A year after my pilot fiancé and I started giving each other the silent treatment, I posted a photo of our newborn daughter on social media:
[Flight landed. We hope you'll look after us, mother and daughter, for the rest of our lives!]
Everyone in the flight crew group chat went wild tagging Shen Juan:
“When did Captain Shen marry Miss Su? They already have a daughter!”
While the chat was buzzing, I added my husband, the head of the Civil Aviation Administration, to the group:
“There's been a misunderstanding, everyone. This is my husband!”
The once-boisterous chat filled with notification after notification that messages had been deleted.
It all started a year ago, when a new flight attendant joined Shen Juan's crew.
The moment she met Shen Juan, she launched into a fierce pursuit of him.
No matter what tricks she tried, Shen Juan never spared her a second glance.
I was confident that Shen Juan would never fall for such a phony woman.
But when Shen Juan finally got time off, and the day we'd agreed to register our marriage arrived,
He Pianpian posted a photo online of herself after swallowing an entire bottle of sleeping pills.
For the first time, Shen Juan left me behind. As he rushed out the door, he tossed out one line:
“Yun Ke, she could die if she keeps this up. We can put off getting married.”
From that day on, He Pianpian threatened suicide every few days.
I swallowed my hurt and waited for Shen Juan, again and again.
Until the ninety-ninth time, when Shen Juan once more canceled his flight and returned because He Pianpian was threatening to jump off a building.
I grabbed my childhood friend, who happened to be a man, and rushed straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register our marriage.
To my shock, a staff member told me that two months earlier, I'd already married a man named Wang Gang!
