The first close encounter

First intimate encounter (1)

I met her on the Internet. How did it start? I don’t remember exactly. I think it was because of a plan I had! The plan was something like this.

“If I had ten million dollars, I could buy a house.

Do I have 10 million dollars? No.

So I still don’t have a house.

If I had wings, I could fly.

Do I have wings? No.

So I can’t fly either.

If the entire Pacific Ocean were poured out, it wouldn’t quench the flames of my love for you.

Can the entire Pacific Ocean be emptied out? No.

So I don’t love you.”

It’s really just an occupational hazard of mine. I’m a grad student, and my head is always filled with all kinds of logic in order to write numerical programs. When a hypothetical situation doesn’t hold up, the conclusions drawn are bullshit. It’s like discussing whether eunuchs are more likely to have boys or girls, it’s pointless. The fact that I’m writing all this alibi stuff in PLAN is proof that I’m an extremely boring person, and indeed I am. So it makes sense that I didn’t get any beauty, so that my pillow is still empty.

And she, what an exception. She went so far as to mail me and tell me that I’m a very interesting person. Interesting? How can I be described as such? It’s like using honesty to describe Lee Teng-hui, it would make people laugh their asses off. I think if she doesn’t have a very low IQ, she has a brain problem. But her nickname is not like that. Her name is “Flying Lightly”, which is quite a poetic name.

However, nicknames on the Internet are always false, and what is false is true, and what is true is false, so they can’t be accurate. In other words, a dinosaur will never say she is a dinosaur, let alone say she lives in Jurassic Park, she will always try to lure you as well as mislead you. The beautiful nickname is the best weapon for dinosaurs to prey on innocent young men like me.

Speaking of dinosaurs brings back a painful memory. I’ve seen a few online friends that turned out to be one more vicious than the other, and each time they fell off the face of the earth, and I think I could probably join Steven Spielberg’s production crew to help him with his movie special effects. My roommate Tai’s experience is the same as mine. If you take the dinosaurs he and I saw as the X coordinate axis, and the degree of fright as the Y coordinate axis, you can analyze the regression analysis and come up with a linear equation, and then take the partial differentiation of X, and take the infinitesimal integral of Y, and then you will get the law of “there are no beautiful women on the Internet”. Therefore, theoretically speaking, the Internet is full of all kinds of dinosaurs, the only difference is whether she is carnivorous or herbivorous.

First Close Encounters (2)

Before I introduce “Dancing Lightly”, I have to mention Tai. Tai has been my buddy since college, but our personalities are very different. He’s tall and handsome, and most importantly, he has a mouth so sweet and oily that I doubt any female could live without drowning in his incessant drooling. I like to call him “Lady Killer” and he’s a professional. He’s been responsible for the deaths of countless girls all over Taiwan. He has won a hundred battles in love affairs, but never takes in prisoners of war. He says he has reached the highest level of love affairs, i.e., “Passing through all the flowers, not touching a single leaf”. It is said that this than Xu Zhimo’s “wave a sleeve, do not take away a piece of cloud”, but also Gorgon. Xu Zhimo still had to wave his sleeve to get rid of the girl who stuck to his hand, but Tai didn’t even have a sleeve anymore.

Tai always said I was too honest and was cannon fodder in love affairs. It’s no wonder, I’m neither tall nor handsome, with a highly myopic eyeglass riding on my nose, making my eyes look squinted into a line. I remember the teacher even called me up out of the blue once during a streaming class because he suspected that I was sleeping while I was concentrating on the lecture at the time.

Maybe there’s something to do with my birthdate! Since I was a child, I have been surrounded by either men who look like women or women who look like men. Tai often said, there are four types of men: the first is called “get something for nothing” type, that is, do not have to go after the girls, will naturally be posted; the second is called “easy” type, although you have to chase the girls, but always easy to capture the hearts of the people; the third is called “hard work” type, you must rack your brains, use up all the resources, and then use up all the money. The third type is called “hard-working” type, you have to rack your brains and use all 36 plans to get the loot; and I belong to the fourth type is called “Seek Your Own Fortune” type, I can only look forward to encountering the eyes of the girls who are notㄡ to cow shit.

Tai is in fact a very good friend, often will be some girls over to me, but unfortunately I’m too bad, always close to the “incense” love timid. But I can’t be blamed for this, because I have read a few more holy books, and I know how to be courteous, righteous, honest, and shameful, and being courteous, righteous, honest, and shameful is usually a big no-no in pursuing a girl. For example, I went to have coffee with a girl who is not so skinny, and I kindly asked her to order some more snacks, but she said she was afraid that she would get fat, then I would say you are already too late. Last year, I went out to eat with a girl who boasted that her friends said she had “an angelic face and a devilish body”, but I told her in a serious manner, “Your friends said the opposite. Luckily, we were having a light meal at that time, and I was only hit in the center of my chest by the flying chopsticks. If we were having a platoon meal, I think someone would have been killed.

First Close Encounters (3)

After that experience of coming back from the dead, I began to appreciate the ferocity of dinosaurs. Later on, Tai came up with an escape plan: when we meet any female online friends alone, we should bring a pager with us. We would back each other up by making the pager ring at the right time, and if we met a carnivorous dinosaur, we would say “fire in the dormitory”; if it was an herbivorous dinosaur, we would say “burglary in the dormitory”. As a result, Tai’s room had four fires and six burglaries. I was lucky, I was only burglarized five times.

So before I met Dancing Lightly, my heart was already so strong that even if I ran into a dinosaur again, my heartbeat would still be 72 beats per minute. Tai once reminded me that if she didn’t have long hair, she’d be a nymphomaniac, because there are only two things that fly when a girl dances: her hair and her dress. Hair flying is beautiful, of course, but if the skirt is flying, it means she’s being quite sexually suggestive. But I always thought she was different, and I don’t mean that she was big, of course. The book says that Scorpios have very keen intuition, so I trust my sixth sense. As for Tai, while he can tell a girl’s bra size at a glance and determine whether it’s an A-cup or a B-cup; or get a girl to lie flat on her back in bed in a matter of days, he may not be able to really get to know a girl.

Tai often quotes Shakespeare’s famous line: “Women are to be loved, not to be understood” to prove that understanding women is not a condition to be proud of love affairs. In fact, this saying is really true. I remember I used to live with a man and four women, and it was a real pain in the ass. I had to help them with all the details of their lives, because girls only know how to have a good time and may not know how to have a good time. In order to protect their chastity, I also have to be late every day, if I have misbehavior, others will laugh at me for stealing; if I keep the courtesy, others will call me Liu Xiahui, or hand me a urologist’s business card. In the summer, after their bath, I have to have a war of words, so I can not see and eat. After living with them for two years, I only realized one thing, that is, no matter how pure and lovely, gentle and innocent, generous and dignified, bird-like girls, they rolled up their pants and counted their leg hair posture is the same.

And they would all equally tell me to shove toilet paper under the bathroom door.

First Close Encounters (4)

It’s time for Dancing Lightly. I’ve been hoping to run into her online ever since she emailed me with a broken skull and told me I was funny. Unfortunately, we’ve always passed each other, so I’ve had to e-mail her back and tell her that I’m going to try to train myself to be funny, just to prove to her that she’s got the foresight to do it. So I sent her an email, she emailed me back, I emailed her back, she emailed me back, she emailed me back, and so the saying goes, “When is the end of a feud over a wrong? Although it is said that it is better to settle a feud than to tie it up, the feud between me and her is getting deeper and deeper.

The thing that intrigued me the most about her was her plan.

“I danced softly, amidst the throng.

You cast a strange look over your shoulder.

Amazed or appreciative.

Doesn’t ever mess up my dance steps.

For it is not your watchful eyes that make me soar.

Rather, it’s my young heart.”

I really can’t associate such a woman with dinosaurs. But if she is really a dinosaur, I’d rather let this dinosaur have a full meal. As the saying goes, if a dinosaur dies under the mouth, the ghost will also have a good time. As if he could see the difference between me and Tai, he kept advising me that it’s good to play around with feelings on the Internet and not to take them seriously, after all, unreal things can’t see the sunlight. Let God’s return to God, Caesar’s return to Caesar; Internet’s return to Internet, reality’s return to reality. Because the person who hides behind any English ID, not to mention the personality or appearance of good and bad, not even know whether it is a man or a woman, so what kind of bullshit love can be generated?

Tai is not to be blamed for his thin-skinnedness and bigotry, since he was fired by his girlfriend at the age of 20, he started to play with flowers. As the saying goes: “once bitten, ten years in fear of the well rope”, he was bitten by a snake, but since then he has learned to peel the skin of the snake, and likes to eat snake meat soup. And he met the female netizens, but there is no lack of some only looking for short-term stimulation of the generation, sometimes the first meeting, will ask him: “You want to go to bed?”. He was also a good friend of his. Because the son said: “beautiful women are hard to find, have the body is good”, so in addition to dinosaurs, he usually replied: “but by the Secretary of the good, I would not dare to refuse?”. Then they will ask: “What do you think? Then they will ask: “Your place or My place?” and he will quickly say: “To kill or die, as you wish. It’s about who you do it with, not where you do it.” Tai is so mean, even he has to say something like that, and what’s even worse, he usually takes them back to their homes and throws me out on the street.

Late at night, while thinking hard about the program, the wildcat outside the research lab made another intermittent purring sound, three long and one short, indicating that it was about a quarter past three. It’s usually the least crowded at this time of the day, and most of them are bored and sex-starved, so it’s fun to bump into one or two perverted girls and quench your thirst for more. Tai said that a girl’s defense becomes more and more relaxed late at night, which makes it easier for you to swing at a hitter.

A base hit? Here’s the thing. We often use baseball games to describe progress with girls. First base means holding hands and shoulders; second base means kissing and hugging; third base is caressing and touching; and home plate means it’s been ※&@☆ (this text must be mosaicked due to the Internet Youth Sexual Assault Prevention and Control Act). Tai, of course, is the kind of guy who hits home runs all the time, while I’m known as the king of the strikeouts, and still don’t know whether the first base bag is square or flat. I would have struck out on fastballs over 140 kilometers per hour, but I would have swung and missed on a slow 120-kilometer straight ball, and I would have been dead all night.

First Close Encounters (5)

The pc just happened to make a dang sound at that moment, great! The fish is hooked. I don’t know whether it was that infatuated and resentful girl who chose me as the object of sending Message from a large number of hungry male beasts without any heavenly reason, and I also unknowingly drooled with relief.

As usual, I prayed to God with my hands folded, asking for a beautiful woman who was lonely and hard to bear. Then I pressed the keyboard with my left hand, which hadn’t wiped my ass, and the message that appeared was: “Plankton, are you still up this late?”

Wow… no way! I can’t believe it’s “Flying Dancer”! I don’t know if it’s her hair or her dress that’s flying.

Quickly sucked in the saliva that was about to drip and took a few deep breaths. At this time, Tai does not know that he is in the bed of that ignorant girl again, at such an important juncture, I am the only one who is fighting alone. If I had known this, I would have told him to be a vegetarian tonight and not to kill anyone. What should I do? With my three-legged sense of humor and slightly demented talk, how can I attract her?

“Plankton, I’m in a bad mood and can’t sleep. Are you too?”

It’s all Tai’s fault, why did he ask me to pick a nickname like “Gangster Cai”, he even said that it’s called “to kill yourself before you can live”, but it’s counter-productive in attracting innocent girls. My old nicknames, such as: “Love you for 10,000 years”, “Jack of love”, “Romance is my nickname”, “I dare to laugh at Yang Zao not infatuation! “I’ll jump if you jump”, “I’ll jump if you jump”, weren’t they all just a mess? Now she’s calling me a rascal, I can’t believe it!

‘I’m in a bad mood too, so let’s go negative!’

It was hard to squeeze out such a sentence, but I had also broken out into a cold sweat. I wasn’t really in a bad mood, but I was just following her lead and not trying to be disobedient right out of the gate. And if she asks me later why I’m in a bad mood, I can reply, “If you’re in a bad mood, how can I be in a good mood?”. I’m not sure if I’m in a good mood or not. Although it’s a bit of a bitch, Tai always says, “Being a bitch is the basis of a relationship”. Moreover, girls are very strange animals, she trusts her ears much more than her eyes, so instead of doing ten thoughtful things to make her happy, it is better to say a good word to make her moved.

“Okay! But you haven’t greeted me yet…”

Damn it! I’m so nervous that I’ve forgotten the basic manners of a human being, and I’m still called the department’s textbook of character and morality. If the girls know about this, won’t they have one less person to crush on? I am really ashamed to see the Jiangdong sisters.

‘The girl with the long flowing hair, you too.’

In my heart, I always wanted her to fly with hair, not a dress. So naturally, it felt like she should have long hair. God forbid, don’t let me guess wrong.

“Huh? How did you know I had long hair?”

Bingo! I’m so happy that I’ve got a woo-woo, so I can prove that she’s not a nymphomaniac. It’s a great thing to see!

‘Not only do I know you wear your hair long, I know you don’t wear dresses very often.’

If you want to gamble, of course you should gamble big. If I get another woo, the world will be ready for peace.

“Huhagain? Even you know that this girl doesn’t like to wear dresses?”

God! Why are you treating me like this? I’m just a little more honest and a little more sincere than everyone else, so don’t reward me like that!

‘I just thought you must have beautiful legs, so I shouldn’t let the skirt hide your curves.’

He said that a man must learn to speak sweetly, and when a man speaks sweetly, the greatest enemy is not the woman’s ears, but the man’s stomach. He said that a man must learn to speak sweetly, and when a man speaks sweetly, the greatest enemy is not the woman’s ears, but the man’s stomach. If I can speak any flattering, fawning, flattering, flattering heartfelt words without my stomach cramping up, then I can be discharged. Now, I have finally completed my studies and returned home.

“Heh…:)…”

This is the privilege of the girl on the net, when she doesn’t know how to reply to you, she will use “meh” or the smiley face symbol “∶)” to muddle through. It’s a really good trick, not only does she accept your compliment without showing it, but she also looks like it’s none of her business.

‘In a better mood? The beautiful Ms. Light Dance Fly.’

Although I was curious as to why exactly she was in a bad mood? But never ask her directly. Because when a girl is in a bad mood, her emotions are very unstable, and asking her directly will make her feel annoyed and angry. If she’s just been two-timed, or just said goodbye to her virginity, or just stepped in shit, I’m sure I’ll be scolded all over her head. So, a different way of asking would be more in line with Sun Tzu’s Art of War, which is to “advance in a roundabout way” and “lure the enemy deeper into the enemy’s heart”. Besides, since I said she was beautiful, she wouldn’t turn her face away from me, would she?

“Mmm…:)… much better, lovely Mr. Plankton.”

Cute? That’s an unsatisfying but acceptable adjective, but a gangsta is still a gangsta no matter how cute he is. I’ll have to think of a more elegant nickname tomorrow.

‘Knowing that your mood has changed for the better, my mood has followed suit. Do you think it’s strange?’

The ambush just laid, now can be put to use. And obviously is patting the girl’s ass, but pretending to look innocent, as the so-called “pat and show to not pat”, is also the Dokuroku Nine Swords, “no trick is better than a trick”.

The true meaning of the word.

“Heh…:)… Plankton, it’s time for me to sleep. You’ll be on the station at ten tomorrow morning. Stay with me?”

By her reaction, it seems that the ass-kissing she did just now was just right, both in terms of force and point of application. Being with Tai for so long, the days were not in vain.

‘I’ll go through fire and water, let alone chatting with you.’

God! How did I come up with such a profound sentence out of nowhere? It’s probably in the top ten best lines of the year on the net. I guess Tong Pak Fu is back in action, huh? I’ve been inspired by Tai, but I’m already better than the blue. What’s even more rare is that my hands on the keyboard don’t shake at all when I say this, so it seems that I do have the talent to roll around in the love scene. I am deeply impressed by my own natural talent…

“Heh… :)… So I’ll see you in the morning, good night! Plankton.”

‘A little spit take, shall see you this morning. Good night you too’

I left the line and couldn’t help but scream “I’m in luck… I’m in luck” like in the TV commercials. It seemed that this time, there was hope for a base hit. Outside the window of the research lab, the wildcat’s purring got louder…

First Close Encounters (6)

¡°Hi… Give me a glass of aphrodisiac water… for a night of no sagging…¡±, when I heard this perverted song adapted from Andy Lau¡¯s ¡°Overwhelming Love Water¡±, I knew that it was Tai who was back, and it seemed that another girl had been victimized this evening. Tai always said that it is not that he does not want to settle down, it is just that his condition is too good, but it will make the girl feel insecure. That’s why he said, “Is Yu not horny? I have no choice! . This is of course sophistry, but in fact many men have more or less the character of Tai. The difference is only that the conditions are not enough to be flirtatious.

I told Tai that I just met Dancing Lightly.

“Congratulations! “You can’t have such a good time without a drink.

You’re kidding. I have to get up early tomorrow. Drinking would be a mistake.

“Yeah, well, wait till you’re out of love.

Boss… It’s like you’re cursing me…

“Why do I still act as if I’m cursing you?

horses, if it wasn’t for the fact that I can’t beat you, you’d be splattered in blood.

“Plankton, don’t get mad, I’m using the psychological flood method, splashing you with cold water when you’re expecting something, so you can step up and attack.

Actually, that’s right. If it weren’t for this bucket of cold water, I would have gotten carried away.

I’m a day/night person and getting up before 10am is a bit of a challenge for me.

‘Tai, wake me up in the morning.’

“Remembering… your sluttiness… it’s like seeing you… in bed…

He sang “You’re in a Different Country” by Gonzalez-Bin instead. I guess I can’t count on him. So, I set two alarm clocks, one next to the bed and one in the farthest corner from the bed. That way I can make sure the alarm clock doesn’t just wake up my index finger.

“Plankton, what a coincidence…”

Luckily, despite oversleeping, I was still on the line at 10:00 on time.

‘It’s ㄚ, what’s with the coincidence?’

Girls are really strange creatures. It’s obvious that they’ve been dating for a long time, but they have to act like it’s a chance encounter. Probably because of too many Qiong Yao novels! They always think that the man who meets by fate is the best.

And the niceness of the man will be directly proportional to the romance of the encounter.

“Plankton, you’re bragging!”

Bragging? Well, I’ll tell you. For example, a man you meet on a summer beach must be a good runner, have rugged good looks, bronzed skin, eyes as bright as the sea, and preferably a hearty laugh. Then call out the heroine’s name while darting toward her before picking her up and spinning her three times counterclockwise.

“Plankton, you blow ㄚ again.”

Don’t like summer? … well, change the season. The man you meet on an autumn street must wear glasses, smell like a scholar, hold a book of poems in his hands, and preferably rustle the fallen leaves on the ground. Then his mouth softly recites a poem by Shelley or Yeats, and then fondly tells the heroine that she is more beautiful than the poem.

“Plankton, you’re making this up!”

I’m bye-bye? …OK, instead of time encounters, let’s go with place encounters. The man you meet in the middle of a deserted mountain must have long hair, the qualities of an artist, an easel, a few canvases, and preferably lots of little birds stopping by to watch him paint. Then the heroine might strip naked and be his model, or quietly admire his concentration.

“Plankton, you’re off your meds!”

Wrong medication? …well, change to a more civilized location. The man you meet in a noisy bar must have a scruffy beard, a disheveled air, a cigarette in his mouth, spirits rather than Taiwanese spleen wine, and preferably a pair of cold eyes. The heroine should then be molested by drunken men, whom he heroically and opportunistically fights off.

