Love After a Steamy Affair

Chapter 312: Perhaps It Has the Taste of the Past

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Every day after school, she would come see the sapling as soon as possible. She would carefully water it, afraid that it would die if she watered too much or too little. She had always been very careful.

And under her meticulous care, the tree survived and grew better day by day. In the end, it grew to the thickness of a wrist.

On her eighteenth birthday, she and John carved their names on the tree. John even added the words ‘Together Forever’ at the bottom.

Back then, they had truly thought they would be together forever – they would get married, have children, work, wash clothes, and cook together. And when she turned sixty, he would still dote on and spoil her.

When she left abroad, she thought the tree would die since she wasn’t around to take care of it anymore. She didn’t expect the tree to still be alive and full of vitality.

She took a few steps forward and saw that the row of words carved on the thick tree was still there. Serenity thought they would have faded over time.

this place?” A man’s

place was their

her eyes, her long black eyelashes covering her

come to see the pomegranate tree,

at the tree full of fruits. “In the three years after you left, no one

only one who liked to eat pomegranates.

Serenity remained silent.

two fruits from the tree branch that was bending downwards and handed them to her. She looked at the big red pomegranates in his hand

stuffed them into

eyes became a little blurry. She clenched the things in her hands and turned

the setting sun, John’s eyes dimmed. He turned to look at the pomegranate tree that was dyed orange by the setting

stroking the names carved in perpetuity. The words on the tree trunk did not become blurry with the

time it was

did, he would say in his heart, ‘Serene, wait for

and returned to the living