Dark clouds blanketed the city, and the sky seemed to be within reach.

Li Man stood by the window and watched as the rain slid down the glass, leaving trails in its wake.

The clock on the wall ticks, and dreary time flows quietly in the hut.

"Five-thirty, call it a day." Leman stretched, moved the flesh from the windowsill into the room, and walked to his desk.

She put the sign on the table with the marriage registry office in the drawer, and glanced at a few big words on the wall - administration according to law, civilized service.

"With such a heavy rain today, no one should come to register the marriage."

Li Man hummed a song and began to clean up, she was the only one in the empty marriage registry, and the employee of the divorce registry next to her had already left work fifteen minutes early.

"Hello, is this how you get the marriage certificate?" The door was pushed open, and a mature, magnetic male voice came from the doorway.

The voice is so good, the person must be very handsome.

Li Man looked up and saw a man in a black raincoat standing at the door of the marriage registry office.

He looks ordinary, but he has an indescribable temperament on him.

"Yes, you...... Do I need to apply for a marriage license? Li Man looked at the man carefully, it was the first time she had seen a person wearing a raincoat and carrying a heavy hiking bag to apply for a marriage certificate.

"Well, I made an appointment online to handle it today."

"Let me find out, what's your name?"

"Chen Ge."

Li Man typed the word Chen Ge into the computer, and sure enough, he saw his appointment application: "I'm about to get off work, let's make a quick decision, have you brought all your things?" The household registration booklet of both men and women, ID cards, and proof of the relationship between the two of you who are not lineal blood relatives and collateral blood relatives within three generations. ”

"I've brought them all." The man opened the backpack and began rummaging through it.

Li Man faintly heard a cat meow, and she glanced into the man's backpack with some curiosity.

The bag was stuffed with a repeater, a comic book, a rag doll, a ballpoint pen, and a big white cat.

"I'm sorry for you." The man handed the two household registration books and two ID cards to Li Man: "Everything is here, I have seen the woman's family, and they are very satisfied with me." ”

"Looks like you've done a lot of preparation." When Li Man finished registering the man's information and was about to start registering the woman's information, she suddenly found that the magnetic stripe on the ID card was no longer usable, she looked at the name on the woman's ID card, and suddenly realized something.

The man in front of him came to register the marriage, prepared all the documents, and even brought a cat, but he didn't see his girlfriend.

"Wait a minute, sir." Li Man stopped what he was doing: "You're here to get married, right?" ”

"Yes."

"What about your girlfriend? How do you get married alone? Li Man smiled wryly: "The marriage certificate must be present in person." ”

The clock on the wall was ticking, and the rain outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, the man pursed his lips lightly and looked up at Li Man: "She is here, and she is standing behind me." ”

Raindrops hit the windows violently, and the air in the room froze.

"Sir, don't be kidding, marriage must be done in person, and I can't help you with it." Li Man clutched her chest, she didn't know why she suddenly couldn't breathe.

"She's really here, we're inseparable, and where I'm there, she's there." The man's eyes were clear, and there was a hint of stubbornness in his tone.

Looking at the man's serious appearance, Li Man held the ID card in his hand that had already been demagnetized, and she suddenly thought of a possibility.

Turning over the woman's household registration book, on the page with the woman's name was stamped, the seal of the police station announcing her death, and the time of death was still several years ago.

"Sir......" Li Man wanted to say something, but she looked at the man's stubborn expression and was a little moved.

His gaze swept over the man's backpack, and Li Man looked at the items in the bag.

Are these the things that the girl used to use? Are these preserved and treasured things the memories of the two of them? Is this cat a cat that the girl had before she died?

In an instant, Li Man understood why a man would come to the marriage registry with a lot of things, and why a man would say that a woman was with him all the time.

With astringent eyes, Li Man held the girl's ID card, she didn't know what to say, whether to comfort the man or tell the man the cruel truth.

Her lips slowly opened, but Li Man couldn't say what she thought about, she looked at the man in front of her who seemed to be a child, and her mood was a little complicated.

