The Versions

Shanghai. Jenny has just finished her degree, Lukas teaches English while waiting to become "Professor Voss", and the Jing'an apartment is in her name. One evening his phone lights up on the table while he's in the shower: Tantan. "It's to practise my Chinese."

She wants to believe him. That's what will hurt. Because there are other women, and he has told each of them a different life. And she, too, may be a story he tells someone else.