"So what is the end of your writings?" Jade still questioned.

David smiled enigmatically, "What do you expect? Do you expect every story to have a Hollywood ending? Hollywood endings were invented for box-office revenues. When I was a kid, my mom used to tell me that the play 万水千山 and novel 林海雪原 both had their heroes died in the end. But after they were remade or republished in the post "Culture Revolution" days, the heroes all survived in the end. My mom felt like her handkerchiefs were wasted.

Jade: "What are you going to do next?"

David: "Nothing, 清静无为. I mean, I am going to be a regular office worker with my hidden agenda of slowly moving home to where I was born".

Jade: "Are you sure you will not get bored by office politics again, and start something? What about your true purpose of traveling overseas? Have you found the mysterious cigarette butt that you were looking for in the Western culture?"

David: "Yes, I have found it. The cigarette butt is 'emptiness'. I am sure I will be bored by office work from time to time, but I will not see or feel the office politics any more. I am close to 四十而不惑, therefore it is about time that I understand 人生如梦 and 生而何欢死而何惧".

Jade: "Are you trying to stay aloof in this world now"?

David laughed and said: "Tell me about it. 大隐隐于朝，中隐隐于市，小隐隐于野, what does it mean to stay aloof? One can make an argument that people who tried to become Medieval monks or Easterners who tried to act like 贾宝玉 were the most enthusiastic kind of paparazzi and fans of vanity, fame and reputations. The true businessmen, bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, although mostly uncool, could also come up with several true heroes with hidden agenda underneath their poker faces A truly quiet man can be an idiot that has full range of emotions."

In the Chen family room, the DVD player started to play "Yellow Submarine" by Beatles,

In the town, where I was born

Live a man, who sail to sea

And he told us all his life, in the land of submarines

We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine

Out of the bathroom, Crystal slowly walked out and asked a childish question: "Mom, Dad, how come food that were so tasty yesterday could turn into something so disgusting this morning?"