Chapter 41: Let's Swing Together

　　Dr. Watts: "Okay, you know, a man like me isn't used to this. I'm going."

　　Activate memory fragments.

　　Lin Fan kept learning about Johnny's past as he traveled through his memories.

　　On the foundations of the house that have not yet been built, I talked to people about the painful struggle between building a house and treating his wife's illness.

　　Friend: "Then build a house, it's very important to her."

　　Memory jumps to the bar.

　　When chatting with friends, Johnny happily talked about the house under construction. He said that although the funds were a little tight, he was confident that he could make enough money. At this time, he was still optimistic.

　　Friends congratulated: "The scenery there is very good. You got married at the lighthouse next to it many years ago, didn't you?"

　　After chatting for a while, several friends left one after another. When the last friend was left, the two talked about some more private topics.

　　For example, Riva's peculiarly quiet character, and her strange behavior after learning about "that thing": "She doesn't do anything except fold rabbits, she just folds it day after day. It is no exaggeration to say, Our house is already full of them."

　　The memory jumped again, this time to the lighthouse in the setting sun.

　　Young Johnny and Riva came to the lighthouse and seemed to want to go in, however, there was a paper seal on the entrance to the lighthouse.

　　The lighthouse has been abandoned.

　　Riva stared at the seal at the door, feeling extremely sad: "...Why do people abandon her like this?"

　　After some thought, Johnny came up with the idea of ​​building a house here. Riva was very surprised by this proposal. She turned to face Johnny with an excited tone: "We can be by her side whether it is morning or evening! Yes, we can come here for a walk anytime!"

　　"John, she'll never be alone again!" Riva jumped into Johnny's arms and hugged him tightly.

　　Lin Fan's doubts were solved a little: "It turns out that 'she' was a personification of the lighthouse before, and the reason why Riva attaches importance to the house is to live here to accompany the lighthouse and make the lighthouse no longer lonely. It seems that she I really love lighthouses."

　　But what followed was a bigger doubt: "Why does Riva attach so much importance to the lighthouse? Would rather die of her own illness than spend the money to build a house next to it and accompany the lighthouse?"

　　Thinking of her strange behavior of folding rabbits, could it be that Riva really has a serious mental illness?

　　Activate Memento Paper Rabbit, and the scene goes to Johnny and Riva's previous home.

　　At this time, Riva was origami rabbits with a calm expression. There were not too many paper rabbits on the ground. In addition to the paper rabbits, there was the black platypus doll on the table.

　　Her shawl-long hair had become short for some reason.

　　Johnny seemed to have just entered the door and was a little surprised by this scene: "You went out early in the morning to get a haircut?"

　　He looked around the paper rabbits scattered around the room and asked, "What are you doing?"

　　Riva stopped her movements, blinked her eyes, looked up at Johnny, and said something very ordinary in her voice: "Rabbit. Did you see the rabbit I left for you?"

　　Johnny: "I see."

　　Riva: "Tell me about it?"

　　"Um?"

　　"Describe that rabbit to me."

　　Johnny hesitated. "Uh...it's yellow."

　　"anything else?"

　　"He looks a little fat."

　　"anything else?"

　　"..." appeared on Johnny's head, and he looked around, as if trying to escape the topic: "Okay...it's just a paper rabbit, I don't know how to describe it."

　　When Riva heard this answer, she started to origami rabbits again.

　　Lin Fan frowned, "A familiar scene... Riva asked Johnny the same way before.

But why is she so obsessed with the answer to this question? "

　　Memory jumps, under the lighthouse in the moon sky.

　　Young Riva and Johnny sat side by side, and the yellow column of light at the top of the lighthouse projected into the distance, and it seemed that it had not been abandoned at this time.

　　"Is that why you approached me before?" Riva asked.

　　"Yes. But that's only a small part of the reason." Johnny seemed a little frustrated. "I shouldn't have made our first date so bad."

　　Lin Fan thought: "Johnny didn't seem to have a good motive for approaching Riva at first. He was ashamed of it, but now he really likes Riva. The mystery has increased again."

　　The memory jumped, this time Johnny was talking to a friend who appeared in his previous memory.

　　This friend has the same condition as Riva, and Johnny seems to want her to give him some advice on how to get along with Riva.

　　Friends said: "Although I can't represent her, most of us are eager for interpersonal communication. Even so, how to clearly express what we think is another matter.

　　Her difficulty in expressing does not mean she is insensitive. All you have to do is believe that 'she has always cared about you'. "

　　Johnny and his friend had a discussion around this disease, and the friend explained the feeling of this disease in detail and concretely.

　　Lin Fan's expression became dignified unconsciously: "It turns out that suffering from this disease is so painful. He looks like a weirdo, longing for love, but he is expelled and rejected by society. If you want to be accepted, you can only choose to be on the stage. A puppet that acts as a 'normal' self, but loses his true self."

　　Then, heartfelt sympathy for Riva was born: "It turns out that Riva has a disease in interpersonal communication and cannot convey her thoughts well, so some of her performances seem so weird."

　　The memory jumped and came to the lighthouse under the moonlight.

　　Johnny is wearing a handsome black suit, and Riva is wearing a white and beautiful wedding dress. They were sitting on the soft green grass, one body apart, leaning against the gray lighthouse on their backs, and behind them was a deep blue sea.

　　"Do you think it makes a difference?" Johnny asked sideways. "I mean, we're married."

　　Riva's eyes turned to Johnny, which seemed a little strange: "No...why? What about you?"

　　Johnny thought for a while: "It just feels a little different, maybe it's... a sense of responsibility."

　　A few wild flowers of different colors, the deep blue sea and the dark night sky are just enough to reflect the pure starlight of the two and the lighthouse, the rhythmic sound of the waves, the wisps of clouds floating in the sky, quiet and soothing, like the warm starlight beautiful melody.

　　Johnny seemed to suddenly think of something: "Hey, come with me!"

　　Although Riva didn't know why, she followed Johnny into the lighthouse.

　　In the melodious music, the camera moved up slowly, the ground and trees disappeared below, the sea level also dropped in the field of vision, and the top of the lighthouse gradually revealed the whole picture. The night sky became deeper, several black clouds were hidden behind the lighthouse, and the bright full moon hung on the upper left of the lighthouse.

　　With a "click", the pale yellow light at the top of the lighthouse lights up, reflecting the two silhouettes inside.

　　Riva: "It's not a good idea, I might fall."

　　Johnny: "Don't worry, just follow in my footsteps."

　　The dark blue night sky, the warm yellow lights, the two black silhouettes embraced each other and swayed gently in the melodious music.

　　Looking at this warm and romantic scene, Lin Fan seemed to have touched the softness in his heart, and his eyes became moist at some point.

　　Just moved.

　　He wouldn't admit it, he was a little envious.