[Foreign Setting | Bittersweet Slow Burn | Self-Redemption | Realistic Style | Open Ending]
That year, Xia Chu was twenty-four.
A few years earlier, her company had sent her to work in Haiphong, Vietnam.
After working abroad for several years, she met Chen Fang, who was ten years older than her.
She thought she had found her home.
But behind her back,
he was entangled with one Vietnamese girl after another, and had even fathered several children.
In the end, he became the kept man of a female business owner.
When she learned the truth, she finally woke from her dream. This betrayal had turned their romance into a sickening experience.
Meanwhile, she had never taken Nguyen Van Nam, the wealthy second-generation Vietnamese man who pursued her, seriously.
She had only ever been determined to stay by Chen Fang’s side.
Their roles shifted: she became his teacher, and he became her friend.
An unexpected teacher-student relationship brought their story to an abrupt end.
There was also Huang Zheyu, who admired her, and Chen Chufeng, the deputy manager at her company...
How could the person you cherish and the person you ignore ever be the same?
As Xia Chu struggled and made mistakes in matters of the heart, what kind of marriage awaited her in the end?
(A true experience, a bitter memory. Some say time will make it fade, but whenever I wake from those memories, my heart still aches terribly.)
(Betrayal is the cruelest desecration of love. Is not being “satisfied” really an excuse to betray love?)
[Author: This novel is based on true events. I worked in Vietnam for several years. If you enjoy realistic stories, take your time reading. The story gets even more interesting later.
Settings: Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam]
