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"You're very stupid and also very unlucky. Your mother happens to get sick at the same time. But it doesn't matter." Tongdao said.

Tongdao raised the knife in his hand.

"I'll help you. You’ll soon feel at ease and forget all your trouble." Tongdao said.

Tongdao walked toward Qiluo and Qiluo walked backward.

"I didn't want it to do this. But as long as you're here, Ling will become more and more boring. Now I still don't want to, so I hope you ...” Tongdao said.

Qiluo was forced to the edge of the rooftop.

"Jump off yourself!" Tongdao raised his knife to point at Qiluo.

"Are you scared of jumping off?" Tongdao said.

"Your mother is in hospital. Your family is facing financial difficulty. Your dream of further study is broken. Tongdao said, looking sideway.

"You should want to commit suicide under these kinds of situations." Tongdao said, looking back at Qiluo.

"Why are you forcing me like this?" Qiluo asked.

"Because I want to see what Ling will change into after losing you. He He... What I like to see most is when Ling gets crazy in the dark." Tongdao said.

"Do you know the outcome of killing people?" Qiluo asked.

"You still don't understand what I'm saying." Tongdao said, frowning.

"I don't want to kill you at all." Tongdao said, starting walking and pushing Qiluo backward.

Qiluo was pushed to the edge of the rooftop.

"I hope you jump off yourself. I killed one person before and got blood all over my body. It wasn't fun at all. Moreover, I heard it from Ling that Officer Tian is watching over me. I don't want to get caught at all. I don't want to go back to those days of boring psychological consultation and annoying psychological tests. Those are absolutely useless. Only Ling truly understands me. However, you dare to transplant that cheap humanity into him. You're truly unforgivable. Only when you vanish from this world would Ling be able to return to his original self, just like three years ago when his twin brother died. That was the true Ling." Tongdao said.

Ling ran up to a nurse station.

"Excuse me. Which ward is Mrs. Han in now, who came here last week?" Ling asked.

"Which Mrs. Han?" One of the nurses asked.

"Han... Han....They are mother and daughter. They're usually together." Ling said.

The two nurses looked at each other.

"Is she the one on bed 18?" One of the nurses said.

"Bed 18. Where are they now?" Ling asked.

"They just went to do a CT scan and are already changed to a different ward." The same nurse said to Ling.

Ling went to the CT scan room and couldn't find Qiluo.

On the hospital rooftop

"Even if I die, Ling won't change. No matter what happens, Ling will never become the kind of person you hope him to be." Qiluo said to Tongdao.

"Is that so? This is quite refreshing. Let's see your Ling or my Ling, which one is real. " Tongdao said, placing his knife close to Qiluo's neck.

Tongdao pushed Qiluo down. Qiluo struggled and got away. Tongdao chased after her, holding his knife high. Tongdao caught up to Qiluo. Qiluo fell down to the edge of the rooftop.

"You still don't want to jump off yourself! It seems that I have to use other methods to help you." Tongdao said.

Tongdao started strangling Qiluo. Qiluo struggled and her handkerchief fell off.

Ling was running in the hallway and saw the falling handkerchief through the window blind.

Qiluo bit into Tongdao's fingers and got away from Tongdao.

Qiluo was crawling and Tongdao opened his knife in front of Qiluo to stop her.

"I never thought you didn't want to die that much. Is it still not enough after so many tragedies?"

Qiluo was panting, short of breath.

"I've thoroughly investigated you. Does Ling already know about it?" Tongdao said.

Qiluo looked at Tongdao in shock.

"Originally I thought even if you committed suicide, no one would suspect of it. It's such a pity. I now have changed my mind. I want to kill you myself."

Ling kicked Tongdao from behind.

"Ling." Qiluo said.

Ling slapped and hit Tongdao hard, both of them were on the protective mesh net around the edge of the rooftop.

"I warned you before." Ling said. Ling pulled Tongdao up.

"Ling" Qiluo yelled. Ling stopped

"It's sickening me to see you look like a righteous angel" Tongdao said to Ling and smiled at Ling.

"I'm not living in this world to please you at all. You go to the hell." Ling said to Tongdao.

