For ten minutes, I stood in the middle of the birthday party pretending nothing had happened. Everyone was smiling. Everyone was celebrating. Sebastián Ferrer was receiving congratulations…

The moment I walked out of the private room, I heard the sound of glass breaking behind me. Pho Bac Vong was still angry. Still convinced that…

Tong Du Hoai stood frozen in front of the fireplace. The flames continued to burn. The pink diary slowly turned into ashes. But for some reason, the…

Luc Canh Hoai still looked at me with that familiar tenderness. The same eyes that had once made me believe I was the most important person in…

I couldn’t answer. The little boy was still looking at me. Those eyes. Those exact eyes. Five years ago, I imagined them countless times. Would my child…

The next morning, the entire hospital knew. Doctor Hua Tri Dao was leaving. The same doctor who had worked twelve years in that hospital. The same doctor…

Michael Zhou stood in the hospital corridor for almost ten minutes. He kept looking at the empty bed. The same bed where he imagined I would be…

The next morning, the Lancaster mansion was no longer the same. For eighteen years, this house had been my battlefield. I had woken up before everyone else….

The flight back felt longer than it should have. I sat beside the window, watching the clouds move beneath the plane, but my mind kept returning to…