On the day of graduation defense, Qin Chi said: "No matter where you go, I will wait for you."
Bai Xiaomo believed it.
But at a distance of 1,300 kilometers, what was waiting for her was Wen Ruoyao's pregnancy test form, three unanswered phone calls, and a long-planned betrayal.
She chose to leave Toronto with an undiagnosed illness and a broken heart.
He chased him to the airport and saw the plane soaring into the sky.
Later, he went to jail and she lay on the operating table. For five years, he counted the days inside the high wall facing the word "positive" on the wall, and she shouted his name in the chemotherapy room, clutching the faded little turtle.
When he finally found her, she was wearing a wedding dress and became someone else's bride.
The moment the ring slipped, he bent down to pick it up and placed it in Cheng Mufeng's palm.
Some love is destined to only go so far.
She was the spring he had been praying for for five years while kneeling before the Buddha. But when spring came and the flowers bloomed, she no longer belonged to him.