Chapter 13
When I graduated, after weighing my options, I still chose not to return to China immediately.
I decided to gain a few years of work experience here first, then consider the future.
Friends, family, and my advisor all understood, thinking it was a reasonable life choice.[]
But Evren became more sensitive than before.[]
After all, without school as a fixed coordinate, finding me again in the vast sea of people wouldn’t be so easy.[]
The day he had to fly bact
He looked up,
long
I
to New York temporarily to handle business, downstairs at my apartment building, he suddenly half–knelt down.[]
as if deliberately choosing the best angle, using his most beautiful profile and most vulnerable tone:[]
don’t like me anymore, it’s okay.“]
can still see you, I have no other expectations.“[]
“I just beg you, don’t disappear suddenly again, okay?“]
I looked at him and calmly reminded him: “I did leave a note back then.“[]
But as soon as he left, I quickly moved, changed my phone number, and cut off all contact completely.
I left him only one message:]
[Evren, enough.]]]
[Let’s end it here. Okay?]]]