Ling started pushing Tongdao off the rooftop.

"Ling. That's enough. Don't kill him. You'll regret it." Qiluo said to Ling, pulling Ling away.

"You listen. There won't be a next time. If you dare to do anything to Qiluo again, I'll definitely kill you." Ling said to Tongdao, grabbing Tongdao's collar. Tongdao just smiled back.

Ling let go of Tongdao. Tongdao fell down on the protective mesh net.

Ling and Qiluo walked away together, leaving Tongdao lying on the protective mesh net.

"Wei." Tongdao called to stop Ling. Ling and Qiluo looked at Tongdao over their shoulders.

"Do you know why you loathed me so much? Because avoiding me is like avoiding yourself. " Tongdao said to Ling.

"Too close for comfort." Tongdao yelled at Ling.

Ling and Qiluo continued walking.

"Ha Ha Ha" Tongdao laughed.

Ling and Qiluo went back to Ling's apartment.

Ling went to the bedside table and crouched down.

"Don't ever come close to him again. Don't be alone by yourself. Do you understand? I'm going to see Officer Tian right now. No matter what, I can't leave the matter of Tongdao as it is." Ling said to Qiluo with his back facing Qiluo.

"That guy is really crazy. He really wanted to kill you for no reason at all. He did it just to satisfy his own desire. He even wanted to .... And I even wanted to kill him." Ling said to Qiluo as he sat down and went through a stack of paper with phone numbers.

"That wasn't the same. You were trying to protect me." Qiluo said to Ling, crouching down next to Ling.

"No. You don't know what I really think in my mind. In the end, it was what I wanted to do in my subconscious. That's the reason I wanted to kill him. " Ling said to Qiluo, holding a piece of paper in his hand.

"If it weren't because you're with me by my side, I probably would already go back to that place and cut off his flesh knife by knife until he bleeds to death." Ling said, pointing in the air.

"Am I crazy, just like Tongdao? We're the same kind of people." Ling said.

Qiluo hugged Ling.

Qiluo was waiting in the art studio for Tongdao.

"I heard you're looking for me. It gave me quite a shock." Tongdao said to Qiluo.

Tongdao sat down.

"After the last time, aren't you afraid of me?" Tongdao asked.

"I'm afraid. Of course, I'm afraid. But I also envy you." Qiluo said to Tongdao. Tongdao looked puzzled.

"You can do things based on what you want. I've been hoping I can be like that, too. If all the people I don't like can disappear from this world, it must feel really great." Qiluo said to Tongdao. Tongdao simply smiled.

"I should probably feel fine to kill people for this kind of satisfaction. I mean if I go crazy" Qiluo continued.

"You're right. I'm just an ordinary person, not a lunatic." Qiluo said. Tongdao's hand twitched.

"You think you can live and do whatever you want. Actually you've lost yourself. You've forgotten who you are. You've forgotten your dream. You're just an aimless corpse. When I painted Ling, I felt painful because there were so many colors in him. It felt very subtle, intricate; it was something very difficult to express. So It took me a great deal of efforts to paint him. It was much easier to paint you because I only had to blacken the whole canvas. People like you can never change anybody's heart. You're not like him at all." Qiluo said.

Tongdao stood up and left.

Tongdao was walking around the escalator area.

Some girl bumped into him from behind.

"I'm sorry." The girl apologized to him without stopping.

"Hurry up. Hurry up. Can I borrow your cell phone? I'm going to make a call." The girl bumped into him said to her friend as the two of them ran toward the down escalator.

Tongdao walked on the down escalator behind them. He pushed the girl down the escalator. People riding on the escalator started rolling down the moving stairs. Tongdao just watched and smiled.

In a police station

"They bumped into me and ran without even apologizing to me." Tongdao said.

"So you pushed her down." An interrogating officer said. Tongdao bent down his head.

"Do you know how many innocent people have been hurt by what you just did?" The interrogating officer asked.

Officer Tian, who was watching them, drank his coffee.

Tongdao started laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" The interrogating officer asked Tongdao.

