The Light of Defiance

Most of the children in the orphanage were abandoned by their parents. They were sick, disabled, paralyzed, blind, or had other conditions… Xia Yang, Chen Xian, and Yang Yulian all grew up in the orphanage. Xia Yang was one of the few healthy boys among the many children. Chen Xian had albinism, and Yang Yulian had congenital heart disease. After all three got into university, Xia Yang fell in love with Yang Yulian. Yang Yulian died of her congenital heart condition at twenty-six. Xia Yang tore up the gardenia flowers in front of her grave and sat there for three days and nights. To keep Xia Yang going, Chen Xian lied, claiming that Yang Yulian had wanted to find her family before she died. Xia Yang quit his job at the Ye Group to fulfill Yang Yulian’s last wish. He disappeared for a whole year, and no one knew where he had gone. After seeing through Chen Xian’s lie, on the first anniversary of Yang Yulian’s death, Xia Yang put on the most presentable suit he had worn while working at the Ye Group and fastened on the jade pendant Yang Yulian had given him. Holding a glass bottle containing a lock of hair cut from her before cremation, he jumped to his death from the Second Yangtze River Bridge. The story begins after Xia Yang jumps into the river and drifts to Yuhe Village. He has lost his memory, and the glass bottle is gone. Six months later, he lays the jade pendant to rest with Yulian. His strange origins, tangled romance, and the Ye family’s trillion-yuan fortune all come into play. The story is gripping. Come and read it!