With the divorce agreement secured after three grueling court battles in hand, Ou Lan returned to the Southern City slum and suddenly discovered that her once busy life had abruptly become empty and vast.
Three days later, she received the divorce certificate mailed to her by Li Dan.
This marriage was completely severed.
Zhan Moxiao and Zhan Lingtau were no longer a part of her world.
While they lived in the Jade Palace, she dwelled among the earthly fireworks, no longer able to receive any news about them.
It felt as if two chunks of flesh had been crudely cut from her being.
Returning to the home where she had lived happily for nineteen years, she suddenly realized that happiness seemed so distant, and she now felt profoundly lonely.
Each morning, she would still wake up early, but without that man beside her, without his embrace, and without his scent.
She would still go for her morning exercise, running forward along the street alone.
