Without Chiaki Shinoda's first story, the impression of the entire DTB in my mind would have been completely downgraded. Li Shunsheng, the innocent-looking and harmless Chinese student, made his first move to "rescue" a woman who was being chased and killed. Qianjing must have wondered why the people she met so suddenly and by chance would help her, but since she has chosen to go to the end of the world, I am afraid she cannot refuse any straw that is stretched out at her hand. What's more, in front of her is another man with such a honest appearance?
But in the end, everything she relied on came to nothing, the contractor was a liar who killed without blinking an eye, and even the man who gained her trust just wanted to use her. Her originally short and false life was filled with falsehood again. From beginning to end, except for her final death, she had no choice in the true sense of her own. And the object of her devotion is obviously a liar.
Maybe she is just nostalgic for that little bit of tenderness between half-dreams and half-phantoms?
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