Summary
Gu Jingzhao had a woman he loved in his youth.
When she divorced and returned to China, I was forgotten in a downpour.
That day, I borrowed an umbrella from a passing sanitation worker.
Then I went to the airport and bought the next available flight.
I thought, anywhere is fine, as long as Gu Jingzhao and Shuman aren’t there.
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At six o’clock, Gu Jingzhao’s car returned home.
It was the maid who greeted him, not his wife, Cen Yongwei.
Gu Jingzhao then remembered that he had forgotten to pick her up from the market because he was worried about Shuman.
But it didn’t matter, his wife had a gentle disposition and would never get angry over such trifles.
At seven o’clock, the rain stopped, the sky was very dark, and Cen Yongwei had not yet returned home.
Gu Jingzhao began to feel a strange unease.
He called her three times; the first went unanswered.
The second and third times, he couldn’t get through at all.