Back to 1998, and My Husband Still Doesn't Know Me

[Back to 1998] [Rekindled Love] [Women's Growth] [One-on-One Slow Burn]

At fifty, Xu Jingyi and her husband, Chen Xiangdong, argued over their daughter's new home until they were on the verge of divorce. When a car came speeding toward them, he pushed her out of the way, but never made it home again.

After the funeral, she fell asleep and woke up in 1998. Her mother was only forty-five, she had just graduated from college, and her daughter had yet to be born.

This time, she wanted to live for herself first: take the job she'd once turned down, go to the movies with her best friend, learn to paint again, and visit all the places she'd always said she'd go to "someday."

But at the cultural center, she ran into Chen Xiangdong at twenty-four. Carrying a toolbox, he found her blocking the doorway and politely said, "Comrade, could you let me through?"

She recognized the lines of his aging face, but he had no idea they'd been married for more than twenty years.

Later, he bought two movie tickets for her, assuming she could leave her friend's birthday dinner early. Xu Jingyi handed the tickets back. "I never said yes. Ask me first next time."

Could the husband she once had become someone who got to know her all over again? This time, Xu Jingyi would choose the answer for herself.