I Was Born at the Cost of My Mother's Life

If the heart does not die, the Way cannot be born. If desire does not end, the Way cannot endure.

What can wake someone up is neither a seven- or eight-o’clock alarm nor constant lectures. It is the brick wall that leaves Gu Fan battered and bruised.

We are all searching for that one ray of light in our lives, stumbling along as we make choices and are chosen, never realizing that we ourselves are the only light in this world.

If Gu Fan knew that misfortune had marked him from the moment he was born, and that no matter how hard he tried, he could never escape the fate laid out for him, would he still choose to fight back?

If the barriers of fate keep devouring a life as small and fragile as a reed, will you still keep going?