For the rest of the war, Winnie lives without hope or resistance, not despairing or accepting, what she calls being weak and strong. It is summer 1945 when Winnie gets another chance to leave. A soldier bursts into their home with the news that the war is over. They pack and leave Kunming the next day. In Wuchang, Hulan, Jiaguo and Auntie Du will head to Harbin while Winnie, Wen Fu and Danru will go to Nanking then Shanghai. Winnie and Hulan stay up late, exchange presents and addresses.
Winnie hopes to enlist her father's help in leaving her husband. When she arrives at Jiang Sao-yen's, the house is strangely empty and her father seems frightened of Wen Fu in his uniform. The following day, she learns from San Ma that her father sought.....
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