Yu Meng left the restaurant. It was already getting late, so she couldn't be bothered to call a taxi.

The sky was very dark and very far away. Although there were only a few stars, every one of them was big and shiny.

It was just like when they went on their graduation trip to the mountain after high school back then. She and Tan Yubai sat together on the hillside and stared at the stars.

Tan Yubai...

She couldn't help but exclaim in an inaudible voice.

In response to her, there was only the rustling of the night wind.

In the past, Yu Meng liked to mutter Tan Yubai's name in this way, but no matter how soft she was, Tan Yubai would always be able to catch every word she said.

"What are you doing now?"

An impatient response like this was a common response on Tan Yubai's part.

As the cold wind blew, and the first tear fell, Yu Meng could no longer suppress her tears.

Her cries were muffled and long. She bit her lips and trembled to death.

It was just like the rainy season of the plum trees, which was shrouded in rain and damp all day long.

Even now, she could not find any words to comfort herself.

Scenes of the past came to mind. She could not suppress her emotions, and the more she thought about it, the more painful it became.

That year, in order to not separate from Tan Yubai, Yu Meng had secretly changed his plans. The first one to be discovered was Du Qinyi. She ran over quickly to teach Yu Meng a lesson, saying that Tan Yubai was so angry that he wanted to cut off all relations with her.

Yu Meng's heart turned cold. She was terrified, but she could not get through to Tan Yubai's phone.

It was winter at the time, when it was the coldest time of the year. It was snowing heavily outside, and Yu Meng ran to the door of Tan Yubai's study room, looking at the lights in the house but not daring to go in.

She had done something wrong, like a child waiting to be punished, and she stood uneasily in the doorway.

She stood there for a very long time, so long that she thought she was about to turn into a snowman. Snow fell layer by layer on her curling eyelashes, forming a thick layer of mist in front of her eyes.

In the end, he couldn't even control his feet.

She suddenly heard someone calling her name in a low voice.

Beneath the sky, Tan Yubai was standing at the entrance of the school building with a book in his hands. She had responded to him with a cautious smile on her face.

But he did not speak.

Yu Meng was so nervous she didn't dare to move.

After being in a stalemate for a few seconds, as if accompanied by a sigh, Tan Yubai finally walked towards her.

He wrapped his arms around her, took off his coat, and draped it over her.

Yu Meng cried, crying her heart out.

The scorching sensation soaked the thin woolen sweater that Tan Yubai was wearing underneath, and it stuck to his skin, becoming wet.

"I'm sorry." She apologized carefully, "I changed your mind."

Tan Yubai was very calm and emotionless: "I know."

"I was just afraid you'd leave me."

Tan Yubai did not respond.

Yu Meng pulled at his sweater. Her wet black eyes looked up at him.

"You must hate me now, don't you?"

Tan Yubai pressed Yu Meng's head back into his embrace, and wrapped his outer coat even tighter.

"You've always been a nuisance."

Yu Meng cried even harder. She was on the verge of losing her temper. There was nothing Tan Yubai could do but to pat her back.

"You're ugly when you cry."

Yu Meng didn't want to cry either, but she really couldn't control herself.

Tan Yubai had no choice but to say:

"Don't cry anymore, I'll take you to eat midnight snacks."

Hearing the word 'eat', Yu Meng immediately stopped crying and raised her head, looking at him with red eyes.

"You don't want me after supper, do you?"

Tan Yubai lifted his hand to wipe the tears on her face clean.

Yu Meng began to cry again.

After a while, a muffled sound suddenly entered his ears, bringing with it a bit of moist air. In the tranquil campus, the snowy night made it seem so heavy.

"I won't abandon you."

When Yu Meng heard this, she sniffled and rubbed her eyes.

"But Du Qinyi said that you are so angry that you want to cut off all relations with me."

She was crying so hard that her nose was almost in her mouth. She looked really scared.

Tan Yubai found it funny and couldn't help but cover his lips.

Then he told her seriously, "I didn't say that."

"Then, will we be able to be together in university?"

She seemed excited again.

But Tan Yubai did not hold back at all as he poured cold water over them.

