Su Min has been married for fifteen years. As she carefully prepares dinner, she clutches her medical report, which reads “Category 4A breast nodule,” but her husband, Zhou Wei, is late coming home again. For half a month, his distance and indifference have made her uneasy. Then she finds movie stubs and a tissue stained with unfamiliar lipstick in his briefcase. The date is the very day she went for her follow-up examination.
When Su Min confronts him, Zhou Wei brushes her off. Then Chen Xi, a woman she has never met, asks to see her and drops a bombshell: she and Zhou Wei have been together for six months. As they face off, Zhou Wei's excuses and the attentiveness he shows afterward leave Su Min wavering. He cancels a business trip to accompany her to the doctor, but when they run into Chen Xi and her boyfriend at the mall, he looks panicked.
Caught between her health worries and the illusion of a “happy family” in her daughter Xiaotong's eyes, and between her husband's hard-to-believe lies and the mystery Chen Xi has left behind, Su Min stands at a crossroads. All she can do is summon her courage, face Monday's needle biopsy, and then uncover the truth behind the cracks in her marriage.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