“Plankton, these are very romantic ㄚ!”

Romance? … Miss, romance may only exist in the plots of novels. In real life, a man running on the beach might step on glass and be sent to the emergency room. Or the heroine is so heavy that he suffers a sports injury with a muscle strain in his arm. A man stepping on a field full of fall leaves might step in dog poop because of the abundance of dog poop within the pile of leaves. The dog poop is so stinky that he may recite the Three Character Classic instead of poetry. The man who paints in the middle of an unoccupied mountain may have the bird next to him shit on his head. Or when the heroine strips naked, he’ll be too flabby around the waist and hips and she’ll beat him up. And the man who drinks hard liquor in a rowdy bar might not bring enough money and be left to do the dishes. Or when he gets into a fight with someone, he gets knocked off instead, because there’s no reason why the nice guy would win the fight.

“Plankton, do you have a grudge against romance?”

Have a grudge against romance? No, of course not. I’m just drawing some conclusions from a statistical point of view. It’s because the biggest thing that all the above types of men, be they wholesome, svelte, artistic and decadent, have in common is surprisingly that they’re taller than they are handsome! There are romance novels that subvert the image of the male protagonist by making him not good-looking enough. But no one dares to make the male lead not tall. Because I’m not tall, I’m going to protest.

“Plankton, protest dismissed.”

I really wasn’t just plain bored and tedious enough to discuss this with her on the net. And chatting about it until noon.

“Plankton, are you hungry?”

‘Yeah ㄚ, what about you?’

“Hmm… It is indeed time for lunch. Plankton…”

‘Then should we…?’

“Plankton, I was just asking, I didn’t mean to buy you dinner.”

Good. I’m not romantic, and you’re not romantic.

First intimate encounter (7)

I had lunch with Tai at noon and we talked about the morning’s confrontation with Light Dancing.

You’re an idiot! Why do you emphasize that you’re not romantic? Are you out of your mind?

Tai splits his head and is all over the place.

You’ve disgraced me! How could you have violated a major military taboo? I… I… I…

Tai picked up a piece of chicken wing, his hand with the chopsticks shaking with anger, making the piece seem like it was going to spread its wings and fly.

There are three major taboos in “Putting a Horse on a Horse”: one is unromantic, two is too honest, and three is not sweet-talking, of which unromanticism is the first, and any sin that contradicts unromanticism is null and void. Haven’t you heard of it?

Of course I haven’t heard that, I’ve only heard that any statute that contradicts the Constitution is null and void.

“Men aren’t bad, women don’t love them. You’ve heard of it, haven’t you?

This has always been a controversial statement, so how could you not have heard it before!

Women are not cheap, why do they have to like bad men? That’s because bad men are usually very romantic and good men are usually unromantic. So she would rather choose a bad and romantic man than a good and unromantic man, which is called the lesser of two evils. Understand? Plankton.

That makes sense to me. No wonder I’ve always been a loner, and the women around Tai are always inexhaustible. Zi said: “If you hear the Tao, you can die in the evening”, I think I can finally go all night.

In other words, women don’t mind if you’re not tall enough, they don’t care if you’re not handsome enough, they can tolerate if you’re not gentle enough, they can accept if you’re not caring enough, they can forgive if you’re not smart enough and interesting enough, but they can never forgive if you’re not romantic enough.

That’s ridiculous! Where is this exaggeration.

Plankton, a lot of women have a romance complex, just as a lot of men have a virginity complex. For women, they can’t imagine how important a little membrane is to men, just as we can’t imagine how important romance is to them.

Nonsense! I’ve never heard of anyone with a virginity complex, much less a romantic one.

The complex also, focus on the word knot, you can unravel, it is not called a knot. Of course, men know that virginity is not only ignorant, ridiculous, selfish and unfair, but whether they can untie the knot is one thing, and whether they are willing to recognize the existence of such a knot is another. The same can be said for women.

But every time we discuss the virginity complex on the Internet, everyone thinks that men who have this idea are stupid, assholes, and need to be beaten up, don’t they?

Plankton, you know one thing but not the other. If of course women are outraged when it comes to virginity, it’s an understandable thing. But what about men? How many of them dare to admit in public with balls that they have a virginity complex?

Moreover, if girls believe that a man can’t marry a virgin, and so they hold on to their virginity, then people like me wouldn’t have to be in the business, would we? Therefore, for both public and private reasons, we must make women believe that virginity is not important, so the first article I posted on the Internet was a vow to spit on the existence of virginity.

So it turns out. No wonder whenever Tai ate hot pot with us, he said the food was delicious, so we would eat the food but he kept chucking in the meat.

For women, there are five major festivals in a year: Western Valentine’s Day, Chinese Valentine’s Day, her birthday, March 8 Women’s Day and Christmas Day. I, Tai, have been in love for nearly ten years and have fought hundreds of battles, I dare to scold women, I dare to release women, I dare to say that women’s faces are not good-looking enough, I dare to suspect that women’s bodies are not slim enough, but I would never dare not to pay tribute to some gifts and flowers to show that my loyalty is unswerving and I have no second thoughts.

Tai lit up a cigarette and said in a serious tone.

365 days a year, you are good to her in the other 360 days, but not as romantic as you are in these 5 days. Often girls forget that you don’t care enough about her on the other 360 days because you’re good on those 5 days; conversely, they refuse to believe that you take care of her on the other 360 days because you don’t do anything special on those 5 days.

Boss… Tai’s fart is not finished yet.

As a baseball celebrity once said, “Don’t brag about your batting average, don’t emphasize your hits, just tell me how many RBIs you have.” Plankton, get it? A timely hit with a RBI is the only way to give your opponent a headache.

I get it. But how can I undo the big mistake I’ve made?

Plankton, it’s okay! Anyway, I’ll drink with you again. Have you ever thought that because you’ve fallen out of love so often, you’ve honed your drinking skills so well that you won’t feel too bad from this perspective? As the saying goes, there’s always something to gain and something to lose, and that’s the true meaning of “The blessing of a blessing in disguise.

Having said that, how many more horses can I, the stuffed man, throw away? …First Close Encounter (8)

At night in the research laboratory, continue to fight for the paper. Strange to say, tonight I saw those familiar partial differential equations sequence, but I have been feeling bad, with a few simple partial differential equations sequence to explain the physical phenomena of nature, it is called science, so why use the arrangement and combination of the stars and constellations in the sky to explain the life, it will be called superstition? Science should only be a way to explain the truth, can not be explained by science, may not be not the truth, why learn science, but often fall into the trap of their own logic?

That pesky feral cat, on the off-chance of making that three-length purr again. Get on the line! The brain is in knots anyway, and the program must be unwritten.

“Plankton, it’s good to finally see you, good night ㄚ…:)…”

Finally? That’s a weird adjective, and even weirder, why is she still online this late? Couldn’t be in a bad mood again!

‘Yeah! It’s fate that you and I met in the dark of night on the net.’

Take a cue from Xu Zhimo. Maybe she’ll think I’m still romantic.

“Plankton, it has nothing to do with fate, because I deliberately waited from two o’clock until now.”

‘Really? Why are you waiting for me?’

“I want to talk to you ㄚ! Otherwise I can’t sleep.”

‘Have you got delusions of grandeur? Do you have to get a little shock before you go to sleep?’

“∶）┅┅”

This time, the smiley symbol is typed in full-width characters, and it seems to be laughing louder.

“Plankton, continuing on from lunch, so what do you think of encounters on the net?”

Come on, that’s not the point. I just got a lecture from Tai at lunch. How dare I say it now?

‘Internet encounters… very… very… romantic ㄚ…’

I’m really bad at lying, and when I’m in good conscience, even my typing shakes.

“Plankton, you’re lying! It’s not like you’re a romantic.”

Finished! It’s almost time to go drinking with Tai.

“Plankton, tell me about it! I love to hear you rip.”

‘If you know I’m bullshitting, why bother listening to me?’

“Plankton, it’s called knowing that you can’t do something; it’s also called knowing that there’s a tiger on the mountain.”

This guy, he learns nothing else, but that I like to use idioms indiscriminately. Look at the stables. This is the only horse I have left.

Should I tell the truth? Or should I just leave it at that? I couldn’t help but hesitate…

“Plankton, you’re on computer? Or are you in a daze?”

‘Hmm… I was thinking about why the sun is so round today?’

“Plankton, don’t change the subject, I’ve been waiting for you for an hour.”

Amazing, even Gu Gu, a technique that only senior KMT officials know how to do, will be recognized.

‘It’s very late now, how can I bear to make you listen to my blabbering for the sake of my own selfishness?’

“Plankton, delaying tactics won’t help, either!”

The last ace in the hole has failed, so it looks like we’re just going to have to bend the rules.

The truth is that encounters on the net are indeed romantic. Because romance is usually a little bit unreal, and the Internet is not real. Therefore, it can be seen that online encounters have the conditions for romance.

“Plankton, why isn’t the net real? It should be humanity, not the Net, that is unreal, no?”

Having said that, the net usually produces three types of people due to its very secure safeguards. The first type of person will emphasize his/her secondary personality on the Internet. The average person has multiple personalities, and the primary personality is the one that comes out in everyday life. The secondary character is likely to be suppressed, and it is also likely that you do not realize that you have such a character. However, on the Internet, it is no longer flesh and blood that represents oneself, but some English mother tongue. There is less of all the socializing and the necessary response to advance and retreat, and there is also less at stake. So the pigs and goats change color, and instead, deliberately or unconsciously, show their secondary character.

“Is that so? What about the second one?”

The second type of person will become the kind of person he “wants” to be on the Internet. Human nature is so strange that there are bound to be certain personalities that you admire and envy. Unfortunately, you don’t necessarily have these personalities. So you would like to be another kind of person who has these characters. And the Internet provides the opportunity for you to become such a person. For example, a normally quiet person may be funny and talkative on the Internet. And a shy and quiet person can easily become a lively and generous person.

“Plankton, are you covering? What about the third one?”

I didn’t cover it. It’s the master’s thesis of a friend of mine who studied at the National Taiwan University’s Graduate School of Psychology. The third kind of person will become the kind of person he “can’t” be on the Internet. God is the director, who assigns you the role you must play, whether you like it or not. But there is no God on the Internet, so all the roles are directed by you. So you are likely to play roles on the Internet that you would never play in your daily life. For example, if you’re a woman, you’re likely to become a man on the Internet. And vice versa. Or if you’re 30 years old, you’re likely to pretend to be a 17 year old girl on the Internet. And vice versa. Or if you’re a dinosaur, you’re probably going to pretend to be a beautiful woman on the Internet. And vice versa.

“Plankton, so you’re in that category? And what about me?”

I don’t want to believe that you’re the third type of person, because I’m not the third type of person either. And since the first kind of person is the most numerous on the net, you are not the first kind of person either. Because you’re special, and I, who am appreciated by the special you, am naturally a bit special too. So we are both the second kind of people.

“Plankton, you’re a stinker! So is it good or bad if we’re all the second?”

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It is not a question of whether it is good or bad, but whether it should be. We should want to be the first, not the second or third.

“Plankton, please go ahead and put it on! The little lady washes her nose.”

The first person is the most authentic. Because what he shows is still his own character. And if you think about it from a different perspective, he is more likely to realize his potential strengths. For example, there are many people who write articles on the boards and then realize that they have the talent to be writers. There are also many people who, after cursing with others on the boards, are surprised that they are as thick-skinned as a legislator. Thus, they have grown from the Internet.

The second kind of man is the most foolish. For he always envies the merits of others and forgets to appreciate his own merits. If he is a lemon, he should try to like the sour flavor instead of envying the sweetness of the peach, which may also envy the sourness of the lemon.

“Plankton, then you and I are both sour lemons Ro! Does that make us the same?”

Sour is sour, but falling is not necessarily. And two sour lemons together, not quite romantic?

“Plankton, don’t pretend to be romantic again! You really are the second person who wishes to become romantic.”

Amazing, that would have caught her too. Looks like she’s more sour than I am.

“Plankton, My ears will go on, so please go on too.”

The third kind of man is the most miserable. For if he has to become another kind of person, which he cannot be, in order to have fun. Then whether he can have fun or not, he will not be able to enjoy it. And over time, he will get what is called “cybernetic schizophrenia”. It is easy for him to build all his relationships and joys and sorrows on the Internet. Once he leaves the Internet, he will be at a loss.

“Plankton, can you tell me why you’re the second one?”

It’s actually quite simple. Mainly because I’m ordinary. I’m not too tall or too short, I’m not too ugly or too handsome, and my personality is neither good nor bad. Although I am used to being ordinary, sometimes I am not willing to be ordinary. That’s why the Internet has become the best tool for me to make myself extraordinary.

“Plankton, but you just said you were a little special. Didn’t you?”

Ordinary plus a little bit special, so it’s extra ordinary. So I would prefer to be something else.

“Plankton, so who do you hope to become?”

I certainly want to be like Ty, romantic and affectionate, funny and talkative. Because that’s what I lack.

“Plankton, what about me?”

You? I don’t know. You want to dance lightly, you want to be young and dance to your heart’s content. But if that’s all you can hope for, then there are only two possibilities. One is that you are about to grow old; the other is that your days are numbered.

I guess I misspoke because she never transmitted any more Messages. I couldn’t help but kick myself for being a pervert, why pull this stuff? Granted, it was my friend’s master’s thesis, but he didn’t pass his oral exam.

So everything is still just at the bluffing stage. Just wait a little longer! Maybe she’s pawned off.

I remember Tai did the same thing once, when his netizen sent him a message: “Tai, I’ve been here for two months…

Tai was shocked and lost his wolf face. He said he’d been so careful, there was no way something could have gone wrong. Could it be that the condoms you buy at the supermarket that come with a buy-one-get-one-free passion ring are the problem? Luckily, she sent me another message: “Sorry, it just crashed… I mean, I haven’t seen you for two months… and I miss you so much”.

So I continued to wait. It was only a few minutes, but I felt as if I had been waiting for hours. I wanted to apologize, but I didn’t know where to start. Until this came from her.

“Plankton, Isabel. Let’s meet!”

Without hesitation, I gently hit the O and K keys on the keyboard.

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When I got off the line, it was also dawn. Last time I chatted with her, I forgot to eat my lunch, so it can be said that I forgot to eat. This time, I sacrificed my sleep to chat with her, so it can be said that I wasted my sleep. If we have both, then we should be considered to be quite familiar with each other, right?

Although we had decided to meet, we had a tacit understanding not to discuss the details. There was an even better understanding that we would both come online late at night at 3:15 and talk until dawn. What did we talk about? I can’t say, anyway, by then there will be something to talk about. But it must not be a flirtation. It won’t be about whether Tsang Man-hui has had fat bags under her eyes, or whether Lian Zhan has kicked Lian Fang a few times again. It certainly won’t be gossip about whether Lam has been in a gang or how many of Chan Chin Hing’s entry beads are actually there.

As for the name, Tai told me not to ask. “Because if you ask your name, you’ll have to remember it, and it’s easy to get confused when you have more girlfriends in the future.

‘And how do you tell these girls apart?’

The first rule of the “Lover’s Code”: you must call different women by the same nickname. Because it’s not the name that makes you interested in a girl, and the prettier the girl, the more likely she is to be asked her name.

She gets annoyed if you ask for a long time, so when you never ask for her name, she’ll offer to tell you instead.

‘What if she voluntarily told you her name after?’

Good Question!” Tai patted me on the shoulder approvingly, with the look of a Confucian son who can be taught.

First, you have to praise her name, which can be described in four ways: classy, special, nice and kind. If her name could only be found in a novel, you’d say it’s classy; if it’s boyish or weird, you’d say it’s special; if it’s just plain and boring, you’d say it’s nice; and if it’s so commonplace you can see it everywhere, you’d say it’s kind.

And then you don’t have to remember, because if you like the girl very much, you’ll naturally remember; if you don’t like her very much, then there’s no use in remembering.

It’s a little weird, I don’t really understand it.

Plankton, because if a girl calls you, she likes to ask you to guess who she is. It’s partly for fun and partly to test if you have another woman. What if you guess wrong or forget who she is? That’s why you always call them “baby” or “babe”, it’s called “responding to change.”

Tai pulls out what he calls a “victim’s handbook” of girls he’s conquered.

Plankton, look, the girls here don’t have names. Basically, I’ve numbered them by height, weight, circumference and birthday, and categorized them according to their personalities into five main groups: “B” for hot, “C” for cool, “H” for passionate, “N” for naive, “T” for gentle… “H” is passionate, “N” is naive, “T” is tender…

In the notes column, write down when and where the first kiss took place, and how many slaps I received, as well as the state of the weather at the time, and what she was wearing and the color of her lipstick.

That’s too much! How can you do this?

Plankton, that’s why I say you’re too shallow! No girl in the world would believe that you can remember the details of your first kiss but forget her name. Even if you accidentally call her by the wrong name, she’ll think you’re joking and hit you lightly on the shoulder and say, “You’re bad…”

Gangster, always remember, a man can bend and can stretch, this time, you must suffer, and then to say: “Yes, I am really bad”, it is best to add a sentence: “I am serious”. Girls are very strange, you have clearly admitted that you are very bad, but she will think you are very kind and interesting. After this, you will not have a conscience condemnation.

Is that so? Why?

You’ve already told her the truth, and explained the danger you’re in, so if she wants to fly into a flame she’ll have to let her, Jiang Tai Gong doesn’t even want to fish much anymore, but the fish still wants to take the bait, so what can you do?

Tai finished, spreading his hands in a hopeless manner.

“Plankton, don’t think I’m so casual. As the saying goes, there’s a way to steal. I’m actually very principled, and my principle is that I’ll never cheat on a girl so easily until it’s the last minute.

I hear you putting on X. If you had principles, then Gong Xuehua would be a pure girl.

Plankton, let me give you another example to illustrate my principle. Girls like to ask me questions, and one of the toughest and most troubling ones is: “Do you have other girlfriends? And how many girlfriends have you had in the past?”

Yes, both of these issues are fatal for Ty. I don’t trust him to get off the bank safely without lying.

The answer to the first question is very simple. Of course, I tell the truth that I have other girlfriends, and their names are “Bebe”, because I always call my girlfriends “Bebe”. But the girl who asks me the question thinks I’m talking about her, and usually says to me, with a bit of an apology, “I’m sorry, I misunderstood you”.

That good? I can’t quite believe it.

Of course, some of the tougher girls still don’t believe me, so I swear, and the more poisonous the better, because I’m telling the truth and I’m not afraid of retribution.

As for the second question, which is more difficult, I will tell her: “You say it first.” If she doesn’t say it, all is well; if she does, I will say: “Why do you want to hear me say it when you have already told me? If she doesn’t, all is well; if she does, I’ll say, “If you’ve already told me, why do you want to hear me say it?”

Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can get away with it. In case she asks “Why?”, I will answer: “Hearing about your past love history makes me love you with more jealousy and more pain in my heart. I do not want the same jealousy and pain to be inflicted on the girl I love.” At this point it should have been mixed up, but if she just wanted me to say it, I had to say, “Okay, I’ll confess. I always thought that in my life, there are XX girls. But it wasn’t until I met you that I realized these girls never existed.”

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”Tai, won’t you be too promiscuous like this?”

“No, no, no, no, no, no. I call it sentimentality.

‘Amorous and promiscuous aren’t all the same!’

