This actor is full of tricks.

"When did this story begin..."

The proprietress typed while AI voices played from her phone.

"It sounds strange and fantastical, just listen to it as a story."

"Back then, due to some special reasons, I resigned and returned to my hometown, opened this guesthouse here, and brought my parents up from the foot of the mountain."

"Two years ago, Han Gui Sheng Shan was a popular tourist attraction in the surrounding area. There were many tourists at that time, and the scenic spot was doing very well, which also made my family famous."

"But later, the popularity of the sacred mountain cooled down, and gradually, fewer and fewer people came here. However, I don't really like crowds, otherwise I wouldn't have chosen to open a guesthouse here. I'm happy to have some peace and quiet."

“Until a year and a half ago, my mother…” The proprietress stopped typing, turned to look at the old woman who was already drowsy beside her, her eyes dimmed: “She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.”

Alzheimer's disease is also the most common type of dementia in the elderly, especially women over 65 years of age, who have a significantly higher incidence rate than men.

“At first, my mother’s symptoms were just that she would often space out and sit alone.”

"Later, her symptoms gradually developed into memory impairment. She couldn't remember where she had put the things she had just seen, or what I had just said to her."

"Her condition progressed very rapidly, like a flood that had been suddenly released from its dam, so rapidly that even the doctors were helpless."

“In less than half a month after her illness was discovered, my mother’s memory had deteriorated very severely. She could no longer recognize me as her daughter, and she even developed spatial cognitive impairment. She couldn’t even find her way back to her room after going to the toilet.”

"But she remembers my father very clearly."

“During that time, my father took meticulous care of my mother. Even though she became like a child, couldn’t control her temper, and was often forgetful, my father took very good care of her. From the outside, she was just an ordinary old lady.”

“Sometimes when I see my dad taking care of my mom, I envy their love. At that time, my dad didn’t treat my mom as an adult, but as a naive child. No matter what trouble my mom caused, my father was always smiling.”

"What I remember most vividly is my father combing my mother's hair while he was smiling and saying..."

“Old woman, I’ve known you since you were a teenager. I’ve seen your fierce and strong-willed side, and I regret that I’ve never seen you like a child. Now I finally have.”

Lie Zeng clutched his chest, looking distressed: "Boss, what's this feeling? My heart is clenching."

“This is the emotion between humans, the hub between hearts,” Lin Jue replied.

"Is it like how I feel about you?" Liezang started again.

Lin Jue felt a chill. This guy, Lie Zeng, has been acting a bit too wildly lately. He needs to find some time to tough it out.

The proprietress glanced at Lin Jue. Luckily, she couldn't hear Lie Zeng's words, otherwise she would definitely be disgusted as well.

The AI's voice continued: "Although Mother's condition is serious, life is relatively stable, and we can manage to get by."

"But right after the Spring Festival this year, my peaceful life suddenly changed dramatically." "During the Spring Festival, the popularity of the sacred mountain briefly increased because of a video promoting the scenic area. At that time, more guests came to stay at the guesthouse, which led to a shortage of ingredients. So I drove down the mountain to buy ingredients."

"But the weather in Han Gui changes quickly. When I came down the mountain, it was sunny and clear, but in the afternoon it suddenly started snowing. Moreover, the guests in my homestay group were saying that the snow on the sacred mountain suddenly became heavy, and even the homestay lost power."

“At that time, I felt very depressed, as if something was about to happen, so I hurriedly asked a guest to look after my father and mother.”

At this point, the proprietress stopped typing, an extremely sad emotion lingering around her. Lin Jue glanced subtly at the old woman who was already fast asleep beside him, and he could roughly guess what had happened next.

Alzheimer's patients often get lost, and it was probably around that time that the old lady's condition relapsed, and she walked out of the guesthouse and into the heavy snow on the mountain.

Then the proprietress's father discovered that his wife was missing. He went out to look for her and eventually found her unconscious in the thick snow.

The old man picked up his wife and tried to walk down the mountain, but the snow was too heavy. Every step in that extreme environment was a great test for an elderly person. In the end, the two elderly people were trapped in the heavy snow.

On his deathbed, the old man held his wife tightly, trying to bring warmth to his wife with his own body heat. That's why the old man was in that posture in the memory that Lin Jue saw.

The ending is self-evident: the old woman survived, but the old man remained forever in that snowy landscape.

And things did indeed turn out just as Lin Jue had imagined. Love stories are like that—full of drama, yet always deeply moving.

The proprietress's eyes were already wet with tears, and her fingers trembled uncontrollably as she tapped the screen.

Ai's emotionless tone contrasted sharply with the landlady's bitterness.

“My mother’s condition has become increasingly serious since my father passed away.”

"She seems to have forgotten everyone and everything, even her beloved husband. She often sits alone in her room in a daze, sometimes for a whole day, and no one will react to her when they see her."

"But sometimes, she seems to have recovered and will tell me the story of how she met and fell in love with her father."

"Although she did not show any signs of sadness, she never left the guesthouse again."

“The doctor in charge of my treatment told me that my mother had come to see the world outside the guesthouse as my father’s grave, and the guesthouse as a prison that trapped her.”

"The doctor said that this is not conducive to controlling my mother's condition, and that my mother must go out and move around more."

“But my mother refused to go out again; the world outside the guesthouse was like hell to her.”

“But one day, when I finished cooking in the kitchen and went to call my mother, I found that she was not in the room. I searched the whole guesthouse and finally found her in the backyard of the house.”

"She finally broke free of her cage, under my father's guidance." (End of Chapter)