Escaping on a Spring Day

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When Jiang Zhi went to a class reunion, her classmates saw her being picked up by a chauffeur in a luxury car, dressed head to toe in designer brands. They all envied her good fortune in marrying into a wealthy family and landing such a wonderful marriage.

Someone brought up the school's heartthrob from back then, Ye Sunbai. Refined and aloof, he was noble and distant. But after returning to the country, he vanished without a trace. Now people said he'd been ensnared by a vixen.

Knowing she'd had a crush on Ye Sunbai back then, her friend spoke up for her: "He just didn't have good taste. Besides, maybe he's gotten ugly by now."

Jiang Zhi listened in silence. At the table, a classmate who was already married seemed to complain, but was really showing off how sweet her life was.

"My husband keeps calling to hurry me home."

Jiang Zhi looked at her silent phone and said nothing.

When Jiang Zhi got home, she was troubled. The bedroom door was open. Ye Sunbai had taken off his suit jacket, and he looked a little surprised when he saw her return.

"Back so early?"

After all these years, he had grown more mature and steady than he was as a young man, still refined and elegant.

Jiang Zhi asked, "Why didn't you call me?"

Ye Sunbai raised an eyebrow. "Weren't you having fun with your friends?"

Jiang Zhi said nothing. That night, she took her quilt and went to sleep in the next room.

*

Jiang Zhi had something on her mind lately.

She felt that Ye Sunbai didn't like her at all, and had even begun to question why he had married her.

Maybe he had a first love in his heart, and she looked a lot like her.

Or perhaps his sexuality was a mystery, and he needed a virtuous wife to cover for him.

When she asked him about it, Ye Sunbai was picking eggshells out of the fried egg she'd made. He raised an eyebrow, unhurriedly.

"Virtuous?"

Embarrassed and annoyed, Jiang Zhi moved into the next room again that night.

*

After hearing about her worries, her friend started offering advice: "Men only regret things after they've lost them. Listen to me: pack your things and run away, just to show him."

Jiang Zhi was worried. "...That doesn't seem right."

That night, Ye Sunbai came home from a business trip. He was about to take the luxury jewelry he'd just bought and make up with his wife, who had been inexplicably sulking lately.

But when he opened the front door, he found that Jiang Zhi had taken all her things. The place was spotless, as if she had never left a trace behind.

She'd even taken the spare toothbrush.

The only thing left on the table was a letter: Dear Mr. Ye, by the time you read this, I'll be somewhere in the world...

He calmly read it, then knocked on the neighbor's door.

"Honey, come out."

Reading guide: A story about the seven-year itch in a marriage

Theme: Persistence brings rewards.