On the morning of New Year's Eve, Lin Yingtao sent photos to her mother using Jiang Qiaoxi's computer.
In Hong Kong, Lin Yingtao always seems to be smiling and in good spirits, which makes people feel relieved. In the photos, she is concentrating on eating ice cream, or sitting in the restaurant of the University of Hong Kong eating pineapple buns, she is staring at a whole wall of milk shelves in a night supermarket, or standing at the door of her rented house, looking down and picking at her skirt and shoes. These photos look natural and casual, mostly snapshots of life, and don't look fake.
My mother typed slowly and said, "Your father praised it for being such a good picture."
Lin Yingtao typed on the keyboard: "This was taken by Jiang Qiaoxi. I found it from his cell phone album. You guys think it's beautiful too!"
She sent a few more photos, which were photos of her and Jiang Qiaoxi on Taipingshan Road.
Mom said, "Qiaoxi seems to have grown taller than when he was in high school."
Jiang Qiaoxi went to the Hong Kong University swimming pool early in the morning. He had studied at the Hong Kong University for three years, worked part-time and had to go to the hospital to accompany patients. He was not in the mood to swim.
He came back with a bag on his back, holding the milk tea he bought for Lin Yingtao and a half-drunk cup of coffee he had drunk himself.
He pushed the door open and entered the house, and saw Lin Yingtao still sitting cross-legged on the bed in her nightgown, watching "How I Met Your Mother" on Bilibili.
Lin Yingtao turned around and saw him: "Did you drink the porridge in the pot before you went out?"
Jiang Qiaoxi closed the door and put down his bag: "Drink it."
Lin Yingtao watched him approach. Jiang Qiaoxi put his milk tea aside and hugged her from behind. "Which season are you watching?" He looked at the screen.
Before coming to Hong Kong, Lin Yingtao thought she would miss home extremely much on New Year's Eve.
But no.
She felt so happy around Jiang Qiaoxi that she even felt guilty towards her parents.
"Come back next time," Jiang Qiaoxi held her hand. They sat on the subway and went to her cousin's house to have New Year's Eve dinner. "I'm going to rent a bigger house and won't live here anymore."
"How big is bigger?" Lin Yingtao asked.
"At least bring a bathroom and kitchen," Jiang Qiaoxi said disdainfully, "otherwise I'll always have to run out in the middle of the night."
Lin Yingtao smiled. She wore a red cheongsam top, which made her shoulders look small and delicate. She also had a red hairpin on one side of her hair, which made her look very festive. She had big eyes and smiled like the paper dolls she used to cut out for the window decorations during the Chinese New Year when she was a child.
Jiang Qiaoxi held her palm and looked at her from time to time.
After my cousin got into trouble, the family moved from their luxury home in Repulse Bay to Sheung Shui, and later moved to Sham Shui Po. My cousin was hospitalized, and my cousin's wife, her newborn baby, and my parents-in-law squeezed into a house of less than 30 square meters.
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "My cousin's wife could have left and returned to her parents' home, but she stayed because this place is very small."
Lin Yingtao followed Jiang Qiaoxi up the stairs, which were narrow and steep. Lin Yingtao asked, "How big is our home in the mountains?"
Jiang Qiaoxi grabbed her hand, looked down at her, and smiled, "It's about that size."
My cousin's wife came back from the hospital. She also put on makeup today and looked very energetic. In addition to my parents-in-law, Jiang Qiaoxi and Xiaolin, the Filipino maid Lisa also came to the house. My cousin's cousin and his family also came, but they just stayed with him in the hospital and did not come to have the reunion dinner.
"Luckily, Lisa is here to help me today." My cousin's wife panted. She carried the cakes and side dishes she bought from downstairs and went into the kitchen. She saw Jiang Qiaoxi and Xiaolin Meimei helping the Filipino maid Lisa catch a live fish. "Oh, you two," she said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "The kitchen is too crowded. Go out and play, quickly!"
Lin Yingtao sat at the dining table, eating candied lotus seeds from a lacquer box. She checked the New Year greetings in the Qunshan Small Dining Table group one by one, and said, "Is Du Shang sincere? He didn't even change Yu Jin's name!!"
Du Shang said in the group: "Bullshit, I copied Yu Qiao. Yu Qiao, are you sincere enough to not even change your brother's name!!"
Yu Qiao came out slowly: "Why are you two so busy with so much nonsense? Lin Yingtao, have you sent the New Year greetings text messages?"
