I sit in the silent air and the warm sun in the late autumn
Numerous leaves fall in the breeze all of a sudden
While I don't know but just feel like a part of them
So I don't even make a sound
我在静默的空气和秋末的暖阳里静坐
突然微风里许多的叶子纷纷落下
我感到仿佛是它们的一部分
我于是不动声色
Short-story
She sat diagonally opposite me, in black, opposite to a boy of the same age as her at the same table, in the same black. There were only the two of them sitting on that table and they were in a comfortable silence, so I thought he should be her lover. She was eating noodles and had a vague solemnness over her face. They ate for a long time. To my surprise, the boy left alone without her in the end and paid his bill, then a man in a black jacket sat at the same place as the boy, right opposite her at the same table and ordered something, while she didn't turn a hair. It turned out that that boy was not her lover, she came here alone. She looked up from the black bowl from time to time into the wall, her eyes full of a kind of calm while deep sorrow resulting a very sharp contrast with the other people in the cafeteria with hurried, but peaceful and numb eyes, which made me quite surprised. She ate slowly, and people around her table were keeping coming and going. Incredibly, this...
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