默读/SILENT READING Epilogue

although, do you know that Director Lu has blacklisted you?”

Fei Du: “…”

“In fact, he didn’t know how to blacklist. He came downstairs on purpose to find Tao Ran and ask him how, and when he’d asked he put it into practice on you. A middle-aged man past his fifth decade, thirty years behind the times, learning a new technical skill for your sake. Darling, isn’t it glorious?”

He wished he could rip through time, stride seven years into the past, pick up that silent child, scoop him out of his unrevealed pain, say to him, “I’m sorry, I came too late.”

He said, “You didn’t… The monsters are all cleared away, and I’m the last one. Can you shut me up in your home?”