Plankton, how is this the same? It’s not pure if there’s one word difference! Although there is a word for love, the difference is in the words “much” and “indiscriminate.” “Much” is rich and abundant. The word “indiscriminate” also means wasteful and indiscriminate. Much may not be abusive, and abusive may not necessarily be much. Just as rich people may not love to spend money indiscriminately, and those who love to spend money indiscriminately may not be rich people. But we all think that the rich must love to spend money indiscriminately. In fact, rich people just have a lot of money to spend. Whether they have money or not is a matter of ability, but whether they spend money indiscriminately is a matter of personality. So from this point of view, I am a very stingy rich man.

Are you kidding me? If that’s what Tai calls stingy, then what do I call myself?

Plankton, of course you’re meaner than me, but that’s because you don’t have any money to spend. Shit!

Tai took the opportunity to undermine me again.

“Plankton, the real danger to girls isn’t stingy rich guys like me, it’s the ones who don’t have any money but go around spending it and pretending to be rich.

If Tai isn’t already dangerous, then I’m the head of the NSA.

Okay! That’s enough opportunity education for today, I’m now going to my appointment with C-163-47-33-23-32. Anyway, don’t you ask her name, “Don’t listen to the words of the saint of love, lost love is at hand.” Get it? Plankton.

Tai sings “I’m going out on a limb now” and leaves the study.

Seeing as Tai was so bitter, I had to listen to him. So I never knew Light Dance’s name. And she did the same, and didn’t ask for my name. Is there also a female Tai? I often wondered.

A quarter to three in the dead of night had arrived and it was time to get back to work.

“Plankton, good night… :)! How was your day?”

In fact, my life is very mechanical and simple, so my requirements for life is: “not to be successful, but to avoid faults”, as long as nothing unlucky happens, that is very lucky.

“So, Plankton, are you having a bad day?”

‘Today is fine, the climate was unstable a few days ago and leaked on a bit of wind chill.’

“Plankton, are you better then? I’m concerned,!”

‘Long gone, except for a bit of headache and fever and coughing up canes and runny nose and sore throat and vomiting and diarrhea still.’

“Plankton, you’re really gangsta. Are you done or not?”

‘As long as I can see you, I will naturally heal without medicine.’

“∶）”

There’s this all-angled smiley symbol again. This guy, I mustered up the courage to hint that it was time to discuss the details of the meeting, and she did nothing about it.

‘And how are you doing today? The beautiful Ms. Light Dance Fly.’

It’s my turn to ask questions, and I can’t just be in the role of the punching bag when chatting on the net. And I think there’s something strange about her tonight.

“Plankton, actually talking to you is the happiest time of my day.”

She delivered this without a thought, and my breath suddenly caught. Was it nervousness? As if it wasn’t. With her, there’s only nature, no tension. It should be considered a bit touching! I can finally afford those pimples I got from talking to her in the middle of the night.

“Plankton, that’s why I’m so afraid that when we meet, we won’t be talking so late at night.”

”Why did the girl say that?”

“Plankton, you’re very stupid! That means I don’t look cute and I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed and see the light of day.”

”What does that have to do with anything? I’m not good-looking anyway.’

“Plankton, that’s different. Haven’t you ever heard of ‘a man with talent and a woman with good looks’? If you have talent, I must have looks.”

”What kind of bullshit talent do I have again? You need to stop mucking around and meet up.’

“Plankton, you’re talking a little rough! I’m a lady at least, albeit a lady with no looks.”

‘How can a dog’s ass be rude? It’s the dog’s… leg that’s rude! A dog’s fart just stinks.’

“Plankton, you don’t seem to speak like normal people, I’m really not “normal”.”

‘Why is it still like that! I’m not normal in the first place.’

“Plankton, give me another reason to see your face!”

‘That’s not so simple; you have no beauty because you are not lovely; I have no manners because I speak rudely. “The same people have no looks at the end of the world; why should they be too turtle-faced when they meet?” and so they must meet.’

“Plankton, okay! You pick a time. (∶)”

‘Pick your day, it’s tonight at 7:30, and it’s your turn to pick the location.’

“McDonald’s on University Avenue, it’s brighter there so you don’t get spooked.”

‘OK! But you have to finish your meal first, I don’t want to lose both my money and my people.’

“Plankton, you really do owe it to yourself!”

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‘How am I to recognize you? You must not ask me to take a rose as a token.’

Waiting for someone you haven’t met with a flower is just plain stupid. And it’s easy to get stood up. Why else would Jacky Cheung have sung, “I waited until the flowers were gone”?

“I’ll wear coffee-colored loafers, coffee-colored socks, coffee-colored little bell-bottoms, a coffee-colored sweater, and a coffee-colored backpack.”

I’m so mean! I’m not going to lose, I’m not going to be weak either: ‘I’ll wear blue sneakers, blue socks, blue jeans, blue long-sleeved shirt, and a blue school bag.’ Except for the blue school bag, which I had to borrow from my junior, the rest of my outfit was fine.

“Plankton, you still lost! My hair’s brown too.”

‘Since you’re “picking leaks”, I’ll have to “pick blue” colored panties to wear as well.’

“Plankton, don’t be boring, you have to admit when you lose.”

How could I lose? I really do have a set of panties from the Rainbow Collection, red, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, all seven colors. Because I’m a typical sultry Scorpio, plain on the outside but gaudy as hell on the inside. And if you accidentally forget what day of the week it is, just look at your panties.

“Plankton, go ahead and collect your shock, I’ll see Lo later!”

‘I will. And should you also go and collect the shock?’

“Plankton, I wouldn’t have to, since I wasn’t expecting anything from your looks in the first place.” horses had to put me on the spot on his way out.

“Plankton, I have to go to bed early or the lack of sleep will make me look horrible.”

”Don’t worry, if you look horrible, it’s definitely not from lack of sleep.” A great man has an axe to grind, so I returned the favor by putting her on the spot.

“Plankton, I’ll go to bed first then! You go to bed early too. :)”

‘Okay! Let’s sleep together!’

“Plankton, you took advantage of me!”

”No, no, no! What I call “together” is together in time, not together in place.’

“I’m not going to fool around with you, lack of sleep is the natural enemy of beauty. Good night! Plankton.”

After leaving the line, I wanted to have a good night’s sleep, but I tossed and turned and could not sleep well. In a daze, it seems to be the little boy being chased by the Velociraptor in “Jurassic Park”.

“Plankton, it’s lunch time! Luckily, Tai woke me up in time and saved my life.

”Tai, I’m meeting with Light Dance Flyer tonight, I’m a bit nervous and can’t eat.”

“Plankton, all the more reason for you to eat your fill so that you have the strength to escape.

”Tai, stop it and give some advice!”

“Plankton, the boat will be perpendicular to the shore wall as it approaches it due to the reflection of the water waves.

‘So?’

That’s why it’s called “the boat will go straight”. Don’t worry about it! Plankton.

Despite the scientific corroboration, I was still on edge. Checking my watch, it was about time.

‘Tai, I’m leaving.’

“Plankton, remember the caller, I’ll take care of you.

‘I don’t want to bring nudity, and I’d like to have a nice chat with her anyway.’

“Jing Ke, go in peace! The wind is rustling and the water is cold. Once a strong man goes, he will never return.

‘Tai, can you say something nice?’

No problem! I’ll go buy wine later and drink it when you come back.

‘SHIT! How did you know I was bound to fall out of love?’

Plankton, you’ve got it all wrong! I bought the wine back because I was going to help you celebrate tonight.

I know that Tai is using Yan, but I’m not in the mood to carry on with him right now.

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7:30 p.m. This is the perfect time to meet someone you’ve never met before. Usually by this time everyone has finished dinner, so you don’t have to bother thinking about eating there. Otherwise it would take half an hour just to decide what to eat. And the point is, it costs more money to eat, so for poor students like me, it’s important to “save money”.

Since the date is at McDonald’s, why not simply go straight in to McDonald’s later. Two Cokes and a side of fries will do the trick. You don’t even have to order a large Coke. And you don’t have to worry about whether or not you look bad eating. I remember that Tai once had a steak dinner with a girl, and the girl was so nervous that the knife was all over her, and the whole steak flew towards Tai’s face. So it’s best not to eat when you meet for the first time. If you must eat, you should never eat a steak dinner. In case the two sides a word, so as not to have a life in danger.

“Plankton, you’re early.”

While I was in a daze, a girl gently tapped my shoulder from behind. Although I had already prepared myself for this, I was still shocked by the girl in front of me. If it wasn’t for her coffee-colored dress, and the plonker she called me, I would have thought she was just here to ask for directions.

Until today, I had always thought that beautiful women only existed on TV and in movies, or brushed past you in a hurry while crossing the street. And she was, indeed, beautiful. The beauty of some girls varies from person to person. In other words, what you think is beautiful, I may not agree with, but I’m sure no one would question this girl’s beauty.

I don’t have a high level of literary attainments, so when I want to describe a very beautiful woman, there are only clichés such as “the moon shying away from the flowers”, “the fish falling from the geese”, “the country’s color” and “the country is pouring into the city”. I only blame me for studying engineering, I always hope that beauty can be calculated by formula or measured by instruments. But after all, beauty is just beauty, beauty is sensual, not rational.

In Chengdu University, there is an old saying: “Since ancient times, women’s lives are often thin, Chengdu University girls are ten thousand years old”. If a woman’s life expectancy is really inversely proportional to her beauty, then Light Dancing Flyer must be very short-lived. Such a beautiful woman should not be intersected with my life circle.

Maybe it’s the so-called “what goes around comes around”! Because I was so shocked by her beauty, I became calm.

”You’ve had dinner, haven’t you? Let’s go inside McDonald’s and talk about it.’

“Plankton, you sure are high pole! That’s not a bad way to save money.”

I had to giggle and act innocent when she got an insight into my intentions.

Seeing as she was so beautiful, the coke had to be ordered in a large and the fries were ordered twice.

“Plankton, this time you’re buying me, next time I’ll let you.”

Just kidding, of course I could tell she was taking advantage of me. But I’m glad she said “next time”.

That means there will be a next time. I couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement.

“Plankton, are you religious? I’m a devout Christian, don’t mind if I pray!”

‘I do take incense and worship, not really religious, but I can pray with you.’

“Plankton, you don’t want to be like Gigi Leung’s commercials and say, ‘I hope for world peace’.”

‘Of course not, I’m going to pray for the hundred-dollar bill in my purse that’s fallen in battle to rest in peace.’

“Oh… Plankton, you’re really petty!”

I heard her laugh for the first time, crisp and clear, like an-crisp McDonald’s french fry.

“Plankton, were you disappointed when you saw me?”

If you’re still disappointed at the sight of a pretty girl, aren’t you so desperate at the sight of an average girl that you want to jump off a building?

‘Why would you think I should be disappointed?’

“Because I told you I don’t look cute ㄚ! So you must have been disappointed when you saw me.”

Turns out she was beating around the bush to imply that she was actually cute looking.

‘Then why did you lie to me and say you weren’t cute looking?’

“Plankton, I only said I wasn’t cute, I didn’t say I wasn’t pretty.”

This little girl’s tone of voice is so much like mine. It’s a pity she’s so pretty, otherwise she’d be more than enough to be a gangster.

“Plankton, you’re also a good-looking ㄚ! Not as bad as you described.”

Sven? That adjective is actually quite confusing. To a lot of girls, svelte doesn’t mean anything different than dull.

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I started sizing up the beautiful girl sitting in front of me. Beautiful is actually a very vague adjective, because there are many kinds of beauty. Maybe it’s like the cold and frosty Little Dragon Lady; maybe it’s like the refreshing Wang Yuyan. Maybe like the innocent Princess Xiangxiang; maybe like the savage and capricious Zhao Min. Maybe like the clever and cunning Huang Rong; maybe like the deep love Ren Yingying.

But she doesn’t even look like one. Fortunately, she doesn’t look like it, so she’s not a fictional character, she belongs in real life.

At the first sight of her, I lost two souls to her face and six souls to her voice. With only one soul and one spirit left, I couldn’t even get a good look at the height and weight of her figure. Now I could finally scrutinize everything about her. She was thin, yet not the weak kind. Her complexion was white, and since I hadn’t seen snow, I didn’t dare to use the adjective “snow-white”. But because she was wearing a brown color that reminded me of whipped cream, she was like a cup of rich coffee.

She’s sitting down now and I can’t tell her height. But just now, while ordering, I looked her in the eye and the pitch of my vision was about 20 degrees, and the distance between our six eyes (I have four) was about 20 centimeters, so the difference in height between me and her is about = 20xtan20 degrees = 7.3. I’m 171, so she’s about 164.

As for her hair, it’s 10 centimeters above her shoulders, not quite her waist, but it’s pretty long.

Wait, didn’t she say her hair was brown? Why is it still dark and shiny?

‘You’ve got dark hair! Is it brown there?’

“Plankton, the one who picks a few hairs to vent is also. Because I thought it would be fun, I let out a few hairs myself for fun. Do you think it looks good?” She flicked her hair to her chest and pointed it out to me.

It is indeed “a bit of coffee in the midst of all the black bushes”. After all, a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, and even the way she ruffles her hair is very attractive.

”Of course it looks good. You’re just as bright and beautiful even if you cut your hair bald.’

“Oh… Plankton, don’t praise me too much, I’ll be proud.” I heard her laugh again.

Ancient people often used the words “yellow warbler coming out of the valley” and “swallow returning to the nest” to describe the sweetness of the sound. But I’ve never heard either of these two bird calls, so it’s not scientific to describe her voice. Crispy, but not greasy, McDonald’s fries would be more appropriate. Her laugh, like ketchup-dipped fries, is crisp with a hint of sweet and sour.

‘Why are you partial to the color brown?’

“Because I love coffee ㄚ! My favorite is Mamba coffee.”

‘I drink a lot of coffee too. But I don’t know what a “mamba” is.’

“A mamba is a mandarin with a Brazilian coffee! Stupid gangsta.”

”Oh! I see. Then isn’t Blue Mountain Coffee and Brazilian Coffee called “Blue Bar”?’

“Oh… gangster, I can’t help but appreciate your courage when you dare to be so gangly even in front of a beautiful woman.”

‘Won’t you feel weird wearing all brown?’

This is my biggest question, and if I don’t know the answer to the mystery, I won’t be able to sleep. It’s not so bad that if you love coffee, you have to wear a coffee color, right? If we follow this logic, then if you love watermelon juice, you have to be all red; if you love green tea, you have to be all green; if you love soda, you don’t have to wear any color clothes?

“Plankton, you’ve heard of the Coffee Philosophy, right?”

‘It’s a chain of coffee shops, of course I’ve heard of it.’

“This philosophy is not another philosophy! What I’m wearing is a set of coffee philosophies, would Your Excellency like to hear them?”

‘Yes… please tell me what you have to say, I’d like to hear more about it.’ Almost forgetting that the other party was a beautiful woman, I hurriedly ate my fart in my stomach.

“Even if it’s all coffee, it can vary depending on the roasting technique and the aroma, sweetness, mellowness, bitterness and acidity.

My shoes and socks are dark, like heavily roasted charcoal coffee: burnt, bitter and not acidic; my bell-bottom pants are a little lighter, like a distinctive mocha coffee: more acidic; my sweater is even lighter, like a smooth and delicate Blue Mountain coffee: fragrant and delicate; and my backpack, with its dark inside and light outside, and adorned with decorative items, is like a Cappuccino coffee, with fresh milk floating on its surface and sprinkled with a charming cinnamon powder. The color of my backpack, dark on the inside and light on the outside and decorated with ornaments, is like Cappuccino, with fresh milk floating on the surface and a charming dusting of cinnamon, sweet and sweet but strong.”

I froze for a long time, unable to speak. I couldn’t help but take another look at the beautiful girl sitting in front of me. Before tonight, she was nothing more than a wandering soul on the net. Only ID, no flesh and blood. Now she was sitting in front of me alive, talking to me, smiling at me, and revealing my sores. Until this moment, I have never had the feeling of dreaming. Or I should say I’ve been dreaming since I saw her in front of McDonald’s, only now I realize I’m in a dream world.

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“Oh… Plankton, are you offline again? You’ve been idling for a long time!”

It’s not like we’re on the internet, so what’s the point of being a machine? But her laughter did bring me back to reality again.

‘I’m trying to think of an appropriate adjective to praise your icy intelligence.’

“There’s no use in being dogged, either! It’s your turn to say why you’re all blue, or you’ll have to admit defeat.”

Admit defeat? You’re kidding! Those two words are not in Cai’s dictionary.

Blue is my favorite, but how do you break it? She did a great job with her “coffee philosophy”. She seems to be as intelligent as she looks. Since she’s philosophizing, I’ll just use mechanics!

“Because I read fluid dynamics and water flow is usually blue, so I like the color blue.”

‘And then, Mr. Plankton, don’t be too brave! Losing to a beautiful woman isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s not a shame to lose to a beautiful woman. And “heroes can’t beat beauties”, right?’ She gently bit the straw and looked at me with a smile on her face.

This is a poisonous enough move, if I pass this hurdle, it means I am not a hero; but if I can’t pass this hurdle, even if I am a hero, I am just a hero who admits defeat. Whatever! I’m just a gangster anyway, not a hero.

“Even if it’s all water flow, it can vary depending on weather conditions and cold, hot, deep, shallow and dirty environments.

My shoes and socks are dark, like the Pacific Ocean: deep and melancholic; my jeans are a little lighter in color and a little whiter, like the Arctic Ocean with icebergs floating on it: cold and treacherous; my shirt is even lighter in color, like the water in an indoor swimming pool: clear and bright; and the color of my bag is dark on the outside and light on the inside, with dark green straps, like the water in a clear lake with a few live fish floating on the surface and the reflection of willows on both sides of the shore, which is lively and lively but quiet and elegant. lively and vivid but also quiet and elegant.”

This time it was her turn to be on the spot. Seeing that she was also looking at me very carefully, I couldn’t help but wonder if she also felt like she was dreaming. But I believe that my appearance is not enough to make her feel like she is dreaming. Even if she was dreaming at the same time, I was still sure that my dreams would be sweeter than hers.

“Oh… Plankton, count yourself out.”

”Is there a prize for passing? Or else a prize would be fine.’

“Of course there’s a prize! Aren’t I smiling at you?”

‘It is indeed the best prize, but it is too expensive, and I smile a few back to you.’

“Plankton, it takes a beautiful woman to smile, and if you smile, you’ll probably just dump this glass of coke in my hand.”

‘※＆＠＃☆┅┅’

“Plankton, I read foreign languages. What about you?”

‘My brother, who is a man of cloth, studied in water conservancy, full grades in the department, and did not seek to be heard on the net.’

“Plankton, why do you want to learn from Zhuge Liang’s “The Table of the Master”?”

‘I thought it would make me look as if I were more learned.’

“Why as if, you’re already very knowledgeable!”

I didn’t realize that she had begun to pick up my tone of voice, but why was it so comforting for her to say the same biker-ish thing?

“Plankton, I was born on March 15th and I’m a Pisces. How about you?”

‘I was born November 13th and I’m a Scorpio. Why do you ask?’

“I just want to know if we’re compatible!”

‘There are no ill-fitting constellations under the sky, only ill-fitting people.’

“Plankton, cool enough answer. Let’s drink a painful toast to that!” She raised the cup with Coke in it and made a gesture to toast like a character in a martial arts novel.

It’s fun to see a spunky, cute girl acting posh like a guy. So I also raised my glass, also filled with coke, and toasted with her. And that’s why I touched her fingers. Probably because of the coke! Her fingers were unusually cold. It was the first time I touched her, and the word “intimate” flashed through my mind.

