Gu Qili left the coffee shop and started walking aimlessly forward, not knowing where she wanted to go. She crossed the main streets, passed through the alleys, just kept walking until her legs became numb, but her heart, it never ceased to ache.
It turns out the truth is even more cruel than betrayal. Right from the start, their love was doomed, caught in this labyrinth where he always looked down on her foolishness like an emperor from above.
When she told him she loved him, his heart must have been filled with mockery and self-satisfaction, for that was the outcome he desired—to be loved and then cruelly abandoned. Just how wonderfully he must have played his part in this show, probably even he was bewildered by his own act.
Gu Qili finally stopped on an overpass. Cars moved to and fro below, while the bridge was nearly void of pedestrians. She stood there high above, the wind blowing past her, with the sound of car horns echoing in her ears.