Lin Yingtao said: "I'm still brewing it, and it's not ready yet!"
Jiang Qiaoxi came to his uncle and aunt to wish them a happy new year. In the past, he always came alone, but this year he brought his girlfriend.
Lin Yingtao smiled and said, "Hello, uncle, aunt, my name is Lin Qile, I wish you a happy new year, good health, and all the best!"
The two elderly people, who were nearly 60 years old, smiled happily and took out the red envelopes they had sealed for Lin Yingtao in advance. The red envelopes were obviously much thicker than the one for Jiang Qiaoxi. The elder uncle also held Lin Yingtao's hand and said, pick a pot of daffodils to take back, and have a happy and reunited family in the coming year: "Are the sugar lotus seeds delicious? Ask Lisa to pour some out for you before eating."
Lin Yingtao stood in front of the baby's bed, looking down at Jiang Qiaoxi's little nephew, who was only three years old and was sleeping.
Jiang Qiaoxi leaned against the door, looked at the baby, then raised his eyes to look at Lin Yingtao.
"Do you know what candied lotus seeds mean?" Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly said.
Lin Yingtao was afraid of waking up her nephew, so she walked over to Jiang Qiaoxi and pushed him out.
Jiang Qiaoxi closed the small door and said, "May you have many sons and daughters."
"It means giving birth to two children in a row."
Lin Yingtao lowered her voice, smiled and pushed him: "You are breaking the law!"
The cousin's wife brought the dishes to the table one by one, and Jiang Qiaoxi also went to help. Lin Yingtao went to the bedroom and picked up her nephew who had woken up and called for mommy. The first time the nephew saw Lin Yingtao, he opened his eyes wide and suddenly cried. Lin Yingtao picked him up with difficulty, touched his head and coaxed him softly.
After finishing her work, the cousin's wife came over and took her son from Lin Yingtao. The son turned around and looked at Lin Yingtao with wide eyes. The cousin's wife said, "Look at Uncle Qiaoxi, look at the beautiful sister!"
Jiang Qiaoxi sat at the table and talked with his uncle. His cousin's wife asked Lisa to help take care of her son. She used the excuse of going to get some red wine and hinted that Lin Yingtao should follow her to the kitchen.
"Cherry," she said, imitating Jiang Qiaoxi's way of calling her, "You sit next to Qiaoxi later. When Qiaoxi's father calls, hold him back and tell him not to stand up and leave, okay?"
Lin Yingtao listened and felt very embarrassed for a moment.
My cousin's wife took it as her agreement and took out the sealed red wine from the cupboard.
"Cousin's wife." Lin Yingtao said.
My cousin’s wife raised her head: “Hmm?”
Lin Yingtao said: "Or... or like this..."
"Before Uncle Jiang calls, I'll take Jiang Qiaoxi out first," Lin Yingtao looked at her seriously and said, "When the time comes, you can call us and ask me to go talk to Uncle Jiang. I'll take Jiang Qiaoxi out to see if he's willing to go with me. If he really doesn't want to, then..."
The cousin's wife looked at her, observing Lin Yingtao's childish face.
She smiled and nodded, "Okay!"
The whole family sat down to eat. On TV, TVB was broadcasting the news, and ATV was broadcasting a local evening show, which invited many Hong Kong singers. Lin Yingtao glanced at the TV and drank some red wine. In the family, except for the three-year-old baby, Lin Yingtao was the youngest, and she seemed to be treated as a child. Jiang Qiaoxi was only one month older than her, but she felt like an adult among the family.
"Cherry doesn't understand Cantonese," Jiang Qiaoxi said to the family, "Lisa, you can speak English to her."
The uncle still works in a bank. He couldn't help but start chatting with Jiang Qiaoxi about the recent economic situation after eating a few bites of food. He asked Jiang Qiaoxi if he had developed the habit of looking at the Nasdaq index every morning in college. Jiang Qiaoxi was ambiguous and didn't answer. The uncle said, "Does your brother know that you are so lazy?"
He started talking about 2008 again, and my aunt said, it’s New Year’s Day, can’t we talk about something happy
My uncle said that the Chief Executive of Hong Kong said that the coming year would be very difficult for Hong Kong!
"I've finally recovered!" He spread his hands at the dinner table and said to Jiang Qiaoxi.
Lin Yingtao was eating the steamed carrot cake made by her cousin's wife when she heard her cousin's wife suddenly ask her if she knew that Jiang Qiaoxi was going to intern at Morgan Stanley next year.
