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.

her village with promises of adventure, only to abandon her

away solely for a taste of novelty; perhaps, amid the natural

might have shared a sort of hazy love story.

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

as Valor by his side, and she, knowing nothing of the

ended with an open ending – whether Valor ever made it back to her beloved village,

it back, her face wouldn’t still bear the

film’s ending credits rolled and the lights brightened, the audience remained silent for a long while. They had come for light entertainment but had been served a tale laden with sorrow.

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

of Valor’s fate, both in the story and

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

others girls had been lured into nightmarish hell from