The store manager picked up the brush from the table and started to play with it. Not only did this whale speak Chinese as smoothly as his native language, he even learned the calligraphy of Chinese culture at his fingertips!
After a while, a huge word "regret" copied with thick ink appeared in front of everyone, and the store manager asked questions in a deep voice.
"What is regretful love?"
The moment they heard this question, Caesar and Chu Zihang's hearts pounded at the same time, feeling terrible.
They couldn't help but sigh at the store manager's vicious eyes and fierce questions... They all knew Lu Mingfei very well. Indeed, many girls from Shilan Middle School to Kassel College had winked at Lu Mingfei.
, but Lu Mingfei has never shown any pretense towards anyone, this guy is a complete blank slate in terms of emotional experience!
This guy has probably never even held a girl's hand. Such an innocent boy must have never experienced the pain of love. How can a boy who has never even experienced love understand what regret is and what love is?
What is regretful love?
This is like describing the majesty of the snow-capped mountains and the vastness of the glaciers to an indigenous people living deep in the Amazon rainforest. You also say that the snow-capped mountains are more terrifying when they are angry, and avalanches can crush people to death... But they have never seen snow.
I thought to myself, no matter how high this snow-capped mountain is, can it be higher than the big trees in the forest? No matter how severe the avalanche is, can it be more severe than the poisonous snakes in the grass?
Mr. Sakura, if you don’t understand, just admit it. It’s not shameful. We all understand you and we won’t laugh at you, but please don’t talk nonsense... Caesar and Chu Zihang secretly prayed in their hearts.
However, to their surprise, Lu Mingfei did not make bad remarks, nor did he use lines from romance novels or love movies. Strangely enough, he was completely stunned the moment he heard the store manager's question.
It seemed like someone had been cast on a body-holding technique, or like something had smashed his head.
Regret... and love? When these two words are superimposed together, they are like a sharp spear piercing Lu Mingfei's most fragile heart.
Although he has hardly experienced any love in his life so far, he has seen too many stories in dreams... the shortcomings of youth, the prohibition of race, the profound sorrow of life and death... it is simply a romance when written.
If there are levels of feeling about regretful love, then Lu Mingfei is simply a god who transcends the mortal world.
In the story, he feels sorry for Chen Wenwen, right? He doesn’t dare to speak or say anything. He carries that simple and sincere beauty but is ruthlessly shattered by reality. He watches the girl he loves being chased by others while he plays the role in the corner.
That little "i".
Then the second regretful love followed. The hot girl pushed open the door of the movie theater and took him away in the light in full view of everyone. He thought that this light completely lit up his life.
But in the end, it was just a puppy that the girl randomly picked up from the roadside. Nono has picked up countless such puppies since he was a child. Only a perfect tall, rich and handsome guy like Boss Caesar should be his destiny.
Mr. Right.
Chu Zihang and Xia Mi in the story were regretful enough, right? If this is not a damn regret, then what is a regret? In the end, neither of them said a single word "love" and stabbed the girl they loved with a knife.
Heart...this is really "heart-piercing"! Just talking about it makes my eyes full of tears.
But these people and things all flashed through Lu Mingfei's mind like a fleeting flash in the pan, and the real regret engraved in his heart should be the girl who shared the whole world with him.
They went to Disneyland, Meiji Shrine, and Tokyo Sky Tree. She permed her hair and put on beautiful clothes, revealing her youth and beauty for the first time.
They silently felt each other's heartbeat in the darkness of the love hotel, and then made a grand escape in the sunshine. She went to his family dinner and toasted her uncle affectionately. In order to protect her, he shouted "Don't die" to himself.
, was severely injured and almost died; in order to protect him, she did not hesitate to ignite her taboo bloodline and recite judgment.
They played it in "Tokyo Love Story", watching the sunset in Umezuji Town, Ehime Prefecture, a small town in Shikoku, taking the cable car to swim through the sea of flowers, climbing the deserted stairs to the top of the deserted mountain, and looking at the mountains full of flowers.
