When a Thousand Sails Have Passed, Only Rain and Silence Remain

He met her when she was at her loneliest and most miserable. He knew she was afraid of the dark and needed sleeping pills every night to get to sleep. He knew how fragile she was, yet how stubbornly she insisted on acting strong.

He didn’t know whether he had fallen for her capriciousness or her ??????

He might have been right, as she said: he didn’t love her enough.

He had to admit that he once thought about guarding that love that had ended before it could begin. Then he realized he didn’t still love her. He simply couldn’t accept how things had turned out.

Four years later, when they met again, memories of the past rose vividly before them. There was no joy in her heart, only overwhelming sorrow. She couldn’t move forward, so she silently and coldly faced him. Bound by responsibility, he couldn’t turn back. All he could do was cling to his moral principles and bring their relationship to a complete end, tormented by guilt and pain.

She said, “She’ll let you have the love you want.” Those words wound around his heart like a threaded needle, hurting him so much he couldn’t cry out.

She had once told him she would never love again, that she might spend the rest of her life alone. Even so, he couldn’t make her any promises.

She said, “Let me go. I’ll give the child a complete family. Even if it isn’t with you, we’ll still be happy.”

How could he let her marry another man while carrying his child? He...??????