Ten years of marriage is like a diary filled with lies, and today I finally turned to the last page.
Water drops dripped from the tips of her hair onto my wedding ring, and I remembered the light in her eyes when she said "I only love you in this life" on the day of the proposal. Now that light was given to someone else, to a young man who put his hands on her waist as he taught her squats at the gym.
My daughter asked me why my mother always goes out smelling good lately. How should I explain it? Says her mom is practicing how to be someone else's bride? Every one of those photos taken on our bed in the phone album is like a knife stabbing into the heart.
It turns out that the middle-aged man's collapse was not hysterical. He just quietly looked at his sleeping wife and daughter late at night, and then erased his old reflection on the mirror.
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Don't be divorced from reality. Tai Lun's novel will make people feel like they are involved.
Don't be divorced from reality. Tai Lun's novel will make people feel like they are involved.