A Long, Brief Time

Half campus story, half entertainment industry, with a healing coming-of-age feel

Yang Yu was once the brightest sanda prodigy around. Then illness and the pain of her family background hit her at the same time, and she disappeared from the scene for three years. In that time, she went from a gifted young star who looked down on everyone to an ordinary person, gentle and distant.

From the moment Wen Liang crossed paths with Yang Yu, he knew she was stubborn and fiercely proud.

After she pushed him away time and again, Wen Liang finally snapped. “Yang Yu, do you even care about any of us?!”

Seeing the usually arrogant Wen Liang’s eyes redden, Yang Yu tried to push him away again. “Wen Liang, this is my choice.”

But Wen Liang pulled her into his arms and pleaded, “Could you trust me just a little? I really can take good care of you...”

2

When Wen Liang was twenty, he stepped onto an uncertain path, ready to take a chance on his dream of having a family of his own.

Just as his career began to take off, his biological mother showed up asking him for money.

Unable to sleep, Wen Liang let out a rare sigh. “Yang Yu, why are everyone’s families in this world so awful?”

Yang Yu didn’t know how to answer.

After thinking for a moment, though, she seemed to make up her mind. “Then let’s become a real family.”

Wen Liang didn’t understand what she meant, because as far as he was concerned, they were already family to each other.

But Yang Yu’s next words made her meaning clear: “Let’s get married. Let’s become a family, the kind that shares a household registration. Let me be the head of your household.”