Chapter Five: A Kiss Takes This Life Away

She saw Gu Ye sitting beside her grave for seven days. Gu Linchuan waking at twenty with a red cord already on his wrist. Gu searching crowds for her face. At the same time, something from her present life was pulled away. When they separated, Shen Wu did not recognize Zhou. "Who is he?" The struggle in his face shattered. "Your best friend," Gu said. "I don't have a friend like that." Zhou tore the alarm wire loose and struck his forehead against the wall. The black moon cracked. His own voice returned. "Nine years, Shen Wu. The old auditorium leaked, and we covered the soundboard with plastic. You owe me three hotpots." Fragments returned, but they felt like another person's stories.