Heading South Yesterday

To Xu Xing, loving Wen Nanli was like waiting for a ship that would never come ashore. Just like her words, “I don’t like you,” she was distant and cold, a disappointment with no end in sight.

Over ten years, time can change so much. It can even make people adjust to loss and grow accustomed to death. It marches on without mercy, carrying everyone along with it.

But ten years later, Wen Nanli feels as if she’s the only one still trapped in the past.

The truth is, Xu Xing never went far.

“I’m waiting for her to look back at me. I think she’s finally seen me, but she has no idea how long I’ve been standing here.”

Wen Nanli thinks of a phrase: just when all seems lost, a new path opens.

Fate may not owe them a destined love, but people who truly love each other always find their way to one another. They’re like trees, their roots entwined deep in the unseen earth.

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“One tree, another tree / Standing apart, alone / The wind and the air / Tell them how far apart they are / But beneath the cover of the soil / Their roots keep growing / Deep where no one can see / Their roots tangle together /, ‘Trees,’ Ai Qing”

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Love makes ordinary, imperfect people shine.

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A gentle, slow-burn story about two people falling in love as they go from distant to close.