The cold water flowed slowly from beneath his feet, and Lu Mingfei trudged in the water. It was pitch black ahead with no end in sight, like a long tunnel leading to the cracks of time.
He looked solemn and arranged his tie and collar specially, as if he wanted to say his final farewell before leaving.
He walked faster and faster, and a glimmer of light appeared in front of him. He quickened his pace, rushed into the glimmer of light, and broke into the stage from a long and narrow straight path filled with water.
The dazzling light made it difficult to open one's eyes for a moment. Lu Mingfei squinted his eyes and heard a familiar voice in his ears.
"Thank you very much, classmate Chu Zihang, for your saxophone performance! Now let us warmly welcome the group dance of Class 1, Grade 2!"
The lights changed, and spotlights fell on the stage from all directions, illuminating Lu Mingfei's figure to every detail.
He opened his eyes and remembered that this was the Spring Festival party of high school.
"Lu Mingfei, are you okay? Just hold on, don't be afraid, the performance will be over."
The soft voice suddenly pulled Lu Mingfei back. He looked at the girl in front of him and raised his eyebrows slightly.
He looked down at his shoes. Well, they were sneakers, that's right.
In my memory, before the party started, he was replaced by the teacher because everyone was wearing leather shoes, but he was wearing sneakers.
In the end, he could only stay in the lighting room, flip the switch according to the teacher's instructions, and let the spotlight shine on the students who appeared on the stage one after another, watching them hold the girl's hand and spin.
In fact, he had no dancing talent to begin with. The dance teacher he hired repeatedly shook his head and said that Lu Mingfei was obviously the uncoordinated type of using his hands and feet. However, he still insisted on rehearsing for three months because the object of this group dance was Chen Wenwen.
It's a pity that he was kicked off before he came on stage.
In Lu Mingfei's memory, he has stood in the center of the stage with everyone's attention countless times since then.
Because he is an S-level student of Kassel College, the president of the student union, and the newest elite in the executive department.
Later, he escaped from Kassel School and went to many places. Everywhere he went, he was pursued overtly and covertly, becoming the focus of all the mixed-race forces.
After opening the door to the dragon world, Lu Mingfei's life was destined to no longer be mediocre.
But Lu Mingfei, who has long been accustomed to being the center of attention, will still miss the missed party.
It's not that I'm still thinking about Chen Wenwen, I'm just remembering the past years that I missed and will never have again.
Under the bright spotlight, the music gradually started to play. Lu Mingfei smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to Chen Wenwen and extended an invitation.
"Don't be afraid, just follow my footsteps like you did during training." Chen Wenwen whispered.
Lu Mingfei pointed to his lips and said with a smile: "Thank you very much for taking care of me all those years, and thank you for inviting me to join the literary club. I am very happy to meet you."
In the girl's stunned eyes, Lu Mingfei kicked off the stage.
He guided the girl with his strong arms. Under his control and the hints in his eyes, Chen Wenwen was forced to keep up with his pace and rhythm. This was beyond the scope of group dance. Their dancing was so free and unrestrained.
, it seems that he can dance however he wants, and the entire stage has become his domain.
The white dance skirt spins and flies, reflecting the dazzling light and shadow.
The boy wearing a black tuxedo and sneakers became the master of the stage.
The accompaniment music changed quietly without realizing it, por una cabeza, the standard Spanish tango dance music.
The girl was shocked by his changes and toughness, but she subconsciously followed his fiddling and turned into a white bird on the stage, her slender figure spinning, and her skirt blooming like flowers!
She mustered up the courage to raise her head. In the interlaced light and shadow on the stage, his face was cold and majestic, leading the girl to complete the entire dance with impeccable rhythm. This group dance became his personal show.
When the music stopped, there was a brief silence followed by thunderous applause.
Lu Mingfei bowed slightly in front of everyone. When he raised his head again, the grand Spring Festival party turned gray-white, and the loud applause was frozen in time.
He shrugged and walked slowly off the stage.
He walked aimlessly, and there seemed to be a sound coming from around the corner. He followed the sound and walked into a large auditorium.
"...Hello everyone, I am Lu Mingfei from Class 1, Grade 3, and the title of my speech this time is "Thank you for having you." Mr. Lin Yutang once said, 'A wonderful speech should be like a miniskirt worn by a girl.
, the shorter the better..."
Lu Mingfei put his hands in his pants pockets and stood leaning against the door of the auditorium, squinting at himself on the stage.
