The story presented here is a fiction one may find familiar in the late 1970s and the 80s. The author reserves his copy right to not allow trans posting, publishing, or any other uses for commercial purposes without permission of the author.

A Love Story (6)

It was a night to remember. It’s the first time ever Yang felt truly love and be loved. It came so naturally that Yang felt he finally find himself and his destiny even though his destiny was yet to be determined, given that he’s still married to Jia. Yang and Qiu woke up in each other’s arm next morning, calmly. They looked into each other’s eye lovely and tenderly without any words for a long while. Then they started kissing and hugging again. Yang told Qiu that he would divorce Jia to marry her no matter how hard it would be. Qiu told Yang that she would love him and wait for him regardless the outcome of his first marriage. Then they kissed goodbye one after another till it’s time for Yang to take off.

The train ride back to the city was not so pleasant to Yang for he was tumbling in his mind all the way. He didn’t know what to expect from Jia for she never wrote to him again since her unhappy departure two weeks ago. He started missing Qiu already, so much. He also knew that Jia was the type who never gives up easily with or without love, let alone they were legally married. He knew that there was fault on his part to get married and now to be divorced in his will. But one thing he’s so sure that he doesn’t love Jia any more, actually never did, and that he loves Qiu, actually did at the first sight. On that note, Yang felt a little bit relieved that at least he’s doing the right thing.

Yang finally made back to the city. He first got all the graduate school registration stuff taken care of, and then moved into the dorm assigned to him for he and Jia never really got a place called home. Yang called to Jia’s work place. Apparently still upset she hung up after a brief word that Yang didn’t come to his wife first and do not even bother to come anymore since he got his own place. So the ‘cold war’ between them kept on going just like that. But Yang had his mind made up that he wanted a divorce. So he decided to visit his wife at his in-laws where Jia lived.

It was a finger pointing meeting as Yang expected from the whole family of Jia, without even the mentioning of the divorce that was in Yang’s mind. Jia’s mother was leading the charge that it was so ungrateful for Yang to upset Jia at first place, and then didn’t even show up to Jia’s family soon as he moved back to the city. Yang first tried to explain, then gave up without any effort, thinking what the point was when a divorce was inevitable. At the end, Yang apologized to Jia and her family that he made a huge mistake to marry Jia; and that it might be a good idea to divorce each other since he was so terrible to Jia and to the family. Jia’s brother almost jumped at Yang when they realized that Yang was asking for a divorce, because for Jia and her family to complain and to criticize Yang was only a way to make him to feel guilty and to be kind of obedient to Jia’s way. Jia was shocked in disbelief that only word she shouted out to Yang was ‘get lost‘. Yang helped himself out quietly knowing that it’s no use to talk about anything anymore in a heated situation like this, and that the worst was yet to come somehow.

To be continued