The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1330 The Same River
People often say that the person who hurts you the most is often the one you love the most.

Because we are used to being open and honest in front of the people we love, taking off our armor and exposing our weaknesses.

It’s also because of caring. Only when you truly care, can the attack leave the deepest wound.

However, is this correct?

The person who really hurts you is not your enemy, but your lover? Why do you hurt each other when you love each other?

Or in other words, why does the person you love so deeply become so hateful in your eyes?
The picture is still, with only the sound from the radio echoing; but this scene is intertwined with the picture of the villa falling apart, evolving into a big net that slowly tightens, making it hard to breathe.

That kind of sadness is silent.

Finally, Clementine broke the silence, "I won't do that."

Joel closed his eyes in despair, "I don't think you would."

Everything stems from his own anxiety, inferiority and fear, but he refuses to admit it, so he uses the worst and darkest thoughts to blame others.

Clementine, "Because I can't."

Joel: “I know.”

Clementine, "It really hurts when you say that, because I'm really not that kind of person."

Joel, "I'm sorry..."

Joel tried to open his mouth to explain himself, but Clementine couldn't keep sitting still.

The glass of whiskey was not touched at all. Clementine put it aside and stood up, not even willing to look Joel in the eye.

"I'm so sorry about everything," Clementine said. "I need to go. I'm so confused by all of this. I don't want to be here."

Joel, can't be stopped.

Joel escorted Clementine to the door and tried to speak but didn't know how to start.

Clementine, "Bye."

Joel, "Bye."

Clementine paused, a thousand words on her mind, but she swallowed them down in the end, "Anyway, it's nice to meet you."

Clementine left, walking faster and faster, she just wanted to get away from here as soon as possible.

Joel stood at the door, bewildered—

It's not just sadness or loss, it's more of a confusion and a struggle. A few words are not enough to describe my mood at this moment; and on the radio, his voice is still nagging endlessly.

He never knew he had so many complaints.

"…But I don't know her at all. It's a pity that after spending so much time with her, I found out that she is a stranger…"

Clementine was running away, almost in a running posture.

At the end of the corridor, Joel appeared panting.

"and many more!"

Clementine stopped and turned to look at Joel, but she could hardly control herself. Tears welled up in her eyes. She was almost about to collapse from the sadness, despair, anger and pain she felt. "What's wrong?"

Joel was also filled with distress, "I don't know. I just wanted to call you..."

Clementine, "What do you want, Joel?"

Joel, "Wait a minute, I don't know, just wait a minute... I just hope... you... can wait... a minute... just a minute."

Both of them fell silent. There was no sound, even the sound of breathing had disappeared. They just stared at each other, quietly looking at each other.

Almost suffocated.

The entire Angelica Cinema Center was silent. No one dared to breathe or move, for fear that the slightest sound might break the peace.

The wind blew so hard that the big screen rose and fell gently, the light and shadows stirred in the field of vision, and the emotions also rippled. So, what are the audiences looking forward to?
A happy and perfect ending? Or an ending where everyone is happy?

When watching a movie, audiences often have expectations, a positive or negative ending, an ending where justice triumphs or evil counterattacks. During the narrative process, the movie always completes the guidance quietly and finally ushers in an ending.

However, at the moment, they don’t understand.

It is impossible to judge and where to start, there is no answer.

Should they hope that Clementine and Joel will reconcile? Or should they hope that Clementine and Joel will stop hurting each other, say goodbye and never go back to being strangers again?
If Clementine and Joel get back together, won't they be repeating the same mistakes, just like Dr. Howard and Mary, stepping into the same river again?
Joel and Clementine seemed to have cleared their memories and forgotten each other, but they found each other and fell in love again as if it was fate. Is this a signal?

So, is there really a destiny in love?
Countless possibilities are stirring in my mind, making me feel bitter and sighing, but I am unable to distinguish them accurately.

Time presses the pause button at this moment, and only I and my thoughts are left, traveling through the world of light and shadow.

then.

Clementine couldn't control herself and gasped for breath, tears welling up in her eyes. "Okay."

Joel also took a deep breath, "Really?"

Joel came in front of Clementine, kept a distance, stopped, and looked at Clementine a little stiffly and nervously.

Clementine barely managed to regain her composure, "Joel, don't objectify me, I'm just a messed up girl trying to find inner peace."

The corners of the mouths of thousands of viewers in front of the big screen rose at the same time——

In Joel's mind, Joel and Clementine met for the second time. Joel went to the Barnes & Noble bookstore to find Clementine, and Clementine said exactly the same thing.

Clementine didn't know that. She looked at Joel, a little tired, "I'm not perfect."

However, Joel didn't know either, because all his memories had been deleted, "I can't see any flaws in you."

Clementine, "But you'll find out. You can't see it now, but you'll find out in the end."

Clementine, "You'll start to think. I'll start to get bored of you and start to feel trapped, because that's who I am, that's the kind of person I am."

Clementine poured out all her thoughts in a crackling voice, because she knew that what she said in the tape was true.

This is also her concern.

Joel didn't interrupt, but just listened quietly until Clementine finished speaking, and finally nodded gently, "Okay."

There are no vows of love, no chicken soup for the soul, no extravagant talk.

Joel just said, "okay."

Clementine was stunned and stared at Joel.

Joel looked at Clementine quietly, attentively, and seriously. He just stood there, with the corners of his mouth naturally rising slightly.

The world has become quiet, and it seems that only the sound of one's own heart beating against one's chest is beating. All the confusion, all the pulling, and all the hesitation have all quieted down.

Then, Clementine looked into Joel's eyes and nodded slightly, "Okay."

You look at me, I look at you.

Clementine could no longer control herself. Tears streamed down her face and she sobbed uncontrollably. A smile bloomed through her tears. She nodded randomly and repeated it over and over again.

"well!"

Finally, Clementine looked at Joel, and Joel looked at Clementine. The two of them were like fools, and they burst into laughter for no apparent reason.

Two psychos.

Once the smiles started, they couldn't stop. They just stood in the corridor looking at each other, falling back and forth, unable to stop smiling.

Haha, hahaha.

Laughter echoed in the corridor.

(End of this chapter)