A widower's entertainment

Chapter 243 [Love between Two Pen Pals] (Subscription Request)
"When Zhou Xian, who had just moved in, was tidying up the house, he found a letter with strange contents in the mailbox. The letter said: I am the previous tenant before you moved in. If you have received any letter from me, please send it back..."

"Because the letter was sent two years after 1988, in 1990, and Zhou Xian was in 1988, Zhou Xian immediately wrote back to this inexplicable person: I am the first tenant of this house, and this year is 1988, you may have made a mistake, anyway, I will help you pay attention. Also, how did you know the name of this house?"

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As he was writing, Lin Youcheng stopped and took a look at the letters he had received. Some of the letters contained some very strange contents, but it was obvious that Lin Youcheng did not pay much attention to those strange contents.

Perhaps, this is the reason why Lin Youcheng is still single, because he did not think about exploring the letters with strange contents, because there were too many letters and he could not reply to them all.

Moreover, Lin Youcheng has not yet received a letter from the future with the date 1990.

However, when writing this plot, Lin Youcheng could not help but wonder whether some readers would try to write letters using the date and time from two years ago after reading it, just like the previous "Love Letter" written to the non-existent Yang Shu, triggering a letter-writing frenzy.

Of course, in Lin Youcheng's opinion, only the date in the letter was wrong, not the address.

If this really causes imitation, it probably won't trouble the postman this time.

Now, "The Unreachable Lovers" written by Lin Youcheng tells a love story across time and space about a male and female protagonist who live in the same house in two different time periods and communicate with each other through a mysterious mailbox.

Lin Youcheng is well aware that the original story is quite touching. In fact, such a time-travel plot would seem very simple in later generations, but in the literary era of 1988, such a love story across time and space was undoubtedly stunning.

Although the science fiction design in "Untouchables" is not as strong as that in "The Time Traveler's Wife", as a literary critic has commented before, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is just a strange story about a charming man who suffers from some strange disease and can travel in and out of time and space from time to time, and the woman who loves him deeply.

Now, this film, Unforgettable, is just a love story between two people who communicate through letter writing.

Of course, if it weren't for Lin Youcheng's previous work "The Time Traveler's Wife", I'm afraid that Lin Youcheng's current "The Unreachable Lovers" would be hailed as his first science fiction romance work. Even though the science fiction atmosphere in this romance novel is not strong, the ingenious design about time is still amazing.

Otherwise, this film would not have attracted Warner Bros. to buy the adaptation rights and remake it because of its clever plot setting, and invited Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Auburn to write the American version of the script.

These are enough to prove the touching story of "Unreachable Lovers".

Not to mention, it is still the 1980s, an era when the literary craze has not yet subsided.

Of course, Lin Youcheng is very clear that in addition to the plot, what is more important is the time and space travel in "Unforgettable Lovers". It is not sci-fi at all, but rather simple and natural. Since such an impossible love can happen, it is not bound by the fate of a large amount of time and space transfer. It is more of an expectation for a love that is desireless and slow, which far surpasses the pursuit of a vigorous and passionate love.

Obviously, Lin Youcheng will continue to maintain such a slow and gentle rhythm, because this is consistent with the restrained love style of the male and female protagonists, especially the restrained and restrained expression of Eastern culture, and the focus is on the concept of love. Through Zhou Xian, it is more of a kind of forbearance and concession in love that fulfills the other party and hopes that the loved one is happy. That's right, now in Lin Youcheng's writing, Zhou Xian's story in 1988 began because he received a letter from Lin Yin in 1990.

Zhou Xian, a university architecture teacher, moved to a beach house in 1988. He named the house "il Mare", which means "sea" in Italian. When he was cleaning the house, he found a letter with strange contents in the mailbox. What was even stranger was that the letter was sent in 1990, two years later - and Xingxian's current time was 1988. Xingxian immediately wrote back to this inexplicable person, asking what was going on.

In 1990, Lin Yin was a voice actor. After she found the content of the reply, she began to write to Zhou Xian frequently. Her boyfriend rarely contacted her after he went to the United States. Later, when her boyfriend came back from the United States, he was engaged. Heartbroken, Lin Yin wrote to Zhou Xian, asking him to change their fate on the day she and her boyfriend last met, but Zhou Xian felt very painful because he had fallen in love with Lin Yin.

As for the ending, it is still a touching design.

In fact, Lin Youcheng feels that the plot he writes about his boyfriend going abroad is very realistic and appropriate, because there is a trend of going abroad in China right now. Under this trend of going abroad, it is not just boyfriends and girlfriends who are abandoned and ended, but more likely couples.

Of course, Lin Youcheng is very clear that a breakup or divorce due to going abroad is not true love at all.

After all, time and space cannot prevent two people from falling in love, but now the attraction of foreign countries prevents the two from continuing to be together.

True love is not afraid of the barriers of time and space. It uses the same mailbox to connect the exchanges between two times and spaces, and to bring together each other's fate. Time and space are intertwined. It is impossible to understand the fallacy of time. Everything is definitely impossible, but there are always magical things happening in life.

Even though this kind of love cannot be touched, it is still touching.

Lin Youcheng didn't think much about it and continued to write at his desk.

"I've waited for you for a long time. I know two years is a long time, but I still want you to come. Maybe I have too high expectations. I know I shouldn't be like this. It always disappoints me. How have you been in those two years? I just hope you have forgotten for a while."

"Why didn't I show up? I will never forget that promise. This place is so beautiful and breathtaking. I didn't show up two years later. It must be because we are not destined to be together."

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In this big city, two lonely men and women use their pens to give each other warmth. Both of them have their own stories. They happily read the warm letters sent from impossible places, and use each other's care to comfort two injured and lonely hearts.

Then, a wonderful pen pal friendship across time and space began.

(End of this chapter)