In her twenty-six years, Bai Qingshu has learned just one thing: how to run.
She runs from her parents’ expectations, from the fear of marriage, from the suffocating workplace, and from the stranger she has become to herself. She thinks that if she makes herself small enough, she won’t trouble anyone.
The day she went to the seaside, she never imagined she would meet Xiang Yang, the cardiac surgeon who would upend the first half of her life and change the second.
After five days by the sea, he proposes. She turns him down, not because she doesn’t want him, but because she doesn’t believe. She can’t believe she deserves to be loved, or that anyone could accept all her flaws and burdens.
But she changes her mind. Marriage helps them both see each other clearly, and see themselves clearly, too. Then she “runs” again.
Love isn’t about one person healing another. It’s about two people becoming whole in their own right, then choosing each other again. I found myself, and then I found you.
