Lightly loosen the silk robe

Author: Tang Xiaoling
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: She starts running in her dream, wearing a white cotton dress and barefoot, stepping on the fallen vibrant red petals. The warm and moist earth after the rain rubs against her feet. She gently floats up. She stands on the high eighteenth floor of Lingyun Tower, and a cloud drifts toward her—a purple cloud, the skirt of her sister Lei. She wants to reach out and grab it, but the cloud flies away. Later, she recalls that this love was extravagant, a delusion from the very beginning. All the illusions blend with her past memories, like the red lanterns dancing in the water, which must hide a strange soul. She often wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night, the quiet darkness filling her with an inexplicable fear. She starts to fear that this man will leave her, like Wei, like her father. She desperately wants to hold onto something. Only in her dreams can she possess him completely. She doesn’t want to wake up; she longs for happiness. She loves him too much, fears losing him, and wants to hold onto him—he is her only lifeline.