This year’s New Year’s Eve dinner was held at a hotel with both the Ruan and Chen families. At the table, the elders set the date for the wedding and took full responsibility for all matters, big and small, related to the ceremony. After the dinner, the group left the hotel. Chen Yi and Ruan…

In the summer of 2019, Jiang Rang, who was overwhelmed with a new project, received an email from his home country. The sender was Liang Yiran. Liang Yiran was his good friend from high school and the only one who still kept in frequent contact with him since he went abroad. In addition to the…

The day they went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get their marriage certificate, Pingcheng had already entered winter. Chen Yi drove over early in the morning, took a number, and sat in the waiting area of the hall, occasionally looking up at the entrance. The main entrance faced a bustling street with endless streams…

The notebook cover was already somewhat faded, the pages inside were yellowed, and the writing was a bit blurred, but it was still legible. Chen Yi opened the first page. There were only two lines written on it. One line was a date that didn’t leave much of an impression on him and was from…

Chen Yi only noticed the excessive silence in the room after finishing the phone call. He turned his head to look towards the sofa, where Ruan Mian was sitting with her back to the window, head lowered, motionless. Beside her were a few folded clothes and a black backpack with its zipper open. He didn’t…

The winter of 2019 came early. The north wind descended on the prosperous metropolis, bringing a piercing, bone-chilling cold. Barely mid-November, yet the temperature had already plunged into single digits. The air was murky with lingering smog. Chen Yi had left City B over a month ago. During this time, Ruan Mian had followed Meng…

When Ruan Mian came downstairs with Chen Yi after seeing Duan Ying, Zhao Yingwei had just arrived home. He was actually not a complete stranger to Chen Yi. Back when they were in school, he had seen Chen Yi a few times at Li Zhi’s supermarket. Later, after graduating, they had run into each other…

Zhao Shuyang’s exclamation was like a thunderclap that exploded in Chen Yi and Ruan Mian’s ears. The two of them froze in place and looked up to see Fang Ruqing’s figure flash by the window. Ruan Mian, like a child caught in an underage romance by her parents, panicked and could only push Chen Yi’s…

Chen Yi didn’t get physical with Zhou Yuan. Strictly speaking, he never even intended to. The words he said to Zhou Yuan were because he saw through Zhou Yuan’s cowardice and timidity, and he used his words to first crush the dark side in Zhou Yuan’s heart. Perhaps he did love Lin Jiahui, but before…

In the evening, dusk enveloped the earth. The city, where cars flowed like water, welcomed the daily evening rush hour. The long line of cars was stuck in place, unable to move forward. It had already been nearly forty minutes since Ruan Mian left home. Outside the car window, large swaths of evening glow covered…