I Got Married Without You

When Stella was pushed into the incinerator, Amelia couldn’t bear to look. She turned her head and nestled into James’ arms, tears streaming down her face like broken beads.

Her best friend, Stella, had ultimately turned into a handful of ashes, placed in a small box. It was unclear whether she had lost her freedom or regained it.

All that mattered was that Stella was no longer in this world. She followed the person she loved to another realm, where she could reconstruct her own happiness.

In reality, this was just a beautiful tragedy. After death, there was nothing left. The so-called soul was merely the expectations bestowed upon the living…

Until Erin and Stella’s deaths, one thought the other didn’t love him, one only realizing her deep love in the end…

Was it regrettable?

Yes, it was regrettable.

But that was the ending.

After Stella’s cremation, Henry personally scattered her ashes in the sea, in the waters near the island where Erin was. Even though their ashes floated away with the wind and left no trace, Henry still erected a tombstone for the two of them…

On the tombstone, their names were engraved as a couple…

once their souls met, this would be their

some fantasies and expectations, or

for a whole

to be sad for her, purposely sending down a

Henry. He stood in front of the tombstone with an umbrella, unwilling to leave. Letting the rainwater seep into his clothes seemed to

in front of the tombstone.

a private plane heading back home. He returned safely, while Stella remained forever in that country, on

blinds on the plane and looked

if Stella and Erin had met under such a beautiful landscape. This time, they

against the window, and his lowered eyelashes indicated that he had accepted the fact that

photo in the album for a while before getting up and walking

I want to

raised his thick eyelashes

have a plan?”

“No.”

his head.