When the boy and the girl fell in love for the first time, the boy folded a thousand paper cranes for the girl and hung them in the girl’s room. The boy said to the girl, this thousand paper cranes, on behalf of my thousand heart. At that time, the boy and the girl were feeling the sweetness and happiness of love every minute and every second. Later, the girl gradually alienated the boy. The girl got married and went to France, to Paris, which appeared in her dreams countless times.
The girl and the boy broke up, said to the boy, we must face up to reality, is the second reincarnation, I must grasp all the opportunities, you’re too poor, I can hardly imagine that we combined together in the days of …… the boy in the girl went to France, sold newspapers, did a temporary job, have done a small business every job he tried to do. Many years passed, with the help of his friends and his own efforts, he finally had his own company. He was rich, but he still couldn’t forget the girl in his heart.
One day when it was raining, the boy saw a couple of old people walking slowly in front of him from his black Cadillac. The boy recognized them as the girl’s parents, so the boy decided to follow them. He wanted to show them that not only did he own a small car, but he also owned a villa and a company, to show them that he was not poor, he was the young boss. The boy followed them all the way in a slow car.
It was raining non-stop, and despite the fact that the pair had umbrellas, they were drenched by the slanting rain. When they reached their destination, the boy froze; it was a cemetery. He saw the girl, who was smiling sweetly at him in the porcelain image of the tombstone. And beside the tiny grave, there were strings of paper cranes hanging from thin wires, looking so vivid in the drizzle.
The girl’s parents told the boy that the girl had not gone to Paris, that the girl had cancer, that the girl had gone to heaven. The girl wanted the boy to get ahead and have a warm home, that’s why the girl acted the way she did. She says she knows the boy and it will work out. The girl says if the boy visits her at the cemetery one day, please bring a few paper cranes anyway. The boy went down on his knees and knelt in front of the girl’s grave, tears streaming down his face.
The ‘rain on the Qingming Festival didn’t know how to stop, drenching the boy to the bone. The boy remembered the innocent smiling face of the girl many years ago, and the boy’s heart began to bleed downward drop by drop as he watched. The pair of old men walked out of the cemetery when they saw the boy standing not far away, the door of the Cadillac had been opened for the old man. A mournful song came out of the car stereo, ‘My heart, no regrets, over and over again all for you, a thousand paper cranes, a thousand love, flying in the wind.
