He left, you came

  Airport waiting room.

  Tang Ji sat on a white chair in the waiting room, his face calm, holding a nearly deformed plane ticket.

  At 10:09 on September 20, 2013, Tang Ji-ji was about to leave for Germany to study abroad.

  The sky cleared up, and the sunlight that had been unseen for many days fell on her, starting to feel a lazy warmth. She simply closed her eyes and took a short nap.

  "Hey——" Her colleague, Jian Wei, was shouting to wake her up. "There's only an hour left before boarding!! What if you oversleep and I couldn't wake you up?! That's enough! Get up now!"

  "How wordy you are." Tang Jiji stood up in response, his gaze suddenly falling on the watch on his wrist. It was slowly ticking away, but for a moment it stopped moving, as if it had stopped someone's heartbeat.

  It's as if from now on, there will be no more heartbeat-like rhythms in this world for some people and things, a calm ending that has nothing to do with sorrow or joy.

  Jian Wei looked at Tang Jiji's suddenly stiff face, opened her mouth, stuttered something, and finally blurted out: "Tang Jiji, why don't you just stay today? Actually, I think you shouldn't pretend to be strong anymore. After all, today is the day of Chu Qu's funeral..."

  As Jian Wei looked at Tang Jiji's increasingly calm face, her voice grew softer and she lowered her head, not daring to meet Tang Jiji's eyes.

  Tang Jiji heard the taboo words "out of mourning" without much emotional fluctuation, only blinking her eyes, as if she had heard a joke that was not funny at all.

  Tang Jiji smiled and said, "Jian Qi, are you hungry? I'll go buy something for you." After that, he turned around and walked towards the store on the other side.

  Jian Wei looked at Tang Ji's back, seemingly lost in thought. She always used her nonchalant attitude to conceal her true anxiety, and what Tang Ji feared most was loss, but this time... she seemed surprisingly calm.

  "Ah? Hey! Tang Jiji, don't go shopping, I'm still struggling to make ends meet and you're going abroad for studies. You have no idea how expensive things are at the airport, and with your spoiled princess attitude...” Jian Yun suddenly came back to her senses and stood up, but before she could finish speaking, she had already lost Tang Jiji in the crowd, so she had no choice but to wait for her on the spot.

  Tang Jiji was walking over with a big bag of snacks when she was accidentally pushed down by the crowd, and what fell out of her bag were her ID cards and a photo of her and Ji Chuqiao.

  She was about to pick it up, but another pair of slender fingers picked it up instead. As she looked closely, the girl in front of her with a calm and cold temperament rubbed the yellowed photo with her fingertips without any restraint, her focused expression as if bidding farewell to her beloved.

  "Miss... although this photo was picked up, the owner is me. Don't be too rude." Tang Jiji glanced at her with displeasure.

  The girl in front of her had a calm and elegant temperament, especially her eyebrows and eyes were similar to those of the popular star Qiu Yu, if not for the person's extremely indifferent gaze, Tang Jijie really couldn't tell them apart.

  She didn't seem to be annoyed, instead she returned the ID card and photos to Tang Jiji with a generous attitude, her eyes were filled with interest as she stared at Tang Jiji, but it seemed like she was looking at another person.

  "Tang Ji, you look very much like someone I used to know." She said word by word, but it was as if she was excavating the sorrow that was surging in her heart, and the calmness between her eyebrows was so unreal.

  "What? Who are you? How can you say..." Tang Jiji unconsciously took a step back, her eyes wide with stare at her. How did this person know her name? How was it possible? No one had said that Tang Jiji and that person looked alike since she was eighteen...

  Obviously she had plastic surgery... Obviously no one in this world would say that Tang Jiji looks like that person anymore...

  It's impossible... No one would ever say that Tang Jiji and that person look alike!

  The girl in front of her seemed to see through her panic, explaining: "It's just a resemblance. Tang Jiji, if you meet them again, help me pass on a message..."

  "Who?" They? Who did they refer to?

  "I won't be back again."

  Upon hearing this, Tang Jiji suddenly lifted her head, which had been hanging low, but the person in front of her was nowhere to be seen, disappearing into the crowd.

  Tang Ji saw the girl's eyes, which seemed to have experienced a lot of hardships, and suddenly felt an uncontrollable sadness sweeping over her five organs. However, she also felt bewildered and laughable - why should she care about what a stranger had said? What did she have left to care about now that she had lost everything?

  She shook her head and was about to walk away when her hand was grasped by a strong force.

  "Tang Ji... " His gentle tone almost suffocated her. "I want you to stay."