The time of the city

"Honey, my hand hurts. Can you help me cut the steak?" The woman pouted and stretched out her smooth white hand, waving it in front of the man opposite her.

The man naturally took the plate handed to him by the woman and smiled indulgently, "My dear, your hands are really uncontrollable. It hurts every time you cut the steak. It seems that I will have to help you cut it from now on."

The woman saw the cut steak and smiled slyly, her smile full of victory and self-confidence. "Yuze, you have to be a good man like your father in the future. You have to help your wife cut the steak. Look how happy your mother is."

The woman touched the little boy's head and smiled happily. At that time, he also thought that he was the happiest child in the world, with loving parents and a harmonious family.

Then the memory went back to a few years later, the same steak house, but the man was no longer there, and the smile on the woman's face was no longer there.

She poked the steak on the plate with a fork, muttering, "You're used to cutting it for me, now I don't even know how to cut it?" Two lines of tears ran down her cheeks and dripped into the plate. The woman then pushed everything on the table to the ground like a madman.

"You're helping that woman cut steak again? How could you not love me?"

"Mom, let me help you cut it. Yuze can cut steak. Yuze will help you cut it." The boy was so scared that he mustered up the courage to run to the woman and threw himself into her arms. "Mom, you can't leave Yuze."

"Get away from me. I feel sick when I hear your name. I don't want you anymore. You have the same face as him. You are just torturing me." The woman pushed the boy away. He fell to the ground without anyone to support him, and his hand hit the broken disk on the ground heavily.

The boy cried loudly, "Mom, please don't abandon me. I will be good."

When Song Fei was almost done eating, she realized that the food opposite her had not been touched. She looked up and found that K's eyes were wet and he seemed to be thinking about something.

"Mu Yuze, what's wrong with you? Didn't you want to bring me here for dinner? Why aren't you eating?"

"I'll eat now." K rubbed his eyes, forced a smile, and stuffed food into his mouth in big mouthfuls.

"Eat slowly, no one is competing with you for my food. I'm full, like an African refugee."

"After Feifei finishes eating, shall we go to the playground together?"

"Mu Yuze, you're so old-fashioned. To chase a girl, you take her to the amusement park. You've probably been there several times, aren't you tired of it?"

K put down his cutlery and said seriously, "Fei Fei, I've never taken a girl to an amusement park before. I've never done anything beyond my age when I was in a relationship before. I always think that I should go to an amusement park with the girl I really like. I may not know what love is, but I know I want to be with you. I want to be with you forever."

"Where did you learn these old-fashioned lines? Xiaoyu's brother knows these and he already has a second child." Song Fei smiled and put the fruit salad on the table into her mouth.

"Feifei, you're not afraid to go, are you? You're scared, right?"

"Who wouldn't dare? Just go."

Just as she was happily catching up on the drama, a floating window prompted a message on Weibo. Mo Yu clicked on it and saw Ni Jiamu's reply: "I just want to be Xiaoyu's only male celebrity."

Mo Yu stared at the screen in disbelief. Where did Ni Jiamu learn such flirtatious and cheesy words? Coincidentally, a certain social media platform had also posted the information. Mo Yu logged out of Weibo and clicked on it. Xiao Hecheng, whom she hadn't seen in a while, had sent her a photo of a string of candied haws.

Then a few voice messages were sent. Mo Yu clicked on them, and a pleasant voice came from the screen. "Xiao Yu, I've been on a business trip with my boss these days. Today, while strolling around, I learned how to make candied haws. I didn't expect it to be so simple. I'll make them for you when I get back. Are you free next week?"

Mo Yu pinched her throat, trying to make her voice sound better. "Hecheng, I'll come to your house next week so I can learn how to do it."

After dinner, the two drove to the amusement park. Faced with the numerous entertainment projects, K was confused. "Fei Fei, which one should we try first?"

"Let's go for that." K looked in the direction Song Fei pointed. It was a roller coaster. He had never ridden one before, but seeing people vomiting after riding it and hearing people screaming, he couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Feifei, why don't you change to something else? This feels pretty scary."

"Are you so timid? It's so boring. I might as well go home!" Song Fei said as she walked towards the gate of the amusement park.

"Fei Fei, let me play, don't go."

By the time they were in the roller coaster's safety seat, K was incredibly nervous. He wasn't even afraid of killing people, but he was terrified of these things. Song Fei, on the other hand, was as calm as if she were on a trip, with no expression on her face.

"Mu Yuze, you've already experienced the car accident just now, and you're still afraid of a small roller coaster?"

"I wasn't afraid because I wanted to protect you..." Before he could finish his words, the roller coaster started moving, and K's words were drowned in the wind. He gripped the iron bar tightly with his hands, his palms full of sweat. The speed was not very fast when going uphill, but he was almost scared to death. The roller coaster began to go downhill, and the speed increased several times. K's heart was in his throat. He didn't dare to open his eyes. There were screams all around him, but not Song Fei's.

"Don't be afraid." Song Fei smiled and held K's hand. There was a smile on her face, her hair fluttering in the wind, and her other hand was open. She was enjoying this moment, enjoying the feeling of living towards death.

After it was over, K was almost dying, and Song Fei dragged him out of the chair.

"No, I want to vomit." K ran to the trash can and vomited. After he finished vomiting, Song Fei handed him a bottle of water and said, "Rinse your mouth. If I had known you were so scared, I wouldn't have let you sit here."

"Thank you Feifei, I'd love to sit here again. You just took the initiative to hold my hand. I'm not going to wash my hands today, hehe."

The two later played many other activities, but they were all relatively easy, such as the carousel, trampoline, etc.

"There's one last Ferris wheel ride left. After you ride it, I'll take you to dinner."

The sky gradually darkened, the whole sky seemed to be covered by a black curtain, and the colorful lights in the amusement park lit up, making the whole amusement park crystal clear. Most of the people had left, and only a few lovers were left walking towards the Ferris wheel.

"Fei Fei, look there are a lot of couples." K pointed to several couples in front.

"Legend has it that couples who ride a Ferris wheel together will eventually break up, but if you kiss your partner when the wheel reaches its highest point, they'll keep going forever. That's why couples probably love Ferris wheels."

"Then let's sit here again when we become a couple."

"Mu Yuze, you're dreaming." Song Fei rolled her eyes.

The Ferris wheel gradually rose higher, and the entire city appeared before K and Song Fei's eyes. Dazzling lights lit up one after another, turning the entire air into a mottled color, so beautiful, so dazzling.

"Mu Yuze, find someone else to like. I'm not worthy. The moon looks beautiful because it's too far away. If you get closer, you'll see potholes on the moon." Song Fei stared at the lights in the distance and spoke softly.

"The moon looks beautiful because it's so far away, but I also love the bumps and dents you see when you get close. I don't love the moon's perfect appearance, but everything about it, inside and out. I accept both perfection and imperfection. Feifei, I love the moon, so why would I care about its bumps and dents?"

At that moment, time stood still, and the girl's eyes were fixed on the boy opposite her. When we fall in love with someone, we make a bet with the heavens, but the result will not be known until much later.