The cousin's wife looked at her cousin and said to Lin Yingtao with a smile, "When a man joins an investment bank and works overtime every day, the woman will want to break up with him. I have the most experience in this matter."
The uncle said, "Qiaoxi just got a girlfriend and you want to scare her away!"
The cousin's wife looked at Jiang Qiaoxi and said, "But the salary is very high. Qiaoxi, how much can you get in the first year? Will it be one million with bonus?"
Jiang Qiaoxi's ears turned red, not sure if it was from drinking. He looked down at Lin Yingtao's face and said softly, "Just treat it as if it was there."
Lin Yingtao's previous impression of Jiang Qiaoxi's family was only the door that kept her out and the quarrels that came from inside. She felt that Jiang Qiaoxi was really happy at this moment. Although the family was squeezed into a small house, Jiang Qiaoxi had a good appetite and was very talkative. He kept eating the dishes cooked by his cousin's wife, and from time to time he would pick up some dishes for Lin Yingtao and ask her if she liked them.
Uncle was still chatting with Jiang Qiaoxi, from Obama's financial regulatory reform bill to the European debt crisis, and then to the international gold price, the auto industry and clean energy. Jiang Qiaoxi listened, and when he agreed, he just nodded and didn't say anything. When he disagreed, he talked to Uncle for half a day. Lin Yingtao almost suspected that the Jiang Qiaoxi she knew in the past who didn't like to talk much was actually fake.
While the cousin's wife was taking care of the child, she chatted with Lin Yingtao about the provincial capital and the mountains. As they chatted, they turned to the topic of Jiang Qiaoxi.
"He was so unhappy when he was in junior high school," recalled the cousin's wife, holding the child. "At that time, he often used his father's mobile phone to call Ruocheng. Ruocheng was at work, and when he came back, he told me that Qiaoxi's mental state was not good. He also said that at that time he was reading a book called, 'Under the Wheel'?"
Lin Yingtao studied education. She nodded and said, "Oh, I know that book."
My cousin's wife said, "He was only 13 or 14 years old, but he felt like he was going to be run over by a car every day. Ruocheng was very worried at the time, and he even told me that Miss Lin was not in the provincial capital, otherwise Qiaoxi might feel better."
Lin Yingtao certainly knows "Under the Wheel". The protagonist of the story is unable to control his own life due to a long-term educational tragedy. He is like being crushed by a huge wheel and eventually dies young.
"Later, Qiaoxi went to high school," the cousin's wife teased the child. "One day Ruocheng came back and told me that Qiaoxi and Xiaolin were in the same class and could go to school together again. Qiaoxi specifically said this on the phone."
Lin Yingtao took out some beautiful candies from the eight-treasure lacquer box and amused Jiang Qiaoxi's little nephew together.
"Qiaoxi is a stubborn and obstinate child," said my cousin's wife. "When he came to Hong Kong to take the TOEFL test, we asked him why he didn't bring Xiaolin to play with him, and he said he didn't want to come."
Having said that, my cousin's wife looked up at Jiang Qiaoxi who was chatting with her uncle over there.
"At that time, we said that you must not have confessed your feelings to her properly. You should have been sincere to such a handsome and outstanding boy. But he told me very seriously that he was going to the United States in the future and would be away for a long time, so he could not confess his feelings to girls casually."
Lin Yingtao heard her cousin's wife say, "What's wrong with going to America? It won't hurt to say that you like someone."
Lin Yingtao said: "He did tell me when he was very young that he would go to the United States in the future! He also said that he would never come back."
My cousin's wife sneered at the child's careless words.
"He has been saying this since he was a child, but what is there in America?" The cousin's wife looked at Lin Yingtao and said, "Even if he goes to America, he still only has Ruocheng as his close friend, and he still misses the little sister Lin whom he has loved for so many years."
Lin Yingtao has never been good at holding back her blushing. Du Shang asked her on QQ if she watched the Spring Festival Gala, and Lin Yingtao lowered her head and replied that she had not watched it.
"Jay Chou and Lin Chi-ling came out to sing!" Duchamp said.
Jiang Qiaoxi was still listening to his aunt talking about the changes in housing prices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in recent years. He suddenly turned around and found Lin Yingtao eating boiled chicken with a red face.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked, looking down.
Lin Yingtao shook her head without looking at him, letting him continue talking to the elders.
