Slow Dance

The nine-year-old girl met Gu Yan at her mother's remarriage banquet. He told her about the metaphor of the round dance, saying that as long as the dance music didn't stop, they would eventually meet again after going round and round. In the years that followed, the girl slowly grew up in the long wait, watching him fall in love and get married again and again, accumulating strength alone, hoping that one day she would be able to see him as an equal. When she gained wealth and confidence and finally broke away from her attachment, she suddenly realized that perhaps she was the only one who refused to stop in that round dance from beginning to end. Half a lifetime of entanglement, restraint and forbearance, a time-lagged love, all the long wait may not be able to exchange for the original dance partner. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.