I Really Want to See You Again

Lin Jia was a child without a mother from the age of three.

Lin Suhua was Lin Jia’s grandmother, a woman who loved her dearly. She gave Lin Jia everything she could, and with her love, made sure Lin Jia never grew up feeling like an orphan. She raised her until she was an adult and sent her to university. Lin Suhua knew what it was like to grow up in hardship. She had been forced to leave school as a child and work on the farm, a decision that brought her a lifetime of regret. When she was young, her husband betrayed her; when her son was little, he came down with encephalitis. She never imagined these misfortunes would rob her of happiness for the rest of her life.

Perhaps our endings are decided from the moment we are born.

Lin Suhua spent the second half of her life accompanying Lin Jia through the first half of hers. Lin Jia spent the second half of her life remembering all of Lin Suhua’s life.

If everyone’s life came with a script, then Lin Suhua’s must have been the one nobody else wanted, left over and handed to her. Her life was so bitter, so hard. It wasn’t the kind of poison that kills you in an instant. This bitterness was more like aged wine, its taste lingering endlessly. Even many years after she was gone, Lin Jia could never come to terms with it for the rest of her life!