Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

Phoenix Hardware & Plastics Factory's business divisions, including trolley bags, sticky notes, Transformers, Rubik's Cubes, and nylon cable ties, are promoting their products and recruiting agents in Europe, America, Taiwan, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Li Huai-ren has already traveled to Taipei with Jin Yong and others to participate in the "Spring Outing to Kenting" organized by Qiong Yao.

That afternoon, everyone boarded a bus chartered by Chiung Yao and headed to Kenting.

Gu Long was pressed by his publisher for his manuscript and did not participate in the spring outing. However, he sent a message through Wolong Sheng, asking Li Huai-ren to treat him to drinks after the outing and his return to Taipei.

It's inevitable that a group of literary figures would gather together and compose a poem in a pretentious, flamboyant style.

Unfortunately, most literary figures are all alike in that they have an extremely high opinion of their own works.

This put Li Huai-ren, who didn't want to get involved, in an awkward position.

To say they wrote well would be against my conscience, but to say they wrote badly would be like asking everyone to save face. How could you criticize a bald man in front of a monk, or say his poems were bad in front of them?

Li Huai-ren was starting to regret going on the spring outing to Kenting with Jin Yong and the others. He was only thinking about buying the film and television rights to Qiong Yao's novels, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and deal with them.

Sometimes, the more you try to avoid things, the more things seem to find you.

Taiwanese writers such as Yu Guangzhong, Bo Yang, and Lin Haiyin, especially Yu Guangzhong, who graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ​​at National Taiwan University, wrote the poetry collection "White Jade Bitter Gourd". Yu Guangzhong, who is hailed as the founder of modern poetry aesthetics in Taiwan, always praises how good and beautiful Western modern poetry is.

On the bus, he even said that Easterners could never write classic modern poems.

Upon hearing this, Wolong Sheng, Zhuge Qingyun, Ni Kuang, and others immediately became displeased, and the two sides began to argue.

This debate naturally came to no avail. In the end, Qiong Yao stepped in to smooth things over, suggesting that everyone compose a modern poem in order to settle the matter in this way.

As the host, Qiong Yao had spoken, so everyone naturally had to give her face. They racked their brains and wrote a modern poem, which they then recited.

While they didn't produce any groundbreaking "masterpieces" like "We went to pee together, you peed a line, and I peed a hole," they were all rather ordinary, lacking any truly eye-catching works.

When it was Li Huai-ren's turn to sit next to Jin Yong, Li Huai-ren felt that he could not refuse. He also noticed that Bo Yang and Yu Guangzhong, who would write "The Ugly People of X Country" a few years later, were looking at him with disdain. He was very unhappy.

Originally not intending to show off, he thought for a moment and then recited "The Furthest Distance in the World":

The furthest distance in the world is not the distance between life and death, but the distance between me standing in front of you and you not knowing that I love you.

The greatest distance in the world is not that I stand before you and you don't know I love you, but that I love you to the point of obsession, yet cannot say "I love you."

The furthest distance in the world is not that I can't say "I love you," but that I miss you so much it hurts, yet I can only bury it deep in my heart.

The greatest distance in the world is not the inability to express love, but the inability to be together when two people love each other.

The greatest distance in the world is not loving each other but being unable to be together, but knowing that true love conquers all, yet pretending not to care.

The greatest distance in the world is not the distance between trees, but the distance between branches growing from the same root, unable to lean on each other in the wind.

The greatest distance in the world is not that branches cannot intertwine, but that stars gazing at each other have no intersecting trajectories.

The greatest distance in the world is not the distance between the trajectories of stars, but the distance where, even when trajectories intersect, they vanish in an instant.

The greatest distance in the world is not that we disappear in an instant, but that we are destined never to meet, even before we have met.

The greatest distance in the world is the distance between a fish and a bird; one soars through the sky, while the other dives deep into the sea.

After the recitation, the bus was completely silent.

After a long while, Jin Yong, who was standing to the side, came to his senses and immediately pulled Li Huai-ren aside and said:

"What a beautiful poem! Mr. Li, is the title of this poem 'The Farthest Distance in the World'?"

Li Huai-ren nodded:

"Exactly!"

"good!"

……

"What a beautiful poem!"

As soon as he finished speaking, cheers and applause erupted from the bus.

Today's schedule was quite tight. After picking up Jin Yong and others from Hong Kong, Qiong Yao immediately arranged for everyone to board the bus. Li Huai-ren, who was sitting next to Jin Yong, was mistaken by her as one of Jin Yong's entourage.

Ordinary entourage members would naturally not possess such literary talent, so Qiong Yao immediately whispered to Ni Kuang beside her:

"Brother Ni, who is this young man?"

Ni Kuang smiled and didn't keep them in suspense:

"Him? He's Li Huai-ren, the owner of Hong Kong's Phoenix Daily. By the way, his pen name is Lord Da Ming. He wrote the two best-selling wuxia novels in Taiwan's pirated editions, 'The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword' and 'The Moonlit Blade,' and he even wrote two!"

Upon hearing this, Qiong Yao was immediately dumbfounded:

"The Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, he's the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty? The Marquis of the Ming Dynasty who wrote the song 'The Moon Represents My Heart' for Teresa Teng?"

Ni Kuang smiled:

"Hehe, it's the real deal, he is indeed the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. But your information is outdated. As far as I know, he wrote a total of four songs for Teresa Teng."

It's estimated that Teresa Teng is about to release a new album. The other three songs have been kept secret by her record company, who won't allow any further information to be released.

Qiong Yao turned and glanced at Li Huai-ren, finding him increasingly familiar. After a long silence, she suddenly patted her forehead lightly and muttered to herself:

"He looks just like him, so much like him! If he were made up to look twenty years older, he would look exactly like Teacher Jiang. He is the only one who can play the role of the teacher in the movie 'Outside the Window'!"

If he refuses to act in it, then I will never make the movie "Outside the Window"!

She glanced back at Jin Yong and saw him chatting and laughing with Li Huai Ren, which pleased her greatly.

"My cousin and Li Huai-ren are so close, having my cousin mediate shouldn't be a problem, hehe."

Many people are unaware that Jin Yong's cousin, Cha Liangmin, married Qiong Yao's third uncle, Yuan Xingyun. Therefore, Qiong Yao should address Jin Yong as her maternal uncle, and she is his maternal niece.

Li Huai-ren, busy dealing with everyone praising his poem "The Furthest Distance in the World," was unaware that he had already been targeted by Qiong Yao.

The real-life inspiration for the teacher in "Outside the Window," who is also her first love—her high school homeroom teacher, Mr. Jiang—is none other than Li Huai-ren!

Ever since Li Huai-ren recited the poem "The Farthest Distance in the World," which had been famous all over the internet in his previous life, the atmosphere on the bus immediately changed. Everyone started discussing the poem—no, they collectively praised it!