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Sunflower forever

He fell in love with her at a friend's party.

By Hanla.qiaozhiPublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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The day after they met, he learned that she had uremia for many years, and her life could be gone at any time. He could clearly feel the sadness beneath her smile, and his heart ached faintly.

His home is in Harbin and hers is in Beijing. A few days later, he returned from Beijing to Harbin, but he felt as if his spirit had stayed behind in Beijing. His mind was full of her, and he decided to go to her side, to make her truly feel love, to bring out in her the strength of life to fight against the disease. Knowing his thoughts, his parents objected unquestionably: "You are crazy, you are not unable to find a daughter-in-law, she is a person who has no tomorrow...... Not over our dead bodies!" He is the only child in his family. His parents have been very pampering him since childhood, and he has always been filial and loving to them. His parents' opinion had been anticipated, and he said nothing more, and proceeded with his plan. A month later, he sold the hotel he had founded and operated for three years. He put the money from the sale quietly on his parents' bed, and then left without saying goodbye and secretly stepped on the train to Beijing.

She had an enviable career after graduating from college, but she has been at home for more than two years because of illness. His arrival surprised her so much that, in a moment, it seemed as if all the overcast clouds had vanished from her sky and the sun was shining brightly and warmly.

Because she had to go on dialysis at regular intervals, her parents' savings over the years had been depleted. He began to look around for work. He soon found a job as an executive in a big hotel, where he went to work early and stayed late, but she insisted on waiting for him to come home every night before having dinner.

Day after day, their love in the poor days happily forward.

One day, a year later, when it came time for dialysis, her body was in great discomfort. Her tight strength seemed to break down, and she realized that if she could not get a new kidney, the disease would kill her sooner or later. That evening she said quietly to him, "I am afraid that there are not many days left, and you will only be wasting your time and affection here. You'd better go back to Harbin..." Without saying anything, he brought the water as usual and began to wash her feet. Tears welled up in her eyes and she gnashed her teeth. She kicked over the footbasin and shouted at him: "What good can you do as a grown man circling a sickly woman like me all day! Go away, I never want to see you again..."

She shouted and cursed at the top of her lungs, trying to be contemptuous, contemptuous, and mocking, but every word that came out of her mouth became a sharp knife that pierced her heart. He looked at her and let her scold. When she got tired of Shouting and scolding and stopped, he muttered to her: "I know I'm useless. I can't give you gold clothes and jade shoes, and I can't give you wealth and honor, but I can still do those little things. I know that you deserve to get all the beautiful women in the world, and you can rest assured that I will try to make you such a woman..." He spoke so calmly and sincerely that tears fell from her eyes.

Her body is not as good as day by day, day by day, she took his hand, begged him: "You promise me, when I die, you must live well." He was speechless. She began to ache in her heart and said to him in mock anger: "If you don't promise me, I will fast." He remained silent. She really began to fast. For a day or two, no one could persuade her. She insisted on not eating or drinking. On the morning of the third day he took her by the hand and said, "It is not that I refuse to answer you. I was afraid that if I promised you, you wouldn't try to live..."

They hugged each other, tears streaming down their faces.

Days went by and spring came, and at last she had to go to the hospital for treatment. The apartment building she lived in was very shabby, and the flower beds in front of it had been abandoned for many years. When she was sent to the hospital, she looked at everything in front of her and sighed: "I have always had a wish to plant sunflowers in all the flower beds here. When the sunflowers grow up, how comfortable it will be to walk in them! Well, I'm afraid that's never going to happen..."

Surprisingly, the hospital soon found a kidney that matched her, but her parents were stumped by the 200,000 yuan cost of a new kidney. Her life seemed to be waiting for death. He, too, suddenly disappeared. His "evaporation" drove her into complete despair. During sleepless nights, she consoled herself with tears: "You are a patient who is dying. It's understandable that he left you. You should be thankful that he has been with you for so many days.

A week later, he suddenly appeared in front of her, full of surprise put a bag of money out to her to see: "You see, 200,000, you are saved!" He had gone back to Harbin to borrow some money from his friends. Again, tears clouded her eyes.

The operation was very successful and the rejection was minimal. They smiled happily.

Summer came and she was discharged to go home to rest. In the building near her home is not far, she suddenly surprised to shout: "Look, look, flower beds are all sunflower, really beautiful ah!" He smiled and looked at her with a happy face. As she looked from the sunflowers to his face, she understood. "Did you plant these sunflowers?" He nodded, and her voice broke. "I have become the woman with all the beauty and happiness in the world..."

Because she was on anti-rejection medication for a long time after her surgery, he went back to work at the hotel.

Her health became better and better, and hope grew between them. Their smiles are brighter and brighter with hope. A year passed, another spring came, she in his company, personally in their own building in the flower bed under the sunflower seeds. The seed soon broke ground. As the sunflower grew, his love story with her was told by the residents of the neighborhood.

Sunflower finally bloom a brilliant plate, this day is her birthday, after work, he took the day to buy good roses hurried home, he knew, she must be waiting for him to eat together. When he was about to get home, he was attracted by the sound of help in the distance. When he found that two gangsters were robbing a young girl, he rushed to them immediately. He stopped breathing on the way to the hospital after being caught by other members of the public who stabbed him six times in a fight to the death.

Many people who knew him or had heard their stories came to see him off. She cried her eyes out. People sighed that she was a poor girl. After taking care of his affairs, it was discovered that, every day, she strolled by the row of sunflowers in front of the building. From one end to the other, from the other end to the other end... Autumn is coming, and sunflowers are wilting and dying. She began to shut herself in her room, sometimes going silent all day.

When she died in the winter of that year, it was rumored that she had died of depression.

They were two very ordinary people, and it was assumed that as their lives disappeared, their memories would fade with time. But every spring since then, someone has planted sunflowers in the flowerbed in front of her building, year after year, for ten years now...

In this world, perhaps nothing will not be taken away by time, but there is one thing that nothing can take away, that is, the beautiful love.

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