In addition to her studies, Chang Huan took on several tutoring and part-time jobs. One day, after a tutoring session, she passed a wine bar and met Yan Zifei. At their first meeting, he was refined and courteous, and Chang Huan fell in love with him at first sight. As they tasted wine, the gentle clink of their glasses and the swirling red wine seemed to set happiness rippling through her heart.
On New Year’s Eve, when she was overwhelmed with grief, he rushed to her side at once. They stayed up together to welcome the new year and watched the fireworks, and he gave her an embrace whose meaning she couldn’t quite read… In the years that followed, he warmed her life time and again, turning it into a pure and beautiful chapter. She thought that was all happiness could be, even though he had never once said, “I love you.” What she didn’t know was that sometimes, beauty is only an illusion: reach out to touch it, and it vanishes in an instant.
