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Chapter 111 Love

[China] Eileen Chang

Not far away, he stood still and said softly: "Oh, are you here too?"

This is real.

There was a beautiful girl from a well-to-do family in a village. Many people came to match her, but none of them succeeded.She was only fifteen or sixteen years old that year. It was a spring night, and she stood by the back door, holding the peach tree with her hand.She remembered that she was wearing a moon-white shirt.The young man who lived across the door had met her before, but had never greeted her. He walked over, stood still not far away, and said softly, "Oh, are you here too?" He didn't say anything, and he didn't say anything more. After standing for a while, they each walked away.

That's it.

Later, this woman was kidnapped by relatives and sold to other counties to be his wife, and was resold several times.After countless adventures and turmoil, when she was old, she still remembered what happened in the past, and often talked about that young man under the peach tree at the back door on that spring night.

When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, in the boundless wilderness of time, you happen to catch up with you, neither a step too early nor a step too late, then there is nothing else to say. Only to ask gently: "Oh, are you here too?"

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There is no gorgeous rhetoric, no deliberate embellishment, and no twists and turns in the plot, but the soft sentence "Oh, are you here too" represents everything——all beginnings, all endings, all lives... …

Love is in movement, and fate is in gathering and parting.

If love is a stream that flows continuously, fate is the stones that are occasionally thrown into the stream, causing ripples.If love is a beautiful landscape, fate is a wandering traveler who visits occasionally.Those who are destined will get the accidental superposition of love, and those who are not destined will miss it even if they search for thousands of Baidu.

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