"When they fell down, it was one after the other, just like dominos. Ha Ha Ha. It was so ugly." Tongdao said to the interrogating officer and laughed.

A testing technician opened to door and showed a report to Officer Tian.

"Can't find any trace of him using drugs." The technician told Officer Tian. Officer Tian nodded and the technician left.

"Excuse me." Officer Tian said to the interrogating officer.

"Um." The interrogating officer said and stood up to leave. Officer Tian took the seat next to Tongdao.

"It's been a long time." Officer Tian said to Tongdao. Officer Tian switched on the tape.

"A few days ago, Ling came to see me. He told me you assaulted with intent to harm a girl named Han Qiluo. Tongdao nodded.

"Why?" Officer Tian asked.

"Nothing particular. I just wanted to see what Ling will change into when he is robbed of Han Qiluo. But, I won't do it any more because Ling will kill me if I do it. Even it is worth dying in Ling's hands, but I still don't want to die yet." Tongdao said. Tongdao turned to look at Officer Tian.

"I don't want to die alone." Tongdao said to Officer Tian.

"By the way, Officer Tian. If you happen to meet Han Qiluo, please tell her. (Tongdao pointed to his own head.) Although in here I'm more inclined to Ling, but in terms of essence and standpoints, she and I are actually people of the same country. Tell her, I regret that I wasn't able to make her understand." Tongdao told Officer Tian.

Qiluo slept in her room

Images of Tongda "Is it still not enough after experiencing so many tragic events? Does Ling already know about it?"

Images of Qiluo's stepfather entered her room and raping her.

Qiluo woke up and thought he saw her stepfather standing behind her in her room.

"Absolutely not. Absolutely not." Qiluo murmured and checked over her shoulder again. Her stepfather wasn't there.

Qiluo started crying.

In a classroom

Qingmei came to talk to Qiluo.

"Qiluo, teachers have already been in meetings early in the morning. I heard that people from all TV networks will be here. The whole school is buzzing and wondering what the result will be." Qingmei said to Qiluo.

Ling sat on his bike and Daye sat on a bench.

"I've heard one saying. It says human beings are born assaulting. But even if it's true, I think normal people will not be aggravated to that extent. For something as little as stepping on his foot, he reacted so terribly. I really can't accept it." Daye said to Ling.

"Is it?" Ling said. Daye turned to look at Ling.

"What if some day Qingmei is hurt by someone, what will you do?" Ling asked.

"Qingmei gets hurt?" Daye repeated.

"I probably will get angry. Anyway, I won't be able to do that kind of terrible things." Daye said and laughed.

"What if Qingmei is killed?" Ling asked.

"It's not likely. You can't mix things with that kind of extreme assumption." Daye said, still smiling. Ling turned to look at Daye.

"What will you do?" Ling asked.

"Do I have to answer it?" Daye asked. Ling just looked at him seriously.

"Avenge." Daye said.

"Maybe I can't act it out, but in my mind I'll kill him hundred times and thousand times to avenge for Qingmei." Daye said.

"That's right. Getting the idea of avenge out of hatred is not abnormal at all. But if today one keeps producing this kind of conflicts without any reason or any purpose, what kind of mind is that? Does one hate oneself? The real target Tongdao wants to revenge is the loneliness in his heart. When he pushed people down the escalator, I can feel the expression on Tongdao's face contained neither anger nor hatred. He just watched curiously how the whole incident occurred, just like pushing lined-up dominos to fall. I think he must have watched it happily. He couldn't enter the real world at all. To him, the whole world is just his video game. Why? I understand what you mean. But I know clearly how his mind works." Ling said.

Ling stood up and walked forward.

"I know this doesn't look good, but I just know the whole thing." Ling said.

Qiluo was waiting for Ling in the school hallway

Daye came out of a classroom.

"Ling is not here again today." Qiluo said to Daye. Daye nodded.

"That guy has been acting strangely lately." Daye said to Qiluo.

"What do you mean?" Qiluo asked.

Daye started walking and Qiluo walked along with him.

"How do I put it?" Daye said. Daye stopped walking and looked at Qiluo.

