GINGER:

I could barely sleep the entire night, because all I could think of was what could and what would go wrong today. It is merely a harmless desire to see the one you love, but it has never turned out that way for Hu and me. Sometimes, I wonder if our love story was meant to be, but I have never fallen out of love with him, not even once, and that alone is what keeps me going.

"Are you ready yet?" my mother asks, and I glance back at her briefly, shaking my head before looking into the ...