The video from the intelligence report ended.
Combining that with the videotape Bai Han had left behind, Li Xu finally understood everything.
When Bai Han was a child, he once went to an amusent park with his mother and older brother.
There, Bai Han t a girl nad Xiao Xi.
They t under the starry sky and quickly developed feelings for each other.
They found the Moon and a few stars nearby.
And nad them the Rabbit Constellation.
Xiao Xi said the stars were like watchtowers, shining on each other but unable to share their thoughts.
This also hinted at Xiao Xi’s social anxiety.
But back then, no one knew she had a condition, not even Xiao Xi herself.
Bai Han gave Xiao Xi the platypus toy he had won at the amusent park.
He also gave her the sandbag he had left behind.
They promised to et there again at the sa ti next year.
If they forgot or got lost, they would et again on the Moon!
But life is unpredictable. A few months later, his mother accidentally hit and killed her eldest son while backing up the car.
That is, Bai Han’s older brother, Xiao Hai.
Overco with grief, his mother, wanting Bai Han to forget everything, gave him large doses of inhibitors that caused mory loss.
Moreover, because she had favored Xiao Hai, his mother even forced Xiao Hai’s favorite food, pickled radishes, and favorite show, *Transford Warrior*, onto Bai Han in the years that followed.
This was why Bai Han beca so fond of pickled radishes and the *Transford Warrior* comics later in life.
Because he had taken the inhibitors, Bai Han naturally couldn’t recall his promise to Xiao Xi under the stars.
Later,
When Bai Han grew up, fate brought him and Xiao Xi together again at school.
He fell for her at first sight.
Urged on by his childhood friend Zhou Gu, he asked Xiao Xi to a movie.
However, Bai Han simply could not rember that they had t before.
But did Xiao Xi recognize Bai Han?
The video didn’t say.
Li Xu guessed that she had.
Otherwise, Xiao Xi wouldn’t have been silent for so long when Bai Han asked her to the movies.
Later, the two of them naturally got together.
But not long after, Xiao Xi was diagnosed with a social anxiety disorder: Asperger’s syndro.
The main characteristic of this condition is the inability to smoothly and clearly express one’s thoughts and emotions to others.
This was also why Xiao Xi kept asking Bai Han about the rabbits she folded—because she couldn’t tell him what she was really thinking.
She couldn’t make Bai Han rember their first encounter.
Every ti she took out a rabbit and asked Bai Han what it was,
he would only ever answer that it was a rabbit.
But what Xiao Xi wanted to hear was, ’This is about our promise!’
Because the aning of the rabbit was the Rabbit Constellation from their childhood starry sky.
Not long after, the two of them got married.
The venue was at the foot of a watchtower.
Day after day, Xiao Xi folded rabbits.
She filled their room with them and always kept the platypus toy Bai Han had given her as a child by her side.
She could already tell that Bai Han seed to have forgotten.
But she never stopped trying to remind him with these clues.
In those monts, Xiao Xi must have felt hopeless.
Because no matter how she guided or questioned him, she could never get Bai Han to speak of that mory.
But because of her condition, she couldn’t put any of it into words.
Yet she never gave up.
Because the love was still there!
As long as she was alive, she could keep doing these things.
One ti, they went to the watchtower.
Bai Han told Xiao Xi that he had pursued her in their school days precisely because she seed quiet and reserved, different from other girls.
She had a special kind of allure.
Xiao Xi, however, seed a little disappointed.
Because that wasn’t the answer she wanted.
She took out the sandbag Bai Han had given her at the amusent park.
How could Bai Han possibly rember what it was?
Xiao Xi had him throw the sandbag at the watchtower, then sat by herself off to one side.
Despite this, ti passed, day by day.
One day, they ca to the watchtower again.
By this point, the watchtower had been abandoned.
The watchtower had always been sothing Xiao Xi was especially fond of.
In truth, the lonely watchtower was a reflection of Xiao Xi’s own inner world.
Xiao Xi suggested they build a house there soday, wanting to forever stand guard beside the watchtower.
But later, Xiao Xi was diagnosed with another illness, and it was already in its late stages.
Although this illness was treatable, the house they had planned was already under construction.
Both required urgent funding, and they didn’t have nearly enough money to treat Xiao Xi’s illness.
That day, a distressed Bai Han sat beside the half-finished house.
Just then, Xiao Shu, the wife of his childhood friend Zhou Gu, ca to comfort Bai Han, bringing a jar of pickled radishes.
At this point, Xiao Xi hoped Bai Han would use the remaining money to finish the house.
But Bai Han wanted Xiao Xi to live more than anything.
Even if the money wasn’t enough, he had to try.
Xiao Shu told Bai Han he should listen to Xiao Xi this ti, as it was her last wish.
But Bai Han didn’t want to hear that. "Can’t I be selfish for once?" he said.
"I don’t want to be left all alone."
Back ho, Bai Han moved the piano into the bedroom, right next to Xiao Xi’s bed.
Gravely ill, Xiao Xi lay there, looking haggard.
The floor was still covered with paper rabbits.
Bai Han composed a piano piece for Xiao Xi—the very sa *To Xiao Xi*.
At that mont, Xiao Xi again asked Bai Han about the rabbits she folded.
This one was a different color from the others.
It was a rabbit with a yellow belly and a blue body.
Bai Han answered that their colors were different.
Xiao Xi was very happy and continued to press him.
But Bai Han just couldn’t recall those lost mories.
In reality, the yellow belly was the yellow Moon from that night.
And the blue body was the starry sky!
Xiao Xi told Bai Han to use the rest of the money to finish the house and live there, keeping ’Xiao An’ company.
That is, the watchtower.
Not long after,
Xiao Xi passed away.
Afterward, Bai Han adopted a daughter, Bai Qingqing.
As ti went on,
Bai Han grew old.
One day,
Perhaps the inhibitors he had taken were finally wearing off, or perhaps it was a sudden flash of insight.
He suddenly rembered there was sothing he hadn’t done.
He had to go sowhere.
A place that was very, very important.
Because he had to go to that place to be reunited with his beloved wife.
But the effects of the inhibitors still lingered.
He couldn’t for the life of him rember where he had to go!
He only rembered that he absolutely had to go.
The imnse pain and the tornt of being unable to rember finally broke him.
He couldn’t hold on any longer.
And so he went mad!
His body gave out, too!
His days were numbered.
...
Li Xu recalled Bai Han shouting from his sickbed, "Where do I have to go?? Where do I have to go?"
He sighed. ’You have to go to the Moon!’
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