We ate our noodles in silence after trading sarcastic remarks. It felt like we were strangers, even though our past was anything but ordinary. Watching Daniel leave money on the table before he walked out, I thought that might be the last time we crossed paths. But life's entanglements are rarely so simple—they seem to follow a script you can't rewrite.

　　The next day, I happened to have a day off.

　　When I got up, I saw the $38,000 dress from Lucas lying neatly ...