Why “intimate”? Instead of “honey”? Honey means sweetness; intimacy means secrets. If everyone’s heart is like a storehouse of secrets, then if you are lucky, you will meet a few people in your life who hold a lot of secrets. If you are lucky enough, you will meet a few people in your life who have the key to open your inner warehouse. However, many people spend their entire lives with their inner storehouse unlocked.

And when I touched her cold fingers, I realized it was a key, a key to my inner warehouse.

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“So, Plankton, what do you usually do for fun?”

‘Other than reading, it’s probably just TV and movies and martial arts novels.’

“You watch all those kinds of movies?”

‘My favorite porn.’

“Plankton, pretty girls can kick ass, too.”

”The girl has misunderstood, A film is also short for American film!”

“If you say so, let’s go watch porn together next time!”

She was probably a little too loud, so the couple at the next table looked at us in surprise, and she shrugged her shoulders and spat out her tongue, “Plankton, it’s all your fault!”

What the hell! You’re blaming the table for your slanted eyes.

“So you don’t even go to concerts? Or operas or stage plays or anything like that? And art exhibitions?”

‘I’d want to go to sleep at a concert, I can’t understand operas or stage plays, and I don’t look at art exhibitions unless they’re pictures of nude women, and if I want to look at nude women, there’s plenty of them in PLAYBOY and PENTHOUSE, which are both realistic and lifelike, so why bother looking at someone else with a painting!’

“Plankton, you’re so honest! Aren’t you afraid I’ll think you have no class if you say that?”

‘Tzu said: “To know is to know, not to know is not to know, is to know!” If you don’t know, you don’t know. Why pretend to know? What’s more, since it is said to be a pastime, of course the more relaxing the better, not to be used to improve one’s own standard.’

“Plankton, you’re really what they call “a word for nine”: if I say one thing, you’ll say nine things.”

‘Oh… what should I do then?’

“You should start learning to appreciate concerts, and operas and stage plays, and fine art shows.”

‘What for?’

“So I’ll have company for my next visit!”

I will! I’ll study for you. I tell myself that in my mind.

“Plankton, we’ll have coffee together next time too. Okay?”

Wait a minute! You’ve said a lot of “next time” today, so what are we going to do next time, have dinner? Watching porn? A concert? See an opera or an art show? Or coffee?’

“Oh… yes, not including food! Why did I follow Lee Teng-hui’s example of writing checks indiscriminately? How about this! I’ll let you choose.”

‘Single choice or multiple choice?’

“Plankton, you wish! You can only choose one.”

‘Then pick watching porn.’

“Plankton, you should have chosen to listen to the concert. Because after listening to the concert, I would have wanted to drink a cup of coffee; after drinking coffee and being in good spirits, I would have wanted to watch a movie; after watching a movie and being hungry, I would have wanted to eat….

Alas! I really feel rather sorry for you.”

Why are you sorry? I’m glad, or else I’d have done so many things at once, and I’d have lost all the three soldiers in my purse, wouldn’t I?

“Whoa! Bleh! It’s almost twelve, I’ve got to get going.” She looked at her watch and screamed.

‘You don’t live in the school dormitory, do you! If so, it’s already past half past eleven.”

“I’m renting a house out there, so I’m not worried about that.”

‘Then what are you worried about? Worried I’ll turn into a werewolf? It’s not like there’s a full moon tonight.’

“Plankton, Cinderella in Fairy Tale turns back to her original form at 12:00 midnight.”

”That’s fine, you leave a shoe behind and I’ll naturally go find you.”

“If you say so, then I’ll have to…” she actually did bend over, but she was tying her shoelaces a little tighter.

Pushing through the McDonald’s doors, University Avenue at midnight became extraordinarily cold.

‘Where do you live? I’ll give you a ride.’

“It’s just next door on Victory Road, it’s very close.”

As she walked, she stopped in front of a bicycle. No way! Even the bicycle was coffee-colored!

“Coffee-colored body, white seat cushions, like warm French milk coffee, this is the most suitable description of the smooth and romantic Pisces personality. Plankton, it’s your turn at the bird.”

I can’t believe she did that. That’s why they say “the most poisonous women are the most poisonous people.” But God help me, my bike was an old, beat-up blue Coyote.

‘Blue tanks and black seat cushions, like the seawater of Kaohsiung Harbor floating in oil, this is the most suitable water to describe the personality of Scorpio, who is cool on the outside but deep in the heart.’

“Plankton, congratulations! You can officially start asking me out.” When we arrived at her house, she suddenly said these words that made me feel a bolt from the blue.

“Thunderbolt” is a bad word, but since I love rainy days, it’s good to be thunderbolted.

”I’ll see you here tomorrow at one o’clock in the afternoon. My usual rule: you finish your meal first.’

“OK, no problem. My usual rule: your treat.” She turns around and opens the apartment door before turning back to me with a big smile.

I looked up and saw the fourth floor turn from gloom to light, and I stomped my blue Coyote out of the alley with relief.

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I returned to the Departmental Hall in a dazed state of mind and climbed up to the research room located on the third floor, which, I realized today, had 53 stairs from the first to the third floor. Sitting in front of the PC, gazing at the blank screen, my mind was equally blank, the training I received only taught me how to distinguish between subcritical and supercritical flows, as for the difference between reality and dreams, I didn’t know which square program to use to judge.

Jing Ke! Jing Ke! How dare you come back alive! Where is the King of Qin’s head?

Luckily it was the sight of Tai that finally made me realize that I wasn’t in a dream world right now, because I wasn’t that unlucky to have this Tai guy in my dream world.

“Alas! Poor Plankton, you must’ve been “awestruck” by her appearance!

”Heh heh! Tai, I am indeed awestruck, but it’s the awestruck of surprise, not the awestruck of horror.’

Tai suddenly put down the two bottles of Kirin beer in his hand and looked skeptical: “Really? That’s not a flower in the…

I used my internal energy to prepare to give him a Dragon Slam when I heard the word “cow dung”.

In an elegant vase! It’s really a hero and a beautiful woman, a talented man, complementing each other!

Tai is really good, although he has a poisonous mouth, but at the same time, he has sharp reflexes.

“Plankton, tell me, what’s it like? What’s your department?

‘She reads foreign languages. As for looks, she can probably make your six palaces colorless.’

That’s impossible! Since Pim’s class graduated, the Foreign Languages Department has gone from bad to worse, with no one left. And how can there be a beauty I don’t recognize in my district?

‘Tai, I think you’re getting old. “There are beautiful women in the river and mountain, each leading the fashion for several years”, beautiful women are like “the waves of the Yangtze River push forward the waves of the front”, one wave after another, it’s impossible to count them all.

That’s true! But I really don’t believe that the waves of the Narita girls will be as high as they should be.

Honestly, I don’t believe it either. To paraphrase my terminology, the girls at Narita University can be described as “wave breakers”.

The so-called breaking waves are caused by the shallow depth of the water when the waves are transmitted from the deep sea to the shallow sea, because the depth of the water in Narita is too shallow, so it can be regarded as the famous “breaking wave zone”.

However, the beauty is really bad enough, as the saying goes: “The fool rides a good horse, and the clever wife often sleeps with the poor husband.

From this point of view, redheads really have a thin life!

”Tai, people say I’m talented! We’re a real “man and woman”.’

Plankton, it’s a social call. Don’t take it too seriously. You’re not me. How can you be talented? From my point of view, you’re like “Beauty and Beast.”

‘I’m Beast, what about you?’

“I have one less a than you, so I’m Best.

It’s amazing how Tai goes against me at every turn, so it looks like his date tonight must be a knife fight.

”Tai, your date today was miserable not including food!

Whoops! You mean the girl B-161-48-34-25-33? I got slapped by her.

”Hahaha! You must have tried to kiss her without permission and that’s why you got beaten up!?”

It’s not. It’s that I have her permission and I still won’t kiss.

*&@#☆…’ [Note]: This is what is known as ten dollars for breakfast and eight dollars for dried beans.

“I’m serious, because I don’t like the color of her lipstick.

Wow! Even the lipstick color is too picky! It’s no wonder that many people often lament that some people in this world have nothing, while others have too much.

Rascal, as the saying goes: “A thousand soldiers are easy to find, but one general is hard to find”; and also: “Soldiers are more valuable than many”, so you’re a lucky dog, much luckier than I am.

‘But I don’t think I’ll be able to handle her. She’s a bit quirky and likes to quiz me.’

Plankton, haven’t you ever heard of the saying: “It’s the strategy that counts, not the courage”? Although you don’t have the courage, I’m the one who has the brains to help you. Don’t worry! Don’t worry about my ability.

”What I’m worried about, is not your ability, but your personality.”

Plankton, don’t be ridiculous! “A friend’s wife is not to be fooled.” Would I be that kind of person?

‘You’re one of those people who think “A friend’s wife, don’t bully, a friend gets angry.”‘

Plankton, stop it! Tell me, what else is going on?

”No.” Just chatting anyway! What else can I do?’

“Did she scold you?

‘Why did she scold me? I’m not a bit of a jerk, and I’m not like you…”

“Plankton, you’ve got a long way to go!

‘Is that so? I’m not a pervert, so why do I have to be scolded to feel pain?’

Plankton, have you ever heard the saying, “Love is a bitch, blame is a bitch?”

”Tai, if you have a fart, let it go! Don’t keep cocking your ass and then pausing.’

The meaning of this sentence is that the more “deeply” a girl loves you, the more she will “cut” her teeth when she reproaches you.

‘What then? She’s been smiling all day! Except when I talk about porn, she glares at me a little.’

“That’s okay, it’s better than nothing, and a stare is better than no stare at all.

I didn’t tell Tai, and even though she glared at me, I still felt her eyes fill with laughter.

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“Plankton, since you don’t have much to lose, the beer’s not necessary.

In fact, this is a tacit understanding between Tai and I. Alcohol is indeed the natural enemy of lost love. However, the degree of love lost should be inversely proportional to the alcohol concentration, that is, the more love lost, the lighter the drink, otherwise when you love lost is very tolerant of alcohol abuse, drink too much alcohol, will not be sad, hurt the liver and hurt the body? That’s why I always drink draft beer with the lightest alcohol concentration.

But special days are not limited to this, so Chinese Valentine’s Day can drink sorghum, Western Valentine’s Day when you fall out of love, drink XO.

“Plankton, let’s switch to Suntory’s Corner Bottle Whiskey!

‘What about these two bottles of Kirin beer?’

“Keep it on ice, you can probably drink it in a couple of days anyway.

‘SHIT! You’re so sure I’m going to fall out of love?’

Plankton, I’m just talking about things, not making personal attacks, and I really can’t find a reason why you’re not falling out of love.

Ty poured two shots of SUNTORY, a golden whiskey that resembled the color of his shirt.

‘With a golden syrup like the sun, angular ice cubes and a glass, this is the perfect wine to describe the optimistic, cheerful, upright and frank Sagittarius personality.’

“Plankton, are you out of your mind?

‘SORRY! It’s a reflex action I’ve been trained to do by Light Dancing, when I see a colored drink, I have to associate it with astrological qualities.’

“Plankton, what kind of B.C., H.N., or T.

‘None of them, she’s more of an S.’

It’s not like you’re getting a driver’s license. Where’s the “S”?

‘Smart and witty type, called smart in English, so it’s S type.’

Plankton, don’t mess up if you can’t categorize! If you say it’s S, people will think it’s sexy.

People? Probably only evil-minded people like you!

‘Tai, I’m going to go to the movies with her tomorrow Nope. Is there any good movie?’

Just ask me! Titanic,” recently released in theaters, has already created a sensation, and it’s becoming another indicator of gender.”

‘Judging gender? What are you talking about?’

Plankton, there’s a saying these days: “Whoever looks at Titanic and doesn’t cry is not a woman.

‘It can’t be that exaggerated! How come I’ve never even heard of it?’

Plankton, you’re not in the jungle, so you wouldn’t know anything like that. “Titanic.”

I’ve watched it three times, of course, with three different girls, including tonight’s B-161-48-34-34-25-33, last night’s C-163-47-33-23-32, and last week’s T-160-43-32-24-32, whose first choice was the Titanic.”

‘Is it nice?’

“The heroine has put on a bit of weight, especially around her waist, but her breasts are not bad and her hips are quite flavorful.

‘I’m asking you about the plot of the movie, why are you pulling the heroine’s figure?’

Whoops! I’m sorry! I’ve seen too many Japanese AV movies, and the good looks of AV movies have nothing to do with the plot, but only with the actress’s body good or bad, beautiful and ugly looks, and the size of the screams are closely related. That’s why Mai Asakura, Ai Iijima, Hitomi Sadagi and Hitomi Shiraishi are so famous.

”Tai, tell me the plot of the movie, don’t pull some nonsense.”

It’s like a ship that hits an iceberg and starts to sink, some people scream and run away, some people play music, some people are unlucky enough to be handcuffed to the cabin, then the hero sinks to the bottom of the sea, the heroine Rose is rescued and lives until she’s in her 90s…

”Then why do girls shed tears when they read it?”

I don’t know! When Jack, the hero, lets go and sinks to the bottom of the freezing sea, the movie theater begins to wail.

Jack is the same as my English name! I guess my old nickname “Jack of Love” was prescient.

”Tai, so you don’t even feel heartbroken?”

Of course it does! It did hurt when old Rose threw the Heart of the Ocean into the sea.”

Discussing art with someone like Tai, I’m kind of making a fool of myself.

But one thing is worth noting, after watching the movie, they will definitely ask me the same question, which is: “If I jump, do you jump?”.

”Is it? Wouldn’t it be too boring to ask that kind of question?’

“Plankton, girls just love to ask hypothetical questions like this, but demand affirmative answers.

”Then what should we do? If I answer truthfully, won’t I be asking for death?’

No! I’d say, “The answer is yes.”

”Don’t bluff me, according to this kind of jumping method, didn’t you win the world diving championship long ago?”

Plankton, I only said the answer is yes, I didn’t say yes or no. I’m not that stupid! If she jumps, of course I won’t jump.”

”Tai, you’re mixing it up again!”

Plankton, that’s why I say you have a long way to go. This simple and clear answer contains a lot of philosophy of life and intelligence of the love field. For example, if one day a girl asks you, “Will you always love me? If a girl asks you, “Will you love only me forever?”, you can get by with a simple “of course”, but whether you will or you won’t is something you know in your heart.

‘Just in case she’s smart enough to keep asking you, “Of course I will? Or of course not?” What if she’s smart enough to keep asking you, “Of course I will?

Plankton, there are so few smart girls like that, it’s hard to find them. But if she does ask, you can still answer: “Of course I will.”

‘Wouldn’t that be a lie?’

Idiot! What you are thinking is: “Of course I will love more than just you”, this is the so-called “back to basics”. At this level, you don’t need any sweet and beautiful lies to achieve the effect of deceiving the enemy.

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After I finished drinking with Tai, it was almost three o’clock at night. I can’t help but think back to the details of tonight’s meeting with Light Dancing Flyer. Luckily, I don’t have the habit of writing a diary, otherwise I really don’t know how to write down everything that happened tonight. If it wasn’t for the fact that I just ran into Tai, a night like this could be called perfect. However, the fact that it went so well makes me uneasy. Mencius said: “Born in sorrow, die in peace and happiness”, perhaps between me and Light Dancing Flyer, is just a kind of “flashback” phenomenon.

The wildcat outside the window of the research lab, has started to purr again, although its voice is much lower, but still three long and one short, it seems that this wildcat is also very principled. But it’s probably got something wrong with its throat today, so I think I should get a bottle of Kyoto Nien Ci’an Szechuan Pei Loquat Cream to moisturize its throat a bit, and it’s still the genuine kind with the filial piety picture on it. I used to rely on it as my alarm clock to get online at 3:15, but I slowly stopped needing it, because when it’s time, I’m always especially excited and energized, and if I don’t run into Light Dancing Flyer at 3:15 in the middle of the night on the Internet, I’m not going to feel right.

I’ve heard that this is called a “conditioning response” in psychology, so I thought I was probably being “conditioned” by Dancing Lightly. And the wildcat, maybe also by other sexy wildcats constraints, so the time is up, it began to Call Spring, I also open the PC, on-line.

“Good night Plankton! Tired today?”

It would be a lie to say I wasn’t surprised, and it would also be a lie to say I wasn’t tired, especially after being in a mood like a roller coaster ride, and catalyzed by alcohol, I just wanted to get a good night’s sleep. If I hadn’t been constrained by her already, I would never have come online at this time, and why did she come online at this time as well? Isn’t she tired? Is she also “constrained” by me?

‘It’s been a long time, how are you?’

“Plankton, you’re off your meds again! We’ve only been apart for three hours! :)”

Ancient people have “one day without seeing, such as three autumns” sigh, if this is the case, then we have about: 3×365 8 = 137 days without seeing, of course, can be counted as a very long time.

“Heh! 🙂 gangsta, so did you miss me?”

‘A. I want to; B. Of course I want to; C. I don’t want to; D. I want to die; E. All of the above… The answer isE.’

“How about ideas?”

‘A. I can’t see you coming when I look through the waters of Autumn; B. Long love for you destroys your heart; C. Tears of love for you are a flood; D. Love for you is carved in red beans in a cow’s bone dice; E. All of the above… The answer is stillE.’

“Oh… (∶)….”

It seems that she is really tired too, although the “heh” is a laugh, but at this moment I think she is “heh” yawn.

“Plankton, are we going to die in the light?”

In fact, once an online friend meets them, the end is usually tragic. Just like Tai, if he was not very satisfied, he would strike them off his friends list, lest he would run into them online in the future and hurt his feelings, so he would simply take a look at them. If the other person sends a message to say hello first, Tai will say he has to go to class, to dinner, to play with friends, to bed, etc., and then leave the line in a flurry of activity, which is what is known as “a gentleman does not stand against a dangerous wall”. Otherwise, you would say, “What a pity! Rarely met you again, but why fate, things do not go against their wishes, the existing mundane matters are entangled, have to go ear! I had to say goodbye in tears and return with regrets and a broken heart! … This is the so-called “blindfolded” method of escape.

“Why is it that the internet and reality are always so different?”

Because you can’t see each other’s facial expressions or hear each other’s tone of voice on the Internet, you have to use simple symbols to express your happiness and sadness: for example, smiley face symbols such as “:∶)”, “^_^”, “:P “, “^_^”, “:P”, “^O^”… and so on. But if happiness, anger and sadness could really be expressed in symbols, they wouldn’t be called happiness, anger and sadness. In other words, when the other person sends you any kind of smiley face, who can be sure that he is smiling? Maybe he is holding the mentality of “not buying and selling benevolence in”, with you to socialize a few words. Therefore, for two people who are strangers to each other, the Internet can only shorten the time of acquaintance, and may not be able to bring each other closer.

“Plankton, is there a big difference between the online me and the real me?”

The Internet is like a very safe shield, not only shielding the wind and rain, but also blocking the sunlight, through this shield to observe a person, of course, there will be errors. But for you, Sister Light Dance, or Sister Fei Yang, I don’t have the feeling of looking at someone through a protective shield, or I should say, you don’t have such a shield at all.

Now if you send me the half-symbol “:)”, it’s like I can see the corners of your mouth lifting slightly; if you send me the full-symbol “:)”, it’s like I can see your eyes full of smiles; if you send me the “Heh! “, it’s as if I can hear your laughter like McDonald’s fries.

