“I don’t have such a high state of mind,” Emmeline said with melancholy, looking up at the sky. “I just want to be with Abel, whether it’s in this world or another.”

That night, Emmeline had a dream.

She dreamt that she was beneath a deep mountain cliff, with no one around for miles, The sky was vast and distant, and her cries echoed only within her hearing. She was filled with fear, took out her phone, and tried to dial Abel’s number, but she couldn’t make the call…

She woke up in fright from the dream, her body covered in cold sweat.

She couldn’t help feeling that the cliff was a place that existed in real life.

The next day…

Morning exercise was part of Emmeline’s routine.

After completing four laps of a five-hundred-meter run, her T-shirt was soaked with sweat.

“Oh, to be young,” an older lady who was going about her morning exercise said with envy.

Emmeline jogged back home and found a bowl of oat porridge, a hard-boiled egg, and a bun her mother had prepared for her on the table.

Were eggs considered vegetarian or non-vegetarian?

insisted that she eat two every day.

heading to work.”

to the balcony and handed her mother a cup of freshly brewed

her mother’s eyes; she had been

morning. Emmeline’s mind

coworkers were talking about me behind my back, and it hurt my feelings,” Kimberly

“You’ve all been retired for two or three years now. Who has the time

her mother said,

Jessica’s wallet went missing, and the next day, they all looked at me strangely, suspecting me of being

washed over Emmeline. Has Mom’s depression hit her

kneeled down in front of

it’s been many years since that incident. Those who are innocent have nothing to worry about. Why are you blaming yourself for something that happened so long

never really listening

that everyone has practically forgotten about it! Don’t dwell on these things,

You also think I

that her

want me to do?” After a pause, she asked cautiously, “Should I take you to the

the hospital?” Her mother gently ruffled her head. “It’s time for

you have trouble sleeping

to feel sleepy anymore,” her mother said. “My eyelids just

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