At five, Shen Jiahe was brought from an orphanage to the Fu family by her adoptive parents.
At thirteen, her adoptive parents died in a car accident, leaving her an orphan.
After the funeral, she stood in the memorial hall, an unwanted and unwelcome presence. As everyone in the Fu family discussed her future at length, a voice rang out: “Shen Jiahe, come with me.”
Despite everyone's shock and objections, she ended up living with the man she called “Little Uncle.”
She stayed for five years.
Time soothed her restless, unsettled heart, but somehow it also drew two souls with no ties to each other closer together.
But in this world, fate twists and turns, and nothing comes easily.
Later, Shen Jiahe left. When they met again, she was holding her fiancé's arm.
In broad daylight, he forced himself to live like an ascetic, yet couldn't bring himself to congratulate her. All he could say was, “As long as you like him.”
Deep in the night, he threw the bright red wedding invitation into the trash. He stared again and again at the photos on his phone, unable to suppress the emotions raging inside him, which threatened to break free from their cage.
Yet even at his most reckless, all he did was, under the influence of alcohol, brush his cool lips against her cheek. It lasted only an instant, but he finally understood what it meant to drink himself to death...
