Love across the ocean: the story of Xiaoyu

Xiaoyu is one of my girlfriends. She is several years older than me. She immigrated to Canada many years ago. My daughter is studying in America, and my husband is still making money in China. I only heard her talk about her husband when I got along, but I have never seen her.

They are classmates from different departments in the same university. They got married for the first time and had a good relationship. Xiaoyu has been working in the system. Her husband went to sea very early, and there was no improvement in the past few years. Later, I had the opportunity to do real estate, but the business grew bigger and bigger. Naturally, Xiaoyu also quit her job and concentrated on tutoring her children.

My husband has a successful career, is getting busier and busier, and has more social activities. He can't eat a meal at home for a week, and the time for two people to meet is less. Xiaoyu is also busy with her daughter's education and extracurricular activities. That year, my daughter Xiao Shengchu didn't play well and didn't get into an ideal school. Just when their application for immigration to Canada was passed, they came to Vancouver with their daughter.

Vancouver, Canada is backed by snow-capped mountains and faces the sea. Xiaoyu especially liked the scenery around Columbia, so they settled down in the west of Vancouver. My daughter is studying, accompanied by light rain, and my husband came over during the Spring Festival on May 1 1, and their mother and daughter returned home in the summer vacation. Life seems smooth sailing, and nothing is delayed.

In this way, after a few years, because of my daughter's studies, I didn't go back to China during the summer vacation and went to various summer camps or training classes. Xiaoyu's husband didn't come until the Spring Festival. Later, her husband expanded his career and the company benefited a lot from it. Of course, people are busier and come less.

Six years later, Xiaoyu's daughter achieved excellent results and lived up to expectations. She was admitted to an Ivy League university in the United States. Xiaoyu and her family also got Canadian citizenship early, and the house she bought in Vancouver West has more than doubled. Everything is very satisfactory. Xiaoyu then discussed with her husband and prepared to sell the house and go back to China to accompany her husband and two old people. Her eloquent husband began to prevaricate and pass the buck. Every video call, her husband is absent-minded and awkward. Xiaoyu wondered, chose a time and went back to China without telling anyone.

Murder will out. It only took Xiao Yuqing a week to figure out the story of these six years. Xiaoyu's husband did what many rich people would do-he had an outhouse. Although Xiaoyu is psychologically prepared, it is really her turn, which is still difficult to face. She was quiet by nature, not a woman who could argue, so she dared not face it and returned to Vancouver in anger.

Time is the best antidote, and the story of Vancouver is not new. Xiaoyu accepted the reality and reached an understanding with her husband: not to divorce, to live his own life and not to interfere with each other. Property distribution also meets the requirements of Xiaoyu, putting their daughter first.

The days passed silently. Xiaoyu took some classes at Columbia University to kill time. My daughter has a boyfriend and is also a graduate student in the United States. She is going to get married after her master's degree. Xiaoyu and her husband have become friends who talk about everything. They often contact by WeChat phone. Xiaoyu knew that her husband's outer room had also immigrated to Australia, and she was alone with a son and a daughter. I don't know why, at the thought of that woman, Xiao Yu has no hatred in his heart.

Life always plays cards against common sense. When they were all well and calm, Xiaoyu's mother-in-law called her in the middle of the night and told her that her husband had a stroke and fell down in the shower. Xiao Yu put the phone down without thinking, immediately bought the earliest direct flight ticket and returned to China immediately.

Xiaoyu took care of her husband in China for half a year. In the past, all-powerful business people have become patients with gray hair, swollen face, crooked mouth and eyes, drooling, speechless and hemiplegia. When the husband saw the light rain, his black hair turned white, his cheeks drooped and he looked tired. When they met, there was not a word. He shed tears and she shed tears.

This half year is the most tense period in their lives. Although there are nurses and nannies, Xiaoyu still does a lot of nursing work alone. She made him soup, massaged him and guessed what he wanted to say. Talk to him when you have time, show him their past photos and recall their past stories. She often tears, and so does he.

In six months, he will leave. That day, he gestured to bring the iPad, and handwritten a few crooked words: Good wife, followed by many shapeless exclamation marks or ellipsis.