"I can go to university, but I can't be together."

"Then let's go to university together!"

"Just company."

Tan Yubai left coldly. Yu Meng wrapped his jacket and scarf around his neck and followed along, sweeping away all the haze.

She just wanted to be with him. All she did was stay with him.

But then, together, she wanted more.

She wanted to be free, pursue her dreams, and do the things she liked to do. Therefore, she tossed the heavy burden of her clan over to Tan Yubai.

Thinking back, there were too many things that Tan Yubai had shouldered by himself back then. He had never pressured her, but she had instead fallen into a state of repeated suspicion.

Just because of a few ambiguous photos, she decided he was cheating. However, she had forgotten about this man. If he really wanted money and women, why did he have to spend so many years by her side, living in this small business in the Yu's?

She had been sure that she was the one who knew him best, but she had turned out to be the most self-righteous person in the world.

The dream that happened at that time was just like a cautious woman in a marriage, who couldn't bear the slightest bit of cheating or harm. The dream that happened at that time was like a cautious woman in a marriage, who couldn't receive any kind of cheating or harm.

When he thought about his dream, when Tan Yubai refused to divorce her, it was not because he was imprisoning her, but because he wanted her to understand everything.

Only now did Yu Meng understand.

He had lived well and clearly ever since he was a child, ever since she had tampered with his wishes, his heart had been as clear as a mirror, but he had never blamed her.

That love, that dream of living in a daze, it was only now that he understood.

The man who could call the wind and summon the rain, the man who had become the greatest in the world, the man who was willing to hide in a small world and be suspected of being threatened, was all for her.

The cold wind rustled, the countryside was silent, and that thin back of his had been sitting there stupidly for who knows how long, until his phone suddenly rang, breaking all of Yu Meng's thoughts.

It took her a long time to pull out the phone.

The screen showed an unknown number, not the way Chinese numbers were arranged, and no one knew which country it was from.

Even though she was thinking up to the point that it might be another phishing call, for some reason, Yu Meng actually picked up the call.

When the call connected, no one on either side spoke.

It was very noisy over there. Yu Meng was talking in a language she didn't understand. It was not English, nor was it a common language. It sounded very strange, but what was even stranger was that Yu Meng found it familiar.

She didn't understand a word of it, but she thought she had heard it before.

After waiting for a while, the other party still did not speak. Yu Meng organized her thoughts and hung up the phone.

She had gone mad. She had waited for him to speak for so long for such an obvious scam. Who knew how many phone calls would be deducted in a short while.

She took a deep breath and hugged herself. Her tears had dried.

He looked up and saw the moon. He saw a meteor that had suddenly streaked past.

Meteor! Can you give Tan Yubai back to me?

Tan Yubai suddenly sneezed.

He rubbed his nose, pulled the card out of the phone booth, put on his hat and mask again, and walked down the empty block.

Today was the monthly second-hand trading market. No one noticed that there was a cripple on the roadside, holding onto a leg as he walked through the crowd with his head lowered.

He had come all this way just to change a phone card in the second-hand market and buy it with a national limited watch.

He just wanted to make a phone call and hear the woman on the other side of the world, her breathing, her life.

She probably already knew that she had died.

Because this fake death was the fourth thing that Tan Yubai had given to Siri to complete when he first left.

Siri is a super-intelligent robot, and doing a lot of fake data is easy for it.

Tan Yubai knew that he couldn't go back anymore.

He didn't want to do anything but miss her.

He wondered if she was thinking the same thing about him.

He could not ask, because even though he had temporarily escaped from Lu Youhuai's grasp, he had almost died as well.

In his current state, he could really die at any time.

However, he still couldn't help but think about her.

When Tan Yubai hung up the phone, the helplessness that came over him when he was powerless before once again surged to his mind.

He thought that he might not be able to get along with Yu Meng in this life. He completely experienced the pain of helplessness. It was like a snowstorm in winter. No matter how hard he tried to grab hold of her, she would still slip through his fingers and melt.

In the end, all that remained was the wind in his sleeve, like a cold arrow, nailing him to the cold wall, always awake and always in pain.