Phone Love

In 1997, at the age of 30, I dialed the audio dating hotline out of curiosity and started a virtual relationship with a 20-year-old girl, Lavender Xiao Liu. The two exchanged messages every day and went to offline appointments. After meeting, they couldn't help but cross the line. I struggled between excitement and guilt, and finally chose to return to my family, and the two of us broke off the relationship tacitly. After that, Xiao Liu asked me for help due to emotional problems, and the relationship between the two sublimated into a family-like concern; I congratulated her on her engagement and officially said goodbye. Many years later, they met by chance in the park. Both parties had married and raised children. The peaceful reunion left the past as an eternal mark in the heart. The story explores the spiritual dilemma of middle age, marriage ethics and human choices, and finally ends with returning home safely with the aftertaste of the scenery, presenting an emotional past in the 1990s that began with curiosity and ended with responsibility, with regrets but no harm. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.