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.

village with promises of adventure, only to abandon her in the sprawling metropolis.

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

shared a sort of hazy love

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

need someone as clumsy and unsophisticated as Valor by his side, and she, knowing nothing of the city’s ways, became an

ever made it back to her beloved village, whether she

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

a long while. They had

also in telling a story drawn from real life a real story that

uncertainty of Valor’s fate, both

big city, was one of the lucky ones, as

had been lured into nightmarish hell