After We Met

[Urban slice of life] + [Mild angst]

The odds of two people meeting are 0.00478.

It was an utterly ordinary day, and he was, as usual, lost in drunkenness.

As if guided by fate, he found himself in a place he had never been before.

That was how twenty-five-year-old Chen Tianyao met eighteen-year-old Yang Yue.

“Could you help me?”

And so, this absurd story began.

His once-peaceful life grew unpredictable with the arrival of the girl.

This indifferent world brought him new things, but also took so much from him. The cruelty of human nature left him increasingly disappointed in the world.

He could not understand: was he simply undeserving, or would they be better off if he were no longer in their lives?