My best friend asked me why I rejected the school sweetheart. I said that I already had someone I liked, someone outside the school, who was older than me. She was stunned for three seconds and screamed: "Can it be my dad?!"
That night Fu Sinian pressed me against the desk in the study and asked in a hoarse voice: "If you dare to admit it, I will admit it." Later, I became pregnant with his child, and my mother forcibly sent me to the United States. Before leaving, he put a scarf around my neck and said it was cold in Chicago.
Five years later, when I returned to China, he stood at the airport, his voice trembling: "Come back?"
"I thought I didn't love him anymore, but when he pulled me into his arms, the pilled old scarf made my chest hurt.
