The Kiss that Sparked it All

Chapter 2657

With a rough shove, Valor found herself crashing down onto the cold concrete.

All she had wanted was a glimpse of the world beyond her small bubble. Was that such a crime?

Had she erred right from the start by leaving her quaint hometown?

Otherwise, why would she now be lost in this unfamiliar city, clueless about the way back home?

Valor regretted.

The latter part of the story is about Valor’s quest to find her way home – a concept that might baffle many city-dwelling college students today. How could someone not know their way back?

But for a girl like Valor, who had grown up in a quaint, technologically untouched fishing village, it was a stark reality.

of her village with promises of adventure, only to

novelty; perhaps, amid the natural purity of the village,

have shared a sort of

once engulfed by the city’s splendor, that

as clumsy and unsophisticated as Valor by his side, and she, knowing nothing

Valor ever made it back to her beloved village, whether she reconciled with her best friend, were all left to the interpretation of the audience.

believed Valor never returned. Had she made it back, her face

silent for a long while. They had

long time, not just in securing funding but also in telling a story drawn from real life a real story that had unfolded

Valor’s fate, both in the story and

too common in that village. Valor, left adrift in the big city, was one of the lucky ones, as her only

lured into nightmarish hell from which there was no escape.