The Love that Never Really Dies

Sasha had an elaborate dream.

In it, she was back in her teens, her family was prominent, and her parents were still alive. She was treated like a princess every day, living her life happily.

Then, one day, her mother brought her cousin over. “Sasha, your uncle has fallen ill, so your cousin, Xenia, is staying with us. Take good care of her, okay?”

“Okay.”

Sasha took the cousin who was two years older by the hand, delighted to have her there.

After that, Xenia settled in and did everything with Sasha. She heard that the school Sasha went to was great. So Sasha’s father enrolled her when she made her intentions clear on attending the same school.

From then onward, the two were inseparable.

“Sasha, what are you doing? Why aren’t you doing your homework?”

“I’m writing a letter. He’s overseas. I want to send him a letter every day.” Sasha was treating it very seriously, so Xenia went ahead and sat beside her.

She picked up the letter that Sasha wrote and flipped through. “He’s been gone for so long and you’ve sent him so many. Has he ever written a reply?”

Sasha’s expression instantly dulled. “No.”

She knew it was not going to happen because she never actually sent those letters out.

that you’ve written all these, but he

me send

you mail your letters. And I’ll make sure that he responds, I

after that and let Xenia take the

brave enough to do it, and Xenia’s intervention gave her an excuse to send the

that she might actually get a reply

time Xenia went back, she would tell Sasha that there was no reply but also encourage her to continue writing, saying

would always put up a faint

on the letter-writing as she found interest in writing stories. She started pouring all her heart and soul into it,

everything? Can I see what you wrote?” Xenia was

“Sure.”

innocent girl at the time. She

made a copy of everything she

into high school and the Wand family’s company was

from the Blackwood family have to help the Wand family with their

are you saying? They are your aunt and uncle! They took care of you for

treat me like their own daughter. But it turns out, whatever Sasha had, I could never get. I

Her parents were speechless.

the family crisis, Sasha’s father was jailed, and her mother fell

her in