I really didn't want to miss any opportunity to walk on Mochou Road. Even though it had already come from the spring to the summer now, I still clearly remember every picture and detail we separated on Mochou Road that day!

After lunch, I didn't even reserve some rest time for myself. I immediately asked my assistant to drive me to the train station. After a while, I took the high-speed rail from Suzhou to Nanjing.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, I arrived in Nanjing, got off the train and rushed to Mochou Road. At this time, Mochou Road had some changes. What I saw most were the freezers and umbrellas on both sides of the road. The primary school students who went to school stayed next to these freezers, exchanged their pocket money for popsicles and cold drinks that made them feel very happy, and then chattered about who had the better taste. But even so, the road became much deserted because of the hot weather, and only the group of children holding popsicles were still running and playing fearlessly...

After walking 200 meters westward at the starting point of Mochou Road, I saw the "Mochou Coffee Shop" with a brand new shop sign. I stood outside the door and looked at it. This was indeed what I wanted. I especially like the glass windows made of rainbow shapes, and various flowers and plants arranged irregularly outside the glass windows... I seemed to see one day in the future, Mi Cai would stand in front of this rainbow glass window, just like when I was in Xuzhou, facing the afterglow of the sunset, and watching me in the coffee shop being busy for work, but she was as leisure as ever!

Yes, in my consciousness, I never wanted her to become the president of a company that undertakes many lives. What I like most is the little woman who is so idle that she puts all her energy on me and my family, but reality always deviates from expectations. She may not be as leisurely as she did in Xuzhou in this life!

I pushed open the colorful door and entered the coffee shop I designed myself. I stood in front of the bar and looked around. The display style inside was full of randomness. All the tables and chairs were arranged irregularly, and even the drinking utensils were not uniform... I wanted this style. Then I nodded with satisfaction, then found a place close to the window according to my preferences, sat down, and asked the barista for a cup of iced tea.

While waiting, the store manager came to me and asked me uncertainly: "Are you Mr. Zhao?"

I nodded and smiled, and then signaled her to sit down and chat. She seemed to have a lot of things to say to me. Before I could help her call her for a drink, she said, "Mr. Zhao, I was hired as a store manager by the company with a high salary, and I am also the person who directly takes charge of the company on behalf of this coffee shop... I am bluntly speaking, it is very difficult for this coffee shop to make a profit. In response to this, I have also communicated with Minister Chen of the company's marketing development department. We have the same viewpoint because this coffee shop really has too many limitations, but Minister Chen said you don't think so, so I'm very curious. What can President Zhao do to make this Mochou coffee shop profitable?"

"Actually, you and Minister Shen have made mistakes in inertial thinking. You have also underestimated the influence of the Path of Literature and Art Project. So what you see now is only partial defects of this coffee shop, but ignore the overall environment... Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province, and it is also a top-level developed second-tier city with a huge tourism market and developed transportation. Jiangsu is the birthplace of our Path of Literature and Art. Our crowds are the most dense here, so we can completely ignore the market environment of this street. Only tourists who come here can maintain the operation of this coffee shop!"

The store manager looked at me incredibly, and I was not annoyed by her doubts. After all, on the road of literature and art, Mochou Coffee Shop is the second coffee shop that completely ignores the surrounding market environment after the old city. However, it has been operating at a loss to the west of the old city, so this has caused them to fall into such an inertial thinking. However, based on the latest statistics obtained from the data center, I judged that this Mochou Coffee Shop will be different from the west of the old city in Suzhou in terms of profitability.

I took out my cell phone from my pocket, then took a few photos of Mochou Coffee Shop, and posted them on my Weibo, and said: I will hold a small performance of pure guitar playing here tonight.

The company's employees all follow my Weibo, so the store manager who was still by my side and did not leave immediately posted my updated Weibo. She exclaimed: "Mr. Zhao, you are so fond of Mochou Coffee Shop. You dedicated your first personal public performance to this most ordinary coffee shop... This, I want to know why you love this coffee shop so much. In fact, I was already surprised that you were able to come here in person today!"

I lit a cigarette under some thoughts, took a deep breath before replying: "This is not an ordinary coffee shop... My lover and I parted on this Mochou Road. This coffee shop carries my longing for her. I have been waiting. One day I will meet her again here!"

The store manager looked at me with some pity. She had heard of the unforgettable love between Mi Cai and I, but she didn't know that we were parting on this Mochou Road. The most painful thing in this world is: I will never forget the day of separation until I die, but I will never wait for the day of reunion until I die... And I am suffering such pain. Although it is not complete, I really don't know when Mi Cai will come back...

I put out the cigarette butts in my hand, and called the assistant to send the guitar I put in the company office to Nanjing. That's right! This is a whim, a personal small performance that is neither too late nor too late. It carries my thoughts and vents my loneliness...

