Spring Comes Before the Chill Fades

[Bad Ending · Tormented Romance · Betrayal · Descent · Entanglement · Fate]

This year brought a rare warm winter. On an ordinary sunny day, a couple moved in next door to Wen Wen, and from that moment on, fate began staging the drama it had arranged.

Wen Wen had wagered everything on a youthful love and paid dearly for the impulsive choices she had once made. Yet this winter, she watched him climb onto the neighbor girl’s motorcycle and ride off in pursuit of a thrilling new romance.

Xiao Hai, betrayed as well, became the only lifeline she had. Their eyes met in the elevator; he held an umbrella over her on a rainy night; they poured their hearts out by the river. Two souls wounded by the same fate cautiously tested the limits of morality, caught again and again between desire and restraint.

They warmed each other through the winter, and sank together. But when truth and unforeseen events came one after another, they finally understood that the warm winter would end. All that remained was the bitter chill of early spring, with no sunlight left to warm them.