So the net not only shortens the time we know each other, but also brings us closer together.

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“Plankton, I would love for you to not be as if, but simply see me smiling at you right now.”

Yeah! I’d love to see your smile right now, but that’s another thing about the internet: it’s fast, but it’s not perfect, and if I could see you right now, I’d be so blinded by your beauty that I’d have to do something about it. It would be better to look at you through the screen as I am now, and savor another form of you.

“Plankton, why do you have to praise my appearance as soon as you see me? Aren’t you afraid I’ll think you’re shallow because of it?”

There’s no reason for that! Complimenting a beautiful woman is a man’s reflex action that is not controlled by the brain.

Of course, I know that this is a suspicion of flattering, but my clumsy mind can not stop my flexible mouth, once my eyes come into contact with the beautiful image and pass to the brain, in the brain has not yet given instructions on whether to praise, my mouth has already decided to cut the first before the first. This is called “the mouth is outside, the brain orders something not to” reason, also called “the arrow on the string, have to send”. Moreover, it is better to speak the truth and praise you than not to praise you and make you think that I am superficial, which is another form of “choosing the lesser of two evils”.

“Plankton, it’s okay! I’m going to be more and more proud of you!”

‘I can’t help it, this is what Mencius taught me: “I’m not going to praise you, I have no choice”!’

“Plankton, stop being a pansy!”

”Alright! That’s enough praise for today, it’s your turn to praise me.’

“Plankton, instead of telling falsehoods in praise of you and making you think I’m shallow, it would be better for me to refrain from speaking in praise of you and make me feel that I have a good conscience, which is also called ‘choosing the lesser of two evils’.”

Karma comes fast! It turns out that everything is really fast on the Internet, and even retribution comes especially fast.

“Plankton, in fact, on the net I can instead see more clearly what you really look like, that is to say, I seeyou true color.”

“I see you true color”? What does that mean: “I see you true color”? Do you really think I’m “colorful”?

“Plankton, you need to step up your English! It’s an English song by Cindy Lupo. true color means the real you, not that you’re really colorful.”

Oh, wow! I see. That scared me! Having to watch your English in front of a foreign language girl is like having to remember to save water in front of a water conservancy boy.

“Plankton, so can you describe my appearance and how you feel about me in one sentence?”

‘It’s simple, it’s “dainty”.’

“I am a young woman of little talent and qualifications, and I would like to hear about it.”

‘Because you are “delicate” as a flower, my mouth is “dripping”, so it is “delicate”.’

“Heh! (∶) Plankton, I’ll make you so bad you can’t sleep.”

Not including food! I almost forgot that I have an appointment tomorrow, so I can’t tease her like I usually do, it’s time for her to go to sleep: ‘You should go to sleep,'” he said.

“Just a little more, and you haven’t told me yet, are you tired?”

‘Fine, a little tired. What about you?’

“I’m so tired! But I really won’t be able to sleep if I’m not online to say goodnight to you.”

‘me too!’

If both sides are tired, why do this boring thing? Wouldn’t it be nice to lie down and sleep? Why bother playing the keyboard with one hand and yawning with the other? She and I probably thought of this reasoning at the same time, so a silence ensued.

“Plankton, which movie are we going to see tomorrow?”

‘We’ll see about that when the time comes, and anyway the point is who you’re watching it with, not that movie.’ Ty’s quote, slightly modified, still works.

“Plankton, then be careful on your bike tomorrow! I’ll be waiting for you downstairs.”

”OK! For your words, I’ll be careful, then you should be careful climbing the stairs too!”

“Plankton, stop being boring and I’ll see you tomorrow lo! Goodnight! :)”

‘… Goodnight… See you later… So long… Bye-bye… Good night… Sayonara… Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa, Kahlapa…’

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Woke up a little after 12:30, wow excruciating! Today is the last day of 1997, and since it’s Wednesday, I have to wear yellow underwear. Luckily, the training on Success Ridge was quite effective in the first place, showering and brushing my teeth plus washing my face only took X minutes and X ≤ 10. I can’t help but start to revel in my maneuvering agility again, but now is not the time to revel in it, so I hurriedly grabbed my keys and rushed downstairs.

I got into my Coyote, and before it finished warming up, I pushed the gas and took off. My racing skills are like a dragon and a rabbit. It’s a pity that I didn’t go to a biker gang or become a biker in the first place. Suddenly I thought that I promised her last night that I would be careful on my bike, how can a man go back on his word? So when I ran the red light, I was very careful to see if there was a traffic cop.

Glancing at my watch, it’s dangerous, I might be a few minutes late. As soon as I had an appointment with Light Dancer, there was no reason why I should be late, and my record of consecutive games with a hit must not be interrupted at this ball! “A man’s brain is quicker when he’s about to die”, the result of haste, set the watch five minutes slower, and slowed the car down as it approached the alleyway entrance to her house.

“Plankton, you’re early!” She spoke in a mocking manner and held up her left wrist in front of me.

‘Your watch is so beautiful! It’s true that “a handsome man rides a bad bike, but a beautiful woman wears a good watch”.’

“Plankton, stop pretending. Shouldn’t you be saying something?”

I only noticed your watch and forgot to praise your white wrist. I can really say “see the wood for the trees”, no matter how beautiful the watch is, compared to your delicate hands, it’s like the light of a glowing fire meets the brightness of the moon: it’s too much to handle! I can’t take it!

“Plankton, are you still playing dumb? You’re three minutes late! My watch is now 1:03.”

‘Really? But it’s only 12:58 on my watch!’ I also raise my left wrist and shake it in front of her.

“Oh… okay! You’re forgiven.”

‘Which one to watch? Miss Light Dancing with a Pretty Watch.’

“Go ahead! Mr. Plankton Chase who slows down his watch time.”

So she knew about this technique, I had to laugh a few times, ‘Tai said the Titanic was good, what do you think?’

“What a coincidence! My roommate recommended this movie to me too.”

‘And did she cry when she read it?’

“There ㄚ! Crying my eyes out, so I brought an extra handkerchief and a packet of Kleenex.”

‘Shall we go to the Nantai Theater then, there’s one at 2:20.’

“Okay, I hear you.”

Well, there was still plenty of time to take a closer look at the environment she lived in. The alley is very quiet, and there are some flowers and plants that make the alley look beautiful, it’s true that the place is so beautiful, what kind of people live in what kind of environment, this is indeed a good place to produce beautiful women. Actually, the place where I live is not bad, but unfortunately there is always a pile of garbage at the entrance of the alley, I think it’s probably because Tai also lives there!

“Plankton, stop gawking! I heard there are a lot of people, so go get your tickets early!”

‘Okay! Let’s go! Do you have a motorcycle?’

“Nope! All I have is the bike that looks like a French milk coffee.”

”Then I’ll have to drive you in this Coyote locomotive that looks like Kaohsiung Harbor seawater. Don’t mind, do you!?’

“I wouldn’t mind, I’d just be a little disgusted. Oh…”

She took out a pair of sunglasses from her backpack, and needless to say, the lenses must be coffee-colored. It’s been a warm winter in Tainan this year, and I wore short sleeves on Christmas Day, so she’s dressed simply today: beige pants and an orange threadbare shirt.

‘Not wearing coffee color today?’

“Oh… Plankton, take a day off today so that you don’t have to keep worrying that I’m going to test you when you’re with me.”

‘Yes, that is indeed a good excuse to admit defeat.’

“Oh… Plankton, I can’t sunbathe, so I have to wear sunglasses. You don’t mind, do you!?”

‘I wouldn’t mind, just feel a bit sorry for your beautiful eyes.’

“Plankton, stop it. Get outta here!”

Sitting on the back of my locomotive, her hand gently hooked around the belt loop on my pants, since that Coyote’s back seat didn’t have bars, so she had nothing to hold onto. Tai often envied me for having this kind of equipment; he said that this way, if you were to shift gears with the slightest intentional misstep, you could feel the waves coming from behind. But I wasn’t that bored, I shifted gears more carefully instead.

‘It’s a beautiful day. Isn’t it!?’ I’ve never had the experience of turning around and talking to her, so I can be forgiven for speaking such corny words.

“Yeah! The sun’s round today, too. Isn’t it? Oh…” She always managed to defuse my nerves with her laughter.

‘I’ve heard that “Ecstasy Buddha” and “Old Lady” (Ole) have good sunscreen lines, so I’ll take you to buy them next time.’

“Okay! I’ll rub it if you buy it for me.”

“Right and wrong are only for speaking too much, and troubles are all caused by being strong”, the ancients really do not deceive me.

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Today’s weather is really nice, not too cold, not too hot, not too humid, not too stuffy, being in Tainan is indeed a blessing. Although it is said that “life is precious and the price of a fine is even higher”, we didn’t bring our helmets. The breeze was blowing gently, and I could smell the faint fragrance of her body. I remember I once took a long-distance plane, because I forgot to fasten the seat belt, a beautiful air hostess bent down to remind me, her body has a similar fragrance, since then, I get on the plane will not fasten the seat belt, unless encountered the kind of air Obasan. Men are also a kind of strange animal, it is easy to let his vision affect his sense of smell, so for men, all the beautiful women, their people must be fragrant, which is the so-called “generalization”.

Even though I shifted gears carefully, we inevitably touched a little between acceleration and braking, and she was always whispering in my ear. Somehow, I kept getting a burning sensation in my ears, which I preferred to believe was due to the high level of carbon dioxide in the average person’s exhaled breath, although I knew that was not true. I can finally relate to the feeling in the fourth episode of “The Dragon Slayer”, when Zhang Wuji was hugging Zhao Min, he wished the road would never end.

Enter Yau Oi Street and pass the gate of the Nantai Theater. Wow! It’s packed with people, is it a free show today? I had to turn to Zhongzheng Road and look for a place to park.

“Plankton, why are you going around in circles when you could just mail the car?”

”Don’t joke about it! You’ll be laughed at if you go to send a car with this kind of line of crappy cars.’

“Oh… Plankton, even saving this kind of money, you really aren’t a common cheapskate, are you?”

Sure enough, the sky was the limit, and I caught sight of a parking space. Parking the car, she stowed her sunglasses in her backpack and pulled a coffee-colored comb and a butterfly-shaped hair clip out of her backpack. She nibbled on the butterfly, then smoothed out her long hair and simply tied it in a ponytail. She smiled at me lightly, as if apologizing for waiting, and I suddenly felt that she was like a beautiful butterfly fluttering gently.

“Sorry to keep you waiting, Lets go!”

‘Well, is my car a good ride?’

“A. It’s not good; B. Of course it’s not good; C. It’s not good; D. It’s hard; E. All of the above… The answer isE. Oh… Plankton, am I following your example?”

”Fool, what’s there to be proud of? You don’t learn from the good, you learn from the bad.’

“It’s not that I don’t learn well, but there is simply no good for me to learn, and that’s what Mencius taught me, “Wouldn’t Yu be good at plodding around, but Yu shall not be allowed to do so”.”

”Alright, I surrender! Don’t forget that today is the day of truce.’

“Yes, that is indeed a good excuse to admit defeat! Oh…”

“Plankton, it says ‘no time-outs’ here!”

‘Oh! That’s okay, we’re not going to “pause”, we’re going to stop for a long time.’

“Plankton, you’re planking again. What’s going to happen when your coyote gets slaughtered later?”

”It won’t! Seeing such an old coyote, the average person would respect the old and wouldn’t bully it.”

The line at the Nantai Theater was really long! The movie was at 2:20 and it’s only 1:40 now, and strangely enough, it’s almost always a man and a woman lining up together.

‘You go inside and look at the posters, I’ll just row.’

Other people can cuddle and be affectionate. If she stays here, she’ll just make me sad.

“Don’t! I want to be here with you.”

‘You’ll be bored that way.’

“How can I be bored with you? Let me keep you company!”

I’m actually grateful for this crowded crowd, so that the distance between me and her is a little bit closer. On the Internet, we were separated by a screen; at McDonald’s, we were separated by a table; on a motorcycle, we were separated by my back; and here, we had no distance at all. She stood to my left, her right arm touching my left arm from time to time, and we occasionally interspersed a few meaningless lines of dialogue, a feeling so comfortable that even if I couldn’t buy a movie ticket, I was willing to do so.

It’s a beautiful day, and what makes it beautiful is not only the weather, but the mood that awaits at this time.

A student ticket also costs $240 each, in other words, two of them will cost $480. This time, I was really badly hurt, and the vanguard troops in my purse had all been killed in action. As she was on my left hand side and I was using my right hand to pay, I could not let her have a chance to stop me when I was paying, which was really a big blunder.

Got the tickets around 2:10. One for 11 row 13 and one for 11 row 15.

“Whoa! Plankton, row 11, number 13! Same day as your birthday.”

‘Uh, so?’

“So I’m going to take this seat, and I’m going to keep this ticket. Is that okay?”

”Of course! If you insist on paying, I’ll comply.’

“Don’t worry, Plankton, I won’t be fighting you to pay today.”

Worried? What worries me is that you won’t fight me!

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When I got into the movie theater, it wasn’t long before I sat down and the lights dimmed just in time. I watch movies with absolutely no talking, so my mouth finally had a chance to rest. For the next three hours or so, I carefully watched this long-awaited and controversial movie. I’m not a romantic, so it’s understandable that I wasn’t touched by the romantic plot, except for Jack’s line to Rose before he sank to the bottom of the sea: “Rose, listen to me… Listen… Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me… It brought me to the bottom of the sea…”. It brought me to you… And Im thankful, Rose… Imthankful…”

Although my name is also Jack, I am much luckier than the Jack in the movie. I don’t have to gamble on pokies or risk my life on the Titanic, all I have to do is turn on my PC and surf the net to meet the real life Rose, but he is luckier than I am because he can draw, so Rose in the movie is willing to take off all her clothes for him to draw. Although he looks very focused, as if he is drawing very carefully and slowly, I think he must be drawing slowly on purpose. It’s a man’s thing! If you ask him to draw Zeng Wenhui, he’ll get it right away.

She, on the other hand, didn’t react so calmly. She kept a handkerchief standby in her hand, wiping the corners of her eyes more frequently as the movie got closer to the end.

When Jack asked Rose to promise him to stay the course and never give up on the idea of survival, Rose said in the movie, “I promise… I will never let go, Jack… I will never let go…” and she whispered along with him, “I will never let go, Jack…” and when Jack sank to the bottom of the sea, the zipper of her backpack opened at the same time. “I will never let go, Jack…” And when Jack sank to the bottom of the sea, the zipper of her backpack was also opened, and the spare handkerchief made its appearance.

Céline Dion, the bitch, sang “My heart will go on…” at the end of the movie, and as if she was inspired by the song, she sang “My tears will go on…”

‘It’s breaking up, let’s go!’ I stood up and whispered to her. Because I felt that any little disturbance at this point would break her.

She sat in her seat and stared at me without saying a word. After a long time, she suddenly said, “Plankton, the movie will eventually break up, but life must go on, right?”

Although I nodded, I wondered in my mind. Seeing that I nodded, she quickly stood up, put on her backpack, and followed me out of the movie theater.

The people lining up to get in, and those squeezing out, gathered at the entrance to the movie theater at the same time. The atmosphere was like the Titanic before it sank, with all the people on board scrambling to escape. It seemed that we had only left the Titanic in the movie, but the Titanic in our lives was still playing… We had left the Nantai Theater, but her tears had not left her face.

‘Let’s walk!’ Six o’clock was just after nightfall, and the neon twinkling of C.C. Road might take her mind off the sinking of the Titanic.

“Uh, okay.” She nodded, but accidentally slipped two teardrops.

“Plankton, why don’t you sign it!” She pulled out that movie ticket stub and handed it to me.

‘Sign what? Do you want to sign “I swear to be loyal to Ms. Flying Lightly with all my heart”?’

“Bummer! Just sign “Plankton Chase”, I don’t know your name anyway.”

‘Who told you not to ask me!’

“And you didn’t ask me ㄚ! It’s called ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’.” She’s using idioms again, so I sign the back of the ticket stub “Plankton Choy”.

She looked at my signature and flashed a look of disappointment, but then sighed and said, “Thank you! Plankton…”

If you’re saying thank you, why are you sighing? Is my handwriting clumsy? No way!

We looked around, but didn’t talk. She suddenly stopped at the Christian Dior counter: “Plankton, have you ever read Lemonade’s “Perfume” on the Connections board?”

‘Well, I read this short story a while ago. It’s very touching! Why do you ask?’

“This bottle of Christian Dior Dolce Vita, is the hero in the heroine engaged to give her, he also said: Dolce Vita is Italian, Chinese means ‘sweet day’.”

‘Is it? I didn’t look that closely.’

“Plankton, do we count today as a “sweet day”?”

‘It could have been sort of, but when you cried, it was discounted.’

“So that’s kind of a little bit sweet without being too sweet, just get the little bottles.”

It’s a good thing Lemonade only wrote “perfume,” because if she’d written “gold” or “diamonds,” I’d be in debt.

‘It’s after seven, are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?’

“I can’t eat. What about you?”

‘You eat, I eat…’ She suddenly shed tears again in a daze.

I’m such an idiot. Why am I salvaging the wreckage of Titanic when she’s so far away?

“Let’s go to that McDonald’s on University Avenue, okay?” She suggested this to me as she wiped the tears from her eyes and forced a smile.

I nodded and mounted the coyote as she sat quietly behind me. The wind tonight, it’s starting to get a little cooler…

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When I got to McDonald’s, what a coincidence that it was the same time as the first meeting last night, which was also 7:30pm.

‘Want meal #1?’ She shook her head a little; ‘How about meal #2?’ She shook her head twice; ‘How about meal #3?’ She shook her head three times… and so on until the last meal #1.

So I still ordered two Daikos and two orders of fries and sat in the same spot as yesterday.

“Plankton, you’ll get hungry if you don’t eat.”

‘If you can’t eat it, I certainly can’t.’

This is the scene of bravado, because up until now, I haven’t eaten anything today. I take a bite of my fries, and wonder? Surprisingly, today’s McDonald’s fries are no longer crisp and sweet, instead they are a bit fluffy and bitter. It turns out that when her smile loses its sparkle, McDonald’s fries are no longer crisp.

“Plankton, why is your name jht?”

‘j is Jack, h is hate, t is Titanic; jht stands for “Jack hate Titanic”.’

“You don’t make it up! It’s still true.”

‘Actually, jht is my initials, but seeing as how Titanic made you cry, the Jack in me naturally had to HATE it.’

“Plankton, you can’t HATE Titanic, you must HELP Titanic, or HOLD Titanic.”

Since watching Titanic, she’s been saying things I don’t understand. Do foreign language students study philosophy too?

Then she rarely spoke, occasionally looking down in thought, occasionally staring at me in disbelief. Why do I use the adjective “staring”? Because she seemed to want to look at me very closely, but she was afraid of looking too closely.

What’s not “dumb” about this behavior? Stupid? Stupid? Stupid?

Outside, on University Avenue, it’s starting to get crowded.

“Plankton, why is University Avenue so busy right now?”

‘It’s the last day of 1997, and there’s a New Year’s Eve party on University Road. Going to watch it later?’

“Okay! But I want to go now.” Without saying a word, I picked up my plate and pointed to her backpack.

Zhang Can The mayor, who is newly appointed, blocked off a section of University Road, Chengdu University, and wanted to have fun with the people. He’s luckier than Mayor Abian because he can dance with his wife for us to see; but I’m luckier than him because Light Dancing is prettier than his wife.

