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While the audience was frantically stuffing their mouths with "dog food" (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection), they were also trembling with fear at the inevitable plot twists that were about to unfold.

Everyone knows how that story ends.

Therefore, the sweetness at this moment seems all the more precious, and all the more cruel.

Just then, the scene changed again.

The camera then returns to the dance hall.

Fang Yu and Liu Yifei were still young.

Fang Yu took Liu Yifei's hand and walked to the ticket window of the dance hall. He took out some money from his pocket and said something to the ticket seller inside with a smile.

The ticket seller handed over two tickets.

Fang Yu took the ticket, turned around and waved it at Liu Yifei, then pulled her and ran into the dance floor.

They twirled and jumped through the crowd.

At one point, Fang Yu's smiling face filled the entire screen.

That smile was clean, radiant, and full of boundless hope for the future.

then.

The scene that everyone expected, but didn't want to see, appeared on the screen.

That young, vibrant smiling face began to subtly change in front of the camera.

The youthful facial features gradually blurred and faded.

Deep wrinkles appeared on the smooth skin.

His jet-black hair, starting from his temples, gradually turned into a deep, gray white.

Same angle, same smile.

However, the radiance and hope in that smile have turned into a sense of relief and sorrow after experiencing the vicissitudes of life.

Fang Yu's face, in this way, superimposed onto the old man's face.

No...don't...

Holy crap! That shot! That shot!

My tears... I can't hold them back...

From youth to old age, it can take only a second, or a lifetime...

The old man stood in the center of the dance floor, maintaining the embracing posture.

However, there was no one in his arms.

He was holding onto thin air.

Yet they continued dancing tirelessly.

From youth to old age, from being with a lover to being all alone.

The pinnacle of happiness, and the depths of sorrow.

In that one second of camera switching, it was mercilessly shown to everyone.

"The city's gardens have no flowers, and the voices on the radio are hoarse..."

In Fang Yu's singing.

Suddenly, a broadcast announcement rang out.

"According to a report from the fire-fighting command center on the 20th, the fire line in the western fire zone of Laogou is spreading towards the border town of Mohe..."

"The firebreak in Mohe Town has been cleared. The fire in Gulian Forest Farm was extinguished on the morning of the 19th, but it reignited in the middle of the night..."

This sound is a harbinger of impending disaster.

It is a merciless verdict that tears apart all happiness.

As the broadcast began.

The scene in the dance hall also began to change strangely.

The young people who were dancing in pairs on the dance floor stopped dancing one after another.

They silently released each other's hands.

Then they turned around and walked out of the dance hall one by one.

Like the receding tide, it is silent and still.

The lights in the dance hall dimmed, one by one.

The lively music also disappeared.

The whole world is leaving him.

Only the old man remained.

He kept his eyes closed, still dancing in the middle of the dance floor.

What...what does this mean? Why did everyone else leave?

[This is an image! It's an artistic technique used in music videos!]

I understand... That fire took everyone away, including his lover. Only he remains alive in that past day, in that dance that was never finished.

Don't say anymore... my heart is breaking...

In the Fang family's living room.

Zhao Guifang could no longer hold back.

She raised her hand and wiped her eyes haphazardly with her sleeve, letting out suppressed, soft sobs.

Fang Daqiang sat next to her, his eyes also reddening.

He wanted to say a few words of comfort to his wife.

But he found that something was blocking his throat, and he couldn't say a word.

All he could do was reach out and pat his wife's back gently, one pat at a time.

Liu Yifei lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly involuntarily.

Crystalline tears were dripping one by one from her chin.

She recalled the scene from the day of the shoot.

The old man sat in a corner of the film set, watching Fang Yu and her in front of the camera, portraying his lost youth and love.

The old man didn't say a word from beginning to end.

However, while filming the scene of the embrace, she inadvertently turned around and saw what seemed to be a light shining in the old man's cloudy eyes.

At that moment, she truly understood that the character she was portraying was not a fictional one.

It was a person, truly and vividly, whose lifelong memories were consumed by the fire.

……

In the music video.

The old man finally stopped.

He loosened his arms, lowered his head, and looked at his empty embrace.

I stood there for a long time.

Then, he took out the two yellowed old ticket stubs from his pocket.

It was those two cards he clutched in his hand as he walked into the dance hall at the beginning.

The camera gave a close-up shot.

The two tickets were stacked tightly together.

The edges were worn and frayed, and the writing on the paper was so blurred that it was almost illegible.

Those were marks that had been repeatedly rubbed and caressed countless times.

Decades of time are condensed into these two thin pieces of paper.

The old man pressed the ticket stub to his chest and closed his eyes.

His lips trembled slightly, as if he were saying something.

No sound.

But everyone who saw this scene understood the unspoken message.

--I'm waiting for you.

Fang Yu's singing reached its final note at that moment.

"If that day ever comes."

"Will you run to me?"

"Let it be sealed away at sea."

"Let it be sealed away at sea."

The singing faded away.

The screen goes dark.

The live stream chat was completely flooded with tears.

Countless viewers wept uncontrollably at that moment.

They finally understood the song, the story, and the suffocatingly heavy love behind it.

The music video's visuals are changing for the last time.

The scene depicts an endless expanse of snow.

The night was deep, and the sky was dotted with stars.

In the middle of the snowfield, a small campfire was burning.

The orange-red flames danced in the cold air, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

Fang Yu and Liu Yifei sat by the campfire.

The firelight cast shadows on their faces, creating a play of light and shadow.

They didn't speak, but simply watched the flames before them in silence.

After an unknown amount of time, Fang Yu slowly stretched out his hand.

As if sensing something, Liu Yifei also reached out her hand.

In the flickering firelight, two hands slowly clasped together.

Then, the two of them looked up and stared at each other in silence.

The screen began to slowly turn black.

Before plunging into complete darkness.

A line of small white text appeared in the center of the screen.

"This film is dedicated to all those who have lost loved ones."

The screen went completely dark.

The music video has ended.