You may have heard a story about a man with two hundred pieces and a dog who eloped with his terminally ill girlfriend.
This is actually a true story, the protagonists are Lai Min and Ding Yizhou. The key words surrounding their love are: terminal illness, parental opposition, nothingness...
Any one of these can cause a couple to part ways.
But the story of Lai Min and Ding Yizhou, from beginning to end, there is no separation, only redemption.
Tell their story today.
Lai Min did not think at first that he needed redemption. She is a very smiling girl, and many people praise her for being infectious when she laughs.
This optimism is inseparable from her previous smooth life: Lai Min, before the age of 23, had a good job, loved her parents, and was in love with her boyfriend who had been in love for seven years and was about to talk about marriage.
If everything goes well, it will be a plain and beautiful life.
Unfortunately, at the age of nine, a bomb was quietly planted. That year, Lai Min's mother was diagnosed with "penguin disease", which was a genetic disease in their family, but at that time, the young Lai Min did not realize anything.
Until the age of 23, this year, Lai Min's life underwent an earth-shaking reversal.
In 2009, Lai Min's father died unexpectedly, which was also the moment when the bomb detonated.
The death of his father was a painful blow to the Lai min family. In just nine days, Lai Min's mother died of excessive grief and soon died of a "penguin disease" attack.
In addition to grief, Lai Min also truly realized the horror of "penguin disease" for the first time: "at first she was unstable walking", "slowly talking began to stutter", "Then she could only cry".
For the first time, every change after her mother's illness was so clearly circulated in Lai Min's mind, and under the fear of death, the protagonist of all this seemed to become Lai Min.
At this moment, Lai Min remembered what her father said to her worriedly when she was 15 years old: "This disease is inherited, and I am afraid that you will also get it." ”
Dad's worries have now become Lai Min's fears, and she knows that all this may have to be played out on her at any time. At this moment, Lai Min's only happiness is that she also has a boyfriend who has been in love for 7 years.
Although life pushed her into the cliff, fortunately, she still had a back. Lai Min tried to correct his mentality, after all, life had to go on.
Unfortunately, the changes in her body were not under her control. She soon panicked to find that she was not fluent in speech, walked crookedly, and even sometimes fell inexplicably.
What this means, Lai Min could not be clearer. It's just that Lai Min didn't expect that his illness was actually more than ten years earlier than his mother.
In order not to attract the attention and criticism of others, Lai Min can only try her best to suppress, she performs every day like an actor, and the content of her performance is to make herself like a normal person.
But unexpectedly, she still showed the stuffing, and the audience that day was the boyfriend's mother.
The boyfriend's parents saw at a glance that Lai Min's walking posture was strange. In the face of this abnormal daughter-in-law, the other party showed no mercy and asked them to break up.
Lai Min once thought that her boyfriend would not leave her, after all, seven years of feelings, such a deep emotional foundation, what else can not go through together.
But what she didn't expect was that he really threw up his hands and left.
In the ashes of all thoughts, this girl who once loved to laugh left an almost fatal text on QQ:
"If one day, I die, what will you do?" What would you do without my laughter? What would you do without my company? Thinking of me, what do you do? ”
These words may just be Lai Min's farewell to the world.
But what she didn't expect was that there was a person who saw this and immediately rushed to her desperately.
The identity of the savior is actually a little strange to Ding Yizhou. Because when he was with Lai Min, he was the one who was saved.
Ding Yizhou and Lai Min are elementary school classmates. Ding Yizhou was a poor student, and Lai Min was an excellent student in the class. The story of the two is like another version of "The Girl We Chased Together In Those Years.")
Ding Yizhou, who often fights and makes trouble, is introverted, and the people in the class choose to isolate him collectively.
Lai Min, who is enthusiastic and sunny, is like a messenger of justice, and she is not accustomed to Ding Yizhou being bullied. So he stepped forward to become Ding Yizhou's first and only friend in the class.
In this way, Ding Yizhou silently fell in love with this radiant girl.
He had always thought that such a girl would live well, until one day he brushed up on Lai Min's spatial dynamics, and every sentence written by his first love revealed a light-hearted attitude, and Ding Yizhou knew how bad Lai Min's current situation was.
Stunned, Ding Yizhou made a decision: I want to take care of her.
So the story comes to the scene mentioned earlier, Ding Yizhou desperately runs towards his first love.
Lai Min was actually a little surprised at first, she looked at this old classmate who suddenly appeared to care about herself, and even joked: I (with you) back to Liuzhou, no one takes care of me, you take care of me? No job, you raise me?
Ding Yizhou replied to her in an ominous manner: In two days, I will go to Nanning to see you.
Lai Min was anxious while expecting, but what she never expected was that within a few days, Ding Yizhou actually fell from the sky, and then packed up her things, even with her dog.
