She thought they were tired birds returning to the forest, but later she learned that she was the only one waiting.
In 2009, he stood on a stone railing for her by the Aegean Lake and said he could jump off to prove his sincerity. In 2012, he climbed over the guardrail at a long-distance bus station and said, "Let's get married." In 2024, on the day the foreclosure contract was signed, there was a scar on the right hand where he signed the contract from opening a beer bottle for her in college. She thought it was him in this life.
That night, a call came at two in the morning from a number with no note. A woman said on the other end of the phone: "I am his friend." She recognized that "friend" from his WeChat profile picture - it was the girl who added her last winter. She praised her beauty and recommended her the best snack bar in Nanxi Town. At that time she smiled at the screen, thinking she had made a friend.
She loved him for fifteen years. He was so in love that he was thinking every step of the way while carrying the drunken man upstairs - this might be the last time.
But now she has a house of 120 square meters, a wall of books, and a balcony full of red flowers. The "our new home" my daughter drew finally came true, except that there were two people living in it. She built the cage herself, the door was locked from the inside, and she had the key.
There are no winners in this dispute. Some people have learned to let go, some have learned to be unwilling, and some have learned to fly. And she - she learned to live well in the cage she made.
Concept: Love is not a cage, self is. A betrayed woman learned one thing in fifteen years - waiting for the bird to return to the forest is waiting for other people's choices, but to truly live is to transform yourself from