"Ever since that Tongdao's incident, he hasn't seemed right. He seemed to have been greatly affected by it. He always looked gloomy and not happy. Look at him, previously regardless of how bad things looked, it took at most 2 to 3 days, then he got them over with. But this time, it has been already over a week. This isn't his style at all. Haven't you felt it?" Daye said to Ling,

Ling's apartment

Qiluo knocked on the door, but Ling didn't answer. Qiluo knocked again. Ling opened the door.

"You're indeed at home. I called you but you never answered. Nor did you come to school. I'm very worried." Qiluo said to Ling.

Ling turned inside. Qiluo followed.

"What day of the week is today?" Ling asked.

"Wednesday." Qiluo said.

"Yeah. There are classes on Wednesdays." Ling said.

"Have you lost weight?" Qiluo asked.

"Maybe. I hardly eat." Ling said.

"I'll make something for you." Qiluo said and put down her bag.

"No need to. I don't feel like eating anyway." Ling said as he sat down.

"What happened?" Qiluo asked, walking over and sitting next to Ling.

"Tongdao. I heard he has once again returned to the psychotherapy hospital." Ling said.

"Ling, listen to me. You're different from him. You're you. You're not Tongdao." Qiluo said.

"Is it? The difference between Tongdao and me is that we've met different kind of people. In fact, I even doubt that he and I are not much different." Ling said.

"It's not like that." Qiluo said.

"That's because you don't know the previous me. At that time, I still lived in Los Angeles. I was about 12 years old. I was 12-years old and I almost killed some one. He was an uncontrollable bad kid. Everyone loathed him. He always liked to bully Sheng. One day, Sheng came home crying." Ling said.

Sheng was running on a street.

"Ling. Ling! Ling!" Sheng yelled.

"You're a punk." Ling said to a white kid, pointing a gun between the eyes of the white kid who was kneeling down on the ground.

"What the hell man! You're crazy man!" The white man said and then rushed away to seek help.

Ling moved the gun along the bridge of the white kid's nose to his mouth. The white kid was trembling. Ling pulled the trigger several times but the gun didn't fire. The gun wasn't loaded.

Back to Ling's apartment

"If the night before my uncle hadn't unloaded the bullets from the gun, I would have already killed him." Ling said.

"So do you think, in essence, Tongdao and I are really different?" Ling asked.

"That was because you were still little; you didn't understand the meaning of life." Qiluo said.

"When you were 12 years old, had you ever thought of killing somebody?" Ling asked. Qiluo didn't say a word.

"When does an innocent 12 years old kid thinking of killing people to silence them?" Ling asked.

"If that day after my uncle maintained the gun, he hadn't just left the gun there without loading the bullets, I would have become what Tongdao is today." Ling said.

"In Tongdao's world, there are neither you nor Sheng. There's no Daye, either. He only had Qingmu. But in the end he chose to kill Qingmu himself, whom was the only person he could depend on. Isn't this a very tragic event?" Ling continued.

"But, Ling, have you ever thought about why Tongdao only had Qingmu? Why do you have me, Daye, and Qingmei? That's because we all like you. We all like you who are full of vitality and colorful. It's Tongdao himself who chooses to keep himself in dark loneliness. He creates his own destiny." Qiluo said.

"Don't look at with that kind of look in your eyes. I scared that kind of look the most. Sheng, my old man, and those who think they can save me. They all look at me with eyes full of encouragements but also with fear. They all treated me like a sick person instead of like a person. It's a look which completely denies me." Ling said, hiding his face.

"Ling, no. It's not like that." Qiluo said.

"Qiluo, please don't look at me with that kind of look. Don't deny me like them because it would just make me not knowing what I'm doing and who I am." Ling said.

"I know. I know who you are." Qiluo said, touching and turning Ling's face toward her.

"I know how you cry. I know how you laugh. Even if the whole world denies you, you still have me." Qiluo said.

"Qiluo." Ling said.

"In my world, you're not sick. You're the person who has brought me courage and happiness." Qiluo said.

Qiluo started kissing Ling. Ling started kissing and hugging back.

