My Unfinished Song for You

I spent five years in a recording studio on Yulin Road in Chengdu. I tuned the pitch for Douyin influencers and made backing tracks for wedding companies. On the mixing console, there was always an open project file named "demo_2021年3月17日". The track had only two channels—one for guitar, one for an empty vocal track. It hadn't been touched in five years. That song was written for someone. Her name is Lin Zhiyi. Five years ago, she asked me to write her a song, and I said yes. Then she left. The song was never finished. A while ago, my college roommate sent me a message from Beijing. He said he saw a bookstore opened by Lin Zhiyi—"Zhiyi Bookstore". I hesitated for three days. Then I bought a plane ticket to Beijing. Beijing is cold. But Chengdu isn't warm either. — Description from novelcodex.org