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Everyone has to cross their own wasteland. Discover the truth of your death in this place, and then accept it with no choice. "

I guide souls across the wasteland, protecting them from evil. I tell them the truth and send them where they need to go."

This is Clay Two sentences said by Tristan to the ignorant Dylan in "The Ferryman" written by Er McFaul.

In the novel, Dylan is involved in a train accident. Before waking up, her soul groped alone in the darkness, crawled out of the car and walked out of the tunnel. Arrive at the uninhabited wasteland.

It was in this deserted place that Dylan met the only Tristan, the ferryman of her soul.

When Dylan walked out of the tunnel in a daze, he thought there would be police, doctors, firefighters and a large group of people coming to rescue him. Unexpectedly, at the end of the tunnel is a wasteland, and a Tristan whose face cannot be clearly seen is sitting on the slope.

Tristan sat silently, ignoring Dylan who was a hundred meters away waving and saying hello. When Dylan actually approached Tristan, Tristan asked Dylan to follow him in a cold and commanding tone.

This may be like being in a strange and dangerous environment, and when you encounter a straw that can provide rescue and help, you take the initiative to approach. Even if you are a little confused and hesitant about the development of things, you will still be willing to follow. Tristan said few words and strode towards the wasteland. Dylan, feeling confused and uneasy, followed quickly. Afraid of losing the only person in this wilderness.

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The safe house is not only a stop for the two of them every night, but also a safe place to block the attacks of the devil in the dark night. Every scene in the wasteland is a reflection of Dylan's heart. Tristan's main mission is to help Dylan travel across the wasteland and protect her soul from evil spirits, from its beginning to its distant end.

In the wasteland, there are countless demons waiting for every passing soul. You can live in peace during the day, but the devil will wreak havoc at night. In the short daylight, if one cannot reach another safe house, it means that the ferryman will be harmed, and the soul of the ferryed will be bitten and devoured.

Time is tight every day on the road. As they travel day by day, Dylan and Tristan become more and more familiar with each other, and gradually develop feelings for each other. When Dylan knew that one day she would reach the end of the wasteland and leave Tristan, she hoped that Tristan could always be with her. Tristan promised her. But what Dylan doesn't know is that she can cross the barrier behind the wasteland, but Tristan can't.

After discovering that Tristan did not come with him, Dylan complained that Tristan had deceived her. On the one hand, I want to travel back to the past and find Tristan again.

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With Eliza, the soul that had been ferried over before, Dylan found a way to go back - if she could successfully return to her body, she would Can drill back. However, no one has tried it before, and no one can predict the cost of breaking the rules of the game. But Dylan is still willing to give it a try, even if he still encounters the devil, even though he is likely to be written off his soul, even if he gets nothing. Under the fear of rationality and the fire of emotional love, she is also willing to choose to use sensibility to defeat reason, persist in one thought, and move forward fearlessly.

Tristan’s appearance has not changed, and neither has his heart. He never thought that Dylan would come back to look for him. Dylan tells him that they need to go back to where they first met, find that tunnel, and find her body.

The way back is always easier than the way you came. Love that has withstood hardships is always stronger than the original love. Dylan and Tristan are on their way home again, heading into an unknown situation.

Eventually Dylan found his body and came back to life. Tristan also succeeded and came to Dylan's real world.

The weak Dylan smiled with trembling lips: "So you are here."

Tristan just held her hand: "I'm here."

The memory has not changed, and neither have the feelings.

On the matter of love. I have always been unable to control myself. An unexpected encounter, an irreversible process, and an incomplete farewell. No one sets out an execution plan for love, figuring out when to love and when not to love. When true love comes, you can't stop it. Real feelings are in the future tense, and you don’t love deeply. When you meet someone who really moves you, there will be someone who is willing to use the fullness of their life to love with all their strength, or even replace them.

Even in the era of rapid emotional consumption, there are still people who are willing to treat someone religiously. Just like in the past, cars, horses, and emails were very slow, and those who love only one person in their life love well.

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Coincidentally, last year's movie "The Ferryman" adapted from Zhang Jiajia's short story of the same name also allowed us to witness one fearless craziness for love after another.

Chen Mo in the movie is the owner of the "Golden Ferryman" bar. He met He Muzi through Lao Hu ten years ago. He Muzi is the new ace bartender in a bar. It is said that no one can pass a cup off her hands. The most classic "see you tomorrow" made Chen Mo prostrate himself in front of the stairs outside the door again and again. But Chen Mo persisted in winning He Muzi's heart, and even came to see her in a wheelchair wearing a plaster cast, and finally impressed He Muzi and became a couple.

But no one thought that He Muzi's death would separate Chen Mo and her forever. Chen Mo began to get sick frequently, and began to use his ability to help others resolve the knots in their hearts and ferry those who needed to be ferried to the other side. It's just that the knot in my heart has always been there and I can't untie it.

Chen Mo said: "I am a person without tomorrow, but I hope that everyone will have a tomorrow. This is not fate, this is just my choice."

Chen Mo ferries his partner Guan Chun. Guan Chun and Maomao knew each other before. Guan Chun hung out in the game hall, and Maomao's family was a cake maker. Gradually, he often sent cakes to Guan Chun, and the two gradually became familiar with each other. The two also agreed that he would teach her to play games and her cake would be used as tuition. In an accident, Maomao suffered intracranial hemorrhage and lost her memory. Her father quietly took her away from there. Maomao is like a secret hidden in Guan Chun's heart. Under the urging of time, Guan Chun did not forget it, but never mentioned it again.