Image of Qiluo's stepfather raping her flashed through Qiluo's mind. Qiluo screamed and pushed Ling away.

"Qiluo." Ling said.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't do it intentionally." Qiluo said and covered her face with her hands.

"Qiluo." Ling said. Qiluo turned to face Ling, looking scared and panting.

"Ling. I like you very much. I really really like you very much. Please don't dislike me. Okay?" Qiluo said.

"It's okay. I won't dislike you." Ling said. Qiluo turned her face away. Qiluo covered her face with her hands again and started crying.

"Qiluo." Ling said. Qiluo cried even harder.

"Qiluo." Ling said.
At the fast food store where Daye worked.

"What's wrong? You're just standing there, not talking." Daye said to Ling.

"Wei. Didn't you say before that Qiluo disliked men tremendously?" Ling said.

"She did but now she is getting along so well with you." Daye said.

"Did she always dislike men like that?" Ling asked.

"Why do you suddenly ask this?" Daye asked. Ling just looked at him.

"Okay. Okay. Let me think a little bit." Daye said.

"As I remember, she should have already behaved like that after getting into high school." Daye said.

"Oh. I remember it now. Someone in our class, who was in the same class with her in middle school, said that she was quite cheerful in middle school. After getting into high school, she completely changed and became weird. Moreover, she never interacted with classmates, especially male classmates. She never spoke. Then later on our class..." Daye stopped short.

"Hey. Why did you suddenly ask this?" Daye asked the second time.

"Nothing." Ling said.

"What happened?" Daye asked.

"Nothing." Ling said, shaking his head.

Qiluo and Qingmei were walking downstairs together.

"Yesterday Daye told me that Ling went to see him. What's wrong with you two?" Qingmei said to Qiluo.

"Qiluo. Talk it out if something is wrong. Don't keep it to yourself." Qingmei said.

Qiluo slowed down and then caught up to Qingmei.

"Qingmei, actually. Actually I... Nothing." Qiluo said.

"Why is that you're not talking again?" Qingmei complained.

Qiluo stopped when she saw Officer Tian who was talking to student in front of the building. The student was pointing to the building.

"Officer Tian." Qiluo said.

"Is he looking for you?" Qingmei asked.

Officer brought two cups of coffee to where Qiluo was sitting and waiting for him.

"Thank you. Officer, why are looking for me?" Qiluo said.

"Actually, it's not somehing terribly important." Officer Tian said as he put down his jacket.

"I heard that Tongdao almost killed you. He admitted it too. If you want to, you can file an assault lawsuit against him." Officer Tian said and drank his coffee.

"Or you can tell me all the details. Maybe I can find a way to prosecute him." Officer Tian said.

"No. Thank you." Qiluo said as she shook her head.

"Really? Nothing will happen?" Officer Tian said.

"I think it has already past." Qiluo said and drank her coffee.

"Okay. I hope it is really already past." Officer Tian said and drank his coffee.

"I heard that Tongdao has returned to the psychotherapy hospital. Will he be healed?" Qiluo asked Officer Tian.

"If he doesn't think he's sick, there is no such issue as being healed or not. In his world, he's the most outstanding and brilliant person, but in our world, he is sick. It doesn't matter. The psychotherapy hospital that he is in now is the same one where Ling stayed. Its hospital president is quite brilliant. Maybe everything will be okay." Officer Tian said.

"Officer, Ling hasn't been feeling right lately. He's been suspecting he himself is another Tongdao." Qiluo said. Officer Tian laughed.

"Um. He thinks too much. He's very different from Tongdao. Tongdao is much more dangerous than he is. Ling's problem is that he can't forget his past, so he feels very painful. Tell him he'd better forget it sooner than latter." Officer Tian said.

"Is it really that easy to forget? you can pretend you've forgotten, but actually no one can really forget." Qiluo said.

Qiluo's cell phone rang.

A text message appeared on the cell phone screen: "I like to see you. I'll wait for you in the room. Ling."

Ling sitting on his bed and waiting for Qiluo.

"I'm here." Qiluo said to Ling after she entered the apartment. Qiluo put down her bag and a brown bag.