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After I posted my Weibo, some people rushed to Mochou Coffee Shop, waiting for this impromptu solo performance tonight. During this period, I kept communicating with everyone and sent more than a hundred cups of free coffee. I never regarded these people as believers in the literary and artistic path, but only as a group of brothers and sisters walking with me on the ideal path...

But the number of these brothers and sisters is too large. It is just because of my promotion on Weibo that before the evening, the coffee shop was already crowded with people, and even outside was filled with people wearing parasols. They were just waiting for this concert I held on a whim in the evening.

In the evening, my guitar was finally sent to Nanjing. I immediately asked my assistant, who had not had a rest for a moment, to withdraw 20,000 yuan in cash, bought iced drinks and food to those who had been waiting, and temporarily borrowed the venue from the shop next door to prepare for the small performances later. The assistant who was very meticulous in his work had already picked up the camera he carried with him and freeze the scenes in front of the coffee shop in the camera as a material for future literary and artistic promotion.

I put the guitar aside, lit a cigarette, and looked at the crowd in front of me, and my heart was filled with an indescribable bitterness. I remembered the impromptu concert we held at Zhuomei Shopping Mall in Suzhou to promote the "Fifth Season" bar many years ago. It was also improvisation. Without Robben, Jian Wei, Mi Cai, Fang Yuan, Yan Yan, and Xiaowu and his band who helped me inspire...

I really can't stand so much, and I can't stand the rough change of time for us, but I still have to grit my teeth to face it. I believe that those lovers and friends who have left will definitely meet again one day!

Just as I was about to start this concert, the crowd surged again, and six strong men in bodyguard shapes walked into the coffee shop separated by the crowd. Then I saw Le Yao and Cao Jinfei who were protected by them.

I immediately summoned the staff in the coffee shop to maintain order on the scene, and some enthusiastic audiences also spontaneously began to maintain order. The restlessness caused by Le Yao and Cao Jinfei quickly subsided, but some people still tiptoed and looked at the coffee shop curiously. This may be the first time they had come into contact with Le Yao and Cao Jinfei so close.

I stood up to greet them and asked them with surprise: "Why are you here?"

Cao Jinfei smiled and said, "In the afternoon, I saw the Weibo post you posted, so I told Le Yao that we were not too busy today. After discussing it, we decided to come to listen to you singing... It was listening to you singing, not supporting us. We are all your fans tonight!"

"Thank you, thank you..." After I finished speaking, I walked outside the coffee shop with my guitar under the urging of everyone. To protect Le Yao and Cao Jinfei, I asked them to stay in the coffee shop, and then opened all the windows to give them the same auditory effect.

I haven't sang a song under the attention of so many people for a long time. I felt a little excited and nervous, so I chose a relatively less difficult song as the opening song. I plucked the guitar string and said to everyone: "The first song I brought to you is the work of a folk singer I like very much, called "City of the Sky". I hope everyone likes it!"

When the familiar melody sounded, the lyrics sang from my mouth: "The plane flew across the sky, the city of the sky, at dusk under the rain, at this moment, I felt you flickering in the night of a foreign land; I want to go back to the past, silent and joy, the city of the sky is crying, and you are getting brighter and brighter, love is just the fart of life, torture me and torture you, Hong Kong Island sister, the Spanish pie you dedicated to me sweetly melted me, the city of the sky is crying; Hong Kong Island sister, the sweet love we once had torn apart me wildly, the city of the sky is crying, someone passed by, came back to tell me that the city of the sky is crying, and you can't breathe, at this moment, I miss you in the night of Nanjing...."

The more I sang, the more I became more and more devoted, and I remembered everything I had experienced in love over the years. Undoubtedly! Jian Wei and Mi Cai were both the Hong Kong Island sister in the lyrics. I know that this folk singer used the Spanish pie to implicitly express the most important first time a woman gave to a man. Otherwise, he would not deliberately use the word "dedication", so they were all women in my sky city.

Yes, but the City of Sky is just a wish that is so beautiful that it is unreal. We have not been able to be pure and unstoppable in this vast world. And these right and wrong are the fulfillment of life or the cruel deprivation. I have not been able to make it too clear now... Maybe, one day, a person passing by the City of Sky will tell me where is the most obvious boundary between right and wrong.

After the song was sung, I received the most applause in history. I drank some warm water and sang "The Past Time" without stopping at all. Then I sang "The Proverbs of Love". I sang all the songs related to Micai. Moreover, I want to record this solo concert into a video as one of the gifts she gave to her after she came back.

During the intermission, I looked back at Le Yao and Cao Jinfei in the coffee shop. The expressions on Le Yao's face were very real, but Cao Jinfei was concentrating on holding his mobile phone and playing something, perhaps playing games.
Chapter completed!