Her Moment of Clarity

About the story

Shen Xiaotong's daughter Xinxin crawls into a suitcase in the car trunk and faces suffocation, while her husband Ji Yan celebrates the birthday of his idealized love, Zhao Shiyu. Shen Xiaotong desperately seeks help, but Ji Yan insists she is lying and throws the suitcase into a lake. Because rescue is delayed, their daughter is left unconscious after being saved. Shen Xiaotong gives up on him and seeks divorce. Only when the truth emerges—that Zhao Shiyu is a fraud, that he has been her dupe for three years, and that he almost killed his own daughter—does Ji Yan feel irreparable regret. But Shen Xiaotong's heart is already cold. They ultimately divorce, their daughter acknowledges only her mother, and Ji Yan becomes a stranger who can only glimpse his daughter from across the road.