When Jiang Zheng called from Sudan via video, some residents were singing "Under the Lion Rock" on the stairs outside the door.
The cousin's wife gave Lin Yingtao a hint, and Lin Yingtao put down her chopsticks, pulled Jiang Qiaoxi's elbow, and asked him to go to the kitchen with her now.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Qiaoxi was confused.
He had been wondering since a while ago why Lin Yingtao's face was so red. She probably didn't drink much red wine.
Lin Yingtao walked into the narrow kitchen. She couldn't help herself and turned around and hugged Jiang Qiaoxi's waist. She buried her head in him.
Jiang Qiaoxi lowered his head and was stunned for a long time. He put his arm around her and rubbed her back. "What's wrong?" he asked softly, "Are you missing home?"
Lin Yingtao shook her head vigorously. She raised her head, her eyes moist, and looked into his eyes.
The kitchen was so crowded that there was only room for one person to pass through the aisle.
Outside the window, downstairs, several residents were moving a peach tree and parked it in front of the store.
Just as Lin Yingtao pulled Jiang Qiaoxi's coat and looked up to kiss him, her cousin's wife said from outside: "Qiaoxi, your father called! Yingtao, Qiaoxi's father heard that you are here and really wants to talk to you!"
Lin Yingtao turned her head and looked outside the kitchen. She said, "Uncle Jiang called, let's go answer it—"
Jiang Qiaoxi was kissing her, and now he said impatiently, "What's there to accept?"
Lin Yingtao said: "It's Chinese New Year. Uncle Jiang has always been very kind to me. I want to go and wish him a happy new year..."
She looked at Jiang Qiaoxi's face, her eyes full of expectation: "Would you like to come with me?"
Jiang Qiaoxi looked at Lin Yingtao's expression.
He looked outside the door and smiled helplessly.
There was one thing that even Jiang Qiaoxi had to admit. Although Jiang Zheng had been perfunctory and indifferent to him for many years, he did care for Yingtao. However, Yingtao was just so lovable at the construction site in the mountains.
"Uncle Jiang! I haven't seen you for a long time!" Lin Yingtao sat in front of the screen, sitting next to the expressionless Jiang Qiaoxi. She asked enthusiastically, "Where are you spending the New Year now?"
Jiang Zheng was still sitting in his office, with a Chinese calendar and work records on the wall of the board room behind him. He was tanned and his wrinkles were deeper than before. He smiled and said, "Cherry! Oh, you are so beautiful that I can't recognize you!"
Jiang Qiaoxi sat aside without saying a word. He had returned to his old taciturn self. Lin Yingtao and Jiang Zheng chatted for a long time, telling the story of Uncle Cai, Uncle Yu, and Uncle Qin's families at the Qunshan construction site. Jiang Zheng asked, "Well, how is Engineer Lin doing?"
Lin Yingtao said: "It's pretty good! It's just that I smoke too much and I can't quit."
Jiang Zheng said: "Jiang Qiaoxi, please pay more attention to your uncle Lin's health, okay?"
"Yeah." Jiang Qiaoxi responded rather unnaturally.
"How are you?" Jiang Zheng said, "Yingtao has been talking to me for a long time, but you didn't say anything and just let her talk."
"I'm fine." Jiang Qiaoxi said, he raised his eyes and looked directly at his father who had become a very unfamiliar figure in the camera.
"Good..." Jiang Zheng suddenly leaned back in his chair. He was wearing a blue work suit. Perhaps in Sudan, only clothes of this color could best protect the safety of the workers and leaders of Chinese companies. Jiang Zheng said, "It's good."
Not everyone will instinctively think of happiness, joy, and supreme security when they think of their parents.
But Jiang Qiaoxi also discovered that he could slowly ignore the anxiety, pain and unhappiness that felt like a conditioned reflex, especially when Cherry was by his side.
Jiang Zheng said: "Are you still living in that Singaporean's rental house?"
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "Yes."
Jiang Zheng said, "Cherry is here to see you, why don't you move to a bigger place."
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "We will change it next year."
Jiang Zheng said, "How about studying?"
Jiang Qiaoxi didn't want to answer anymore, but Yingtao looked at him worriedly.
"How else can I study?" he asked.
Jiang Zheng suddenly laughed.
"That's a good point," Jiang Zheng said, picking up the teacup and taking a sip of water. "My son, I know him best."
They chatted a little more.
