The Healing Sunshine (一厘米的阳光)

Final Chapter - The Love of a Lifetime (2)

Jì Nuannuan's wedding took place as scheduled, on the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

The reception was very lively. Jì Chengyang was basically fully recovered, and under Nuannuan's insistence, he served as the presiding witness of her wedding. As Jǐ Yi sat amongst the guests, who were bustling with noise and excitement, she remembered the final phone call that Nuannuan had made to Xiao Jun before leaving her home this morning, telling him that she was getting married today. The content of her words had been very simple. And it appeared Xiao Jun's answer had been even simpler, merely telling her, she needed to live a good and happy life.

The entire phone call had seemed like a simple farewell ceremony, that hereafter, the tall mountains and long, flowing streams would be between them and they would see each other no more.

Only she knew about this little interlude.

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At some time past three in the afternoon, the wedding came to an end. Jì Chengyang took her and left from there, not saying where they were going. However, it was apparent the car was driving in the direction of the military compound.

All along the way, an Olympic atmosphere pervaded everywhere. Everybody was eagerly anticipating what the opening ceremony that had been publicized for so long would be like.

Their vehicle drove in through the main gates. The soldiers on either side gave a salute and let them pass.

"Where are we going?" She had originally wanted to wait for the surprise and had not asked, but nevertheless she was unable to contain her curiosity.

"The cinema."

"Cinema?"

Jì Chengyang refrained from answering.

Making a right turn off the main road, he parked the car on the open space in front of the cinema, then led her up the white stone steps. In that vast, spacious cinema hall, apart from the two people responsible for the movie projection, there were no extraneous people.

Since the moment she stepped inside here, Jǐ Yi felt as if everything had become especially unreal.

It was as if she had been dragged into a time vortex.

She could remember how those military cadets had filed in one by one, and then after the showing came to a close, they had maintained that same order as they left. This place was unlike the cinemas outside of the compound, where promotional posters would be tacked up on either side and there would be a thick commercial type of atmosphere. Here, the main tone was simple and clean. Once you stepped past the glass doors of the front entrance, there was the main entrance hall with its marble floors, and after you passed through that and pushed open those two deep-red, wooden doors, there was the theatre hall that seated a thousand people.

The projectionists appeared to be waiting for them. Once they saw Jì Chengyang coming in, they greeted him and then quickly slipped into the projection booth.

And she and Jì Chengyang pushed open the doors and stepped into that pitch-dark theatre hall.

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The movie had already been playing for a while. It was A Chinese Odyssey, Part Two: Cinderella.

Many years ago, the movie he had watched with her was Part One: Pandora's Box.