"What is it?" Qiluo asked as she opened the brown bag.

"Nothing." Ling said. Ling stood up.

"I just suddenly feel like seeing how you're doing." Ling said as he walked toward the door.

"I thought something big had happened." Qiluo said and took food she bought out of the bag.

"I bought some red bean soup on my way here. Do you want some? I'll get ready for you." Qiluo asked Ling who was closing the door. Ling closed and bolted the door at the bottom.

"One with sweet rice balls, the other without. Which one do you want?" Qiluo said as Ling walked toward her.

"You have the bowl with sweet rice balls." Qiluo said as Ling walked to behind her back.

"Do whatever you like." Ling said.

"It looks so delicious." Qiluo said as Ling embraced her from behind.

"Ling. Ling, please stop it." Qiluo said as Ling started kissing her.

"Ling, stop it. Ling, please don't be like this. Ling, don't be like this. Okay? Ling, don't be like this." Qiluo said and tried to untangle Ling's hands.

Ling pushed Qiluo to the bed.

"Ling, I beg you not to be like this. Ling, I beg you not to be like this" Qiluo cried and struggled. Ling got hold of Qiluo's both hands.

"Don't pretend." Ling said.

"No. No." Qiluo said.

"You're here, aren't you?" Ling said.

"Ah.. Ling. Don't." Qiluo cried out. Ling forced his kisses on Qiluo.

Qiluo cried and moved her head. Qiluo started screaming. Ling stopped.

"I don't want it." Qiluo pushed Ling away and got out of the bed.

"Qiluo." Ling called and got out of the bed.

Qiluo opened the door but it wouldn't open.

"Qiluo. Qiluo." Ling called her as he turned Qiluo around to face him. Qiluo just kept screaming and crying. Qiluo slid down to the floor and covered her face.

"I know it now. Qiluo. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Ling said, holding her face. Qiluo just screamed and cried.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Ling apologized and hugged her.

"I won't do it any more. Qiluo. Qiluo." Ling said and hugged and patted her.

"I'm sorry." Ling said. Qiluo kept crying.

Ling and Qiluo sat on the floor.

"Who did it?" Ling asked. Qiluo remained silent.

"Tell me. Who was he?" Ling asked. Qiluo still didn't say a word.

"Did you report it to the police?" Ling asked.

"Why? Did you know who he was?" Ling asked.

"My father." Qiluo said.

"You father? Wasn't he already dead?" Ling said after a long pause.

"He is not my dad. That kind of person isn't my dad." Qiluo said.

"He pretended to be kind and approached my mother and me. He betrayed my mother. To me..." Qiluo said.

"You mother remarried." Ling said.

"At that time, I just entered my first year of high school. I couldn't resist him at all. I dared not tell my mother, either. All I knew was being scared and crying. My mother finally found it out and we left him. But I still have nightmares every night. I dream of him seeking me out. No matter how I hide, he chases closely behind me. So I kill him. In my dream, I kill him brutally using the cruelest method. How I hate him. How I hate men." Qiluo continued.

"I hate them so much." Qiluo yelled and cried over her arms.

"Who will save me? Who will save me?" Qiluo cried.

Replay of Qiluo's past

Qiluo stepfather entered her room, closed the door, and took her brush pen away ....

Ling was alone.

Ling started to cry.

At the fast food store where Qingmei worked

Qingmei was cleaning a table when she saw Qiluo. She gave the tray to another server and walked outside.

"Qiluo, why are you here?" Qingmei asked Qiluo and walked toward Qiluo.

"What's wrong?" Qingmei asked when she stopped in front of Qiluo.

"Qingmei, Ling and I have blown it." Qiluo said and started to cry. Qiluo walked forward and cried against Qingmei.

"What happened? Don't be sad. Don't be sad. Tell me slowly. Okay? Take your time. " Qingmei hugged and patted Qiluo.

Next morning, Qiluo woke up in Qingmei's bed

Qiluo's voice-over," Human beings look strong but actually are weak. However, if you say they are weak, then they are very strong. No matter how hard you cry, you still go to sleep when it's time to sleep."

