鼓舞

To get to know the new neighbor who moved in across the street and played the drum, Gui Tingyue expanded her activities from the bedroom to the living room, and then further downstairs.

Finally, a month later, she bumped into him at the convenience store at the entrance of the apartment complex.

Gui Tingyue immediately turned off her cellular data, pretending her phone was out of service, attempting to ask him for his hotspot to get acquainted.

But the man directly paid for her.

Gui Tingyue: “Thank you, but can we add each other on WeChat? So I can……”

Man: “No need to pay me back.”

Gui Tingyue: “……”

“Oh, right,” as he walked out of the store, he suddenly turned back, “stop peeping at me with binoculars.”

Gui Tingyue: “……………………”

***

The white swan, long trapped in the marsh,

Finally, one day, half a year later,

Heard the heartbeat of life like a sudden rain of stones.