I started the car and turned on the low beams, instinctively wanting to glance back at her sitting in the back seat. Yet, I had to maintain a nonchalant demeanor as if we had just broken up. Any inadvertent display of concern could be taken as evidence that I still loved her. But all I wanted was to end this chapter of our story with an air of indifference.

I exhaled softly and finally stepped on the accelerator, heading away from Xitang.

The night had completely enveloped the earth, and I drove at breakneck speed, eager to end this torment of saying one thing and feeling another.@@novelbin@@

After about forty minutes, the oppressive silence, stiffer than the darkness, became too much to bear, and I turned on the car's music player. A familiar melody began to echo through the cabin.

A few songs later, the sound system played Junzi's "Winter Solstice." My thoughts drifted back to last year's New Year's Eve. I remembered Mi Cai had learned Junzi's "Vernal Equinox" and "Start of Autumn" for the "Fifth Season" New Year's event, but she had not learned "Winter Solstice."

It seemed she must have grown fond of Junzi, which is why she had that out-of-print album "Vernal Equinox. Start of Autumn. Winter Solstice" in her car.

"Why are there so many walls, the long roads only seem to grow longer?"

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