Is thinking nonsense, the sky suddenly started a burst of rain, I do not think of pulling up her hand, to the Chengdu University Success Campus guard room next to the eaves of the run, in order to fear that she more than a few drops of rain, in the heat of the moment to make this kind of preemptive behavior. Tzu said: “killing without teaching is called abuse”, from this point of view, I am indeed a very cruel person. But fortunately, my name is Plankton, so I do not have to bear too much conscience for the behavior of not enough gentleman condemnation.

This is the second time I’ve touched her fingers, and like the first time I felt it, her fingers are still cold and unusual. Last time it might have been because of the ice coke, but this time? Maybe it’s the rain! Or maybe it’s the wind tonight.

The roof next to the guardhouse was not leaking, but I now felt that it was “raining all night” because I saw Tai. Tai was as much a part of the dance scene as a cockroach in the kitchen. But he never goes to dances with a partner, because he always says, “No one goes to a restaurant to drink and brings a bottle of Taiwanese beer with them.”

That’s a good point, the prom is filled with all kinds of hot and hot babes, and there’s all kinds of booze, so why bring a babe of your own to cut your own throat? If a girl can be described as a drink, then what is Ty? Tai says he’s a “can opener”.

Plankton, you’re amazing! You brought a bottle of “Royal Salute 21” XO.

”Stop it! Tai, this is Light Dance.”

Hello! I’ve heard a lot about you, and it’s all right for Plankton to fall under your garnet skirt.

“Oh… Brother Tai, I’ve heard so much about you!”

Is it? Alas, I have tried to hide my sharpness as much as possible. But it’s not what I had hoped for. I didn’t realize I couldn’t hide it from the eyes of others who know what they’re talking about. I’m sorry! “Guilty!

“I’ve often seen your name on the walls of the girls’ dormitories,”

Yes? What’s it about? I’m sure it’s all about admiring me.

“No! Usually it says “Tai, go eat shit!” And it’s written on the walls of the toilet.”

Ha-ha! Light Dance, you and Plankton are awesome!

I also laughed so hard that I couldn’t say a word. As a matter of fact, Tai is my best friend, I should have defended him. It seems like I’m forgetting my friends when I see them, but facts speak louder than words.

The golden-colored Sagittarius Ty, the blue Scorpion Plankton, and the coffee-colored Pisces Light Dancer just chatted under the eaves by the guardhouse until the rain stopped. It was the first and last time the three of us would ever get together.

Plankton and Light Dance, it’s stopped raining, I’m going hunting. You guys continue to tangle!

Good move! I couldn’t help but clap my hands. Any more chatter and I’d have no image.

“Plankton, what are you clapping for?”

‘Wow! The music that was just playing was so good, I couldn’t help but give it a little encouragement.’

“Plankton, cut the crap! Are you afraid that Tai will shake out your secret use of food items?”

Do I have a secret? Maybe I do, maybe I don’t. But in the filing cabinet of my mind, the top secret is you.

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This New Year’s Eve party was hosted by a regional radio station called Kiss Radio on FM 97.1.

Why I remember FM97.1 is because it has more commercials than songs, no wonder it is called “radio”. The programs were actually quite boring, especially the riddle part.

“What are some of the places of interest in Tainan City? Please name one at random.” Wow! How can you ask such a stupid question?

I was too stupid to raise my hand to answer, but someone else answered “Anping Jincheng” and I said “Yizai Gugao Burger”.

As for dancing, I have big meaty feet and dance fast like a chimpanzee in heat.

“Plankton, I can’t dance fast, so I can’t dance with you.Sorry!”

‘That’s fine, you’re called a “light dancer” anyway, so naturally you can’t dance fast.’

“Wish we had the song ‘The Lady in Red’.”

”Not simple,! Such an old English song, and you still remember it.’

“I heard it on the radio a while ago and started to fall in love with it.”

I see. Otherwise, I’m afraid she was still in elementary school when this song became popular! I love this song too, especially the line “toke my breath away”. I couldn’t believe how the woman in red on the dance floor could take his breath away when she turned and smiled at him, until last night when she smiled back at me before she went up the stairs, and then I finally got the answer. But how great would this song be if it were called “The Lady in Coffee”? It’s best if Tai doesn’t hear it or he’ll change it to “The Lady in Nothing”.

Finally, it was time for the countdown, which was the highlight of the evening. Amidst the cheers, we exchanged “Happy New Year”. She’s a foreign language student, so why don’t you do what foreigners do and give her a hug or a kiss? But I can’t say that. I’m a student of water conservancy, so I don’t necessarily want to splash her with water, do I?

‘We’ll come back next year?’

“Next year? That’s a long way off,” Idiotic talk again, she’s probably exhausted and wants to sleep!

Walking her back to the Victory Road alley where she lived, away from the hustle and bustle, it was now so quiet compared to just now that you could almost hear each other breathing.

“Plankton, do you remember the proper use of perfume as mentioned in “Perfume”?”

I shook my head, how could I possibly remember? It’s not like I use perfume.

“Rub it behind your ears, then apply it to the veins on your neck and hands, then sprinkle the perfume in the air, and finally walk through the perfume.”

”Really? In that case, won’t this small bottle of perfume be used up all at once?”

“Plankton, let’s give it a try, shall we?”

‘Me “we”? You just try, I’m a big man!’

She opened the bottle of Dolce Vita and rubbed it behind her left ear, then applied it to her neck and the vein on her left hand, and then literally sprinkled the perfume in the air. Wow! It’s expensive! She ended up walking through the shower of perfume with her arms open and her face tilted up like it was a rain shower.

“Hahaha… Plankton, it smells so good and is so much fun! It’s your turn.” She giggled excitedly, like an innocent child.

At this point, let alone just asking me to rub the perfume on me, I wouldn’t frown even if I had to drink it. I let her rub the perfume behind my left ear, as well as on my neck and the vein on my left hand, and for the third time I felt the coldness of her fingers, it was the perfume! I thought.

“Plankton, it’s ready, I’m going to perfume it!”

I followed her example of walking through the first perfumed rain of my life with my arms open and my face up.

“Plankton, switching to the right ear and right hand next.”

Wow, it’s really something! It’s not easy for me to make money! Before I could feel any pain, she had already gone through her second perfume rain. And this time she was even happier, dancing with her hands, just like her nickname, a fluttering butterfly.

It just rained perfume late at night inside the Victory Lane alley until we ran out of that bottle of DolceVita.

“Dolce Vita is used up and it’s time for this sweet day to end. Plankton, I’m going up to bed. Tonight at a quarter to three, if I’m not online, you’re not allowed to be online either.”

‘Why?’

“You’ll find out when you come online at 12 noon. Remember! Only go online at 12 noon.” She took out her keys and turned to open the apartment door.

Just then, I saw the back of her neck, a distinct red spot that I would never have seen if it wasn’t for the fact that she had tied her long hair into a ponytail today.

She slowly walked into that apartment, and before she closed the door, she suddenly poked her head back out and smiled shallowly, “Plankton, be careful on your bike!”

The door had closed before I had a chance to nod, and I looked up to see if the light on the fourth floor had turned bright? After a long wait, the fourth floor remained gloomy, gloomy not only for her on the fourth floor, but also for me on my Coyote motorcycle.

Back in the lab, Tai smelled my scent and asked, “Plankton, why do you smell so good? You didn’t really have an intimate encounter with her, did you?”

Without answering, I opened the refrigerator and took out the two bottles of Kirin beer, one to Tai, and he and I drank the two bottles in silence. After finishing his drink, Tai patted me on the shoulder and left the research lab.

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I turned off the lights and let the darkness envelop me as I wished I could imagine what it would feel like for her to be in the dark at the same time. It turns out that the easiest thing for a person to feel in the dark, is loneliness. She must be lonely right now, but how can I be there for her?

In a half-dream, I seemed to see a beautiful butterfly turning into ashes in the sea of fire. The red spot, too, gradually changed from light red to reddish red, and finally turned into blood red, engulfing me. Was it because of that bottle of cold beer? Suddenly, my whole body went cold, and that coldness penetrated deep into my heart.

As the time gets closer to quarter past three, my heart rate gets faster. Let’s go online with guest! Since I’m a jht, using guest doesn’t mean “I” am online. I went online, query her, and sure enough, she wasn’t online. My heart rate was fast, but my heart temperature was still very low.

I was so excited and nervous to get on line with jht, but she was not on line, so there was only jht on my friend list, waiting for Fly in Dance. But she wasn’t online, so jht was the only one on the online friends list, waiting for Fly in Dance, but there was an e-mail from her.

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Title: 1998/01/01

Date: Thu Jan 110:43:291998

Dear jht.

Originally, I just wanted to calm my thoughts in the darkness and savor the memories we shared, but I didn’t expect to feel anything but loneliness in the darkness. Especially when I heard the sound of your Coyote motorcycle whistling further and further away, my tears slipped again. Plankton, can you understand my loneliness?

I still couldn’t get over my long-standing habit, so I snuck on line with GUEST at a quarter to three.

I’m not to blame, am I! 😛

I Query you and you’re really not online. Should I be glad that my trust in you is not wishful thinking? Or should I sigh?

It’s already dawn, Si. It’s time to leave. I should bring something related to you. Just take that movie ticket stub! And then what? I can’t take what I want to take with me, and I can’t get rid of what I shouldn’t take with me.

I should be on a flight to Taipei at the same time you receive this mail, can you feel me smiling at you from 10,000 feet in the air? 🙂

Maybe the plane won’t be able to climb to 10,000 feet today because I have a heavy heart. :(Go look at the mail in my mailbox! That records the bits and pieces since we met, as well as the diary I wrote in BBS. It seems a bit wrong to call it a diary, because I only record my mood on a few special days.

Please read them in order and delete or keep them, it’s up to you, because I probably won’t have a chance to get online. The password is my birthday: 19750315, go check it out!

Fly in Dance

ps. Plankton, stop gawking and go!

I didn’t realize that she even counted my daze, so she really is an S-type girl! I hurriedly got on the line as Fly in Dance, and the mailbox only had the IDs jht and Fly in Dance as senders. I wasn’t in the mood to read my previous mail and went straight to her first BBS diary.

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Title: 1997/09/18

Date:Thu Sep 1823:22:471997

Today is the first day of school, shameful Chengdu University, even chose this September 18th Incident occurred on the opening day of the school, clearly disrespect for compatriots slaughtered by the Japanese army! In order to honor the memory of our innocent compatriots, I’m skipping school today to express my condolences.

I was bored sitting in the Banyan Garden, so I simply strolled around the campus. I walked through the underground tunnel to the Success Campus, which belongs to the College of Engineering, and walked along the “College of Engineering Road”. The trees on both sides of the road were both majestic and beautiful, and the sunlight gently poured down from between the leaves. This gentle sunlight was the limit of my enjoyment, so I couldn’t help but hum a song and dance gently. The boys here, on the other hand, are full of vigor, unlike the bookish atmosphere of the boys in the Faculty of Arts.

The information building looks quite spectacular, to give it face, this girl has come to visit! 🙂 A lot of people are playing BBS, so I went to join in the fun and registered a new ID on the Cheng Kung University Research Center, and since my appearance has disproved the law of “no beautiful women on the Internet”, my previous ID has been harassed by a lot of boring male IDs. 🙁

Every time I go online, I get a bunch of e-mails in my mailbox, all of them wanting to make friends with me. Some of them showed off their writing skills, some thought they were funny, some pretended to be sincere, and some pretended to be charming… Hmph! I don’t care about them! I blame my roommate Shizuku! Every time she went to meet an online friend, she dragged me along. She said it was to share the risk, so that she wouldn’t get scared by a bunch of frogs, but it turned out that I was the one who got scared instead. On the internet, boys call moldy women dinosaurs, while girls call moldy men frogs; boys say “there are no beautiful women on the internet”, while girls retort “there are frogs crawling all over the internet”!

Some frogs still think they are princes, hoping to get a kiss from the princess and turn back into a prince, but Vivian says a frog is a frog, even if a pretty girl goes to bed with him, he’s still a frog. I’m not sure what kind of ID and nickname I should change to. When I think of the light dance on the way to the college of engineering, the happy mood reappears again, it’s good to be young! (∶)

Let’s call it “Fly in Dance”, the ID is Fly in Dance: I am Flying in Dancing!

I have also modeled my PLAN after this mood and hope that I will always be young and soaring. It was a great day, and leaving the classroom was the right thing to do. 😛

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Title: 1997/09/22

Date: Mon Sep 2223:14:521997

Vivian ran out for another date in the evening, leaving me alone to watch TV. :(The TV news said that Chen Jinxing confronted the police in Yonghe, and as a result, not a single shot was fired by either side, and he was allowed to escape. Luckily I’m not at home in Yonghe, or else I would not be able to sleep tonight.

I got on the thread, new ID, and went to the boards to hang out. I also ran over to the man talk board, which I never visit, to listen to the frogs. There was a pretty interesting article, I paid attention to the author, his name is jht.

It’s so lame! What an ID! None of the letters j, h and t are vowels. It’s hard to pronounce! I’m a foreign language student and I can’t stand this kind of ID, and his nickname is even more idiotic, it’s “Plankton Choy”! Lame plus est.

Vivian says that a frog’s nickname may not be good if it’s nice, but it must be bad if it’s ugly. So I guess he must be a toad!

Sneak to Query a little bit of his plan, but saw the fun, he said: “If the entire Pacific Ocean out of the water, but also can not quench the flame of my love for you.

Can the entire Pacific Ocean be emptied out? No.

So I don’t love you.”

If Vivian had seen it, she would have said he was farting; but I’m a lady, so I reserve the right not to swear. What kind of person is this guy? Really a gangster? Or just an English idiot? Why does he have an angelic writing style but a devilish nickname?

I went looking for his articles everywhere, this toad was quite a hopper, he wrote on many boards, Letter board, Story board, Baseball board… and even went to the Lady talk board at the Dinosaur Camp to scream.

Wasn’t he afraid of being flattened by a dinosaur’s foot? It was boring anyway, so I MAILED him and told him I thought his PLAN was funny. :~

Before ending today’s diary, I was wondering why I had the courage and urge to send a mail to a complete stranger for the first time. Is it because I’ve been spoiled by Shizuku? Was it because I was bored anyway?

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Title: 1997/09/30

Date:Tue Sep 3023:48:061997

This afternoon, I went to “Fei Leng Cui” on Tung Fung Road with Vivian for afternoon tea, and the atmosphere was very cozy. We were the only two customers on the first floor, and I ordered a cup of lavender-flavored tea, a rare treat. I’ve never really had tea during afternoon tea time because I’m a big coffee drinker, but I was probably influenced by the attentive and persuasive words of the sales clerk!

When I was online at night, I received the first virgin e-mail belonging to Fly in Dance, which was sent by that English idiot toad jht. He said he had waited for a few days hoping to run into me online, but the sky was not the limit, so he sent me a hateful e-mail. He said he had been waiting for a few days, hoping to meet me online, but the sky was the limit, so he had to send me a hateful e-mail. Maybe God listens to me better! 😛 He said that to prove my foresight, he would try to train himself to be an interesting person. Train?

Can funny use training? Looks like he’s in over his head. It’s pathetic! Being a grad student but not having the IQ or English level when it comes to it does deserve sympathy. 🙂

But his mail was very different from his posts on the boards: his posts were very masculine, often to the point, but his mail had a gentle, delicate flavor, like… like… like a cup of lavender tea in the afternoon.

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Title: 1997/10/05

Date:Sun Oct 523:50:351997

It’s a rare holiday, and even rarer that Vivian doesn’t have a date today! She and I went to the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store to do some shopping, as there was a purse sale on the 13th floor. Lunch was also served at Mitsukoshi, a spicy Korean style noodle soup with tofu, which was so spicy that Vivian burst into tears. She said that hot girls really shouldn’t eat spicy food anymore, or else they will add more spice to the spice, spicing up themselves before they spice up others.

I had my eye on a coffee-colored backpack whose color, decorations and appearance reminded me of Cappuccino coffee, and I bought it without hesitation. Putting this backpack on my back is like sipping a cup of sweet but strong Cappuccino coffee. Si, it’s so nice! :)… It’s kind of like falling in love. Isn’t it? 😛 Gifted Research has been pawning since the night of 101… it couldn’t be a deliberate protest against the national day of the communists, could it! It had been pawning until last night when it returned to normal. During these three days, I tried every possible way to connect to GISR, does GISR have a treasure? I don’t have BBS syndrome, why do I have to go online? Even if I want to read articles, I can just go to another site! Why do I have to go on IRIS? Is it just because there’s this toad called jht?

Today I finally received the second e-mail from him, and it was like a treasure. I read his e-mail over and over again, and I felt both relieved and excited…:)

Suddenly I’m craving a nice, rich Cappuccino!

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Title: 1997/10/10

Date:Fri Oct 1023:53:261997

The Republic of China is celebrating its birthday again, and to show that I have a loyal and patriotic heart, I made it a point to sleep in until after 2pm.

Actually, it’s the frog’s fault! He always comes on in the middle of the night, no, the correct term would be at the end of the night. I waited for him last night and prayed to dear God that I would meet a frog. I waited until around 2am and accidentally fell asleep… Idle for 40 minutes and then I was kicked off the station. What’s even more infuriating is that he came online right at 3:00 and then sent me the 6th mail.

He said he hoped I’d be happier than the ROC on the ROC’s birthday. Happy my ass! Doesn’t he know that a military plane has crashed? Idiot! Could it be that his head is cursed like the ROC’s?

What a pain in the ass! What are you doing up in the middle of the night? It’s rare to have a three-day vacation today, no classes tomorrow, and then the day after tomorrow, so maybe this girl is in a good mood and can accompany him out to play. Hmph! Don’t expect me to wait for him again tonight. 🙁

Huh? Why didn’t I call him a toad today? And call him a frog instead? And why am I waiting for him? And why did I want to see him? Does it mean that I… I… I’ll miss him?

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Title: 1997/10/25

Date: Sat Oct 523:38:281997

I’m starting to learn how to “shoot the bird”, but he’s very unpredictable, sometimes he doesn’t come up to the station for two or three days, and sometimes he comes up several times a day. I am a clumsy hunter, I can only fire a few more shots to increase the chance of hitting, but I just can’t hit this stupid bird.

Liu Bei is only three times a humble servant to Kong Ming, but I’m already embarrassed to be a humble servant. He’s a stupid frog, why do you want to be like Kong Ming?

LOL! Maybe my name is Day and his is Night!

The song “Not Just Friends” by Huang Xiaoxun just came on the radio, maybe I want “Not Just Mail” too. My frog prince, can’t you live a normal life?

Today is the day of Taiwan’s restoration, but my heart is beginning to fall… **

Title: 1997/11/08

Date:Sat Nov 823:36:421997

Today is the day he came back from Hong Kong. He only told me in his last mail that he was going to Hong Kong, but he didn’t say for how many days, and I didn’t realize that he would be gone for 5 days. I didn’t realize it would be five days. And when I saw the email, he was already on a Thai Airways flight to Hong Kong.

I’m actually pissed because I don’t know when he’ll be back? When I came online yesterday, I saw that his upvotes still hadn’t increased, dead plonker! Stupid frog! Are you coming back or not? :(So I couldn’t help but cry when I got his mail just now. He said he went to a lot of places, including Taiping Mountain and Victoria Harbor. He also said that the stars on Taiping Mountain must not be as bright as my eyes, and the lights in Victoria Harbor must not be as bright as my smile.

