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  The plane landed on the hometown soil in the early morning, a big early morning, the sky was gray and misty, it had been a long time since I came back, and I felt very strange.

  Luo Lian rushed back home in a hurry, but it was too late. Her grandmother had already passed away, and Luo Lian only saw the outline of her body covered with white cloth in the dimly lit funeral parlor. Facing this vague outline, Luo Lian didn't know how to cry, and she didn't understand what it meant to be dead. The outline just seemed to be sleeping under the white cloth... Except for the atmosphere, Luo Lian couldn't feel any difference between death and life at that moment. Wasn't her grandmother still lying there? Didn't she still exist? Luo Lian's mind was a complete blank.

  When she saw her grandmother's face again, it was during the funeral procession at the funeral home. Luo Lian walked around the glass coffin, saying goodbye, and took one last look at her grandmother. Her skin had turned grayish-black, and the same faded silk flowers surrounded her. How long had it been since Luo Lian had looked at her like this? During the six years she spent in girls' school, she would leave for school before dawn and return home after dark, when everyone was already asleep. In the four years of university that followed, Luo Lian only returned home once during her first year, so she never really got to spend time with her grandmother. Moreover, her grandmother rarely spoke, and Luo Lian had never heard her talk about the past. She didn't even understand what her grandmother's life was like.

  Now, lying in the glass coffin, she wouldn't be able to speak to Luo Lian again. Her life had been quiet and uneventful, and so was her death. There were only a few people at the funeral, as if it didn't matter whether she had existed in this world or not. Luo Lian could only slowly input the concept of "death" into her mind. Was this what a person's life was like? After dying, lying there, being sent to the funeral home, and then being cremated without anyone knowing how... All that was left was a small black box with ashes inside.

  Luo Lian stared straight at the small black box, feeling as though her grandmother was still at home, leaning against the bed with her eyes closed. That gentle, peaceful, and unassuming person had become this small black box.

  The small black box was carried to the cemetery, placed in a small pit on the grave, covered with a stone slab, and another stone slab was erected, with the name engraved. The mountains were filled with stone steps, and every step had such pits and tombstones.

  Luo Lian didn't realize until now that there was a difference between life and death.

  Afterwards, Lian's life was left with only one thing, attending funerals, and living in a sorrowful atmosphere forever...

  Every morning, I carry a bag of offerings to the cemetery, climb up the steps to find my grandmother's tombstone, take out the offerings and place them in front of the stone monument, pour libation wine, burn incense paper, smoke and fire everywhere, cry...

  The thick smoke from the incense was choking her, and she couldn't tell whether this scene was real or not. She had just been in the misty Ming Bay, but now she was back in this chaotic world. Luolian threw handful after handful of paper money into the fire, watching as they were consumed by the flames, turning them into a dark gray ash. The wind blew the ash onto the tombstones, offerings, and onto Luolian's hair, face, body, and clothes.

  Luo Lian lifted her head, and in front of her were rows upon rows of stone tablets. She turned around, and it was still rows upon rows of stone tablets. Luo Lian was surrounded by countless stone tablets, endless and boundless. She sat weakly on the ground. Her grandmother was among them, and in the future, Fan Rui would also be among them. And further in the future, Luo Lian would also be among them.