Cang Hong, listening to the swaying sounds of the vast forest like ocean waves, until the sunset sets, and when night falls, her jewel-like eyes reflect the light of the setting sun, making bright waves.
She told him that this gem-like, beautiful and distant world guarded by snakes was very gentle. She liked this kind of world very much, but the world did not like her.
He told her that whether the world likes a person only depends on whether the person's friends like her. If the world doesn't really like her, then the world is his enemy.
He made her see the gentle world, gave her an illusion, gave her a promise, looked at each other through the car window, and made an appointment on Line to meet again under the unfounded crabapple tree in Seoul, South Korea.
The two of them were eating ice cream... But he lied, he broke his promise, and the crabapple tree never existed from the beginning, just like the love that only existed in the girl's fantasy.
So in the end he lost... the girl who loved him deeply, who was willing to share the whole world with him, and who would never come back.
Like a person immersed in the tide of sorrow and about to drown, Lu Mingfei grabbed forward with empty eyes, as if he wanted to grab a life-saving straw...or a girl's hand.
Caesar and Chu Zihang didn't know why Lu Mingfei suddenly became like this after a long period of sluggishness. Could it be that he was fooled by the store manager's fatal question?
Just when they were about to make a sound to wake up Lu Mingfei, the store manager suddenly waved his hand to stop them and made a silent gesture to them, signaling Caesar and the two not to disturb Lu Mingfei.
He also seemed to be shocked by Lu Mingfei's state. He was almost completely focused on Lu Mingfei, looking at Lu Mingfei as if he was observing a rare treasure in the world.
Lu Mingfei escaped from his memories, like waking up from a nightmare, and he gasped for air.
"Regretful love is...the crabapple tree that never existed from the beginning."
Finally, Lu Mingfei whispered this sentence. Whether it was the store manager, Caesar or Chu Zihang, anyone could hear the regret in his tone... The boy lowered his head when he said this sentence.
He whispered in a low, crying tone, and the sadness in his words was so intense that it almost drowned the world.
"The crabapple tree that didn't exist from the beginning... the crabapple tree that didn't exist from the beginning..." The store manager was stunned when he heard this sentence, and kept repeating these words in his mouth.
This word is like being stunned.
"Brilliant! Brilliant!" The store manager suddenly high-fived excitedly again, startling Caesar and Chu Zihang.
They couldn't help but wonder if Gao Tianyuan was a Cowherd nightclub on the surface, but it was actually a detention center for abnormal humans, right? This Cowherd interview didn't feel like an interview at all, but more like an exchange meeting for mentally ill patients!
"It's simply wonderful! To be honest, I can totally feel the regret overflowing from your words, Sakura-kun, as full of poetic regret! It's like a sad bullet that hit my emotional heart.
Heartfelt!"
The store manager admired from the bottom of his heart, then paused, changed the subject, and looked solemn.
"Although I can sympathize with your sadness, Sakura-kun, it would be a bit pale to describe a regretful love with just one sentence, 'The crabapple tree that never existed from the beginning'... Such a melancholy sentence is more
Sakura-kun, please explain it to me."
The store manager didn't show his identity at all and was not ashamed to ask questions.
"The crabapple tree represents love and commitment. 'The crabapple tree that never existed from the beginning' refers to the love that never existed from the beginning." Lu Mingfei whispered, "Broken love is a regret, missing out is a regret.
, life and death are even more regrettable... But in my opinion, the most regrettable thing in a love is that this love does not exist in the first place."
Love does not exist in love... This sentence sounds like a paradox, but the store manager was extremely excited. His face was full of curiosity and expectation. He clapped and praised: "That's great! Keep talking, Sakura-kun.
, tell me more, I’d be happy to listen!”
"If you have had a love before but lost it later, at least the experience is real, the love is real, and the memories left behind are also real; if you have never had this love, then it is even more difficult to talk about it.
It’s not a pity at all, it’s just one-sided obscenity at best,” Lu Mingfei said.
