I Promise You a Galaxy of Stars

At eighteen, Fu Yihuan gave her heart to Xia Jingze and ended up with a heart in tatters and a shattered self. After that, she left for a distant land. At eighteen, Xia Jingze was on a broken, bleak path through life when he met the light that illuminated his world. But he extinguished it with his own hands. From then on, he lived without love or feeling, merely existing. When twenty-six-year-old Fu Yihuan met Xia Jingze again, she said, “Sir, we don’t know each other. Please leave.” When twenty-six-year-old Xia Jingze reunited with Fu Yihuan, he said, “We know each other very well. We’ve known each other for ten years. There was an eight-year gap, but I thought about you and looked for you every single day…” At eighteen, Xia Jingze ended their relationship with one sentence: “I was just bored and wanted to fool around with a good girl. I didn’t expect her to fall for me. Now I’m tired of playing, so let’s just end it.” Ten years later, no matter how many excuses he made or how many “chance encounters” he arranged, Fu Yihuan remained unmoved. It took me ten years to become strong enough to protect you. How many more decades will it take for you to look at me? To believe that I pushed you away so cruelly not because I didn’t love you, but because I loved you too much? I wanted to give you a galaxy stretching across thousands of miles, but you refuse to enter my world again. Without you, my galaxy of countless stars is dim and lifeless.