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…

thought that once their souls met, this would be their resting place.

fantasies and expectations, or else what would support

a whole night until the wind and rain grew fierce, forcing them

friends and family to be sad for her, purposely sending down a shower to

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

hold on any longer, and he collapsed in front of the tombstone. James sent someone to carry him back to

back home. He returned safely, while Stella remained forever

the blinds on the plane and looked out at the

and Erin had met under such

gently leaned his head against the window, and his lowered eyelashes indicated that he had accepted

Stella’s only photo in the album for a while before getting up

I want

raised his thick eyelashes and gave Andrew a faint glance.

you have a

“No.”

shook his