Extra: The Remaining Wish
The last thirty days of the contract, Jiang Dai suddenly disappeared for a week.
For the first time, Shen Shiyan realized that he couldn't sleep when she was gone.
She didn't say anything when she came back, only handed him a folder with the title: 'Remaining Wish List'.
He flipped it open and on the first page:
1. to go to the island with you one more time, without fighting.
2. you sing me a love song once. 3.
3. to dance with me in a dress of my choosing. 4. to kiss in the rain.
4. kiss in the rain. 5.
5. don't say "goodbye", even if you go.
Shen Shiyan was silent for a long time.
"You want to do all this?"His voice was hoarse.
"I want you to accompany me."Jiang Dai looked at him, and in her eyes was a tenderness she had never seen before.
Even if you will go in the end.
First stop, Maldives.
She wore a white dress, he didn't wear sunglasses, and sat next to her waiting for the sunrise.
She said, "You said before, like freedom.But you never said, have you ever thought about me."
He inclined his head to look at her, with waves in his eyes, "I wouldn't dare."
Second stop, San Francisco.
She dragged him to the streets and insisted he play the guitar and sing love songs.
He sang a very old song with lyrics along the lines of:
"I'm not where you belong, but was your sunset."
She smiled at him, but couldn't stop the tears from falling.
Third stop, Paris.
She's in a custom-made gown, he's in a suit she chose.
They danced in a deserted chateau ballroom.
He asks her, "Do you regret it?"
She shook her head, "I've had you for a year, and I'll have enough memories to last a lifetime."
Fourth stop, London.
In the sudden rainstorm, he suddenly embraced her and lowered his head to kiss her fiercely.
It was the cleanest and hardest kiss between them.
It was as if they kissed into each other's destiny, and also into the unreachable future.
The fifth stop was the one he escaped from behind her back.
In the early hours of the last day, she woke up and the bed was empty.
A tape recorder was left on the table, the play button pressed.
"Edai, I never said it, but I'm really afraid of you."
"You're too intense, too strong, too controlling, and I ... I'm a useless coward who only dares to approach, not to commit."
"But you're the most fire-like person I've ever met, burning me to pain, burning me to truth."
"Thank you for having been crazy for me."
"This is a memory, but it was already lost at the time."
She listened and smiled as she turned off the recording.
It was drizzling outside, and she looked out the floor-to-ceiling windows, slowly closing her eyes.
She didn't go after it.
She had loved him in her craziest way, and with her last tenderness, she had fulfilled him.
Shen Shiyan disappeared from view, took his guitar and backpack, and traveled all over the mountains and rivers.
He skied in the Himalayas, drove cross-country in the Sahara Desert, and pitched a tent in the South American rainforest.
No one can catch him, he is a free spirit.
Jiang Dai, however, appeared in the financial headlines again and again.
She took over Jiang's, turned the original dull industry over, turned to new energy, high-end chips, artificial intelligence three future industries, only four years to send Jiang's on the world stage.
Years later, a reporter asked Jiang Dai, "What's the single craziest thing you've done in your life?"
She thought for a long time and said, "I once used one hundred million dollars to buy a man whose soul did not belong to me.Then, when I loved him the most, I let him go."
"And then?"
"He conquered the mountains and rivers, and I conquered the world."