When Mi Nuo was twenty-six years old, she fainted in a southern supermarket.
The cold air from the frozen dumplings hit her face, and the last thing she heard was a vague "Miss, what's wrong with you?" In the fourth month after she married Lu Xing, she quit her job in a small northern town where she took the exam twice before landing, and moved to this southern city that made her breathless.
Lu Xing is her college sweetheart. When he was taking the postgraduate entrance examination, he said, "If we are too busy, can we separate for a while?" She thought about it for a long time and felt that he probably didn't love him anymore. Later they all went ashore and everything returned to normal. She married him with that thorn in her heart, and with the desire to have a family.
After getting married, Lu Xing started smoking. There was always a lingering smell of cigarette smoke in the study. They slept on a two-meter-wide bed, with enough room in the middle for another person to lie down.
On the day she fainted, a man from Mohe sent her to the hospital. He smelled of pine needles and spoke with the most northern accent. He said that Mohe's winter was minus 40 degrees Celsius, and he said he felt it was better to be in a cold place. Mi Nuo was lying on the hospital bed looking at the night outside the window, and suddenly wanted to go back to the north.
She should have gone back long ago. She just didn't want to admit it - she wanted to have a family, but Lu Xing couldn't give it to her.
Some farewells don't need to be heartbreaking, and some departures don't need a reason.
