Encounters with naked dwellers on a desert island (3)

The cigar man said, "The only way is to hide from the naked walkers or the police if you see them."

"I don't want to hide." Bai Yun muttered.

"Well, if you're willing to strip naked, then you don't have to hide? By the way I can peep at you too, haha." The cigar man looked at Bai Yun with a wicked grin on his face and said.

"No man is a good person." Bai Yun gave him a blank look.

The cigar man laughed loudly, and the cheerful laughter seemed to close the gap between them.

Too tired to walk, they stopped after a while and sat down to rest.

"Tell me, is there a man in your heart?" Bai Yun was silent, for it was true.

"I have been thinking about it for days and I know that you cannot be the woman I once loved, because she was already dead and I did find her body and have buried her. Only, she has appeared in my dreams many times, and I cannot forget her because I loved her. And, strangely enough, you look so much like her. I used to believe that you were her." The cigar man remembered with pain.

He was a man of deep love, too, Bai Yun finally understood, a cigar man with a sallow face who could not hide the look in his eyes that looked for something in her. So he had taken himself for some woman he had once loved. Now he began to look at him once again. This man, a man who had suffered the same fate as she, who had loved a woman and lost her at the same time. She suddenly thought of this poem: "The sky is the same, why should we ever meet?

"Love is a very strange thing, isn't it?" She looked at him, a man who was so full of manliness, and for the first time she looked at him like this. His brow was furrowed, his eyes no longer wolf-like, and he saw in his steely eyes a touch of helplessness and sadness that made him warm.

She sat close to him, a time when he needed some warmth and leaning, and he did too. She looked at him and she realised what was going on. He held her close, he felt his manhood and yet he felt the tenderness of his arms.

There is silence, he holds her, they don't talk, she feels so close to him that she doesn't even want to think about anything. It was as if she could feel the sea breeze blowing gently, the waves murmuring, the distant chirping of birds or some other animal, but it didn't matter anymore, she let him hold her.

"Maybe you should be mine." The cigar man murmured.

Can I be his, thought Bai Yun? But he needs to forget about the past. Yes, perhaps the best thing to do was to forget. Yes, she wanted to forget, the man who had so confusingly said that she was his, that she would belong to him in her past life and in this one. There were so many details that touched her, he was thoughtful, she felt his warmth from the first moment she woke up after her death, the soft, spacious bed he had prepared for him, the delicious breakfast, the beautiful sun hat he had prepared for her, and his silence like a mountain, and his outbursts like the sea. With his tanned body and his talking eyes, he was really a nice man.

But every time she tells herself to forget the past and start again, she gets a vague feeling of heartache. She had his name engraved in her mind, he was not as handsome as this cigar man who held her in his arms, he even looked a bit old in her mind, he was thin, he talked a lot, he ... could not stop herself from thinking about him whenever she did. The man who had abandoned her, the man who had treated her like a doll. Or maybe he didn't treat her like a person with feelings at all. She thought about this and she wanted to hate him, but she couldn't. Because she loved him to the core of her being.

But after that backward glance, she knew that he could no longer be hers. Maybe she needed to forget, or pretend to forget. She didn't know.

"Can you hold me a little tighter?" Bai Yun then asked to close her eyes, her mind still filled with thoughts of Richard, wondering what he was doing at the moment. I wonder what Richard is doing right now. He must be living happily ever after with that woman. Bai Yun's heart ached as she thought this.