this movie is so heartbreaking. *weeps* spoilers, if you have not watched it.
"Bo, " he says, his dark brown eyes serious behind his thick glasses, "I will always love you. Will you marry me?"
And she says, yes, yes.
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"Keung!" she shouts. "Keung!"
He turns around, tightening his tie as he did. She sprinted towards him, a thermos bottle banging against her leg.
Soup.
"Keung, I bought you soup!" She smiles, bright and heartbreaking and so utterly lovely -
He turns those thoughts away. He is a professional. This is a job. But still, he accepts the thermos bottle.
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She thinks she has seen a ghost before. Somewhere, sometime, fleeting glimpses of a dark head hiding behind a pillar, sneakers pitter-pattering away. She remembers a ghost, a sly one, darting around and hiding behind her when she walks home from school. For ages after that, she was afraid to tie her long hair while walking. But Jun was there, and she resumes tying her hair while walking.
She never sees the ghost again.
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He likes her soup. It was scalding hot, intense and burning his mouth with its myriad of flavors. Traditional soup, made in the old way. Keung eats alone in his lonely apartment, dipping his spoon into the bowl and bringing it to his mouth. He does not bother to blow it, to make it cooler. He drinks it swiftly, eagerly, gulping it down in hot mouthfuls before the flavour runs away.
Lei comes round, and when he sees the soup, he teases Keung, saying that his older brother had luck with women. Keung never denies it.
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Bo remembers the first time she sees Jun. He was walking with his nose in a book, reading his text carefully. She had shrieked out a warning when she saw that he was about to plow into a pillar, and he stops, just in time. Jun had turned around, and politely thanked her. And then he had walked her home, saying it was only the correct thing to do. When she tells him about the ghost, Jun frowns. He peers behind his shoulder, adjusting his glasses. And then, he had grabbed her around the shoulders and hustled her away, saying that it was best to leave before it gets dark.
She now realizes that he has never risked himself for her, not once.
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Bo - Bo -
He tries to call her, but his voice comes out as a gurgle. Keung brings his hand up to the back of his neck, where his hair feels wet and sticky. When he looks at his hand, it was stained with red. Keung blinks.
He swipes his hand across his face, where he could feel saliva and blood trickling from his mouth. No good, no good to walk up to Bo looking like a red monster. His face feels wet and sticky. He swipes his hand across his face, once, twice, thrice, each time with increasing desperation. He cannot - he cannot walk up to Bo looking like this. The back of his neck feels wet, and he closes his eyes.
Bo.
What a fine joke, to see her walking away with that four-eyed frog.
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Mun thinks she has found a fine friend in Bo, even though she has never met her face to face. An amusement engineered by fate, knowing such a fine friend through a misplaced call. Mun chuckles to herself as she thinks of the very first words Bo has spoken to her, "Are you the plumber!?" And somehow or other, a conversation had taken place.
Mun smiles to herself as she strokes the soft hair of her new boyfriend. He squints up at her, smiling slightly. "What are you smiling at?"
She laughs, ruffles her hand through the hair in a quick stroke. "None of your business!"
He smiles at her, then sits and grabs his glasses off the nightstand. "When are you going to introduce to me to your friend?"
Mun laughs at him, she feels lucky that she has found such a wonderful guy.
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What fine jokes destiny play with us.
end.