Perhaps the reason why Lai Min, who is full of despair, can rekindle hope is because from the very beginning, Ding Yizhou has always used such a resolute and unrepentant posture to save her.
When they met again, he did not give Lai Min a choice, he directly "packed" her away.
After taking people home, Ding Yizhou encountered the same problems as Lai Min's first love boyfriend, and Ding Yizhou's mother also objected to her child being with Lai Min. In order to force Ding Yizhou to make a decision, Ding's mother even threatened to break off the mother-child relationship.
Last time in the same predicament, Lai Min lost badly, but this time, when the protagonist became Ding Yizhou, Lai Min was no longer disappointed, because Ding Yizhou chose her without the slightest hesitation.
Ding Yizhou fulfilled that promise - "I will raise you."
He put Lai Min at home, took care of her carefully, and he also took Lai Min to run between various hospitals, this disease has actually sentenced Lai Min to death, but he still does not give up taking her to seek life again and again.
Going to the hospital costs money, this is still a huge amount, Ding Yizhou has saved all the money over the years, but he has never regretted it.
It wasn't until later that Lai Min made a request.
Lai Min said not to let her die in the hospital.
So Ding Yizhou made another decision - he wanted to take Lai Min to see the outside world.
The person he likes has a free soul and should not be trapped in the white wall, and since he cannot change Lai Min's fate, then he must make her happy and regretless for the rest of her life.
He took the map and planned the tour route in the shape of a "heart", and then he issued an invitation to Lai Min.
With Lai Min's readily agreed, the two men set off.
The story that follows is what many people know: a man quits his high-paying job, takes two hundred yuan and a dog, and travels to China with his terminally ill girlfriend.
At first glance, the title is a bit of a curiosity, but really, it should be a heart-warming love story.
Ding Yizhou and Lai Min, whom he had loved for many years, were so dependent on each other in the funeral song of fate to wander the end of the world.
This heart-to-heart trip took nearly three and a half years. Many people said that this was Ding Yizhou's redemption of Lai Min, after all, he made her life beautiful at once.
But this redemption really has to be defined, and it may always be a two-way street. Because the person who was rescued was never only Lai Min, Ding Yizhou also needed her.
From the moment she reunited with Ding Yizhou, Lai Min, who was once sunny and smiling, came back, and her words and deeds were as energetic and confident as before.
Facing the journey in front of her, she said: "I want to be a chivalrous woman in Jin Yong, and he will be a chivalrous guest." ”
In the face of Ding's mother, who once did not like her, she said frankly: "What others do to me, I will do to her." ”
In the face of the few lives left, she can also see: "When you ask for more, you still get the most." ”
Regaining her strength, no matter what adversity she is in at this moment, she can stand up straight and no longer be humble into the dirt.
Perhaps it is precisely because she has endured all the suffering that she can hold her head higher in the face of fate, because she has been trained to be strong enough.
However, this fearless girl shed tears when she mentioned Ding Yizhou, saying that she was not afraid of life and separation, she was only afraid of death, because she did not know what to do if Ding Yizhou lost her.
Lai Min has always known clearly that she can't do without Ding Yizhou in life, but mentally, Ding Yizhou can't do without her.
And the truth is exactly what Lai Min thought. Between the two, she is actually the support of Ding Yizhou, or rather, Lai Min is the meaning of Ding Yizhou's life.
After their story exploded, Ding Yizhou became a good man in the eyes of netizens, after all, his inseparability is too rare in this era.
But Ding Yizhou did not think so, he said directly, "I will do this because the person being taken care of is good enough", "If I change women, I will be a scumbag in minutes".
He didn't even understand the praise that netizens praised him, he didn't understand why so many people praised him for his kindness, because in Ding Yizhou's eyes, all this he did was never a sacrifice, but love.
And what promotes this love from the beginning is not the pity extended by the terminal illness, but the unrelenting companionship attracted by the dazzling light.
Netizens see Lai Min's terminal illness, and Dante Yizhou sees her talent, optimism and cuteness;
Netizens saw Ding Yizhou taking Lai Min on the road, but Ding Yizhou saw the other side of the world that Lai Min took him to discover.
For Ding Yizhou, Lai Min was actually the girl who was so good in elementary school that he was willing to take a midday break, just to grab a whole pen box of scarabs to please.
Although she is sick now, she can still make him happy, still has the talent to amaze herself, and still has the charm of making her willing to obey.
So from beginning to end, he did all this willingly, willingly.
During the trip, in front of the Potala Palace, Ding Yizhou proposed to Lai Min, and their road to redemption thus moved to another stage, and the couple officially became a couple.
Then, they stopped their pace, returned to Guangxi, and built a small nest for two people.
Then they had children and had their own little business.
They don't know if such a happy life will end suddenly one day, but they are not going to guess which tomorrow or the accident will come first.
All they know is that at the moment, their family of three is very happy. And that's enough.