For a year after Kuo-chun's death, Huang felt like his son was still in the house. If Huang was downstairs, he had the sense that Kuo-chun was upstairs in the study; when he went upstairs himself, it seemed as if Kuo-chun had heard his familiar tread and had slipped off just ahead of him.
國峻走了的第一年，黃春明總是感覺國峻還在家中，當他在樓下，就感覺國峻正在樓上書房；等到他踱步上樓，熟悉爸爸行蹤的國峻又早一步躲開了。