When There Is Nothing Left But Love

For a moment, I actually felt slightly uneasy. Fortunately, Laurel was here to chat with me.

“I remember we loved camping and hiking when I was still in university. Looking back, I really miss those good old days.” She sighed. “In just the blink of an eye, ten years have whizzed past.”

“You’re right. I can’t believe I’m going to be thirty soon!” Nora sighed. “I feel like I’m still young and free. How did I grow old so fast?”

Gazing at the night sky full of shimmering stars, I took a deep breath. “There’s no need to dwell on the past. People just have to do what they’re supposed to do in due courses like studying, getting married, and giving birth. Our ancestors had lived for thousands of years, yet they followed the same routine. It’s not that they hadn’t thought of living their ideal lives. Perhaps they had experienced the freedom which we all long for, but in the end, they found it even more unbearable than being married and having kids.”

Nodding her head, Nora turned to glance at Tessa. “Tessa, aren’t you into philosophy? What do you think about life?”

Pressing her lips together, the woman looked intently at the night sky for a few seconds before saying indifferently, “Life and death have been fated from the start. It’s an endless cycle of torment.”

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Nora mumbled and pouted her lips. She then turned to Armond and asked with a sweet smile, “Mr. Murphy, do you have anything to say?”

“No,” Armond replied. His icy gaze was fixed on the night sky.

“Ouch!” All of a sudden, Rachel jumped to her feet with her hands over her stomach, and her face contorted with agony. “My stomach hurts.”

Ashton furrowed his brows. “What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know. I’m having a stomach-ache. Maybe I ate something bad. Excuse me, I need to relieve myself.” Immediately, she scurried away while holding her tummy.

toward the end of the enormous field, everyone tried to stifle a laugh. There was no undergrowth or trees that could act as a cover across the

thought

to me. “I bet she’ll not be able to

her

sly smile and said impishly, “That’s the consequence of acting all high and mighty

I made a wild guess. “Did you put something in

shrugged noncommittally. “I only added a little chocolate in the

milk and

head. “Yes. Don’t worry, she won’t die.

I see.

In an instant,

few dazzling shooting stars

her eyes and clasped her hands together at

spread across my face. Instinctively, I turned to the other side.

had I thought that he was looking at me at the same time. His dark, gleaming eyes appeared slightly

gaze. Like Nora, I closed my eyes and acted as though I was making a wish as well. Under his

for?” After the shooting stars vanished,

joy, and health,” I answered

“How boring. Why did you wish for those things? You