The novel revolves around a profound but short-lived love story. It explores devotion and letting go in love, the pull between memory and reality, and the glimmers of hope and beauty that remain. It delves into encounters and farewells, remembering and forgetting, loneliness and hope.
For one reason or another, some relationships ultimately end in separation. As time passes, some people transform their love into a love of life and hopes for the future, searching for a spring of their own.
A love that has passed also represents the original beauty and innocence in every heart. Anyone may meet someone who makes their heart flutter, but not every relationship lasts. Two former lovers are kept apart by the man’s circumstances. Five years later, the woman has a family of her own, but she isn’t happy. Many years pass, yet the man still can’t forget her. He finally decides to seek out the woman he has longed for day and night, only to become entangled in complicated relationships. His ex-girlfriend’s best friend falls hopelessly in love with him, and even a wealthy young heir’s pursuit cannot sway her. There are four men and four women in this story, all caught in a tangled web of emotions...
