Willow trees symbolize holding on and offering blessings. Like the love Su Shiyu could never have, they speak of longing and waiting for someone to return. Just as she spent nine years hoping, her heart filled with joy, only for it all to come to nothing.
At eighteen, the girl died beneath the willow tree she loved most.
Though down on her luck and short on courage, the girl still wanted to do everything she could to hold on to that ray of light.
Su Shiyu often thought: You can’t hold on to light, and the fog will always lift. We all have to say goodbye to the things we cannot hold on to. The person I love is light: bright but not dazzling, moving through the world as one with it.
In those days when they had only each other, that boy ultimately took his dreams as his steed and rode off toward the distant horizon.