Qiluo¡¯s voice-over continued as Qiluo sat up in the bed, "You stomach feels hungry too."

Qingmei woke up.

"Good morning." Qingmei said to Qiluo. Qingmei sat up in the bed.

"Did you sleep well?" Qingmei asked.

"Good morning. I'm sorry for coming over and we had to crowd in one bed." Qiluo said.

"It's such a trivial thing. There's nothing to apologize for." Qingmei said.

"Are you going to school later on?" Qingmei asked as Qiluo played with the coverlet.

"I'll go after I go home and change clothes." Qiluo said.

"Are you okay?" Qingmei asked. Qiluo nodded.

"I'm fine." Qiluo said.

Qiluo was walking on a campus road

Qiluo's voice-over, "Today is just like yesterday. Every tomorrow is also like today. Things happen and then become past. So, every day is repeated in this way as if nothing ever happened."

Ling was sleeping on the floor.

Ling woke up and looked outside the window. It was broad daylight.

Teacher Shi's was teaching the class.

Qiluo's voice over, "Maybe someday we'll learn to forget. Perhaps there'll be such a day."

Ling came into the class, looking around.

"Chen Ling. Don't tell me you forget the time of the class again." Teacher Shi said, crossing his arms.

Ling walked along the back of the class to Qiluo's seat.

"Let's go." Ling said as he pulled Qiluo to leave with him.

"Chen Ling, what are you doing?" Teacher Shi asked. Ling ignored him.

"Chen Ling, I'm in class." Teacher Shi yelled. Ling stopped.

"I'm sorry, Teacher Shi. Now I've something more important to do than attending a class. If you absolutely have to scold me, I listen to it when I'm back." Ling said to Teacher Shi.

"Chen Ling, where are you taking her?" Teacher Shi asked.

"Chen Ling!" Teacher Shi yelled.

Ling rode with Qiluo on a highway.

"They probably will be okay." Qingmei said to Daye.

"If you don't count the minor demerits" Daye said.

Ling and Qiluo sat on a beach.

"It seems extravagant to discuss breaking up at such a place." Qiluo said to Ling.

"Why?" Ling said.

"It's because I have to make many connections to be back to the starting point." Qiluo said.

"What I mean is why we have to break up." Ling said.

"Because I'm not suitable for falling in love... Because I'm not normal... Because you can no longer look at me like you used to." Qiluo said.

"What a coincidence! I'm also not a normal person." Ling said. Qiluo turned to look at Ling.

"I've never raped people. I'm not female." Ling said, looking downward.

Ling turned to look at Qiluo.

"To tell you the truth, I don't really understand your feelings." Ling said. Qiluo looked downward.

"But I won't ask you to forget it instantly because I know it isn't that easy to forget." Ling continued. Qiluo turned up to meet Ling's eyes.

"Those words telling people to forget are all bullshits." Ling said to Qiluo.

Ling turned to sit facing Qiluo.

"What I want to tell you is that no matter what you have done, no matter what has happened to you, you always remain the same in my heart. You've never changed." Ling said to Qiluo. Qiluo looked on the verge of crying.

"We each started from our respective tragedy and then we met. We can feel each other by just one look. Unless we hold hand in hand, we will both lose the courage to walk out of the tragedies." Ling said to Qiluo.

"So, why do we want to break up?" Ling asked. Qiluo smiled and cried the same time.

Ling kissed Qiluo who was crying. Qiluo leaned again Ling crying. Ling hugged her.

"You are the first man whom I don't feel afraid of." Qiluo said, leaning against Ling.

"You definitely have forgotten it. When I just entered the college, you already talked to me." Qiluo said.

Qiluo sat up and showed Ling a key ring. Ling touched the key ring, looking puzzled.

"Look at it. You must have forgotten it." Qiluo said.

Qiluo told Ling the first time they met.

"It rained heavily that day. I accidentally dropped the key ring into a ditch. I didn't know what to do. You appeared suddenly and got it out for me as if we had known each other very well." Qiluo said.

"How come I don't remember it at all? Did I try to pick you up at that time?" Ling said.

