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.

promises of adventure, only to abandon her in the sprawling

amid the natural purity of the village,

a sort of hazy

the city’s splendor, that hazy love became a burden.

side, and she, knowing nothing of the city’s ways, became an

open ending – whether Valor ever made it back to her beloved village, whether she reconciled with her best friend, were all left to the interpretation

it back, her face wouldn’t still

credits rolled and the lights brightened, the audience remained silent for a long while. They had come for light entertainment but

not just in securing funding but also in telling a story

of Valor’s fate, both in the story and

tales were all too common in that village. Valor, left adrift in the big city, was

into nightmarish hell from