The other self is standing above the auditorium, holding a speech.
When he reached this point in his speech, he paused for a moment, took away his speech and showed a flattering smile to all the friends in the school. His eyes were full of expectation, expecting everyone to give him applause and a knowing smile.
But then the vice-principal, who was known for his academic temperament, coughed deeply, and the few students who wanted to laugh immediately fell silent.
Everyone realized that the vice-chancellor did not like this uncivilized opening, even though it was Lin Yutang's original words.
As a result, the entire auditorium fell silent, with thousands of pairs of eyes staring coldly at Lu Mingfei on the podium.
It's like being pointed out by thousands of people.
The boy on the stage couldn't help but take a step back, his eyes frightened. He seemed to have suddenly changed from a hero ready to accept applause to a prisoner who told obscene jokes and was despised by everyone.
He is alone against the world.
Who can stand by his side at this time?
"Pah, pah, pah—"
Calm but thunderous applause sounded from the back of the auditorium.
Everyone turned around in shock to see who was confronting the vice principal, only to find a man who looked exactly like Lu Mingfei leaning against the door.
He didn't care about everyone's gaze, raised his hands, applauded enthusiastically, and shouted loudly:
"Well said! Don't be afraid. Don't say you are just a vice principal. One day there will be someone willing to fight the whole world for you!"
"Also fuck the vice principal!"
"I have long wanted to say that you look really embarrassed when you are bald!"
Amid the arrogant laughter, the boy in the middle of the auditorium stared at him blankly and suddenly burst into tears.
It was a look across the long river of mottled time, and it was also the letting go of the past by grown-up people.
The picture freezes.
Lu Mingfei curled his lips, not having enough fun yet.
But he knew it was far from time to stop, so he turned around and continued moving forward.
He walked out of the school and came to the street, looking at the city in the heavy rain.
He looked at the road ahead, then looked back at the way he came, and smiled.
He knew that this was destined to be a very interesting funeral.
…
…
"Damn it, this grandson just jumped out to cause trouble. I don't think he knows him at all. I think that little girl looks pretty good and he comes out to play hero and save beauties." The angry gangsters surrounded him and said, "That little girl seems to have some money.
His appearance is interesting enough, damn! He screwed everything up!"
They stepped on the face of the young man who was kicked to the ground.
The young man who was trampled on the ground held his head in his hands, and countless feet fell on him.
He felt like he was being kicked to the point of vomiting, and his internal organs were in reversed positions. His mind was groggy, but he suddenly remembered the hero in some movie who was beaten black and blue without moving, and finally the other party kicked him.
His face was caught by him with a flip of his wrist, and he said softly...
"I hate it when people step on my face."
A deep voice sounded, and the young man huddled in the corner was stunned, because the voice sounded like his own.
Who spoke his mind on his behalf?
He raised his head tiredly, his eyes falling blankly on the person in front of him.
The man chuckled and turned his wrist to catch the gangster's kick. He simply pulled and pushed, and the gangster who had been so cruel just now fell to pieces and rolled around on the ground several times.
The man flexed his wrist, reached out and hooked his hand, and said with a smile: "Let's go together, I'm in a hurry and have to go to the next show."
The gangsters looked at each other, their expressions were fierce, and they came up from all around.
The young man stared blankly at the man facing their siege casually.
He casually slapped someone on the face and whipped him around a few times before landing. Then he grabbed the second gangster's forearm and hit him behind the joint with his shoulder, causing his forearm to fall.
Dislocated, raised his leg and kicked the wailing gangster away.
The man whistled, and with an uppercut, the third gangster was sent up into the sky. The sound of bone cracking could be clearly heard...
He simply and roughly dealt with all the gangsters, and then walked over to the little boy who had been standing by him the whole time.
He took the boy's hand, came to the young man's side, put their hands together, and said in a serious tone:
"Brothers are not allowed to quarrel."
"Be good and obey me."
He has the attitude of an eldest brother.
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…
"Last question...are you really Xia Mi now?" The boy raised his eyes, his dark eyes with dim light.
"It's me," the girl tilted her head and smiled sweetly, "I'm Xia Mi. Don't think about anything. You just had a dream. All the scary things you encountered in the dream were all fake. I
I've always been watching over you, haven't I? Just like that time you slept for ten days..."
The boy stared at her for a long time, then slowly opened his arms to hold her in his arms.
The girl didn't resist. She put her face against the boy's head, gently stroked his hair with one hand, and pressed the four fingers of the other hand together into blue-gray claws, silently pressing against the boy's back.