Suddenly Jiang Zheng said, "Your mother has recently returned to the provincial capital, to—"
Before he could say what he was going to do, Jiang Qiaoxi stood up suddenly.
Lin Yingtao turned her head and saw Jiang Qiaoxi sitting back at the dining table and continuing to chat with his uncle and the others. He was too lazy to even say goodbye to his father.
Lin Yingtao turned around again and looked at Uncle Jiang Zheng on the screen.
In her second year of high school, Lin Yingtao remembers that Jiang Qiaoxi came back from Hong Kong after celebrating the Chinese New Year and came to her house for lunch.
At that time, Jiang Qiaoxi said that his parents had gone to visit his brother's grave, so there was no one at home to cook for him.
Jiang Zheng said, "My daughter."
"Yes." Lin Yingtao quickly agreed.
"Jiang Qiaoxi is a stubborn kid. He has this temper." Jiang Zheng lowered his eyes and thought for a moment. "Before, your aunt Liang and I weren't nice enough to him. You should be nicer to him, okay? If you need anything, just tell your uncle."
Lin Yingtao returned to the dining table. My cousin's wife had just taken out the old photo albums that were treasured at home, and the family was looking at photos of Jiang Qiaoxi in Hong Kong when he was a child. Even the Filipino maid Lisa was only 20 years old at that time. Jiang Qiaoxi had a red dot on his forehead, and he stood on the stage of the kindergarten's New Year performance and sang with a group of children, and took a photo with his cousin who was in college.
"It's the little dragon!" Lin Yingtao said in surprise.
Jiang Qiaoxi covered his face and said helplessly: "Nezha!"
Lin Yingtao had never seen a photo of Jiang Qiaoxi when he was so small and so cute during his childhood.
When she met him, he was already nine years old. In the mountains, he had a gloomy face and rarely smiled.
Before leaving, the cousin's wife suddenly whispered to Lin Yingtao, who was holding a pot of daffodils, "When you were ten years old, did you call Qiaoxi during the summer vacation?"
Lin Yingtao shook her head. She didn't know what her cousin's wife was referring to. She had already forgotten it long ago.
My cousin's wife snickered and said, "Ask Qiaoxi if he still remembers it."
Lin Yingtao once read a sentence in a book saying that Hong Kong is a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor.
The streets of Victoria Harbor were full of luxury cars, and even the roads were much wider. Now walking downstairs of her cousin's house, Lin Yingtao looked around and saw only dark and dilapidated floors that looked like coffins.
After going through heaven and hell, Lin Yingtao recalled the contented and happy smiles on the faces of the family she had just seen at her cousin's house.
Dushan said: "Cherry, Khalil Fong and Jam Hsiao came out to sing!"
Lin Yingtao held Jiang Qiaoxi's hand, and the two walked back to their rental house together on New Year's Eve. She placed the daffodils she brought back on the windowsill, which had not yet bloomed. She turned around and said, "Remember to send me photos of them every day!"
The lights in the rental house were turned off, and Jiang Qiaoxi grabbed his collar and yanked his T-shirt off his head. He sat on the bed, watching Yingtao unbutton her cheongsam top in front of him, and then take off her underwear, naked in front of him, with the help of the neon lights and moonlight outside the window.
They were not just anybody, just a pair of young men and women in love. When the hazy moonlight enveloped their skin, they had an unreal perfection in each other's eyes.
Lin Yingtao's hair was swaying like this. In Jiang Qiaoxi's memory, she turned around after school and jumped for joy because she saw him.
Now, she was trying to accept him with her body, time and time again.
Jiang Qiaoxi lay in bed. In the past, he had spent so many lonely New Year's Eves, with his home either deserted with not even the TV on, or filled with his parents' arguments, sarcasm, and shoving.
The plate of food was broken and the ashtray knocked on the coffee table - Jiang Qiaoxi covered his ears with his pen, he could only concentrate more on studying mathematics.
When the New Year's bell rang, he hugged the person he loved tightly. With Cherry, he wanted nothing else.
It has been almost ten days since I came back from Hong Kong.
Lin Yingtao often opened her eyes suddenly at night. She turned around and often thought that Jiang Qiaoxi was still sleeping next to her.
Then came the huge sense of loss, which turned into loneliness and filled her heart.
In the middle of the night, Lin Yingtao was still in bed talking on the phone with Jiang Qiaoxi.
"I can't fall asleep after I wake up..." She said, she just wanted to hear his voice more.
