---- Chapter 18 A year later, Ramon's company was listed. Someone mentioned Alan at the celebration party. He said his parents finally divorced after wasting half their lives. Alan was the most obedient patient in the mental hospital. | put down the glass and walked to the balcony outside. The wind blew gently. Philip told me about Alan not long ago. He often visited him, but he didn't intend to visit him again after the recent visit. He said Alan's memory stayed before our divorce. Every time he went to the ward, Alan was cleaning the empty ward. Alan said he was preparing my birthday, and his eyes were empty. Philip asked him, "Don't you remember Fiona?" Alan tilted his head and kept saying, "She went abroad." ---- "What about me?" Philip pointed himself. Alan stared at him for a long time and smiled like a child. "Dad, | won the first place in the physical competition. Don't divorce mom." "Can't you go to see him?" Philip asked me on the phone. + "Maybe he is just waiting for an understanding." | thought for a long time and finally refused, | didn't tell him when the fire happened, Alan sent me a message when he escaped from the safe passage. He asked me, "Other people make mistakes many times and can be forgiven, why can't | be forgiven for making a mistake once?" | thought he felt wronged until that moment. He didn't understand why his belated rebellion had to cost him such a high price. He also didn't understand why |, who had been enduring all this time, left without hesitation. He had been walking the path prepared for him for many years and thought that the temporary fork in the road was new. But he never thought that he couldn't go back to the original way. ---- Just like us in the past, we were just in the past. The moment his memory stayed at was perhaps the safest moment for him. He thought he could make up for everything. But | had already embarked on a new journey, this time it was not us, but me alone.