After Five Years Away, They All Said They Loved Me When I Returned

The day my whole family went to my girlfriend's wedding to my stepbrother, I lay in the bathtub and thought about ending it all. Just as the cold blade touched my wrist, my phone suddenly rang nonstop. When I answered, it was the scheduled call my late mother had left for me. "Yuchuan, happy birthday." After a silence as still as death, I climbed out of the tub, got dressed, and secretly left the country alone. Over the next five years, I changed my name and phone number, cutting off every connection to home. Everyone thought I was dead. Dead on the day my girlfriend married my stepbrother. For five whole years, those who came to pay their respects at my grave...