Taking Small Steps

Li Tingxun and Shan Chenyuan were the golden couple everyone envied at B City No. 2 High School, Class of 2014.

From high school to college, from college to the working world, they became exactly what everyone had hoped: sweethearts who went from school uniforms to wedding clothes and entered married life together.

But their storybook romance, the kind everyone longed for, lasted only until their second year of marriage.

They didn’t even make it to the seven-year itch. Shan Chenyuan covered his face, utterly defeated, and said, “Let’s get divorced.”

“Have you fallen in love with someone else?”

“Yes.”

“What does she have that I don’t?”

Shan Chenyuan lowered his hands and looked at Li Tingxun without a trace of affection. He stated the cruel truth: “You’re not him.”

She called him a liar, accusing him of stealing eight years of her youth.

But he hadn’t been a liar at the beginning.

Theme: Calm on the surface, turbulent within.