"No. At the time, you only said "Can you loan me some money?"" Qiluo said.

"That can't be." Ling said unbelievably. Qiluo nodded.

"Then you took one thousand dollars from me." Qiluo said. Ling laughed embarrassingly.

"I must have not paid you back the money. Right?" Ling said, pointing at Qiluo. Qiluo nodded.

"Aiyou. How embarrassing!" Ling shouted and covered his face.

"Later on we passed each other frequently in the hallway; you didn't remember me at all. But from that time on, I'd been watching you; every time you were with a different girl." Qiluo said. Ling looked embarrassed again.

"I had a really bad impression of you. But it's very strange. Obviously I should have loathed you very much, but I just couldn't. Up until now I still don't know why." Qiluo said laughingly.

"Maybe it is because we both are abnormal." Ling said.

Ling and Qiluo heard the noise from some kids on the beach.

Three boys left after pushing a girl and a boy away and destroying their sand castle. The girl sat down on the beach and cried.

"There are tons of this kind of people in this world. They're particularly happy when other people cry." Ling said to Qiluo.

Qiluo stood up and ran to the two kids. Ling stayed and watched them.

"Little brother, don't cry. Jiejie (older sister) helps you to build the sand castle, okay." Qiluo said as she crouched down and hugged the little boy.

Qiluo stood up, holding the little boy's hands.

"Ling, they're building a sand castle. Let's help them and build it together. Okay?" Qiluo said loudly to Ling.

Qiluo steered the kids to the collapsed sand castle.

"Then, you take this." Qiluo said to one of the kids.

Ling stood up and ran to them.

"Wei. If we want to build one, let's build a big one." Ling said as he ran.

The four of them building a sand castle together by hands.

Qiluo tied Ling's hair into a pony tail,

Qiluo's voice-over, "I finally know why I couldn't loathe him. It's because he already knows what despair is. He already knows how painful an unhealed wound is."

They continued building the sand castle.

Ling walked up to Qiluo and the two kids after he did the final touch to the sand castle.

"Look." Qiluo said to the kids.

"Look there. How beautiful it is." Ling said to them, pointing to the finished sand castle.

"Ho Ho.." Qiluo said.

"Get ready. I'm going to shoot! One, two, three." Qiluo said, her fingers holding an imaginary camera.

"Yeah." The two kids said, standing in front of the sand castle.

Ling, Qiluo, and the little girl sat down by the sand castle.

Qiluo was holding the little boy and patting him.

"I'm so tired." Ling said and stretched his back and lay down on the sand. The little girl lay against Ling.

"Xiaojun. Xiaokai. Time to go home." The girl's mother was calling the two kids.

The two kids waved to them on their way home. Ling and Qiluo waved back.

"Bye bye." Qiluo said to the two kids.

Ling and Qiluo sat together on the beach.

"They won't forget today." Qiluo said to Ling.

"Who knows." Ling said, rubbing his hands off sand.

"They will not. Even the sand castle disappears, the memory of them building a big castle with two big brother and sister whose name they don't even know will not disappear. It's just that when tomorrow comes, that sand castle will sure to despair and be destroyed No matter how big or how beautiful it is, someday it will be destroyed." Qiluo said.

"If it's destroyed, just rebuilt it." Ling said.

"As long as you wish for it, I don't care how many times I have to build it. We build it together." Ling said as the two of them looked into each other.

Qiluo leaned against Ling.

Scene of Ling and Qiluo first met each other.

It was raining. Qiluo's key ring dropped through the hole of the iron mesh cover of a ditch. Qiluo carried an umbrella and crouched down. When she raised her head, he saw Ling standing in front of her.

"What are you looking at?" Ling crouched down and asked her.

"You dropped your keys into it?" Ling asked after looking through the holes of the iron mesh cover.

"I'll pick it out for you." Ling said.

"Hey. Help me holding it for a little bit." Ling said to Qiluo after he lifted up the cover.

Ling picked up the keys and gave it to Qiluo. Ling replaced the cover.

Back to the beach

The two of them started walking along the ocean line

***************************End of Episode 9 ***************************