But in the end nothing happened.
The folding knife that the boy raised silently was held by someone.
The visitor gently pressed one hand on the girl's head. This action alone completely suppressed the girl's dragon transformation.
Lu Mingfei stood beside the two people who were in love but had to kill each other, humming softly, still the familiar song "falling" slowly.
This world is really sad sometimes, cruel and overwhelming.
We always lose the opportunity to touch the distant sky before we can make up our minds.
It seems that as we grow up, the things we are powerless to do not only do not decrease, but become more and more numerous.
How on earth should we protect the justice in our hearts?
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"...Brother, this is power. Although it is the smallest kind of power, it still has that intoxicating flavor."
Lu Mingze sniffed his fingertips and glanced at Lu Mingfei, "Actually, you have already smelled it, right? At this moment, Chen Wenwen is an easy prey for you. You have the power and you no longer have to look up to her.
On the contrary, you will compare her with Nono. There is nothing about her that is better than Nono. She is just an ordinary girl. But Nono is too far away from you and out of reach. The power you hold in your hands now is not enough.
You still need to look up to Nono, but you don’t need to look up to Chen Wenwen, you can even lean down..."
Lu Mingze paused, and a piece of tissue paper on the table rose up without any wind and fell to the ground.
He was about to lean over and pick up the tissue that had fallen to the ground, but Lu Mingfei was one step faster than him.
Lu Mingfei picked up the tissue, held it in front of his nose and snorted hard. He sniffed and said embarrassedly: "Do you still want it?"
Lu Mingze froze on the spot.
Lu Mingfei threw the tissue into the trash can, lowered his head to cut the mutton chops, and said softly: "Ming Ze, why do we want to hold on to power?"
Lu Mingze's eyes narrowed: "If you don't seize power, anyone will feel inferior, just like a stag without antlers, it has no place in the herd."
Lu Mingfei shook his head and said: "The complexity of human emotions cannot be compared with animals like deer. We don't need to arm ourselves with power to show off our power and highlight our existence."
"The world is so big, but how much of it really belongs to us? We once thought we owned the whole world, but later we realized that this was wrong." He slowly opened his arms, then lowered his head and stared at the road.
Narusawa's eyes: "What we need is not a cold throne, but a warm harbor that belongs to us."
He stood up.
"Naruzawa, I have walked a long way, visited many places, and killed countless enemies, but there is no joy in my heart, but full of exhaustion. I returned to the throne alone, but I have no hope for this general.
I scoff at the power that the world is crushing under my feet, because that power does not allow me to reclaim the things I hold dear.”
Lu Mingfei walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling window and said softly,
"Even after returning again, I still feel confused, but now I finally understand it completely and understand the meaning of my return."
"I hold power and power again, not to regain the throne, but for the one I love."
“I don’t want the word ‘powerless’ to appear again in my life.”
"Tear apart all restrictive shackles, smash the inherent barriers of destiny, and break those things that make people feel powerless and painful. This is the meaning of my regaining power."
The restaurant beneath my feet began to fall apart, and the screen shattered and restarted.
This time, Lu Mingfei went further.
…
He saw Crow sitting slumped in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, slowly smoking the last cigarette, a stack of tissues soaked in blood falling from his abdomen, and the unburned cigarette.
Zuo Bolongzhi, died.
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He saw the black dragon raising its membrane wings to cover the sky and the sun, and the old man who had persisted for more than a hundred years slowly turned into sand, leaving only the folding knife in his hand falling to the ground, and that was the last remnant sound.
Angers, death.
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He heard gunshots ring out in the dead valley, and the blond man hugged the dark red-haired girl. They died quietly, hoping to meet again in the next life.
Caesar, death.
Chen Motong, died.
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He saw an old man with a beer belly carrying a backpack and walking into the temple of God.
With the deafening explosion, the old man who once mocked Angers as the goddess of vengeance really turned into a vengeful god.
The vice-chancellor comes to Leonardo and dies.
…
The boy who once fell in love and killed each other stared at the resurrected girl, and the girl stared at him. Neither of them was losing to the other.
Until the last drop of blood is shed.
Chu Zihang, died.
Xia Mi, death.
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He walked and walked, walked for an unknown distance in the dark, and passed countless funerals.
He buried the dead one by one and then embarked on a new journey.
Unknowingly, he seemed to be lost in the long night again, and it was raining all over the sky.
