The engagement ceremony ends successfully, and Karin quietly leaves the scene. She walks on the road alone in contemplation. Everyone has their own different thoughts. What she prefers are beyond the understanding of others; similarly, what others like are beyond her reach. Therefore, she is doomed to be alone.
"Karin, Karin..."
Billie calls her behind her. So she stops and turns back and then asks Billie, "Why do you come with me?"
"Because I want to talk with you."
"But it is your big day. How can you leave now?"
"It doesn't matter. The ceremony ends just now, and it's time for dinner. I can go."
Billie goes into a coffee shop with her.
Listening to the melodious music in the coffee shop, Karin feels better. She is stirring the coffee in the cup while adding sugar to the coffee. Billie looks at her with puzzlement, as if she doesn't know her.
"Is something on my face?"
"No. I remember that you never added sugar when drinking coffee."
Karin smiles and says, "It's too bitter without sugar."
"Why didn't you think that it was bitter?"
"At least I think it was less bitter than now."
It didn't matter even though it tasted bitter before, because she felt happy in her life; however, she only feels pain in her life now.
"Then what are you going to do?"
Billie asks her. She hopes Karin will not be painful anymore.
going to go to
"Edinburgh? Why?"
want to find
and she almost chokes because of the
with his baby? Are you going to tell him about
are you talking
why do you
not. I don't believe he
man stays together with a woman he likes, especially when they are drunk, he will
you also think that this is his
have slept with you
him. Now only he
"Can you contact him?"
and the mailbox where
him? Do
says, "I don't know, so it's hard to find him. But I want
now. Even if you can find him then, the baby will grow bigger in your womb. What will you do then? What if he
"That's impossible!"
is nothing impossible. I don't think you should
and then continues, "If he says this is his baby and asks you to stay with
this baby, I have to leave him; if I choose him, I have to
a decision between Troy and your baby. As the saying goes, you can't have your cake
about it, and she doesn't know what to do right now. And
shocked because
are young, you can have babies in the future if you want. I don't think you should give up Troy because of this baby now. Please think twice. Will you feel happy if you leave Troy? Will he be happy if he lives without you in the future? You
to the Ziteng Garden. When she is thinking about what Billie said to
takes her to her parents' grave
with puzzlement, "I don't understand
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