"What Time Are You Over There" Only Love Strangers

Hilda 2022-02-07 14:52:39

Where to start? It was still Li Kangsheng, the teenager Nezha grew up and made a living selling watches on the Tianqiao. A strange woman who was going to Paris took a fancy to the watch he was wearing. At first, he was reluctant to sell it. His father had just passed away, and he was still wearing it , he said that wearing his watch would wear out. But the woman insisted on buying it, and Xiaokang sold it to her. Before leaving, she gave Xiaokang a box of small cakes. It was this sudden warmth that made Xiaokang remember this woman.

Missing is because of emptiness.
Xiaokang adjusted all the watches he encountered in his life to Paris time, even the clock in the building, and then opened a bottle of red wine on the rooftop and watched a movie in Paris, feeling that he had a little connection with that strange woman. After her husband died, Xiaokang’s mother bought roast duck for him and cried to the fish how she missed her husband. She was afraid that the house would be too bright. Her husband did not dare to come back and cut off the switch. The watch at home was slow for seven hours. Cook, serve your husband's meals, and even masturbate with your husband's pillow. But you have to know that their relationship was not that good before they died.

The woman who went to Paris had a language barrier, and it was a problem to eat and order food. The ceiling of the room always made strange noises, and the subway would suddenly fail. Perhaps it was indeed the bad luck brought by the watch. She tried to call the owner of the watch seller at Tianqiao several times, but she was unable to do so, until she lost her phone number. The woman gave her the warmth of a cup of hot water. Later, even if they were lying on a bed, even if they kissed, she still felt desolate in her heart. When she left, she hurriedly searched for the watch, which was her only solace. She felt a connection with the owner of the watch on the flyover in Taiwan.

Aze in "Teenage Nezha" also grew up and went to Paris. At a subway station, he was wearing a black trench coat, standing on the cold and lonely platform waiting for the subway, and in the opposite direction opposite him, a short-haired stranger The woman was also standing there with her bag over her shoulder. The two looked at each other. Will he greet her? Or run to her side? In the silent waiting, the subway that A Ze was waiting for arrived. He got on the subway and got closer to the strange woman across the railway tracks. He still looked at the woman until the sliding subway took him away.

Outside I don't know when the rain was dripping and dripping, and it hit the iron objects.
At one o'clock in the morning you're lying in bed tossing and turning, you can't sleep, you put on your trousers, put on your coat, go to McDonald's to eat, the girl in front of you at the checkout is short, with her hair tied up over a shy forehead and red nails There are signs of mottled, she seems to be unable to speak the language, and gestures to the image on the set menu. Later, you sit on the long table by the window to eat, with a stool in the middle, and you beg a strange woman on the phone to come out to accompany you. You, with words that border on pleading, are still disappointed. You eat fiercely in front of the window, and in the reflection of the glass, you catch a glimpse of the woman next to you eating frivolously, and you feel each other in the reflection in the glass. Finally, she turned her face, waved to you, and said in lame Mandarin: Can I help you?
You don't understand what she means, and you sit on the stool next to her: what?
She made a phone call gesture: call her for you, say I'm with you, make her jealous.

Just get on the subway and look around, you see a strange girl staring at you, so you stare at her recklessly, until she turns her eyes away, but soon your eyes meet again, and you follow She got off the subway, got out of the subway station, turned into the alley, walked past the fruit stand, walked back to the fruit stand, you stood in the dark and didn't have the courage to take a step forward, and finally you were in the barber shop downstairs of her house, you stopped When she met her, she turned around suspiciously, and when you approached her, you were like a simple child, hesitating to say anything.

A person who has been in a quiet space for a long time will go crazy and want to smell human. Wrapped in the crowd and passing by countless occasions, I got off the subway and didn’t want to go home, and I didn’t know where to go. Know who to give it to, stand with the boss who sells earrings, look to the intertwined crowd, a strange woman picking earrings, buy a few skewers of barbecue, dim street lights show you home, empty roads, taxis whizzing at midnight, eat After the barbecue, you throw the sign in your hand into the invisible night.

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What Time Is It There? quotes

  • [first lines]

    Father: Hsiao Kang? Hsiao Kang?

  • Shiang-chyi: Come on. Sell me this one.

    Hsiao-kang: It'd be bad luck to own my watch.

    Shiang-chyi: Why?

    Hsiao-kang: Someone in my family just died. I'm in mourning. I can't sell it to you.