At this time, the rich engine sound came from far away, and a windy convertible sports car ran through the water at lightning speed, and stopped in front of him with an extremely elegant drifting tail.
The first thing that caught his eye was the pair of silver four-leaf clover earrings.
In the passenger seat was a girl with long dark red hair tied into a high ponytail. She was lying on the car window, smiling and shouting: "Would you like a ride, handsome man? We'll give you a ride."
The blond man wearing sunglasses on the side controlled the steering wheel with one hand, raised his two fingers together in greeting, smiled at him and shrugged.
Lu Mingfei looked down at the man with messy hair in the pool of water. His straight suit was wrinkled and he looked embarrassed again.
He raised his head and looked ahead, and saw another journey of heavy rain and overwhelming darkness.
He suddenly laughed silently.
So this is ah.
It turned out that he had once again reached the lowest point in his life, and what awaited him ahead seemed to be a dark night with no end in sight.
And at this time, shouldn't it be time for the big brother and sister who are covering Ma Zai to make a grand appearance with flashing lights?
He didn't open the door, jumped directly into the back compartment, pointed forward and shouted: "gogogo! Let's break through this wind and rain!"
The blond man in the driver's seat laughed and put the car into gear, stepped on the accelerator, the bright headlights pierced the rain curtain, and with the roar of the engine, the sports car turned into a red phantom and rushed into the rainy sky.
Lu Mingfei did not sit down in the back seat. He stood in the pouring rain. The cold rain hit his face, and the cold air penetrated into his collar, but he did not feel cold because there was something in his chest.
The fire is burning brightly.
He shouted wildly in the wind and rain, as if venting his long-suppressed emotions. The woman in the passenger seat waved her hands and applauded him like crazy. The blond man in the driver's seat turned on the car stereo, and passionate rock music echoed in the sky.
between the ground.
The bright car lights illuminated the empty streets, and time and space were confused at this moment. They passed through the old residential areas, crossed the viaducts full of wind and rain, and left behind all the mirror-like glass in the CBD area behind the exhaust gas.
, along with time and fate, are also left behind.
When the sports car rushed up the last high slope, they flew into the sky in the wind and rain, breaking through the long night!
"I'm back!"
Lu Mingfei shouted loudly, he opened his arms in the air, embracing the whole world, and the color of the sky was reflected in the child's hole!
At that moment, the unstoppable light penetrated the dark night, falling from the sky and covering his figure!
When Lu Mingfei was a child, he always heard people say "the past is like smoke" and thought it was sour. But at this moment, he suddenly felt that this word was so reasonable. Isn't the past just like those raindrops splashing on the ground?
, something like smoke and dust?
You remember them in the wind and rain, and they watch your journey in the wind and rain.
People always have to grow up, and growing up often means saying goodbye.
Lu Mingfei stood between the wind and rain and the sunny sky. He looked back. The scene in front of him made his eyes reflecting the sky light couldn't help but squint.
The girl with long dark red hair got out of the car, folded her arms and leaned against the car door, half-smiling.
The blond man took off his sunglasses, smiled and waved to him.
The old man with silver hair but still leading the way and the old guy with a bulging belly walked out of the darkness with their shoulders crossed.
The man with a cold face walked up to the car lights with a knife, and behind him was a playful and beautiful girl. The girl tilted her head and made a face at him.
The man holding a pair of knives and wearing a trench coat walked slowly towards him. In addition to the three people as always, there was also a young man who looked very similar to him, a girl wearing a red and white witch costume.
The girl looked at him, her eyes sparkling as if full of emotion.
…
The familiar figures appeared on the final stage like a revolving lantern.
They are Caesar, Chen Motong, Ange, the vice-principal, Chu Zihang, Xia Mi, the Genji brothers, Eri Yi...
They are countless figures who sacrificed their lives in the war of the previous life, and they are also countless people who are engraved in the trajectory of Lu Mingfei's life.
At this moment they walked out of the darkness and stood smiling
No matter how much time passed, they were still as bright as new and radiant in his heart.
They gathered here at this moment, smiling as they looked at Lu Mingfei's retreating figure, slowly waving their hands to say goodbye to him.
Lu Mingfei couldn't bear it anymore. Water stains appeared in his eyes, and then tears filled his eyes. He bowed deeply, bid farewell to them, and formally bid farewell to his past self.
The past is like clouds and smoke, and like a dream, twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
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Nice to meet you all.
I will continue to move forward and find the path to happiness. And on this path, I will not give up on any of you.