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.

man had lured her out of her village with promises of adventure, only

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

might have shared a sort

splendor, that hazy love

didn’t need someone as clumsy and unsophisticated as Valor by his side, and she, knowing nothing of the city’s ways, became

ending – whether Valor ever made it back to her beloved village, whether she reconciled with

made it back, her face wouldn’t still bear

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

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

Valor’s fate, both

in the big city, was one of the lucky ones, as her only trouble was to find her way

into nightmarish hell from which there was