The Sound of Falling Cherry Blossoms

Perhaps we've never really loved a particular person, but have loved "love" itself. And the truest kind of heartbreak is a conspiracy between time and memory: "I became you, but lost you forever."

Lin Wan: 27, born extremely sensitive to sound, able to hear "the sounds of memories." Cool and distant on the surface, inside she is a ruin built from a shattered childhood and broken promises. Her search is an ultimate examination of her own existence.

Lu Yan: 29, an architectural designer, with a scar on the inside of his left wrist in the same place as Lin Wan's. He always wears old canvas shoes and smokes only on rainy days. His silence is a moving prison that holds the past captive.

Shen Xingchen: Lin Wan's first love and Lu Yan's close friend. He disappeared in the snowy mountains seven years ago, leaving behind an unfinished symphony, Sakura Falls. He is the story's eternal absence, and the hole in everyone's heart.

Su Mian: 30, a renowned curator and Lu Yan's fiancee. Beautiful and formidable, she is pregnant. She represents the happiness of reality, something tangible and within reach. She is a beam of bright light shining into Lu Yan's gray world, yet she can never dispel the shadow named "Lin Wan."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.