"Do you want to cover everything up through silence?" The cigar man pressed on.
"I don't understand what you're talking about." She simply stated her position with honesty, a quick statement.
His face went white and he stared at her. "You really don't understand? Or are you just pretending? I just want to know if you love me, then?"
"We've only seen each other for a few days, and you're asking me if I love you?" Bai Yun felt that this man was either a little crazy or he had lost his memory.
He rushed towards her and kissed her, with such force that she struggled. The canoe capsized in the desperate lurching of the two men, and he and she fell into the sea.
She struggled, drank a lot of salty water, she couldn't swim, this time, she was dead, she thought. She wanted to swim upwards because this was an accident and at the moment Bai Yun didn't want to die.
Strangely enough, she seemed to know how to swim, but at the moment she was struggling and flailing in the water, but to no avail, so she simply let go and she floated. The water was gentle, embracing her, and no one's embrace was as gentle as the sea's at the moment. She was moved by the warmth of the water and cried, her tears mixing with the water. She would have chosen the sea as her lover if she could. She thought.
A familiar figure flashed through her mind. It was Richard, the ghost who haunted her wherever she went. She could not get rid of him, including when she was about to drown in the sea, his eyes, his smile, his tender embrace, his kisses, everything. ... He was an unforgettable pain in her heart. A picture flashed through her mind of him with another girl in his arms, they should have been married long ago and they should have been happy. She cried, if she died, she would forget everything, but why should someone die after they have been hurt?
No! A voice exploded in her mind, she couldn't let him go, why should she? The word "revenge" flashed through her mind, she had paid for her tears, she wanted him to pay back, she wanted him to regret that he had left her. The pain in her heart intensified as she thought about it, and a thought flashed through her mind, but Bai Yun knew that the only reason she didn't want to die was because she wanted to see her Richard again.
Yes, she couldn't die, she needed to see him again and if it was possible Bai Yun wanted to have him again, in his entirety. So she reached out and let her feet and body stretch out in parallel and she floated, so long in the gentle ocean floor that when she revealed her face, the light was so dazzling, such a vast blue, how could she let go of this blue? She began to swim her arms, her hands were so light, she had never thought she could swim so well, she felt like a happy fish, swimming in the water, she was alone, swimming towards the sun.
I don't know how long it took, but the joy was gone and Bai Yun felt like she was suffocating, her arms were sore and she couldn't swim anymore. She could not hold on and let herself sink again.
She felt something grab her feet and tried to struggle, but something tugged at her hair and dragged her towards the sea.