We sat down at the dinner table and chatted for a while, and he revealed his family, it turned out that he had been married more than 20 years ago, but their husband and wife did not have a good personality, and they divorced within a few years, and the custody of the daughter was awarded to the woman.

"By her age, she's about the same age as you."

"I'm twenty-four years old."

"Then she's two years older than you."

"Do you know where they're now?"

"In London."

"London?!"

"Yes, in London."

"To tell you the truth, I'm from London, and I studied there."

"It's a coincidence."

"Is part of the reason you're so good to me is because I'm about your daughter's age?"

"Yes."

"Oh."

"Don't get me wrong, you're not like her." Brooks added, "I heard that my ex-wife divorced a few years ago, and it seems that she is still alone, and I don't know how she is doing now." ”

"Won't you make amends?"

"Nope. Although I have forgiven her, I will not look back. ”

There will be no looking back.

I looked at Brooks, and he was determined.

"You... Do you still love her? ”

"Hua, I don't know if you understand, a long-term relationship will turn love into family affection in the end, and for her, more of my emotions come from her being the mother of my children."

I didn't seem to understand, so I could only nod my head.

I couldn't sleep at night, and I couldn't sleep for a month. The melody I had heard on the side of the road came to my head again, and I couldn't help but hum it, as if I was drunk but not drunk, and I just felt that I was surrounded by something called 'loneliness'.

The moonlight shines on the bed through the light gauze curtains, and the night view of New York is so brilliant that the moonlight is dimmed. He and I, separated by thousands of rivers and mountains, can never see each other again.

When I came back to my room from Brooks' house, I continued to suffer from insomnia, and I sat in front of the computer, my mouse warmed in the palm of my right hand. I remembered Sha Ye, so I logged back to MSN, and he replied to me with something like this: "I'm still traveling in New York, and I'll be in London in a week." ”

The time shows that it was two o'clock in the morning yesterday.

"I'm in Queens." I sent it to him.

"Are you visiting New York? I was in Brooklyn to visit old friends. ”

I didn't reply to him, and after ten minutes, he sent it to me again: "You came with a friend?" ”

I tapped on the keyboard and continued to reply to him in English: "No, I'm alone. ”

Sure enough, he asked me if I could see him.

I agreed.

We made an appointment to meet tomorrow night at a Japanese restaurant in Flushing.

Sano, it seems like I haven't seen him in over a year.

The next night I took a leave of absence, went home and took a hot shower, sprayed some perfume, and took a taxi to the Japanese restaurant with my hair on. The time we agreed was at half past seven in the evening, because I had been at home for a long time, and by the time I arrived, it was already eight o'clock.

When I got out of the car, I saw him from a distance, and he was standing at the door waiting for me.

He's changed a lot from a year ago. He had cut his hair short, wore a black down jacket, had rosy cheeks, and rubbed his hands together to look down the road. So he saw me soon after I got out of the car, and I smiled at him.

I walked up to him and said hello as usual, he was a little shy, and said sweetly, "I haven't seen Hua for a long time, how are you doing?" ”

"It's not good, it's not bad."

We entered the door, and the waiter put two menus in front of us, and after a long time, I only ordered tonkotsu ramen, and Sano ordered a rice and a sushi.

The waiter served free tea, and we sat facing each other and had nothing to say.

"How's it going?" He asked again.

"It's not good, it's not bad." I continued to answer, then waited for an opportunity to find a topic and asked, "Traveling to New York alone?" ”

"Yes." He said.

After a moment of silence, he added, "Actually... Remember the time we met in London? You told me you liked New York, so I came over to get a feel for it. ”

I laughed and didn't speak.

Sha Ye's smile made me feel his face stiffen, and he continued: "When are you going back to London?" ”

"I'm not going back." I said, "I'm living here now." ”

"Oh? Coming to work in the U.S.? ”

"Almost." I said, "Actually, there's nothing to do here, so I'll leave after a while." ”

"You're so headstrong." He said, "Your mom and dad are so nice to you. ”

Soon the tonkotsu ramen came up, but it was not delicious, and I still liked to eat udon, so I had to drink the whole bowl of soup to warm up my body, and the noodles were quickly dry and wrinkled without the soup.

"Isn't it delicious?" He asked me when he saw this.

I shook my head, "I'm still not used to eating Japanese food." ”

"Then we should have eaten something else."

"It's okay, at least the soup is delicious." I put it this way.

When we came out of the restaurant, he offered to give me a ride back, but I refused, I didn't want him to see what it was like to live in a place.

"It's ten o'clock, do you still want to take the subway back to Brooklyn?"

"Yes."

"Then you go that way." I pointed in the direction behind us. The subway station and my house are in two directions.

"It's not safe at night, I can send you back."

"No, you don't." I still refused, "If it was daytime, I would have agreed." See you next time. ”

"Okay." He had some regrets.

I looked at his back as he turned away, and I left with my hands in my pockets.

When I got back, Sano sent me his phone number on MSN, which I kept in my address book, and at the same time, I sent my own to him.

I've long since forgotten Jay's contact information, and I typed out his email account from a vague memory, but the page says it doesn't exist. Maybe I'm mistaken, or maybe he's written off.

I decided to forget about him and officially start escaping from his shadow and into the sun.

I asked Shano if you still want to go to London, and he said no. When I asked him why, he said he had already seen me.

We talked a little more about his life and work, and learned that after graduating from a university in Tokyo, he started working for a foreign-funded company in Tokyo, and began to work outside the business for a long time in February this year. He didn't just come to Brooklyn to see friends, but also to travel for business.

The next afternoon, after work, I turned on my phone and saw two missed calls, from 8 a.m. and 8:03 a.m. respectively.

I called back, and Sano was on the phone asking me which perfume a 30-year-old woman generally prefers.

I told him I liked Chanel, but a woman in her thirties...... I remembered Elizabeth, vaguely remembering that she was spraying a certain one of Braid's.

Sha Ye said that a certain leader of the partner will have a birthday tomorrow, a professional woman in her thirties, and his boss sent him to buy some gifts to prepare.

"Then you come to me, I'll take you to the store to pick it up." I say.