Bai Jie's Second Contract

Bai Jie is a mature married woman, and the city already knows how to gossip about women like her. What it does not know is the contract. An affair would be simple. This one comes with clauses: what she will give, what she is owed, and how a signature keeps the door open after guilt should have closed it. / She has broken a vow before. The new pages ask her to break it with her eyes open. A lover wants more than a secret. A husband still thinks the marriage has its old shape. Bai Jie has not decided whether to sign.