The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1323 Eternal Sunshine
“…I thought I was ugly when I was a kid.”

"Oh, I can't believe I'm crying here."

“Sometimes people just don’t realize how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don’t matter.”

"When I was eight years old, I had lots of toys and dolls. My favorite was an ugly doll. I called her Clementine."

"I kept yelling at her, 'You can't be so ugly, you have to be pretty', and it was so strange, like if I had magic power and could change her, I could change myself too."

In the quilt castle, Joel quietly looked at the wounded Clementine. He raised his hand and gently wiped away the hot tears on her cheeks.

"You are beautiful." Joel murmured.

Clementine, "Joel, don't leave me."

"You're beautiful. You're beautiful."

However, the light that was spilling down dimmed, and Joel suddenly woke up and tried with all his might to grab Clementine, mumbling, "Please, please, please let me keep this memory."

This paragraph, just this paragraph.

The light disappeared and the world fell into darkness.

There was no pause, no time to grieve, not even time to breathe, the next memory was already here -

Clementine has red hair, a bright red color. The two of them chased each other on the Charles River in winter, with laughter surging in their chests.

Finally, they lay on the ice and counted the stars.

Clementine found Joel's right hand and held it tightly with her fingers interlocked.

"I have no regrets about dying now," Joel said. "I'm just... so happy. I've never felt anything like this before. This is what I want."

The next second, they were lying on the busy street.

Then, Clementine disappeared.

Joel looked at his empty right hand, his eyes filled with confusion.

"I want to stop here."

Joel looked up at the sky, clasped his hands together in prayer, and shouted to Stan and Patrick.

"Stop, I want to stop here!"

"Can you hear me? I don't want to go on. I want to stop!"

Joel shouted, almost shouting his throat out, his lonely voice echoing in the Charles River -

Unfortunately, the real world is quite different.

Mary and Stan were dancing on the bed where Joel lay, wearing only their underwear.

Twist dance.

This scene... shouldn't be funny; but the sharp gap and huge reversal made me swallow the sadness and bitterness on the tip of my tongue all at once, and I was choked on my saliva without warning, and laughter couldn't help but overflowed.

Obviously, the director did it on purpose.

In Joel's world, he is tracing back to the past along the thread of memory; in the real world, Stan and Patrick also have their troubles.

Patrick…left because his “girlfriend” was so upset.

Originally, Patrick had an urge to call Clementine to Joel's apartment; Clementine had completely forgotten Joel anyway.

Unexpectedly, Clementine was on the verge of collapse on the other end of the phone.

Patrick hurried to Clementine's apartment and found Clementine with her shaved hair, looking panicked and at a loss.

In front of the big screen.

Blair sat up straight suddenly: This!
Karen was startled and looked at Blair with confusion, asking with her eyes, "What's wrong?"

Blair waved her hands, quickly calming down and motioning for Karen to pay attention to the screen.

Blair was just wondering, Clementine's hair color keeps changing, so is there a clue to the timeline puzzle hidden in this?
Moreover, if you think about it carefully, Joel's tie seems to be a hint. However, there is no time to think about it carefully at this time, so Blair refocuses his attention——

Clementine was panic-stricken and frightened.

As she was disappearing from Joel's memory, Clementine felt that she was disappearing too. An indescribable emotion gripped her heart and slowly descended. The suffocation and pain made her lose her direction.

She needed to grasp at straws. Any straw.

Patrick looked at Clementine who was at a loss and began to panic. He didn't know what to do, so he secretly found Clementine's diary in his backpack and prepared to follow Joel's footsteps and take Clementine to the Charles River.

Maybe Patrick really likes Clementine, but he is now liking Clementine in Joel's way, and Joel's soul is still existing inside his body.

And he is the perfect Joel in Clementine's memory.

He tried to get rid of Joel's shadow, but he still forced himself to follow Joel's footsteps again and again. He used Joel's words, Joel's gifts, and Joel's methods to pursue Clementine, filling the vacancy by taking over the magpie's nest.

However, Patrick had no choice, it was the only way he knew.

Patrick isn't the only one trapped in his own emotional troubles, Stan is too.

Stan likes Mary.

This was the truth and he never tried to hide it.

So, when Mary showed up at the door of Joel's apartment, Stan, who was wholeheartedly focused on his work, put the work at hand behind him and not only allowed Patrick to go and rescue his girlfriend, but also had a party with Mary himself.

Pizza. Alcohol. Music.

Stan and Mary enjoyed the party to their heart's content. Stan did not continue to sit in front of the computer to supervise the entire operation, which gave Joel the opportunity -

Clementine was disappearing, but not as quickly as before.

Clementine, who had disappeared in the Charles River a second ago, reappeared.

Joel looked at Clementine who was lost and found again, and rushed over to her in ecstasy, hugging her tightly with all his strength.

At this moment, he finally understood.

This is the eternal sunshine of a beautiful heart. There is no such thing as perfection. Love that is far away from pain and struggle cannot be always hot and brilliant. The splendor and intensity of happiness are precisely because of its fragility, incompleteness and transience. But as long as that ray of eternal sunshine is still treasured deep in memory, it can always preserve happiness and illuminate the direction of life.

"Run. Clay, run!"

Joel yelled at Clementine.

However, Clementine didn't understand what was going on and burst into laughter at Joel's serious face.

"Haha, running on the ice? Haven't you fallen enough?"

It was this scene, a simple and plain scene, that struck Blair's heart hard.

Joel finally woke up and realized the importance of memory.

Turning around, Blair saw Karen crying with tears streaming down her face.

Blair was startled.

Karen didn't have time to pay attention to all this. She covered her mouth and cried.

Blair didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The tears that hadn't yet come out shrank back. He looked at the big screen again and quietly clenched his fists.

Joel finally realized that he was being stupid, but is it too late now? Can he turn the tide? Can he stop the memory from being erased?

If this were a Hollywood commercial movie, what would follow would be a last-second rescue scene; but Blair had a strong feeling that Charlie Kaufman would not do that.

Sure enough, Joel grabbed Clementine and ran quickly, shuttling through different memory scenes, trying to find the doctor at the Forgetfulness Clinic.

All this could be prevented if we just found a doctor.

He had to stop this.

(End of this chapter)