The Black Axle

Jiang Ling once asked him whether, if time gave him another chance to choose, he would rather never have met her and lived the quiet, uneventful life he thought would bring him a settled happiness.

Back then, he calmly replied, “Too bad there are no what-ifs.”

He thought he didn’t care. But one afternoon, with cherry blossoms swirling through the air, he sat on her favorite swing and broke down in hysterics…

He realized he had never regretted meeting her, even if their story was woven from schemes and hatred, crime and destruction.

If they truly could start over, he hoped they would meet sooner, and that he could hold her close sooner.

So that the wheel of time in her life would turn happily forever…