Let's Get Married

Lily is taken aback. "You miss him?"

"Yes, it's been a long time since I saw him," Adair says, slowing down with his food. Lily is sad to see him like this.

"Adair, Daddy is away on a business trip, but you must know that he misses you. He misses you all the time, understand?"

Lily has said things like that to him countless times over these months, for fear that Adair would see his dad in a different way, or that it would affect Adair as he grows up.

Adair usually nods obediently, but today....

He suddenly puts down the chicken leg, and asks, his big dark eyes full of puzzlement, "But Mom, if Dad really misses me, why doesn't he come back?"

Lily frowns slightly. Thinking what the teacher has said, she realizes something bad might be happening. Does Adair feel inferior because he discovers that other children's dads are around but his isn't?

Lily has been taking care of Adair herself. Kids in the kindergarten don't pay attention to such details. Now that he is in a primary school in China, where the parents are overly caring, he might truly feel that way.

Rubbing her son's little head, she reassures him with an aching heart, "Trust me, he will be back soon."

It has been nearly half a year since that man left for his treatment, and he should probably feel better now. Lily tends to avoid such thoughts and bury herself in work. As the deadline approaches, she grows increasingly anxious. What if he doesn't get better?

She knows a turning point is around the corner. But she chooses to blindfold herself, staggering into what is supposed to be a bridge, or a godforsaken abyss.

Dad that I miss him so much. He said he would pick me up from school, but he never showed up. I really want to see him," Adair says

feels nothing but heartache. A child should never be a

worry. Mom will

heart by

child is under undue pressure for that. And it all

for her to carry along. Drowning in them, she indulges in drinking. One night, bathing in the moonlight, she dials that number drunkenly in front of

this time, she has never tapped that number until now. She has dialed it so many times that she can recite it, but that fact has made it so hard for her to do

strokes the screen with her fingertips. The light is

a year, but she worries about

decide. She is strong, but she

turns on the phone and types quickly, sending a short

...

rehabilitation training. The transfusion works and the addictive substance has dropped to a stable value. However, he is still facing some problems and needs medicine. And he has to take it for another six months to be

his body. He is weak despite his strong bones. Lee has made a special recovery plan for him,

at night, he would double his efforts. Finishing a round, he hears the phone ring on the table. The phone serves no purpose other than getting information

the screen,

no other

the top of his head. Looking at the number, he remembers how he can just talk to her photos when the emotions are too overwhelming. They haven't met or heard from each other for half a year

text message is enough to agitate

the message. He sits on the bed and bends down slightly. His fingers