On January 7, 2020, I saw a post on Xiaoyu's father's social media: "Dear daughter, when will you come home? Dad has already made your favorite meal. Come back, my girl..." I couldn't help crying when I read it. There's an old poem that puts it well: "The tree longs for calm, but the wind won't stop; a child wants to care for their parents, but they are already gone." To have a white-haired parent bury their child, to lose a child who can no longer sit at their parents' side and bring them joy... Time has passed so quickly. Two years have gone by in a flash... Xiaoyu went to heaven with her child. It was a devastating blow to her parents. Xiaoyu and Xia Qi both fell in love with the same man, going from best friends to enemies. Xiaoyu's parents and Xia Qi's parents are in tears almost every day. Three perfectly good families were destroyed just like that...
The story begins in December 2015. My sister and I quit a media company for personal reasons and joined the media company owned by my classmate's husband. My classmate was pregnant, and her husband didn't want her pushing herself so hard, so he handed the project over to the two of us. We never expected to meet my friends Xia Qi and Li Xiaoyu at this company. What happened there was the sort of thing you'd only find in a novel or a TV drama. Xia Qi and Li Xiaoyu both fell in love with the same man, whose name was Cong Jun. Cong Jun was the boss of the media company...