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.

out of her village with promises of adventure, only to abandon her

a taste of novelty; perhaps, amid the natural purity of the village, he had genuinely felt a fleeting impulse for the naive, passionate

a sort of

engulfed by the city’s splendor, that

side, and

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

never returned. Had she made it back, her face wouldn’t still bear the streaks of fresh tears.

audience remained silent for a long while. They had come for light entertainment but

long time, not just in securing funding but also in

uncertainty of Valor’s fate, both in the

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

others girls had been lured into nightmarish hell from