She barely managed to keep herself smiling: "Sir, you must love her very much, don't you?" How did you meet? ”

"She chased me, and the first love letter I received in my life was sent by her." The man's eyes wandered, as if recalling the past: "Our first date was at the abandoned school. ”

"School abandonment? First date to an abandoned school? ”

"Westside Private College, where there are her obsessions and past, I stood in the hall where she used to practice dance, with my back to the mirror, my back to her, and we confide in each other."

Li Man listened silently, and a picture came to mind.

In the quiet night, the two reminisced about the past in the abandoned alma mater, the former college was beautiful and lively, and now only the two of them are left, back to back, snuggling up to each other, what kind of poignant love is this!

"The second date was in a psychiatric hospital, and she was wearing a red dress, and she was stunningly beautiful and flamboyant."

"A mental hospital?"

"Because of my parents, I ...... that day"

"Understood, sorry." Before the man finished speaking, Li Man apologized, she didn't like to uncover other people's scars, maybe her parents were another pain in this man's heart.

"The third date was in a building, and I blocked the man who had made her unhappy in the elevator and gave him a lesson that will last a lifetime."

"You really spoil your girlfriend, I think she'll be very happy to find out about it."

"She was right there with me at the time." The man's expression was gentle, and he remembered the black-haired elevator in the Weird Tales Association building.

"That scene must have been very romantic and heartwarming." Li Man felt that the man in front of him was simply a boyfriend.

"The fourth date was in the underground corpse of the forensic medical school, she was injured and didn't tell me, she sat quietly with me, as if she secretly hugged me." The man's voice was very good, hoarse with a mature charm, he was reminiscing about the past, and that faint feeling even made Li Man subconsciously ignore the special date location of the underground corpse store.

"The fifth date was on the roof of a small town, and that day was very similar to today, it was raining heavily outside, and I was leaning against her."

Compared with the abandoned school, the psychiatric hospital and the underground corpse bank, the normal date location this time made Li Man a little uncomfortable: "Did you confess to her that day?" ”

The man nodded slightly: "I stood at the top of the town, shouting out the words in my heart to that strange world, I don't believe that there is anything more romantic in this world than being inseparable for a lifetime." ”

"Wow." Li Man has heard many people's stories, but they are not as shocking as Chen Ge's stories, probably because she saw the death certificate on the household registration book and already knew the reason for the result in advance: "What about later? ”

"Later......" Chen Ge took a soft breath: "She fell asleep, and it took a long, long time to wake up, so I have been waiting for her." ”

The death certificate on the household registration book pierced Li Man's heart like a steel needle at this moment, and her tears unconsciously welled up in her eyes.

Lowering her head, Li Man pretended to be looking for something, and secretly wiped her tears when the computer covered her face, she already knew the end of the story.

No one spoke in the room, and after a long time it was the man who broke the silence, his hand resting lightly on the empty seat next to him, as if his girlfriend was sitting there: "Our sixth date......"

It doesn't matter what the man said later, Li Man knows that this man has trapped himself in a cage called love after his wife's accident, and he thinks that his girlfriend is still in the world.

Because of deep love, he refuses to believe the fact that the other party has left.

With her hands clasped together and her fingertips white, Li Man wanted to tell Chen Ge the truth, but she couldn't bear to say it.

She buried her face behind the computer and entered all the information on the application form, she wanted to help the man in front of her fulfill a dream, but when she pressed the OK button, the computer popped up a page with inconsistent household registration information.

The girl had died many years ago, and there was no such person in the household registration data.

Reality is like a basin of ice water poured on Li Man, she looked at the man's face that fell into memory, and bit her lip: "Sir, we have incomplete data here, the system is being upgraded, and there is no way to help you handle it for the time being, you can come back in a week." ”

Li Man wants to help the man in front of him, even if it is to make a similar little red book that has no legal effect.

"Okay, that's for you." The man got up slowly, packed up all his things and walked out, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly took off his raincoat and propped it up above his head, as if there was another person standing next to him at this time: "Zhang Ya, don't stay too far away from me, it's raining heavily." ”

Li Man could see clearly in the room that there was no one else under the man's raincoat but himself.

Looking at the man's distant back, Li Man wiped the corners of his eyes: "Maybe this is love, love you, be loyal to you, be heartfelt to you, and end with you." ”