"Big Sister, wake up! Wake up and look at me! Come scold me! Poke me in the forehead and twist my ears!"
"I've gotten so many questions wrong lately. Aren't you going to hit my palms anymore?"
Yu Shengan finally collapsed beside her bed again. He gripped her hand tightly and sobbed incoherently. "Big Sister..."
"Big Sister, you're gone, and this world has turned pitch-black again. I feel as if I've returned to that damp, freezing, sunless Underground Passage. I feel as if I've become that same existence that lived in the Underground Passage like a stinking bug."
"Big Sister, you're gone. What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?"
"You told me to live well, but without you, how can I go on? How can I go on?"
"Big Sister, I can't go on... I really can't go on..."
Tears soaked the bedsheet and his clothes, yet his mournful, desperate cries still failed to wake the person on the bed.
Gradually, the boy stopped sobbing. Like he had lost his soul, he stared blankly, almost hysterically, at the person "sleeping" on the bed.
"Big Sister, I didn't even dare confess my feelings to you. Did you think I was too cowardly, so you decided you didn't want me anymore?"
"Big Sister, I've never possessed you, yet I feel as if I've lost you a thousand times, ten thousand times. This is the heartache you once told me about, isn't it? This is the love you once told me about, isn't it?"
"Big Sister, wait for me. You have to wait for me. Don't go alone, no matter what. The road is too dark, and too lonely. I'll come find you once I'm done here, and we'll go together to the places you want to see."