She had lived since childhood in a bleak world where no one cared for her. Affection was scarce, her grievances had nowhere to go, and years of repression had brought her to the brink of collapse. Then the boy Chen Yu and his family moved in next door. A few casual words of concern and small acts of kindness became the only ray of light in her barren life.
She regarded him as her salvation, giving him all her tenderness and sincerity. She carefully accommodated him, swallowed every grievance, and did everything she could to protect this one source of warmth. But Chen Yu was naturally dull and selfish. He never cherished the weight of her love, finding her clingy and tiresome instead. Again and again, he treated her with cold indifference and hurt her with cutting words, personally grinding away all her hopes.
For other people, losing a lover was simply the end of a relationship. For her, losing Chen Yu meant losing all the light she needed to stay alive. Only after the stars in her eyes had gone out completely and she had quietly left did Chen Yu belatedly realize that what he had casually thrown away was the lifeline the girl had spent her whole life trying to grasp.
From then on, she closed off her heart, condemned to a lonely life without hope. For the rest of his years, he had nothing but endless, soul-piercing regret, with no chance left to make things right.
You were the only light in my dark life. In the end, you were also the one who extinguished every last light in my world.
Suffering can be overcome with your own hands, but the hurt from your loved ones will never be merciful just because you are sensible enough.