A Good Day Will Bring an Auspicious Hour

By the time Liang Chen met Ji Mei, he could no longer remember exactly when it had happened. They were neighbors, so they had known of each other since childhood. But Ji Mei had lived like an ugly duckling, longing to become a swan. A chance mishap changed the course of her life. She began to transform herself, striving to turn from an ugly duckling into a swan. Throughout it all, she knew one secret: Liang Chen was sick and would not live to see twenty. By chance, she heard Liang Chen crying alone. Seeing her former self in him, she gathered her courage and went to him. “I’ll spend every day from now on with you.” Moved by Ji Mei’s innocence and kindness, Liang Chen slowly began to face life with renewed hope. Ji Mei and Liang Chen shared the beautiful years of being eighteen and nineteen, and time flew by in the blink of an eye. On Liang Chen’s nineteenth birthday, his illness struck. He was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. Under the cruel weight of fate, what choice would they make?