The Thorns of Her Rose

A rainstorm fell over Jiaxing. While sheltering from it, Chen Qingjia met a man named Jiang Teng. As time went on, she found that he was nothing like the person she’d imagined. Jiang Teng dispelled the confusion of her twentieth year. Life would only get better, he told her. In truth, he was the one who made it better. Their meeting was fate, a first encounter that lasted forever. When Jiang Teng was twenty-six, he and Chen Qingjia registered their marriage. In the end, he became the thorn on a rose, forever protecting his little rose.