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 (10)

It was the first time the two of them were ever face to face, who loved the very same guy in jeopardy. Somehow from the first time few months ago when they laid their eyes on each other, Jia knew Qiu’s her competition, and Qiu knew that she wouldn’t stand a chance to win. Everything stayed the same that Qiu’ was in Jia’s way but Jia held all the cards to win over Qiu, if not necessarily to win Yang back.

Jia, even though could be on her knee to beg if necessary, held her arrogance with head tilted up facing Qiu, the village girl she’d call her. She spoke with mighty firmness that her uncle was in the judiciary system, that Yang’s conviction was only a matter of time. Then she would come back to the school to have him also dismissed with the court verdict, and to have him sent off to Xinjiang or Xizang as she wish. Jia then told Qiu that only Qiu could save Yang if she doesn’t want all these to happen, by simply giving up Yang who doesn’t belong to her. Then Jia would take care of Yang who was hers anyways. Qiu, with the helpless and the saddest look, agreed to Jia that she would do anything to save Yang’s future, begging Qiu in tears and broken heart to take good care of Yang. Qiu almost collapsed physically with the thought that maybe it’s her fate to not have Yang in her life.

Things happened so dramatically so that it was too late when Yang finally realized something was going on at Qiu and when he finally got there. Qiu and her newlywed husband had left the town for their ‘honeymoon’ with only a note to Yang, for Qiu knew Yang would come and she didn’t want Yang to face the embarrassment. Yang, had not cried ever since he was a grown man, cried so loudly as if his lung would be exploded and as if the light in his life was poured off. His heart was shattered in pieces that he could feel deep pain from his spinal to the tip of his finger, while reading the note that goes: how many tinkling stars are there in the sky? You are my brightest one of all. He hardly spoke to anybody for a long long time ever after.

The case against Yang was withdrew by Jia as she promised to Qiu. But Yang refused to even see her without withdrawing his divorce petition. Jia thought Yang needed some time to heal. So she waited for a while but only to see her court service for the divorce hearing. They finally got a divorce after a lengthy hearing, with hurt feelings and broken hearts. It was beyond comprehension that how a love story end up with three extremely broken hearts and saddest souls.

Yang finished his graduate study very strong. He was accepted with assistantship by a few schools in the US. He went to escape his sorrow and to find a new life in the US.

The End