"You know, during these days since I've come back, I saw a completely different you, I didn't even know that when you were young, you were such a girl."
Suizi dabbed at her tears and said with a teary smile, "Quite disillusioning, huh? Turns out Mom was quite capricious and had a sweet tooth when she was young."
"It's not quite what I had in mind, but disillusionment is not the word. I'm very happy to have met the young you."
He saw her youthful prime.
Without his participation, it was nonetheless splendid and brilliant.
No longer was she the strong woman who pursued perfection in everything.
She, too, could like eating ice cream like a little girl, she would admit the mistakes she had made, she transformed from the forever chasing silhouette in his memory into a person of flesh and blood.
Looking at her fondly, he wished he could be by her side, to let her see how outstanding a man he would become in the future.
But she and he had always been missing each other.
