It was already dark, but she looked up to see if the sky was clear in the light, and she really saw a round like a bitten moon hanging on the roof in the distance, not to mention how beautiful, as if she had already finished the first half of her life.

She found a small clean place by the stone bridge and sat down, put a white handbag between her legs, looked at the endless crowd of people, and also saw countless emotions colliding beside the small river in this ancient town, but no one deliberately avoided this collision, still hung melancholy or comfort on her face, and walked to the next shop and the next stone bridge in a passing attitude.....

Her gaze changed from an angle, and she saw her shadow reflected on the surface of the river again, and she stared for a long time as the lights flickered, but the river that flowed eastward with the wind could not take away her loneliness at all, only as if there was an island in her memory, like a shadow next to the swaying boat....... She finally smiled bitterly as if she had lost something, and a lady's cigarette burned between her slender fingers, but even she couldn't remember when she had the habit of smoking, and she knew very clearly that whenever the smell of tobacco dissipated, the man who sometimes kept the cigarette in his hand would appear deeply in her mind, and then see through the world and smile indifferently......

She was a little nostalgic, but time had no way to go back, back to the original starting point, so nostalgia turned into sadness, sadness turned into pain, lingering, only a trace of freedom accompanied by loneliness, and could comfort her messy life.

When night finally came, this street with many bars began to come alive, and even the evening breeze seemed to open its hazy sleepy eyes, blowing countless flowery girls, who walked between bars and shops in high heels, and the perfume smell made the whole street near the river beautiful......

Yes, no matter how the seasons change, there will never be a shortage of beautiful women on this street, some beautiful are very ordinary, some beautiful are very childish, and some beautiful are very showy, but what she has is a kind of beauty that implies loneliness and stories, so those men who hurriedly walked to the opposite bar street, when passing by, inevitably slowed down and looked at her, but no one really dared to talk to her, because her temperament was full of fusion in this glamorous. The place was so unique and cold, and there was a pain in her eyes that could not be released......

......

Some people are destined to meet, so at another end of the ancient town, another woman sits by the balcony of the riverside inn, sipping a cup of hot tea, oblivious to everything in front of her. In the dim light, she thought about something she had been thinking about for a long time.

Perhaps knowing that she shouldn't be burdened by these thoughts, she finally put down the teacup in her hand, picked up the script from the table, memorized a line that she would use tomorrow, and thought about how to make this scene vivid......

Yes, she is Le Yao, an actor who is no longer a newcomer, but looking back on the past few years, she still feels that those wasted youth and years are just a scene that has not ended.

Opposite her was an inn, which had no name, but a guitar without strings hung under the sign, and she unconsciously set her eyes on it, until a pleasure boat cut through the river and drove past her with a chattering crowd, cutting off her sight and her memories. ......

......

The woman sitting by the stone bridge finally snuffed out the lady's cigarette in her hand, she didn't stop any longer, took out her ID card from her purse, and then looked at the photo on it many years ago, and read out her name, so the passer-by who was closest to him also knew that her name was Janeway, which sounded a little nice, but it was also an ordinary name, especially in this neighborhood where pedestrians kept coming and going, and soon it was drowned in the lights with her soul.

She didn't mind being a drop in the ocean in the crowd, but she was a little sad to remember that scene many years ago......

At that time, she and the man had not yet separated from their student life, and they came to this place called Xitang, and on a wall built in the middle of the bridge opposite her, they took each other's ID cards and wrote the bold words that they would give birth to a basketball team in the future......

At least then, they didn't think it was a joke. I just feel that these unrealistic fantasies are an indispensable pleasure in life. But now, a few years later, it is tearing at Janeway's fragile and somewhat sensitive nerves.

She pressed her ID card against the wall, raised her head, closed her eyes and sighed, but she didn't want to shed tears here, she pursed her lips, remembering the song "Youbelongtome" that he held the guitar and stood at the entrance of the cruise ship, playing and singing......

That night, the light rain was faint and the breeze was gusting, but it was the lazy singing that blew the emotions of the tourists, and they all donated money to recognize his singing, and she quietly applauded him......

At the end of the night, he held a pair of RMB, held the guitar, and told her with an uninhibited smile: With this guitar that can sing all the world, he is not afraid to elope with her to the ends of the earth......

In the light rain, for the first time, she fantasized about elopement as a very serious matter......

It's a pity that since the man named Fang Yuan died, he has never held a guitar again, nor has he sung another song in public....... All he loves now is raising flowers and growing grass.

Isn't it a joke to look at the elopement at that time?

It's not a joke, it's an irreparable wound to her......

She finally shed tears. ...... But he was helpless in tears...... Because the man was married, and he and the woman already had a son who was so cute before they got married......

Janeway sat back in that clean place, the wicker blowing in the breeze seemed to polish the edges and corners of time, so that everything under the moonlight was so round, and time slowed down the pace of progress, giving this stone street the most patience, so that it had space to settle the love stories that happened here.

She finally remembered Mo Zishi's somewhat warm man in this soothing space. Mo Zishi proposed to her two days ago......

She didn't say yes, she didn't refuse.

didn't agree because she had too much of the past in her heart that she couldn't let go.

She didn't refuse, because she was used to the warmth of Mo Zishi when she was by her side......

So, when she came to the hometown of Xitang, her intuition told her that there would be the answer she wanted......

(There are two chapters in the afterword, this is the first chapter)