Enthralled

Ji Fangqing thought she must have gone mad. In her more than twenty years of ordinary life, the boldest thing she had ever done was probably ask Jiang Yuanting late one night, “Would you like to come up for a while?”

At the time, the Ji family had gone bankrupt, her father was in prison, and her mother had suffered a heart attack. She was struggling just to survive. To Ji Fangqing, Jiang Yuanting was a star among the clouds, snow on a mountain: the one she had mistakenly sent a love letter to in her youth. He was so far above her that she could only look up at him.

Because he was so out of reach, she could calmly say, “We’re just comforting each other. It’s not like I love him.”

Until, one day, the stars lowered themselves for her.