My adoptive mother had a brain tumor in its final stages, and before she died, all she wanted was to see me marry her son, Gu Shengrui. I told him about her condition, then knelt on the ground and barked like a dog to amuse his junior schoolmate. At last, he agreed to marry me. But he didn’t show up for the wedding. Instead, he had someone bring the family dog and told me to marry it. My adoptive mother was so furious she fainted and was rushed to the emergency room. I called Gu Shengrui and begged him to come see her one last time. Later, after arranging her funeral, I told him, exhausted and heartbroken, that we were over. But he did everything he could to hold on to me. “My mother’s dying wish was for us to get married. Can you bear to let her die without seeing it?” But Gu Shengrui, my adoptive mother’s dying wish was for me to be happy. She never asked me to marry you.
