In the afternoon, Jiang Yang left, and Wei Anning returned to school for classes. Before, with Yan Nanfei and Jiang Yang around, she didn't feel the emptiness, but now that both of them were gone, her heart suddenly felt hollow.
She knew that life is full of farewells, but as friends left one by one, she still felt a bit sentimental inside.
Meanwhile, Yan Nanfei, whom she was thinking of, was sitting in the last row of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Clutching her household registration book, she watched couple after couple happily register their marriages, her heart filled with desolation.
Was she ultimately unable to escape fate, incapable of choosing her own lover?
She remembered how last night, she had cornered Jiang Yang in the hallway as he returned late. She summoned the greatest courage she'd ever mustered and asked him, "Jiang Yang, do you wish for me to get married?"