Hmph! You’ve been out for so many days, and you want to get rid of me with these two sweet words? Besides, he’s never seen me, so how would he know? Maybe my looks are scarier than the monkeys on Taiping Mountain, and my laugh is harsher than the whistles of the ships in Victoria Harbor! :~

But… I won’t be too hard on him because he was right in his wild guesses. ∶He said that today was the day of the cutting off and merging of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, which was an unprecedented event in their water conservancy engineering world. I don’t give a damn about the interception or merging! 🙁

What I care about is when will he and I “merge”? We will no longer be like two rivers flowing parallel to each other, never having a point of confluence.

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Title: 1997/11/13

Date:Thu Nov 1323:33:561997

Thankfully, today is Thursday, just one day shy of Black Friday. So close! 🙂 His morning mail said that today is a very special day. Why special? He didn’t say. Could it be his birthday? Maybe it is! Being born on such a day is really nothing to be proud of, so it’s no wonder he’s afraid to say. 😛

He also said he admired my PLAN, and to celebrate this special day, so he changed a few lines: “I growled loudly, in the middle of the silent classroom.

You cast a strange look over your shoulder.

Sympathize or be offended.

Doesn’t make my voice any less loud.

Because it’s not your gaze that makes me suck.

Rather, I was pawned as a flow force.”

I had my hand on the corner of the table, and I had tears of laughter. I don’t know if that counts as “tears of joy”? Haha! How dare you change my plan!

It’s not ladylike to not take this revenge, I’m going to change his PLAN next time too, and I’m definitely going to make him shed more tears! 😛

Why on earth would he think today was special? What kind of day is special to him? Actually, to me, every day I get his mail is special.

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Title: 1997/11/23

Date:Sun Nov 2323:58:061997

Early this morning, Vivian drove me to Kenting in her red Hemi car. I wore a coffee-colored outfit and carried my Cappuccino on my back, and Vivian told me I was crazy for dressing like that. She laughed at me for being poisoned by coffee, but I just love it. Kenting Park is really beautiful, but unfortunately there are some man-made artifacts, not as natural as the She Ding Park. I left my shadow on that prairie in She Ding Park. Vivian said looking through the camera lens was like seeing a cup of coffee. That’s what I want! That’s how I want to feel. 🙂 Two boys came over to talk to me, they said: today’s weather is very good called sunny, the two ladies are very beautiful called beauty, the temperament is also very beautiful called pretty, if I can swim with you will be very happy called happy.

Vivian replied: “The weather has suddenly turned bad, called rainy, the two gentlemen are not good-looking, called ugly, I’m starting to feel bad about seeing you guys, called angry, and if you don’t hurry up, I’m going to go crazy, called crazy.

Oh! How did I get a best friend like Vivian? 🙂

What’s even more rare is that I still manage to keep my gentle nature intact. I’m really happy today: the weather is good, the scenery is good, and Vivian is even better next to me! ∶I’m so glad I’m here.)

Even though I was tired when I got back to Tainan, I went online to write about today’s mood. Also got my 20th mail from him, it was a great day, from start to finish 🙂

I hope he’s good too, and if he’s not, I’ll share a little of the good with him. :~*

Title: 1997/12/03

Date:Wed Dec 323:19:461997

Mom called again last night to talk me into taking a break from school. How can that be? This is my last year of college. Wouldn’t it be a shame to just give up? Besides, the doctor said I’m in remission now, as long as I don’t overwork myself and avoid too much sunlight. I know mom is worried about me, but I don’t like how she keeps treating me like a willful child. 🙁

It’s so annoying! I can’t sleep, it’s quarter past three. 🙁

Vivian must be sound asleep. I’ll just have to go online and hang out! Huh? I can’t believe I’m seeing this stupid bird, jht. Oh! Aimed at him, I pulled the trigger, this time he can’t get away, right? He said he was in a bad mood, so he just came with me to get a negative. Is that so? It’s probably going to make things worse for me! :~

But he’s such a good one, he actually made my bad mood go away. 😀

And he even knew that I have long hair and that I don’t often wear dresses. Somehow it was so nice to talk to him! 🙂 Once the boredom was gone, sleepiness followed, but how could I let him go just like that? P… So I asked him to meet me again at 10am.

This morning he was telling me what he thought about romance and he was talking on the other end of the PC while I was laughing on this end of the PC. 🙂

So much fun! I can’t help but imagine the feeling of stepping on shit while chanting Yeats’ poem. 😀 He’s really different from the others, his opinions are always so sharp and interesting, it’s just a pity that Vivian reminded me that it’s time for lunch, or else I’d like to hear him break it again. 🙁

Well, I decided to wait for him again tonight, I so enjoyed calling him Plankton on line. 🙂 I’m going to have to make a strong cup of Mamba coffee just in case I fall asleep. Will he still be online in the wee hours of tomorrow morning? Also, when I first saw him online as well, my fingers on the keyboard seemed to tremble a bit. Was it excitement? Or was it nervousness?

Late night of December 3, 1997. It was cold, missing someone, so it wasn’t cold.

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Title: 1997/12/04

Date:Thu Dec 423:28:151997

I came on line at around two o’clock in the middle of the night, and waited and waited and waited… The melody of “The Lady in Red” came on the radio, and the male singer’s magnetic voice was even more appealing in the stillness of the night. When he got to the line ‘took mybreath away’, Plankton came on the line. God! Was it the singing? I was literally suffocating.

I asked him how his online encounters were. Because I wanted to know how he viewed our relationship. He said that the advent of the Net had produced three kinds of people, and then rattled off the characteristics and differences between the three. I quietly watched the text he transmitted, fantasizing how he would look as he frothed at the mouth. Si, I suddenly wanted to see him so badly. 🙂

He said that we are all the second kind of people who are not willing to accept the personality of a sour lemon, but want to be a sweet peach. Maybe it is! Because I really envy Vivian’s Aries personality. I ruffled my hair gently and a few strands fell out when he said I might not have much time left.

I touched the hair that had fallen out, and my whole body felt as if I had been electrocuted. No, the doctor said that what I had was only a chronic disease, not a terminal one, and that I could still live like a normal person. But can I really? Is it really a hope that I can’t be young and dance to my heart’s content?

Should I listen to mom and take a break from school to go back to Taipei? But will I be able to see him when I go back to Taipei? No, I don’t want to. I want to see him! So I followed the TV jingle and sent him a message: “Isabel, let’s meet!” Until he sent me an “OK”.

Looking out of the window, it was slightly light. The dark night will always pass, but when will the shadows in my mind dissipate?

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Title: 1997/12/13

Date:Sat Dec 1323:41:131997

Since the last time I ran into Plankton online, I’ve gotten used to being online late at night at 3:15 p.m. It’s kind of a tacit understanding between us! Vivian often asked me who he was. I just smiled and said he was Plankton. It’s not that I’m ashamed to say jht, an ID with no vowels, it’s just that he’s the deepest secret of my heart, and I want to selfishly monopolize it. 😛

What do we talk about? Anyway, he’s just a great bluffer, so there’s no worries about running out of things to say. 🙂 I often relay his words to Vivian, who says he’s on the verge of winning the Nobel Prize for bluffing. 🙂 But why doesn’t he even ask me my name? Isn’t he curious? Vivian said I might have met a master of the jungle before I’m not an outlaw! Plankton is not that kind of person. :~

I’ve already said I’d meet up, but he won’t mention the details, so I’m just going to gamble and not mention it. :(I’m a girl! Can’t help but learn to be reserved! :~

Moreover, he was like a mirror to me, and I often saw my personality in him, especially the trait of being strong. So without realizing it, I always like to compete with him everywhere. 😛 So neither one of us would ask for the other’s name first or mention the details of the meeting.

I just read a novel titled “Perfume” online, I am really a romantic Pisces woman, I want to be like the heroine in the story walking in the rain of Dolce Vita perfume, if he is also beside me at that time, it must be very sweet. 🙂

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Title: 1997/12/30

Date: Wed Nov 3102:16:381997

Got to take a breath and try to relax before I record my mood for the day. I had reminded myself that I had to be home by 11:00 so that I could finish today’s insight report in time. 🙂

Turns out Cinderella still couldn’t get home before 12 midnight. 😛

When I ran into him online early this morning, he said he had a cold, which worried me a bit, but it turned out to be him being a plonker again. Hmph! Really. 🙁

But I’m so happy that he’s actually starting to hint that I should discuss the details of the meeting. ∶:) It’s been a long battle for almost a month, and I’ve finally won. 🙂

As a small punishment for making me wait for a month, I lied to him and told him that I wasn’t cute. I wanted to keep teasing him until he said, “We’re all the same, but we’re all the same,” and I agreed to meet him. (I’m not sure if I’ll be able to see him, but I will.)

We had a date at the McDonald’s on University Road at 7:30 p.m. What a cheap plonker who couldn’t be bothered to buy me a meal. 🙁

Vivian said I should be half an hour late, as a silent protest against thousands of years of male tyranny. I don’t want to be excused, I’ve already wasted a month waiting, and I’m not willing to wait a minute longer.

:）

I’m wearing the same coffee-colored bodysuit and pants I had when I went to Kenting, and a Cappuccino backpack, and I’m going to meet him with the same pleasant mood I had that day. 🙂

Parked my bike in front of the NET store, then I slowly walked to McDonald’s.

I recognized him in blue, not only his whole body was blue, but also the way he was glowing, like a familiar friend, and I tapped him lightly on the shoulder. Because I wanted to see him looking for the pieces of his glasses all over the floor when he looked back. 🙂

But his glasses didn’t fall through, I think he must have been stunned. 😛

In McDonald’s, I scrutinized him carefully, he was a gentlemanly looking guy, but with an evil smile, he really had what it takes to be called a gangster. 🙂

He always likes to add hand gestures to his speech, as if it’s his hands, not his mouth, that are talking. Huh? Doesn’t chatting on the Internet also rely on hands? So for a while, I forgot whether I was on the Internet or in reality?

We talked about everything from discordance to how to cure autism in dogs. It was natural for me to talk to him, and it felt like I was talking to myself, because he always listened and cared quietly when I spoke. I also liked the atmosphere of tonight’s meeting and chatting, it was like sitting on the beach with a cool sea breeze and then telling stories of distant fishing boats, it was very calm and relaxing.

But I wanted to quiz him, so I broke out the “coffee philosophy” and when I was done, I saw his blue dazed expression again. 🙂

I didn’t realize he’d be able to break out the fluid dynamics. Do I look coffee-colored when I stare?

I began to think that he was not an imaginary person, he did not just live in the imaginary world of the Internet, in real life, he is still masculine and strong, gentle but deep, sensitive and changeable. I also feel that my fortifications, like a castle built on the beach, cannot withstand the impact of the waves. I am no longer strong in front of him, because I have completely admitted defeat, so I agreed to his invitation tomorrow.

Well, it’s an hour to 3:15, better make another Mamba coffee! I know he’ll be online by then too, and I don’t want to disappoint him, let alone me. 😛

Vivian says it’s called a constraint reaction, and she says I’m hopeless. :~

Constraints are constraints! I’m willing anyway. 🙂

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Title: 1997/12/31

Date:Thu Jan 106:03:521998

Well, it’s time to use the second person “you” instead of the third person “he” because I’ve decided to let you share my deepest secrets. 🙂

You came online at 3:15 just as I expected, so I guess you’re constrained by me, too! 🙂 It’s just a shame that we have to go to the movies this afternoon, otherwise we could have chatted until dawn like we used to. Go to sleep now! I don’t want you to see me in a haggard state. :~

I woke up around 12 noon. Let’s take a shower first! For girls, meals can be skipped, but baths can’t be skipped. 😛

I hummed a song, that reminded me of the light dance I did on the opening day of school on the way to the College of Engineering. 🙂 Yet as I put on my clothes, I saw the red spot on my right arm.

I stared blankly at the red spot, as if my whole body was frozen, and in the moment after I thawed out, I crouched in the bathroom and cried. It turned out that for the past three months or so, I could only Fly in Dance on the Internet, and was not able to dance lightly in real life, so I decided to listen to my mom and return to Taipei to take responsibility for my life.

Dry your tears. You’ll be here later. We’re going to the movies today! It’s supposed to be enjoyable. But why pick Titanic? I’ve always been impervious to tragedy!

It’s a beautiful day, as it always is in Tainan. I hide my face behind you, after all, I don’t have the capital to bask in the sun a little longer, even if the sun is only gently soft today. Sitting on the back of your motorcycle, I can see the red flush behind your ears. Plankton, I’m actually like you in that my ears burn. Yet it’s only visible to the wind that whips past my ears while you circle and circle as if you’re looking for a parking spot, but I know that you just want me to stay behind you a little longer.

I tied a ponytail with bobby pins, that’s because Vivian said that the curve of my face is fascinating, so I don’t want my long hair to cover my face. Plankton, I want to make you always remember me as the most beautiful I am now, because after today, I might not be beautiful anymore.

Being in the ticket line was the closest I could get to you, I even wished that we would just stay in the line and it wouldn’t matter if we couldn’t get a ticket. But from time to time my right arm touches your left arm, and I feel the red spot on my right arm sneering.

Inside the Nantai Theater, I finally couldn’t restrain myself, and I suddenly realized that I was about to sink to the bottom of the icy sea, just like Titanic. Dear Jack, what are you going to do, hate, help, hold? Plankton, you’re not a romantic, you’re not the kind of person who can be touched by fictional love stories, except when Jack said, “Rose, listen to me… Listen… Winning that ticket was… the best thing that everhappened to me… It’s the best thing that ever happened to me…”. the best thing that everhappened to me… It brought me to you… And Im thankful, Rose… Im thankful…”

That’s when I saw you sit up straight and tug at the corners of your brow and mouth. Plankton. I feel the same way.

You remind me that the movie has broken up. Yes, the movie that belongs to me has broken up, but the life that belongs to you must go on. Plankton, isn’t it?

But I still want to be selfish and keep something that has to do with you. I want you to sign the ticket stub. Plankton, you’re so stupid! That’s my way of saying I admit defeat. I want you to sign your real name so I can think about you more concretely in the future, if there is a “future”. And I’ll know for sure that you don’t just live on the Internet.

Plankton, I can finally walk in the rain of Dolce Vita perfume, thank you for letting me experience the true meaning of “sweet days”. But I’m sorry, I can’t say goodbye, and since it started with an e-mail on the Internet, it should end with an e-mail on the Internet.

It has been more than three months since I first mailed you, which doesn’t seem to be a short period of time, but it can’t be described as long either. The story between us was started by me, so it has to be finished by me, this is called “the bell needs to be tied by the person who tied it”, also called “there is a beginning and an end”. Did I use the right idiom this time, Plankton?

Perhaps, as you say, the internet is fast but not perfect. I can send you my thoughts very quickly, but I can’t attach a teardrop. Si, it’s almost dawn, I should go after I send you one last mail later. You should be sound asleep right now!

※

After reading her mail, my mood was like riding a roller coaster again, but this time it was even more tense and exciting because the coaster almost derailed. From her diary, I discovered that hidden under her smart and witty speech, she also has a tender and delicate heart. I couldn’t help but wonder, when she wrote her diary, did she think that someone else would read her heart later? Or was it just her in the online world as the sender and her in real life as the receiver? Or was it the other way around?

For two weeks in a row, I used to face every morning and dusk, day and night that I thought of her in a self-hypnotic way. I kept telling myself that she could only be Fly in Dance in the imaginary Internet, not in real life, hoping to get rid of this heart-piercing flutter. I kept trying to escape from PC, from anything related to the color brown, indulging myself in books and hiding in crowds, hoping to escape from this bone-chilling feeling, but I failed.

For both the taper and the carving have a bone and a heart. My hypnotism would not have succeeded unless I had a conscience, unless I did not recognize those words engraved on the bones, but I am a literate and conscientious man.

Turns out it’s not that I don’t miss her, I just forgot about the excitement that comes with that missing. Just like I wasn’t not breathing, I just forgot that I was always breathing. Breathing can be temporarily aborted, but it can’t be uncontinued, so I decided to take my chances with Vivian.

First intimate contact (32)

It was January 15, 1998, and it started raining early in the morning, and the weather in Tainan began to get cold.

It’s the weather, isn’t it? My hand was trembling when I rang the doorbell…

‘Is Vivian there, please?’

“This is Vivian speaking, may I have your name?

‘I… I… I… I’m Plankton…’ I really didn’t know how to describe my name, jht she didn’t know, and she hadn’t heard of the name my dad had given me, so I had to say it like that.

Just a minute! I go down right now!

Not long after, I heard a loud slamming of the door, followed by a rush of footsteps. Tai has a method of catching concealed weapons described in martial arts novels, called “listening to the sound”, such as this kind of footsteps similar to the release of salt water bees gun, it should be the B type of girls.

Vivian had tied a ponytail casually and didn’t use a hairband or hairpins, just a rubber band. It was too late to take a closer look at how she looked, because boys’ eyes were easily attracted by her bust. What’s more, she wore tight clothes that made my eyes die. If Tai were to describe it, he would say it was “all-consuming”.

“You’re Plankton? She scrutinized me with suspicion.

‘Yes, This is gangsta speaking.’ I’ll learn to speak like her, maybe it’ll make her feel affectionate towards me.

“She’s Here.

After that, she gave me a note that said “Mr. Rong” and a ward number. I stared at her blankly, but this time my gaze moved up 25 centimeters and rested on her eyes.

What are you doing? Why don’t you go and see her?

‘Is this…?’

Shut up! Don’t bother, just go! Also, it’s colder in Taipei, remember to wear more clothes.

“With a bang, she closed the door to her apartment, and then there was another blast of saline wasp fire. I’m afraid Vivian is not just a B, but a B+. Next time, I’ll have to report this to Tai, so they can go at it with the two tigers.

I listened to Vivian and brought a few extra clothes with me, but not because I was worried that it was colder in Taipei, but because I didn’t know how long I was going to be gone? I made a phone call to my oldest sister who was working in Taipei and told her I was going to stay for a few days, she asked me why. I said I was going to look for a beautiful butterfly.

I boarded the 11:40 a.m. flight to Taipei, and I think she must have taken the same flight two weeks ago. As soon as I got on the plane, I immediately fastened my seatbelt, not because today’s stewardess was uggly, but because I no longer believe that any beautiful stewardess would have a scent similar to hers.

When I got off the plane, I was greeted by another kind of weather that was very different from Tainan. Luckily, it was raining in Tainan today as well, so Taipei was just colder for me. I unloaded my luggage at my oldest sister’s office, then boarded bus #277 and got off at Rong’s office.

I entered the hospital room where she was sleeping, and I watched her quietly. Her long hair was scattered diagonally outside the quilt, I didn’t see what could be called coffee-colored hair, her face had become slightly rounded and no longer had the beautiful curves that it once had, and her cheeks and the bridge of her nose had been covered with red spots distributed like butterflies. But no matter how she became, she was still the most beautiful butterfly in my heart.

Her long eyelashes fluttered gently, she should be dreaming! What was she dreaming about? The light dance on the road to the College of Engineering? The first meeting at McDonald’s? The Titanic in the Nantai Theater? Or the rain of perfume at the corner of Victory Road?

The room was getting darker and darker. I wanted to turn on the light because I didn’t want her to be alone in the dark room, but I was afraid that the sudden light would wake her up. In the midst of this dilemma, her eyes slowly opened…

She stared at me with her eyes wide open, then suddenly turned away, and all I could see was the occasional twitch in her back. She became thinner, and I could finally use the adjective “weak” to describe her. After a long time, probably a column of incense as they say in martial arts novels! She turned around, rubbed her eyes with her hand, and smiled lightly.

