Yue Linze stared at her for a long moment before slowly saying, “I want to go out and see the snow.”
“Okay, I’ll take you,” Tao Yu replied. She was afraid he would feel sad, so she was willing to comply with any request. She lifted Yue Linze onto the wheelchair, something she could never have done before, but now did easily.
After covering him with a thick cotton blanket, she pushed him out.
Large snowflakes were falling outside, and the street was empty. Tao Yu pushed Yue Linze around the courtyard, telling jokes to cheer him up.
Yue Linze listened silently for a long time before hoarsely saying, “Stop.”
Tao Yu immediately stopped, and when she saw Yue Linze reaching out to her, she quickly grabbed his hand and brought it to the front, crouching down and looking up: “What’s wrong?”
“Do you… do you remember the two things I most wanted, from many years ago?” Yue Linze asked with a light laugh, his wrinkles moving with his expression.
Tao Yu also laughed: “I remember. One was for us to grow old together, and the other you never told me about.”
“Now, we’ve grown old together, haven’t we?” Yue Linze touched her snow-covered hair, his eyes filled with the deepest tenderness.
Tao Yu was stunned for a moment, then lowered her eyes and smiled: “Yes, we’ve grown old together. So can you tell me what your second wish was?”
“Actually, the second one, I wanted it when I first shot you. At the time, I had too many concerns. When I realized those concerns were unfounded, you had already returned. So I temporarily put this wish in my heart, wanting to fulfill the first one before doing this,” Yue Linze recalled the past, smiling like an ordinary old man.
Tao Yu brushed the snow off his shoulder and asked, “What wish is so mysterious?”
“…Before telling you the wish, I want to tell you a secret,” Yue Linze looked at her sheepishly.
Tao Yu, rarely seeing him look so youthful, raised an eyebrow: “What secret?”
“Actually, the day I tried to hang myself, I calculated that you would soften and do so, otherwise, how could a rope appear out of thin air?” Yue Linze winked at her.
Tao Yu was stunned, then laughed after a while: “Should I praise you for being clever?”
