Chapter 10: Who do you think you are, Stephen Chow?
What life lacked most was surprise. People drifted along on the tremendous force of inertia, finding it hard to stir ocean waves in lives as placid as a lake. Tang Wu was no exception. As she had said in her letter to him, what worried her most was that life would grind him down and leave him battered all over. She did not want him to exhaust himself chasing her footsteps, wearing himself out like Inman.
What she did not know was that many people lived in comfort yet could no longer find the true "Cold Mountain" in their hearts. In modern society, happiness was not merely the narrow matter of owning a house and a car. How fortunate it was to have a Cold Mountain of one's own to pursue and climb.
Tang Wu had written that unsigned letter to make him let go and release the shackles binding him to her. Yet she did not know that he had long since been cursed by time. They had missed everything together in another plane of existence, but now that he had started over, anything had become possible.
And so everything that once could not be changed would now change.
Tang Wu had written her letter with apprehension and helplessness, but she did not know that he would eventually make his presence known in a way she could never imagine.
Su Can thought that meeting Tang Wu face-to-face would probably shock her, but would not leave a sufficiently profound impression. To untie the knot in her heart, her belief that established reality could not change, he had to make a high-profile appearance and show her that his promise had not been mere words. He had the ability to turn the