“Plankton, there you are!”

‘Yes ㄚ! It’s such a nice day today. Right?’

“Yeah! The sun’s round today, too. Isn’t it? Oh… heh…”

This is the dialog she sat behind my locomotive on the day we went to see the Titanic. Only she didn’t know that it was raining in Taipei today and the sun wasn’t out at all.

“Plankton, sit down! Why do you keep standing?” After she reminded me, I found a chair and sat down, and in the middle of my steps, I realized that my feet were dripping because I had been standing for hours.

“Plankton, you’ve lost weight!” She’s so good that she’s “first in line”. I’m the one who’s entitled to say that, aren’t I?

“Plankton, are you hungry? Got any food for lunch?”

“Hospital food isn’t very good, so patients are usually thinner.”

“Everything else is fine, but it’s really boring not being able to talk to you online.”

“Plankton, have you finished your thesis yet? Can I graduate this year?”

Wait a minute, you’re the one lying in the hospital bed, not me. How come you’re the one asking all the questions?

However, there was nothing for me to ask because I was only here to see her, not to satisfy my curiosity, and maybe I should have followed the movie and uttered some heartfelt dialog. But I’m not a romantic after all, and after all, that’s a movie and this is life, I just hope she’ll leave this suffocating hospital sooner rather than later and go back to the pure and simple Tainan.

This time I will definitely not let her stroll down Engineering College Road on the Success Campus alone, I will always be there for her, as long as I’m not asked to dance.

It wasn’t long before her mom came to see her. 50 years old, slightly chubby, not much like her except for her bright smile.

‘Well, I should get going. Bye auntie!’

“You… you…” she sat up suddenly, as if in a fit of shock.

‘I’ll come back tomorrow, and tomorrow’s tomorrow too, until you leave here…’

First intimate contact (33)

Before returning to my sister’s place, I went to buy a bottle of Christian Dior’s Dolce Vita, the biggest bottle I could find, so that she would not be able to finish it even if her hands were sore. My sister smiled and said, “We are brothers and sisters, why are we so polite? I told her: ‘You’re right, so it’s not for you.’ I think if it wasn’t for the fact that we share the same mother, she would have cursed out the three words that Taiwanese people know so well.

That night, I was unable to sleep. The roosters in Taipei didn’t dare crow, so I could only occasionally open my eyes to glance at the sky outside the window. After the first ray of sunlight shot through the window, I left the warmth of my blanket. I got on the TAXI because I didn’t want to waste more time waiting for bus 277.

When she entered the hospital room, she was reading a novel with a portrait of a clean-cut woman on the cover, but slightly less so than her.

“Plankton, you’re finally here, been waiting for you for ages.”

‘Did you sleep well last night?’

“I don’t dare sleep too deeply because you won’t wake me up when you come.”

‘So you’ll sleep a little longer?’

“Oh… now that you’re here, I can’t sleep even more.”

I gave her the bottle of Dolce Vita and made a date to spill it at the main gate of Rongzhong on the day she was discharged from the hospital. She asked me if Vivian was pretty. I said she’s too spicy, not good for your eyes, but Tai likes spicy food, so you can let them go and kill each other. Then she asked me if the weather was good in Tainan. I didn’t tell her that the weather hadn’t been good in Tainan since she left. As we talked, she fell asleep.

I was afraid to stare at her because she had a butterfly on her face. Before I left last night, I realized that she has erythematous lupus, commonly known as butterfly disease. But I like a coffee-colored butterfly that can flutter freely, not this red butterfly resting on her face accompanied by a pale complexion. Besides, can a butterfly that can’t flutter be considered a butterfly?

“Plankton, why do you keep looking at me and not saying anything?”

I couldn’t tell, because I realized that she was getting weaker and weaker, which gave me a bad feeling.

“Boss, I’m thirsty for a drink.”

I will never leave you at this point. In the movie “New Love Never Dies”, Liu Qingyun went to Taiping Mountain to buy red bean cakes for Anita Yuen and came back, but he didn’t have the chance to see Anita Yuen for the last time. I’m not stupid, so I won’t bet on it.

‘Are you taking a page from a movie plot to sidetrack me?’

“Plankton, a movie is a movie and life is life.”

How about movies? What about life? In the movie “Titanic”, Jack tells Rose with his last breath before sinking to the bottom of the freezing sea.

“You must do me this honor… Promise me you will survive… that you will never give up… no matter what happens… no matter how hopeless… promiseme now… and never let go of that promise…”.

As a result, Rose’s old age is still not the same loose hand, and the “Heart of the Ocean” thrown into the sea. And in real life, in order to shoot “Titanic”, Rose deliberately gain weight, after the play is finished, is not because of the inability to return to the previous figure, and give up weight loss, so the movie and life is actually quite a big correlation.

‘Didn’t you just drink water? What do you want to drink again?’

“Plankton, I’m thirsty again! I’ll have a Mamba coffee now.”

This is a hospital, where do you go to make Mamba coffee? And a stimulating drink like coffee is not good for the body after all.

‘Coffee’s no good! Drink something else, okay?’

“Plankton, you know coffee is bad, so please drink less of it in the future. Okay?”

I looked at the smile that spread at the corners of her mouth and the slyness in her eyes, and I realized that she had turned so many corners in the hope that I would drink less coffee in the future, and it was as if a heavy blow had been struck in my heart. I can’t do it, my nose suddenly felt a pH value of less than 7, if I don’t calm down, maybe the tears will break the dike. I studied water engineering, flood control is my food, never let the water flow over the embankment and flooding, even if it is only tears.

‘Okay, I promise, I’ll try not to drink coffee.’

“Then by the way promise me you won’t stay up later.”

“And don’t turn day and night around in the future.”

“And breakfast must be eaten.”

“And don’t favor the color blue too deliberately, it makes you look blue.”

“And…”

The atmosphere suddenly became very strange, as if a bit in the aftermath of the feeling. I didn’t want her to continue, so I said, ”Let me get you a glass of water! So that you don’t get thirsty.’

“Plankton, is the water fountain far? If it’s far, I won’t drink the water.”

From here to the corner where the water fountain is located, men take an average of 67 steps and women 85 steps, and with the time it takes to fill the fountain, it takes an average of 1.8 to 2.1 minutes, which is not far.

‘It won’t be, it’s close.’

“Plankton, hurry back, I don’t want to be alone. Okay? I’m scared of being alone.”

I didn’t answer this time, kept my head down, and quickened my pace…

The First Intimate Encounter (34)… Over

XXXX

“Plankton, go have a midnight snack! Schoolboy, please eat goose meat. It’s Tai calling me.

In the middle of the night, many graduate students meet up to go out to eat something together. Sometimes they have a drink, because everyone has a belly full of grief. I used to drink a lot, but I’ve stopped drinking all together in the past two months.

‘Give me ten minutes, I’ll have a cup of coffee.’

As of today, Fly in Dance has been away from me for almost two months. I always get on line at quarter past three every late night, turn off all the Pages, and let jht be quiet with Fly in Dance for 10 minutes. Although she is no longer able to Fly in Dance in real life, I still hope that she in the online world can continue Flyingin Dancing.

Tai often scolded me for being silly. Why do such boring things when the person is gone? But even though she is no longer alive, I still can’t bear to make her soul feel lonely, because as she said, she was afraid of being alone.

“Plankton, didn’t you quit coffee? Tai asked curiously.

In fact, I’ve always remembered her instructions from that night, so I’ve stopped drinking coffee since then. But tonight I have an urge to drink coffee, and I’m going to make her an extra cup. Because today is March 15th, the day she turned 22 years old.

I remember on January 17th, it was raining so hard in Taipei. When I rushed to Veterans General Hospital, they told me that at 3:15 a.m., a coffee-colored butterfly flew away from the hospital. Then I don’t remember anything. All I know is that I stood under the stop sign of Bus 277 for the whole day. Vivian was right, it was really cold in Taipei. My oldest sister was even dumber, asking me why my face was so wet. Doesn’t she know that it was raining really hard in Taipei that day?

For the past two months, I’ve tried very hard not to think about her. After all, I still had to eat, I still had to sleep, I still had to attend classes, and I still had to catch up on my thesis. I was hoping that I wouldn’t think of her all the time, and that hope was like me wishing that the sky wasn’t blue; like me wishing that the trees weren’t green; like me wishing that the stars didn’t shine in the darkness of the night; like me wishing that the sun didn’t shine high in the sky during the day. Basically, I was wishing for a situation that wouldn’t happen. I didn’t realize that in real life, I was still playing the role of the second kind of person.

And have I ever cried?No way! Like I said, I’m a master of flood control engineering, and I’ll probably be involved in the future flood control measures downstream of the Yangtze River and the Three Gorges. If there is a feeling of pH less than 7 in my heart, I will rush on line to read the joke boards and let some boring and cheap yellow jokes to divert my attention. So everything is the same as it was when I hadn’t even met her before last September or so, Tai is still flirty and affectionate and I’m still boring and uninteresting. Except that the feral cat outside the research lab window doesn’t even seem to be purring anymore.

When I got on the line, turned off Page, and was ready to go to the water fountain to fill it with water to make coffee, the water fountain on the third floor was broken, so I had to go to the second floor to fill it with water. While waiting for the water to be filled, I saw a letter in the graduate student mailbox. I was a doctoral student and my mailbox was on the third floor, while the second floor was the mailbox for the master’s program graduate students. The address on the outside of the envelope was only: “Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Chengdu University” and the addressee was even stranger: “Plankton Cai”.

I couldn’t think of that one other person in the department who had such a heavenly nickname, so it would be a letter addressed to me. I opened it and saw that there was a piece of letterhead inside, along with another coffee-colored envelope. The letter read: “Hello, Mr. Tsai.

I’m the roommate of the Light Dancer. I’m sorry I didn’t know your first name. I’m also not at liberty to call you Plankton, as that was her monopoly. When her family was sorting through her belongings the other day, they found this coffee-colored letter and asked me to pass it on. I only know your department, so I just had to tough it out and take my chances. Perhaps Light Dancer will bless you in heaven for finding this letter, so good luck… Vivian”

The letter was sent over a month ago. I think Shizuku must have shed a lot of tears when she wrote it, because there were wet and dry marks all over the letterhead. The coffee-colored letter, with a different typeface on the envelope, read “To: Plankton Choi (My Frog Prince)”.

This is the first time I’ve seen light dancing handwriting, and I didn’t realize that her words, too, would dance gently.

I held back my trembling hand and slowly opened the coffee-colored letter. Inside was a photo and a ticket stub from the Nantai Theater, December 31, 1997, 2:20 p.m., Row 11, No. 13, signed by “Plankton Tsai,” and next to it, she signed “Dance Lightly and Fly”. There is also a blue letterhead with the familiar scent of Dolce Vita perfume.

The photo shows her, standing in a green meadow, and wearing the same coffee-colored outfit she wore when we first met. Her shoes and socks look like charcoal coffee, her bell-bottomed pants look like mocha coffee, her sweater looks like blue mountain coffee, and she’s carrying a backpack that looks like a Cappuccino coffee. On the back of the photo, it says, “Dear jht.

Coffee is Pisces me, blue is Scorpion you, coffee colored envelope with blue letterhead inside, see what I mean? 🙂

Do you want to drink this cup of coffee? Keep your mouth watering, don’t drip, please! “PFly in Dance”

I flashed a bitter smile. I don’t think it’s drool that I think I’ll be dripping. And the blue letterhead was simple.

“If I have one day to live, I’m going to be your girlfriend that day.

Do I have a day to live? No.

So, unfortunately. I’m still not your girlfriend in this life.

If I had wings, I’d fly down from heaven to see you.

Do I have wings? No.

So, unfortunately. I won’t be able to see you ever again.

If the whole bathtub was poured out, it wouldn’t quench the flames of my love for you.

Can I pour all the water out of the entire bathtub? Yes.

So, yeah, I love you.

Dancing Lightly”

My chest was easily torn apart as tears quickly collapsed like a flood through my flood defenses. Proud and relentless, I could no longer resist the tears that filled my face. She finally changed my PLAN as well and reclaimed what I owed her, two months of tears.

When the Academy Awards were announced, Titanic won 11 awards, including Best Picture. However, Rose did not win the Oscar for Best Actress… Even Rose Sr. missed out on the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. It turned out that those who were miserable in the movies were not necessarily unlucky in life.

In real life, should Jack ever let go of Rose? Maybe he doesn’t have to worry about that, because that beautiful coffee-colored butterfly is always fluttering in his heart… jht. on 1998/5/29

～The End

Re: First Intimate Encounter (34)… Over

I danced gently, in the quiet of heaven. Angels cast over the different eyes, surprised or admiration, did not make my dance steps messy. Because what makes me soar is not the gaze of the angels, but my frog prince.

※The first close contact [afterword] ※

After hitting “The End”, I looked at my watch and saw that it was 4:00 AM. If it was more than two months ago, I would have been in bed by now, but for the past two months or so, it’s been kind of early.

From March 22, 1998, to May 29, 1998, it took a total of two months and eight days to complete the 34-part serial, averaging two days a piece, is that fast? I don’t know, because I’ve never written anything this long before.

I haven’t been writing for a long time, if we’re talking about novels or stories. I only finished my first novel, “7-11 Love”, on December 18th of last year, and posted it on the Online Fiction Board, where I received some encouragement from some friends, which gave me what I call “confidence”. It was a short story in which I tried to look at the same thing from the different perspectives of a man and a woman. In fact, I was addicted to short stories at that time, and I wasn’t interested in writing full-length novels. I was not interested in writing long stories, not so much because I was not interested in writing, but because I did not have the ability to write.

Then I finished 12 episodes of “The Scarf” on December 28th of last year, which is kind of a middle grade work! I think.

It took only three days to write it, yet it took almost a month between posts, and all at once. Why is that? I’m not sure, maybe I thought it was less like a novel! Because I wrote it from a girl’s point of view, a lot of people thought I was a girl, and I liked that.

Then I stopped writing, even though in the days that followed, so-called “inspirations” still came to mind.

Because the purpose of my survival at this stage is to finish my thesis and get the aura of a degree, not to hear applause on an internet fiction board. If collecting a hundred applause from the internet could be exchanged for the signature of an oral examiner, then of course I would not hesitate to write any story, but that would be a fool’s errand. So I’ll just dutifully seek to solve tough sequences of partial differential equations and play the role of reader on the board.

I have often been moved by many pieces of fiction, but I have never told these writers how I was moved. I also often expect that I can follow the example of these predecessors, to write a piece of moving articles, but I do not have a very good literary background, really dare not to be short. So many friends say that I am light and approachable, in fact, I can only be so, this is a matter of ability, rather than style. “I am not good at being light, but I have no choice.”

Late at night on March 15, 1998, the sound of wild cats purring and rain came from the window of my research lab. I decided to write the story “First Close Encounters”. The title of the story tells me that I’m a rookie who doesn’t know how to write, and I can’t even pick a name for it. But I decided to honor the words that came to my mind at the time: “If everyone’s heart is like a warehouse with a lot of secrets locked up, then if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to find them in your own home. If you are lucky, you will meet a few people in your life who have the key to unlock it. But many people go through life with their inner storehouse unlocked.”

I took the story of a good friend of mine (Koo, let’s call him L) as the backbone, my view of the internet as the flesh and blood, and the soul of something I don’t know much about, and that something is called love, and wrote this post.

I don’t think I would be writing this postscript if it weren’t for the fact that since posting Episode 34, a lot of people on this board and a bunch of letters in my mailbox have been asking about “authenticity”. I don’t think I’m going to write a postscript to this one, because it’s a contradiction to talk about authenticity in the virtual world of the Internet. But “no storm is not a river and lake, no contradiction is not a network”. So I had to stick the turtle’s head out of its shell to talk about the journey of writing.

I’ve taken to using the first person “I” as the main character because I’m too lazy to name it. And I am “I”, the same person as Plankton Choi in the story. In real life, I’m the supporting actor, but in the story, I’m the main character because I’m the second kind of person who wants romance to happen to me. It’s easy to describe “Tai” because he’s a reflection of my other best friend. “Vivian is the closest thing to a “fictional” character, so I’ve described her the least. The only thing I know about her is the letter I received from her in the finale, which is a real letter, but the content has been modified.

The rest is the real star of the show for me: “Dancing Lightly”. I chose to make her a soft and romantic Pisces woman, even though I didn’t know her true qualities. Remember the mermaid princess who turned into a bubble for her prince? Many horoscope books are fond of using her to represent the Pisces woman. But I wasn’t going to explore horoscopes, I just knew that in the end of the story she too would eventually turn into a bubble. That’s why when I started writing, I actually finished the ending first, because I already knew how the story should end before I knew how it should start.

The ending is cliché, that I know. Serials, movies and poignant romance novels are full of them. Some for ratings; some for box office; some for royalties; but I’ve never been able to figure out what I’m in it for. Maybe it really is that little bit of vanity in my heart! But I don’t want to write a very successful novel, I just want to tell a very moving story. Since I can’t change the ending, the rest of my job is just how to tell the story vividly.

The story naturally begins with anticipation and fun, even if the ending isn’t too pretty. I don’t know how many episodes into the post, a longtime acquaintance sniffed out something a little different. She was the first person to ask me not to write a tragic ending. She also told me that in case I really want to write a tragedy, please leave a little hope in the ending. So I moved the final scene of the story from the funeral parlor to the hospital; replaced L’s light dance with a beautiful light dance in Cheng Da Chinese; and changed the murderer from a gravel truck that ran a red light to a butterfly disease.

I was actually very cautious and fearful because I was afraid of desecrating this beautiful girl. That’s why I let her switch from Chinese to Foreign Languages, but still let her keep her bad habit of using idioms indiscriminately. All the scenes in the story are mostly my personal experiences, except for the expensive bottle of Dolce Vita perfume.

Episode 21 is a paragraph, which I could always write easily before. From episode 22 onwards, it’s time to face the end. I post several episodes at a time, it’s called “better to have a long pain than a short one”. But when I got to episode 25, the expected effect started to appear: a lot of letters appeared in my mailbox pleading for Flying Lightly’s favor. So I tried to rewrite the ending again, until one day my sister told me: “You wrote the story, your opinion is the most important”. So I decided to continue posting episodes 26-28 and 29-33.

In episode 32, the scene where Plankton stood silently for hours in front of Dancing Lightly’s hospital bed was born out of L’s lonely gaze at his Dancing Lightly in the funeral parlor. I tried to imagine how L felt at that moment, but I could only come up with “regret”. I could never hear the cries of his heart.

After posting 33 episodes, I suddenly realized that I am not describing L’s Light Dancing Flyer, or Sung Da Chinese’s Light Dancing Flyer, I am actually describing the Light Dancing Flyer in my life. That’s why I let the aftereffects of Flying Lightly’s full-moon face due to steroid use be passed off with the phrase “her face has become slightly rounded”, because she will always be a beautiful butterfly in my heart, and I can’t bear to describe her no-longer-beautiful appearance, and I only want to remember the arc of her beautiful face. So I took out the scene of Fluttershy going in and out of the ICU and just ended it with episode 34.

Then, I could finally hear the cries from L’s heart. It also gave me a pH less than 7 in my heart for the first time. If you already have your own Light Dancer in your life, then please let her fly freely beside you, not in your heart.

I’ve found the light dance of my life. What about you?

jht. on 6/6/1998