Daybreak Has Come, Does Your Love Still Remain?

“Your eyes are so beautiful. When you smile, they look like crescent moons.”

Summer in youth begins the moment you take an ice-cold Coke from the fridge and press it against your lover’s skin.

It’s sneaking out in slippers in the middle of the night, holding hands and shamelessly grabbing a bowl of wontons from a street stall, then sharing a passionate kiss without worrying about greasy mouths. That happiness never returned through all the rainy seasons that followed.

Everything Geng Siyu had once dreamed of was no match for reality. Dong Jian, who had promised to protect her for life, pushed her closer and closer to the brink. Through those shattered days, she fled from place to place with a cat whose tail had been cut off.

Men make promises easily. Dong Jian, though, said that a man was only as good as his word. But by the time he kept his vow and tried to win her back, Geng Siyu’s heart had no room left for him.

That poor little cat stayed by her side as she went from innocent and carefree to empty-eyed, from having nowhere left to turn to being reborn. It spent its whole life healing her.

Can a love that fills your eyes with someone ever change? When the seas have turned to fields and everything has changed, will you still be there? Will your love still be there? Will you still be there?