It turned out he hadn’t gone bad overnight. He had been a rotten person all along.
At eighteen, Gu Jiangnian saw Zhou Huan as a ray of light entering her life, so she gave him everything. She was happy to do so, even in a cramped, isolated rental apartment.
But at twenty-eight, Gu Jiangnian was dismissed by Zhou Huan as boring, unromantic, and as lifeless as a dead fish.
“I used to be vibrant, too. I used to shine. Wasn’t it you who turned me into a withered flower?”
“The only shining thing I ever had was you. So how did you disappear, as if I’d never had you at all?
I guess promises only count while you’re in love.
You reek of flirtation with someone else. Maybe I should have left you long ago.”
But Pei Yu’s arrival lit up her life again. Still, he wasn’t the first light in her life, because Pei Yu helped her become a light of her own. It turned out she had once been able to shine, too.
