The mysterious cigar man (3)

She didn't want to turn around because she was afraid of his eyes, which were always trying to swallow her and, in this case, contained the indefinable feeling as if his eyes could see through everything. It frightened her and made her want to find somewhere to hide. But she had nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. So she thought of using conversation to cover her unease.

"Who are you?" She had long wondered about this question, and now she finally asked it

Silence. A long silence.

Bai Yun turned to look at the man with the cigar standing behind him, a man who seemed bewildered by the music he was playing.

Seeing that his questions were not being answered, not to mention the fact that the cigar man was inexplicably staring at him, Bai Yun felt a little tingling in his heart, so he stopped asking him, perhaps wanting to keep his identity a secret. Everyone is entitled to a few secrets, isn't it?

So Bai Yun changed the subject and said in a light-hearted way, "I don't like looking at the sea through glass, can we get out of here and really be with the sea?"

He nodded in agreement with her suggestion, but still stared at her with a suppressed look of excitement. He untied the rope from the boat and dropped a life jacket on the canoe and magically produced a large white sun hat, her favourite beach hat, and she cheered with delight.

White Cloud got into the canoe and gradually they moved further and further away from the boat.

The sun shone warmly on the sea, creating a golden glow, but it could not hide the blue of the sea, and she felt like she was weaving and gliding on emerald, with a gentle breeze blowing through her long hair. The orange flutter on the top of her white hat fluttered in the wind and then followed her long hair across her face.

Bai Yun felt such an openness in front of her eyes as the man with the cigar sat across from her with his arms paddling a canoe, but his eyes were on her and he would not leave her for a moment. She didn't care about him, she felt this blue mythical wonder unfold before her eyes, embracing her.

She stood up, the boat lurched slightly, but she didn't feel it, and she shouted, "Hey! The sea - I'm coming!" She felt an instant relief, she felt herself embracing the world, and the world embracing her gently.

"Tell me, why did you ever leave me like that?" The cigar man asked, like a ghost, and inexplicably, as if he were insane.

She looked at him in confusion, thinking he was joking, but looking at his seriousness, Bai Yun knew he had hesitated for a long time before asking the question. She didn't know what he was talking about because he was a mystery to her and she was even more confused now.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Have we met before? You sound so sure that I feel as if we've met before? Have I lost my memory?" Bai Yun's mind quickly recalled what had happened. She felt pain because he was not in her memory, and her memories of him began when she woke up.

"I loved you so much, but you said you loved someone else, and when I went to sea, you chose to jump off the cliffs of this coast. Why, why is that?"

"I didn't jump off the cliff, I wouldn't be that stupid, but I think I was having too much fun in the sea, and I swam too far, and then I had a cramp in my leg and suddenly struggled in the sea, I thought I was dead, but I was lucky to survive ..." Bai Yun knew that his memory The man's memory is still very clear, except for the period after the coma, everything is the real memory of the original life encounter, so Bai Yun is sure that there is no problem with her memory at all. Bai Yun wondered, thought about it, and added, "Besides, I do love a man, but this man is not you, I'm sure."