A Perfect Life Beginning as a Light Novel Writer

Chapter 102 The Covenant
When John heard Xiaoxi's proposal to find a rabbit in the sky, he suddenly became energetic.

Because he used to do this when he was bored, but he never looked for the rabbit shape formed by the stars in the sky.

"Well, I'm sure to find the best bunny constellation"

"Then let's see who will find it first."

The boy and the girl, with their pupils wide open, sat on the dead wood, looking up at the pale blue starry sky and the pale yellow full moon.

"I found it." Xiaoxi said quickly.

"Where is it?" John asked anxiously.

"in the sky"

"Where is it in the sky?" John's pupils reflected the night sky, but he still couldn't find it.

"Think big. Bigger than the rest."

"I can't find it. Wait, wait. I see it." John let out a cheerful, celebratory sound.

"Tell me what you saw." Pupil Xiaoxi glanced slightly at the side face of the cheerful and excited boy sitting beside her.

But when Xiaoxi asked this question, Jiang Ying's whole body shook.

The familiar feeling of this question.

Jiang Ying's memory is very clear. In the first few chapters of this novel, when the protagonists Neil and Eva have not explored John's memory so deep.
After John and Xiaoxi have been married for decades, because John once approached Xiaoxi because he thought she was silent, cool and maverick.
From that day on, Xiaoxi was an origami rabbit again and again, and then kept asking John.

what did he see.
Jiang Ying's memory overlaps with the content of the novel Chapter 8.

"Is it right there? There are two ears and a head!" John excitedly pointed at the starry sky.

That is the top of the moon, with a pair of ear-like stars dotted on the moon.

"What else?" Xiaoxi asked.

"And there...there are two feet."

That is the bottom of the moon. After a dozen stars are connected in a line, the music can tell that it is the shape of a pair of feet.

"That's right, is there any more?"

"moon."

"It's its round belly."

Jiang Ying turned the page of the book, and saw an illustration in anime colors.

The light blue sky is dotted with stars, and the light yellow moon hangs high.

The boy pointed to the moon in the sky, and the girl sat beside him, her short orange hair was so conspicuous and charming.

In the sky, the connection between the moon and more than 20 stars around it is like a rabbit with its limbs spread.

The light yellow moon is turned into a belly, the light blue sky is made into paper, and the stars are connected into legs and ears.

Under the guidance of the text and the comparison of this illustration, the image of a blue and yellow rabbit was vividly outlined in Jiang Ying's mind.

rabbit
paper bunny.
blue and yellow paper bunny
At this moment, Jiang Ying held her breath.

She thought of the early stage of the novel plot, and in the later stage of Xiaoxi's life, she made origami rabbits again and again, and asked John over and over again, what did he see?
Jiang Ying had goosebumps all over her body.

In an instant, tears could not stop gathering in the eyes.

She probably understood why Xiaoxi would ask John about rabbits over and over again in his old age.

Xiaoxi in her old age. She should hope that John can remember from the blue and yellow paper rabbit she folded, decades ago, that carnival, that night sky, and that dead tree. John and her are here when we met.

Together they found this blue and yellow rabbit in the sky that night, made up of stars, night sky and moon.

"So, what do you think these stars are?" John asked, looking at the stream.

"I, I never told anyone. But, I think the stars are the lighthouses." Xiaoxi said.

"Thousands of lighthouses, shining at the end of the world, stars, they can see the lighthouses on the other side, they want to communicate with each other, but they can't do it, they can't hear what each other is saying. They can do Only try to shine. That's all they can do. Let that light shine on other beacons, and on me."

"Why you?" John asked curiously.

"Because one day... I will be their good friend too."

lighthouse? .Xiaoxi, this is talking about himself, right?

Because of her mental illness, she couldn't communicate well with others. No matter what she said, no one could understand her.

Only tonight, the little boy who met for the first time, Xiaoxi and him hit it off, chatting, watching the moon and stars.

So. In the plot of the previous chapter, why Xiaoxi asked John to build a house next to the abandoned lighthouse on the cliff was because she felt that the lighthouse was lonely, just like her, so even if it was death, she would let John Build a house, guard the lighthouse, and stand beside the lighthouse with your own tombstone, guarding it.
Stars, lighthouses, in Xiaoxi's view, are all lonely, as lonely as she is.

Far away, untouchable, but shining brightly.

She is the same kind as them, and even more friends.

Therefore, in the latter part of her life, she will use all her strength to guard the abandoned lighthouse.

"What's in your bag?" Xiaoxi looked at John's bag at this time and asked curiously.

Hearing this, John showed a smug smile on his face, and took out a sandbag and a platypus doll from his bag.

Jiang Ying hadn't woken up from the foreshadowing of the previous two plots, and her eyes were still full of tears, but a paragraph of words hit her heart directly.

This sandbag and the platypus doll
It can't be the two items that Xiaoxi has carried with him all his life.
Yuanqing, is your foreshadowing buried here?

The sandbag, in Xiaoxi's middle age, was thrown off the cliff by John.

As for the platypus doll, she kept it with her until Xiaoxi's death and never lost it.

"These two are the prizes I got for whacking the hamster." John said proudly.

"Can I take a look?"

John handed the doll to Brook.

"It looks so weird. Wish I could win one back."

"My mother called me." John heard the voice of his mother calling him at the foot of the mountain, and was about to leave.

"This." Xiaoxi stopped him.

"Take it, they are yours. I gave them to you. I'm sure I can win another one." John smiled and said goodbye to Xiaoxi.

The creek was silent.

"Will you come here again for the carnival next year?" Xiaoxi took a deep breath, looked at the boy in front of him, and mustered up the courage to ask this sentence.

"Of course. What about you?" John said confidently.

"Will do."

"Old place, old time?"

"Ah."

Seeing this, Jiang Ying burst into tears
Because this story is a flashback structure, going back from John's old age to his childhood.

Jiang Ying knew all about the rest of the story.

Half a year later, John's brother Joey died because of his mother's mistake. He was given a lot of beta blockers by his mother and forgot a lot of memories.

Naturally, this agreement between John and Xiaoxi is also included.

John he definitely didn't come the next year.

"Then what if you forget or get lost?" Xiaoxi finally asked this sentence cautiously.

The little boy John in her eyes was as bright as the stars in the sky that she regarded as a beacon.

"Then...we'll always meet on the moon...fool." John laughed.

"It's right there in the belly of the little rabbit."

Hearing this, Xiaoxi hugged the platypus doll sent by John, sat on the dead wood, and stared at the starry sky.

She hugged this platypus for a lifetime!
(End of this chapter)