[Your sister Xinai and Reina's sister Yuko also wanted to join the trip, but you rejected them and brought your wife to Yoshida Town, where winter was about to begin.]
[You stayed at a hot spring hotel in a small town near the Sora Pond. It was a strange environment, a strange group of people, and the only thing you were familiar with was each other. So everything strange became the background, and only you and her were on the stage. The town seemed like a paradise prepared for you.]
[Your relationship has become closer.]
[Every night, you soak in the circular bathtub filled with hot spring water, and look at the woods behind the hotel and the sky above the woods through the one-way glass.]
[You often study the clouds and stars in the sky from the sunset to the starlight, and speculate whether it will snow tomorrow. ]
[At the end of the month, the first snow finally fell.]
[You drove the rental car and took Reina to the lakeside of Sora no Pond. ]
A memory scene appears.
The snow was still falling, and tiny white dots covered the entire empty pond. The lake was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the mountains were covered with white snow.
The sky was gray-blue, the ice on the Sky Pond was emerald white, and a patch of dead trees in the pond were covered in ice and covered in snow, looking crystal clear and elegant.
Nan Youxi thought of the snow globes that she often saw when she was a child. The beautiful, unreal sky pond in front of her was like the scenery in a snow globe. The mountains surrounding the sky pond and the sky that seemed very low above her head were the base and glass covering the scenery.
A gust of wind blew, and the snowflakes were swept upwards, as if someone had turned a snow globe upside down and let the snowflakes fall upwards.
The most beautiful thing in this snow globe is Reina's smile.
Nan Youxi looked at the girl next to her. The wind blew up her long hair hanging outside her knitted hat. She cried softly and hurriedly tried to gather her long hair behind her back with both hands. Her movements were very fast. As soon as the wind started, she grabbed her hair. The white neck flashed under the hair and was covered by the black hair again.
Nan Youxi put the hood of her down jacket on her and tied the elastic cords on both sides of the hood.
"It's so beautiful." She looked at the azure blue lake, and a hint of faint blue was faintly visible under her blinking eyes.
"You can't lick it." Nan Youxi said.
"Hmm—" Reina puffed up her cheeks, "How can I lick it?"
"I don't know who it was, but he secretly licked the snow in the hospital and I pulled his tongue out."
"That was a long time ago! And, it was because Yuuki only kissed me three times a day."
"And now?"
Nan Youxi looked at the girl, who was wrapped in a white down jacket. Her figure seemed to be hidden in the snow. The blush on her cheeks was particularly eye-catching and attractive.
Reina's lips moved closer, and Minami Yuxi felt like he was touching two pieces of soft snow. He understood how the girl felt when she licked the snow three years ago.
The slightly cool snow slowly melted and moistened his lips.
Before arriving at Yoshida-cho, the snow scene of the Sora Pond, which the two had repeatedly imagined and anticipated in their minds, was indeed breathtakingly beautiful. However, this beauty did not become the main body, but became a vassal. Dependent on the existence of the other, the beauty of the snow scene was completely transformed into the beauty of the other, which made them intoxicated.
More and more tourists gathered around the Sky Pond, and many photography enthusiasts came here to take pictures. A young photographer captured the moment when they were snuggling together.
She sent the photo to Minami Yuki, who thanked her and asked for permission to use the photo to participate in a photography competition. Minami Yuki looked at Reina beside her, and his wife smiled sweetly and nodded as she looked at the dreamlike photo with the Sora Pond as the background.
He lay down on the snow slope, and Reina lay beside him, their hands tightly clasped.
"From here, the blue color of the Sky Pond is much lighter." Nan You looked at the lake at the foot of the slope.
"Yeah." Reina looked around. The snow was very quiet and there were no peeking animals.
She moved to her husband's side confidently, resting her head against his, and looked at the empty pond below.
From this angle, all that is left in view is the blue of the pond and the sky, and the white of the snow and clouds. The blue embraces the white, and the white nestles in the chest of the blue. It is so beautiful and pure.
"When we die, let's bury us here." Nan Youxi said again.
"Yeah." Reina nodded seriously.
"But it will be troublesome to worship in such a remote place. How is Lingna going to compensate me?"
"Eh?" Minami Reina was distressed. It was Yuki who proposed to be buried here, so why should she compensate
She really liked the Sky Pond and liked staying in this snowy world of the north with Nan Youxi. She did not question it, thought for a while, and sat up from the snow.
She lay on Nan Youxi's chest, her face replaced the blue sky and occupied Nan Youxi's vision, her flashing eyes reflected the pure light of the snow.
Minami Reina looked at her husband lying under her. Her husband was lying in the snow, and she seemed to be kissing the snow.
Nan Youxi looked at his wife, who was lying under the dome, and he seemed to be leaning against the blue sky.
[The beauty of the empty pond is not as good as the one you both deeply love. You pull her to lie on the hillside next to it and say that you will be buried in this green and white in the future. She agrees.]
[You kissed in the snow, the beautiful scenery, the three-year agreement, the sweetness of the past, and the expectations of the future all turned into happiness, making you intoxicated.]
[From now on, every year, when the first snow falls in Yoshida-cho, you will leave your family behind and come to the Sora Pond to spend your time alone.]
[The photographer who took your photo won the silver medal in the photography competition, but your photo has been circulated more widely than the gold medals. In the photo, your faces are covered by the hoods, and your backs are close to each other, revealing the pure and sincere love, dyeing the snowy scene of the sky pond with a romantic glow.]
[In college, you graduated early and continued to study for a master's degree. Your sister Xin'ai was admitted to Chikusa University. She often went shopping with Ibuki Yuko and often went to Asano's house for dinner. ]
[After obtaining your doctorate, you entered the Misaki University Hospital, where you worked in the Department of Cardiac Surgery. With your superb surgical skills and the necessary power, you soon began to perform surgery and showed your talent.]
[You are already thirty years old, and your family begins to urge you and Reina to have a baby as soon as possible.]
[In the world line where the operation failed, Reina was under pressure from death and was eager to have a daughter with you. Now, having gotten rid of her dead wife, she is addicted to the world of two with you and is not in a hurry about this matter.]
[You rejected your family's urging. Although Reina looked like an ordinary person, her heart had not yet recovered. She still had to take medication every day. Childbirth was a big burden for her. You didn't want your wife to take risks, even if the risk was small.]
[You discuss with Reina about adopting a child first. If her heart condition recovers well later, you can consider giving birth to a child yourself. Your wife agrees.]
(End of this chapter)