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In the seventh year of being with Garrison, his pure love who had been dead for years suddenly "resurrected".
He regained what was once lost, now by her side every day.
The arrogant and unruly Garrison would bend down to tie her shoelaces when no one was around, and his eyes would turn red with concern when she got pricked by a needle.
At that moment, I knew my relationship with Garrison had come to an end.
I boarded a plane to leave, but that flight crashed that very night, with none of the hundred-plus passengers surviving.
When Garrison heard the news, he went completely mad, holding my clothes and weeping day and night with regret.
But what he didn't know was that I never got on that plane at all.

The Seventh Year as a Stand-In

I broke my SIM card, bought a ticket for the earliest flight available, and prepared to leave this place.


Before leaving, I went to visit my mother.


I told her everything that had happened to me over the years.


"Will you blame me? Blame me for not becoming the person you hoped I would be?"


The cemetery was quiet, with only the sound of the wind blowing.


The cold tombstone couldn't speak. My mother must be disappointed in me.


There was a traffic jam on the way to the airport. By the time I arrived, the plane had already taken off.


My life has been just like this missed flight, always one step away from happiness.


I found a random hotel, planning to leave the next day.


But that night, I received news of a plane crash. Over a hundred people perished, with no survivors. It was the very flight I had missed.


The relief of having narrowly escaped death made me start to believe that my mother wasn't disappointed in me after all.


Chapter 9