Chapter Five: Editing Love

She canceled the wedding and did not ask Lin Wan to polish her farewell. After the door closed, Lin Wan remained still. An ordinary woman who could not overhear the future had judged the present choice clearly. Lin Wan envied her. Heat came from the book in the drawer. A pale line had appeared beneath the question: Simply write—Zhou Xubai loves me of his own free will. The temptation was almost impossible to refuse. It offered neither forever nor fidelity, only the evidence she lacked. Lin Wan took up the pen but did not lower it. Outside, Xubai was calling the wedding planner to cancel a blue hydrangea wall she had never selected. “She dislikes hydrangeas,” he said. Lin Wan opened the door. “Who told you that?”