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.

I miss him so much. He said he would pick me up from school, but he never showed up. I

a victim of his parents' drama, but now it is

worry. Mom will let him

Lily's heart by saying that. And every time she thinks about

child is under undue pressure for that. And it

emotions are too strong for her to carry along. Drowning in them, she indulges in drinking. One night, bathing in the moonlight, she dials that number drunkenly in

many times that she can recite it, but that fact has made it so hard for her to do

screen with her fingertips. The light

him be for half a year, but

to decide. She is strong, but she is still a woman,

on the phone and types quickly, sending a

...

has dropped to a stable value. However, he is still facing some

weak despite his strong

Rex is free 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

up and picks it up. Tapping the screen, he is petrified with

other

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

message is enough to agitate

bed and bends down slightly. His fingers shaking with the