Chapter 4

I only lost consciousness for a brief moment, but it felt like I had a very long dream.

Back then, Caelan and I had just met.

I had switched majors in college and ended up sitting next to Caelan in class.

My parents had just divorced, forcing me to separate from my mom and move to this unfamiliar city, transferring into an unfamiliar class.

I was struggling to adjust, feeling out of place with everyone.

Caelan seemed to be in a similar situation. He didn't talk much, with a faint sadness always lingering in his eyes.

We sat together but barely spoke, yet his presence made me feel less alone.

One day after school, I was cornered by some thugs on the street, and Caelan came to my rescue.

It was a cliché story, but it marked the beginning of our romance.

Caelan always said my love had saved him.

But I was afraid to fully invest myself. My parents' failed relationship left me distrustful of love.

In grad school, I decided to study design abroad and broke up with Caelan.

I didn't believe in long-distance relationships. Rather than slowly waiting for love to be exhausted by time, I thought it better to cut it off cleanly.

That day, Caelan stood outside my dorm building all night until I agreed to see him.

He promised me his love would never change, and that he would definitely marry me one day.I gazed into his sincere eyes, unable to refuse.

Caelan had done it.

The medical school coursework was incredibly demanding, yet he would call me every day, defying the time difference, for a full five years without missing a single day.

He was always expressing how much he missed me.

Caelan's love made me believe that love could endure.

He also saved me.

I named our wedding rings "Forever Promise," reflecting the vow he had once made.

I didn't want him to experience the pain of long separation again, so I turned down the company's opportunity to study abroad.

I boasted about my lover to everyone around me.

Yet I never knew he had a friend named Nolan.