We arrived at Beijing Workers' Sports Complex before 10 am.

We saw a couple standing in front of the MIX club. They were of course Little Piglet and Shangguan Wan’er. They looked a little weary even though they had deleted their accounts and freed themselves from their demons. Some injuries stay with you forever. Perhaps the only way to heal them was to vanish from the world itself.

When we were less than ten meters away from the couple, I greeted them with a smile, "I thought I wasn’t ever going to see the two of you again!"

Little Piglet turned around to face me. He was wearing a black windbreaker and crossing his arms in front of his chest. "We shouldn’t. Wan’er and I had made up our minds to never—"

I knew what he was trying to say, so I interrupted him before he could finish. "How about we find a place to sit down and have a drink before we get into the serious stuff, yeah?"

"Sure. There’s a coffee shop over there."

"Let’s go!"

……

As the five of us walked side by side toward our destination, I asked Shangguan Wan’er, "Long time no see, Wan’er. How are you doing lately?"

She smiled back and responded, "It’s okay. I’ve been living together with Little Piglet. We haven’t really planned out what to do...