One day by chance, Maomao, who had not seen him for a long time, returned to his original place, but he could no longer remember Guan Chun, like a stranger. Based on the reverse principle, Guan Chun thought that by torturing himself hard, he could make Maomao live a good life. Even though he is as down and out as a beggar, he still firmly believes that he can get Maomao back.

Later, Maomao went away to a foreign country with her uncle. Chen Mo found a courier for Guan Chun from Ecuador. The items inside were cakes made by Maomao, and the address on the outside was the information revealed by Maomao.

Chen Mo ferries the sister of the local gang boss. His sister was his first love, and she dated a boy for three years. As a result, the man said something and ran away. So his sister locked herself in the room alone, not seeing anyone, and even harmed herself.

Chen Mo used the method of hugging ice cubes by everyone present, including his brother. Explain to them that the love they thought they could hold on to, actually means nothing in the end. If two people don't truly love each other, they will most likely break up after the passage of time.

There is nothing wrong with two people being together and loving deeply. The mistake is to fall into deep self-grasping. You know, the love that truly belongs to you is not a hurtful ice cube, but a cup of hot tea that can warm people.

Chen Mo ferries the bride who is about to have a wedding, but the groom disappears. Wearing a wedding dress, she hid in the wedding car and refused to come out. She always believed that the groom would come back and was willing to wait in the car to marry him. In fact, it was the groom who didn’t want her.

Chen Mo used the method of not letting her eat for two days and two nights to divert her attention. When she got out of the car, she thought of her mother. Reminds me of the braised pork her mother made.

We have to experience a lot in the decades of our lives. There are things that make you sad, but there are still people you love and people who love you. How can you cut off your ability to love again and let down the people who love you just because you are alone?

You must learn to keep some things, and you must also know how to give up some things. Every time you let go is actually a kind of self-rebirth. After every kind of rebirth, you will grow to see more and more clearly the world.

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Chen Mo said that the highest principle of being a ferryman is to empathize with others.

Ma Li is a singer, and his fiancée Jiang Jie cuckolded him. Ma Ma was a nostalgic person. When he was about to break up, he gave everything to Jiang Jie and left home. Ma Li drank too much that night, sat in front of Xiaoyu's door, and asked if he could stay here for a few days. After entering the house, Ma Lizui lay on the sofa, and Xiaoyu looked at him with a sense of loss.

Looking at the sluggish horse power that is drunk and dreaming every day. Xiaoyu wanted to ferry Ma Li, but Chen Mo told him that a musician who can make him stand up again is music. Xiaoyu began to go around the streets to organize crowdfunding concerts for Ma Li, and even spent all her savings to help Ma Li stand up again.

On the night of celebrating Ma Li's signing, Jiang Jie and the man who had cuckolded Ma Li before came to Chen Mo's bar and deliberately provoked trouble. Jiang Jie's current husband asked Ma Li for a drink, but Ma Li refused. Xiaoyu stepped forward and drank a bottle of white wine for him. Jiang Jie's current husband said that if he wanted to play, he should play big, and he proposed playing bar golf.

Chen Mo asked her if she wanted to work so hard. Xiaoyu said, no matter what, being a ferryman means being cruel to yourself, you said so.

In the middle of the game, Chen Mo said, just forget it if it doesn’t work. Many people have a natural ability to drink, and you are no match for them. Xiaoyu held on to the wall and said seriously, "Whoever wants to compete with her for drinking capacity, I will compete with her."

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In the end, Xiaoyu won. Jiang Jie lost, but Ma Li still sent her back.

Xiaoyu already knew that Ma Li didn't like her. But he is still willing to sacrifice his life for him regardless of his own safety. Maybe she's just stupid. You are so stupid that you don’t need anything in return, but you are still willing to give. As long as I can do something for him, I will be happy enough.

She helped Ma Li ferry to the sunny side of life. Once Ma Li arrived, her mission was completed.

I remember Leo Tolstoy said in "Anna Karenina": "Happy people are all the same, and unfortunate people are each unhappy in their own way." In fact, love is not the same. You will give everything at all costs to the people you really like, and there are all kinds of cheap excuses and reasons for the people you don't like.

The world is like a book, and I happened to turn to your page and read your charm. Many of the standards I once set for myself have been abandoned, and the principle of loving myself has become weaker. I just like you, no matter whether it makes sense or not, as long as it is you.

If you have the opportunity to sit down and have hot pot together, enjoy it. Give me time to like you well, and I will like you well. If you are still worried, after everything is ready, I will send you across the shore and over the lost path.

I still like you as always, but when I see you happy, I can let go of myself. At least I loved you with all my heart.

You will eventually find your destination and come ashore, and I, the ferryman, am still floating in the center of the river that loves you. But don't worry, I will get ashore one day.

There is no need to talk about results, and there is no need to talk about youth. Therefore I am willing to pay. There are a lot of things that don't necessarily have to be like economics, calculating costs, profits, etc. If I were to do it again, I would meet again with everything I had done before.

Don’t forget it if you can’t figure it out, as long as it is done for you.

In the world of emotions, I don’t want everyone to be a ferryman. If you ferry others, remember to take care of yourself too.