Episode 5: The Last Pair of Eyes

Title: Sunflower on a Lightless Night

Episode 5: The Last Pair of Eyes

"These eyes...What are you looking at, Anon? "

Anon, in 28 years of age, a homemade bread shop owner in a light brown shirt and a linen stain, woke up from a dream in the morning, looked at the faint scar on the back of his right hand from saving a stray cat five years ago, and raised his hand to touch his eyelids... The new pair of eyes he received were donated by "Tin," a close friend of the late postman. Every day Anon would intentionally bake homemade bread and use this pair of eyes to look at the world instead of his best friend, with "Rin," a 27-year-old woman, a ceramic maker with a warm smile and a soft voice, who stopped by to help Anon run a bread shop and grab things. She had a long crush on Anon's strength, and often made a ceramic glass with sunflower-shaped skin for Anon to try his hand.

The couple's bond went on beautifully, until the knot of conflict began to intensify. When Anon noticed that after this break, Rin's hand, who had been sending him bread dough, began to tremble violently, and her face became haggard. One day Anon found Rin secretly coughing up blood behind the shop. The young man was impatient at the entrance to shake her hand and asked for a soft, now cold hand. Rin sobbed for a long time before confessing the terrible truth that she had terminal heart failure. And the doctor said that her heart would soon stop beating.

The most emotional drama on the rainy night, Rin suffered a shock of unconsciousness in front of the bread shop. Anon tried to carry her body through the darkness to the hospital amid the sound of sirens and the smell of antiseptics. Anon sat tight in a sunflower-shaped ceramic glass, praying for the sacred things to keep her safe until the doctor came out with a sad eye...Rin has left peacefully.

But the truth is so badly broken and grateful that the heart is broken...

The doctor handed Anon a letter that Rin had written before his death to read with the pair of eyes that Tin had given: "Anon...I know how much you love Tin's eyes, but the doctor said that Tin's original cornea was going to have tissue resistance and blinded you twice soon. I didn't want Tin's love to be wasted, and I didn't want you to go back into the dark, so I donated my eyes to you...Yes, your next pair of eyes will come from me. I want you to use my eyes to keep looking at our ceramic glass, sunflowers and bread shop..."

Anon was frowning, tears covered two cheeks, a deep painful knot...Rin did not come to his aid simply out of pity, but she was determined to spend the end of her life alongside him to pass on the last light to his life, and the young man looked at the scar on the back of his right hand...Lift it up, gently rub the glass of sunflower ceramic with all your heart.

A month later, Anon opened his eyes again. The world was illuminated by Rin's new pair of eyes. He saw a sunflower-shaped ceramic glass in front of the store and saw the shadows of Tin and Rin reflected in memory. Anon smiled tearfully. Amid the smell of baking nets of bread in the store. Now the love and sacrifice of the departed has become a life force ready to pass on warmth to the world forever.

💡 Thoughts

True love does not end in loss, but it is "existence" in the form of forwarding, the light given by loved ones, is for us to live to do good and continue to deliver warmth to the world.

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