Cheng Jianyue has loved Xu Zhiyi for many years.
From the age of ten to twenty-four.
They went to elementary school together, moved on to middle school together, and made it through high school together. Everyone thought they would end up together sooner or later.
Everyone except Xu Zhiyi.
At seventeen, Cheng Jianyue asked, "Do you like me?"
Xu Zhiyi said, "I don't know."
At twenty, she asked again.
Still, she didn't know.
At twenty-four, Cheng Jianyue finally stopped asking.
Later, a friend asked her, "You really don't like her anymore?"
Cheng Jianyue swirled her wineglass and looked at the woman in the distance.
Twenty-nine, beautiful, single.
And with a very special identity
Xu Zhiyi's father's ex-wife.
"Mm, I don't like her anymore."
"Then who have you set your sights on?"
Cheng Jianyue thought for a moment.
"Her mom."
Her friend: "?"
Cheng Jianyue: "I'll win her over and marry her."
Her friend fell silent.
Cheng Jianyue smiled without a care in the world:
"Then Xu Zhiyi can call me stepmom."
Wen Qinglan has known Cheng Jianyue for a long time.
When she was twenty-five, she met Cheng Jianyue, then twenty, for the first time, and immediately knew the girl was in love with her stepdaughter.
So four years later, when Cheng Jianyue pretended not to know her and carefully plotted their first chance encounter
Wen Qinglan didn't call her out.
She just wanted to see.
What did this woman, who had loved Xu Zhiyi for more than a decade, want from her?
Later, Cheng Jianyue really did fall in love with her.
But Wen Qinglan asked:
"If she'd told you she liked you back then, would you still have come after me?"
For the first time, Cheng Jianyue had no answer.
It took Xu Zhiyi many years to finally understand one thing.
It wasn't that she didn't know whether she liked Cheng Jianyue.
She'd just assumed
Cheng Jianyue would wait for her forever.
But by the time she finally figured it out, that woman was already standing beside someone else.
And that woman was someone she once should have called
Mom.
Theme: There are no right answers in life.