"But if this love is wrong, false, and a lie from the beginning, but you always firmly believe that it is real, and you are serious about it, you may even start to believe that the world is beautiful and gentle because of someone,
You take out all of yourself and share it with that person. You hug him carefully, taste and share his joys and sorrows. You are happy because of his happiness and sad because of his sadness. You feel that you are loved.
, became the biggest treasure in the world... But in the end, it was just a huge lie, a misunderstanding, and an illusory dream in your life..."
Both Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at Lu Mingfei with complicated eyes. Can this deep-seated speech really be expressed on a blank piece of emotional paper? How could this be an innocent boy who has never been in love before?
, this is clearly a great love saint who has experienced eighty-one hardships in love!
Sakura, you have evolved. Has the manly flower arrangement in your heart awakened? Is it possible that this is your true face? Caesar began to regret the name of Sakura that he once despised. Only a boy with such an innocent flower name can
How can you write such a clean and sad sad article!
They finally understood why the store manager valued Lu Mingfei so much. They had been left behind too many times by Sakura on the road of Cowherd!
No, how can you call me Sakura-chan? This is Sakura-chan... Accept our worship, Sakura-senpai!
"I understand! Sakura-kun, I completely understand what you mean!" The store manager nodded his head like a rattle, as if he was enlightened, "The regretful love in your heart is false love, right?"
"Indeed, if love is deception from the beginning, it is false joy, a scale without weight, a begonia tree that does not exist, and the meaning of life becomes void. It is really a pity in the world!" The store manager Wanruo
The ancient Roman philosopher made an impassioned statement, "It is like a moth flying towards a fire without temperature. It thinks that the fire can warm it, but in the end it just flaps its wings around the halo of nothingness, gradually gets lost, and finally freezes.
Die, or die of exhaustion."
"No." Lu Mingfei suddenly interrupted the store manager's sonorous emotion, "It's not the brave moth that should be regretted, it's the false fire that should be regretted."
The store manager was stunned again.
"I haven't finished speaking, I have only a few words left." Lu Mingfei said in a hoarse voice, "In this regretful love, the sad thing is never the girl who believed in Begonia Flower, the sad thing is the fictional Begonia Flower
This guy, he failed a girl's purest and purest love, this love will become an unsolvable knot rooted in his heart, he will live in regret for the rest of his life, his whole life... He will spend his whole life for
This regretful love comes to atone for sin!"
The store manager was so shocked that he couldn't say a word. He looked at Lu Mingfei blankly, astonished.
If this interview was scored out of 100 points, Lu Mingfei's answers up to this point were affectionate, well-reasoned, and he could give a high score of at least 90 points.
After all, regretful love is an eternal and difficult problem, and even if he answers it in person, he will hardly get full marks.
But after Lu Mingfei finally said these words, he felt that this interview was no longer just a one-sided question and answer. He had found a confidant who could keep pace with him on the road to ikebana.
Even on the question of "regretful love", this man was ahead of her. It would not be an exaggeration to describe his answer as "perfect". The store manager was willing to mark Lu Mingfei's answer sheet by 100 points.
,No, it’s one hundred and twenty points!
"To be honest, I can't judge your answer Sakura-kun anymore. It's not that I'm not satisfied, but I'm not qualified to be your judge." The store manager shook his head in shame, "If there is anyone else in this world who can judge this
There are only two answer sheets left, probably Venus and Cupid."
"The depth of your ikebana is far beyond my imagination. It seems that my vision is indeed right. Please sit down, Sakura-kun. Thank you for your inspiration. My career is honored to meet young people like you."
The elder actually greeted Lu Mingfei to sit down with the etiquette of greeting his peers.
Then the store manager glanced at Caesar and Chu Zihang with a sharp gaze, then locked his eyes on one of them, and said slowly: "Ukyo."
"Yes." Chu Zihang came and sat down on the single sofa opposite the store manager.
"Ukyo, did you hear Sakura-kun's answer just now?" the store manager asked.
"Yes." Chu Zihang nodded.
"What do you think of his answer?" The store manager stroked the Sphynx cat on his lap.
"There is no one before, and there will be no one after." Chu Zihang said seriously.