Valentina, his new life—intelligent and ordinary; independent and poor; thoughtful and pale; her heart is so close to you that no words are needed. But if you are with her, when the storm of life hits, you are destined to have nowhere to hide except to face it.
She and she are two women, but they are not just two women, they are two phantoms standing at the intersection of the times, two completely different road signs of life - when the smoke of war pushes down everything, on top of the ruins The game is re-opened; when the cedar squeaks down, the old social order collapses and ruins, and the wealthy squire is on the verge of bankruptcy, should you choose to continue living in a drunken dream or take courage, and live in pain but truly?
So, in fact, this story is not to tell you that Christopher chose Valentina after all, but to say that the times chose the truth and abandoned the lie; chose the spiritual fit and abandoned the physical desire; chose to stand up to the world. Endless suffering, not the tyrannical dart of fate - oh, Englishmen, no matter how they circle the garden, they always come back to Shakespeare, don't they?
So, what about love?
As for love, darling.
Life is not a romance novel or an idol drama. You should know that love is always just the original driving force of life; the magic of love can only keep us together, but it is far from guaranteeing that we will be together forever.
Who will we live with? With whom to grow old? When we leave this beautiful and cruel world, who will hold our hand and keep our hearts at peace? Who is Dante's Beatrice, our guide to the gates of heaven? In fact, it is only our way of life that determines all this, and nothing else.
"The End of the Queue" - Chosen and Abandoned by the Times, Two Lifes of Christopher.
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