Sunset Sunflower: How Many Circles Must Love Go Around?

"When you lowered your head, did you hear me turn back? I watched you like that all along, until you became a speck of dust and vanished from my sight."

"Why didn't I stop the car? I can't figure it out either. What was I running from, as if trying to evade some enormous disaster? Lu Yang, I'm sorry."

Those sunflowers reminded her of a dream she used to have as a child. In the dream, she ran through a field full of sunflowers, happily picking one, only to discover her sister's name carved into it. She hurriedly tossed it away and frantically picked another. It had her sister's name too. This happened over and over, until fear rose in her heart and she finally woke from the nightmare. She hid beneath her quilt and sobbed softly until dawn. Back then, a few sunflowers grew beneath her windowsill. She carefully wrote her own name on them with watercolor pens, but the rainy south always washed it away without a trace.

She buried her head in her arms, and warm tears soaked through...

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