Vows Like Smoke

It's already 1941... It's been a full five years since I returned to Singapore. I haven't kept a diary all these years. It seems there has been nothing worth remembering in my life, just one uneventful day after another, like the glass of plain water in front of me. I still haven't heard from Cheng Kai. The war in China has been going on for four years now, ever since it officially began. Back then, no one expected it to last this long. I remember the day I left, Cheng Kai said the war wouldn't go on for long. He said that when it was over, I should return to Shanghai, and he would wait for me at home. How is Cheng Kai now? Has he found Lu Yi? Has he settled her somewhere and come home to wait for me? Haha! I'm such a fool. How could he really wait for me? Lu Yi has always been the only one he loves! Perhaps he and Lu Yi are already living happily together. Even if he once truly wanted to spend his life with me, even if he once made vows to me, they must have vanished in the flames of war and the passage of time. In the gentlest corner of his heart, there will always be room for only one woman, a woman named Shi Lu Yi. And I am just a guest who once wandered into the wrong room!