Ting Wan had been in love for ten years. She had a steady job and both a successful career and a happy relationship. But proud people have strong self-respect, and rational people are often stubborn. When one of them strays from the path during a long run together, it’s best to cut your losses and go your separate ways. Yet she chose to believe him when he said, “I swear...”
People say marriage is the grave of love, but no one says an engagement is love’s executioner. Ting Wan had lowered her pride and carefully nurtured her first love for ten years, until it seemed destined to bear fruit. Just as they were about to marry, a pregnancy test tore their lives apart.
And the man who appeared at just the right time during both of the brief gaps between her two relationships: was he someone close, or someone distant? How should she choose? Was he fate, or a calamity? How could she tell?
