Chapter Five: Editing Love

Zhou Xubai first admitted he had seen the Book of Unspoken Vows inside their wedding hall. It was late and the seats were empty. Standing below the ceremony platform, he said that after meeting Lin Wan three years ago, he began dreaming repeatedly of a hospital corridor. In the dream, someone placed a book beside his bed. Every page told him how to love a woman he did not know. “I thought it was trauma. Then, two years ago, I found the book in your study.” “Why didn't you ask me?” “I did.” She stared at him. “You told me everything. The next morning, you remembered neither our conversation nor the book. Whenever I asked again, you forgot something else. So I stopped.”