Jiang Qiaoxi said helplessly: "Me too."
They chatted quietly, and Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly swallowed and said, "Cherry, call my name again."
"What?" Lin Yingtao asked.
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "You called my name."
Lin Yingtao was confused, so she asked, "Jiang Qiaoxi?"
On the phone, Jiang Qiaoxi's breathing gradually became deeper. He was usually a very self-controlled person, but his breathing still became heavier.
Lin Yingtao was stunned for a moment. After a pause, Jiang Qiaoxi ordered, "Call again."
Lin Yingtao said obediently: "Jiang Qiaoxi..."
She was wearing a nightgown and as she called him, her legs unconsciously came together.
Lin Yingtao's mind was in a mess and she started to panic. She heard Jiang Qiaoxi suddenly groan over there, followed by a suppressed gasp that all poured out.
Lin Yingtao didn't want to listen anymore, but she missed him so much, what else could she listen to
"Cherry," Jiang Qiaoxi said, taking a deep breath, "Do you miss me?"
"Well..." Lin Yingtao had to admit it.
Jiang Qiaoxi said softly: "Come, do as I say—"
Lin Yingtao was lying on her little bed, with her Bobbi Elf and a pretty Barbie on the bedside. The leaves of the evergreen blocked the moonlight. Lin Yingtao blushed, holding her phone in her right hand and putting it to her ear. She listened to Jiang Qiaoxi's voice, humming softly in her nose, and her left hand reached down along her nightgown -
At this moment, the bedroom door was pushed open from the outside, and a figure appeared there.
"Ah!!" Lin Yingtao screamed in fright. She threw away her cell phone, lifted the quilt and covered herself with it, wrapping herself tightly.
Mother Lin got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and saw a beam of light in her daughter's room. She thought she had forgotten to turn off the desk lamp.
But her daughter suddenly screamed loudly, and Mother Lin bent down and picked up the mobile phone that had been thrown on the ground.
Jiang Qiaoxi said: "Ah...Auntie..."
Mother Lin breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, it's Qiaoxi."
Lin Yingtao still buried her head in the quilt, covering her head with her butt sticking up, refusing to see anyone.
"Okay, your phone has fallen out," Mother Lin came over and patted her through the quilt, "Just call if you want to, why are you yelling and scaring me!"
Lin Yingtao said in grievance under the quilt: "Mom, why did you suddenly come in?!"
Seeing that she really didn't want to come out, Mother Lin put her phone next to her pillow. "Alright, alright, I'm leaving now. You can continue to make calls. I thought you didn't turn off the lights again. Next time you make a secret call, remember to lock the door."
The mother closed the bedroom door from the outside and met Lin Haifeng who was awakened by his daughter's scream. She pushed him and said, "Let's go, it's okay."
"Are you really okay?" Lin Haifeng asked.
My mother murmured, "Why can't I see clearly... Am I really getting old? Should I get reading glasses?"
Lin Yingtao's hand fell on the pillow. She was sleeping soundly on the bed with tears in the corners of her eyes.
On the desk in front of the bed was a hardcover diary, with a group of pink bunnies and a pink and white elephant living together on the cover.
In 2004, Lin Qile wrote in his diary:
"I don't want to think about Jiang Qiaoxi anymore!"
November 2006.
"Jiang Qiaoxi kissed me."
It was written in a different handwriting again, with a new sentence added below.
"Jiang Qiaoxi told me that he had loved me for a long time. I wanted to be with him forever. February 2011."
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Notes to this chapter:
*Bilibili: A bullet screen video website founded on June 26, 2009, formerly known as Mikufans, and renamed Bilibili in 2010. On March 28, 2018, it was listed on the Nasdaq in the United States.
* "How I Met Your Mother": It is a sitcom starring Josh Radnor and others. It premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005.
*In November 2011, China fully implemented the two-child policy for couples with both spouses having no spouse having a child; in December 2013, China implemented the two-child policy for couples with only one spouse having a child; and in October 2015, the universal two-child policy was implemented.
* “Jay Chou and Lin Chi-ling came out to sing!”: In the 2011 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Jay Chou and Lin Chi-ling performed the program "Lanting Preface".
＊"Under the Lion Rock": A song sung by Roman Tam, with lyrics by James Wong and music by Gu Jiahui. It is known as the "city song" of Hong Kong. It tells the inspirational story of ordinary Hong Kong citizens who become stronger despite adversity.