Who Really Owes Whom?

This is a story about Liu Jin, who met a young woman named Chen Fenfen while working in Jinwei. That year, Liu Jin was twenty, and she was the same age as me. He lived east of the Taihang Mountains, while she lived west of them. Fate brought us together, and fate pulled us apart. Liu Jin had known Chen Fenfen for less than two months when she went back to his hometown with him. The two of them were together for two or three years, until she returned to her own hometown. Liu Jin went there to look for her, but he never got to see her. More than twenty years have passed, and even now Liu Jin has yet to find the answer he seeks. If we owe nothing in this life, we need not meet again in the next. If we meet again in the next life, then we must owe each other a debt.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.