What Su He was most proud of was that, after seven years of marriage, Bai Luo still treated her with the tenderness and thoughtfulness of a first love. At a college reunion, she ran into Mu Yi, her old university sweetheart. Mu Yi said, “What man would be good to a dim-witted woman who can’t have children? If there is one, he’s no man at all.” Su He believed him.
It wasn’t until Lu Jing came along that she realized Mu Yi wasn’t always right. A man might treat a woman well not for profit or beauty, but for love.
Bai Luo left because I couldn’t have children. Mu Yi gave up on me because I wasn’t what he wanted. Only Lu Jing, a man with a limp, said, “I like your stubbornness, the way you refuse to back down, and that wild, carefree air about you. If you gave yourself up for me, I’d rather you had never appeared in my life.”
