One chance glance was enough for her to recognize the love of her life. She broke free from her family's ties without hesitation and threw herself into a doomed affair like a moth to a flame. But life is about more than love; there's also family and responsibility. While he and she were whispering sweet nothings to each other, thunder suddenly crashed in their ears: “Our son has leukemia. Save him.”
After Wei Fen's entire family feasted on wild mushrooms, only a father and daughter remained, clinging to each other as the sole survivors.
In the fragments of memory left after narrowly escaping death, she felt that she didn't belong here, though she had no idea where she did belong.
As a child, Wei Fen lacked companionship. She envied the neighbors' homes and the other children, and longed to be part of their lives. Everything she had experienced in the past began to take root in her mind, always vivid and clear.
Her memories held spring wood ear mushrooms and fiddlehead ferns; winter ice sleds and grape trellises like crystal palaces; a narrow escape from a demon's harm; fighting back against bullying as a student; the despair of losing a friend, and the moving warmth of people helping one another sincerely.
As an adult, Wei Fen married her childhood betrothed to repay him for saving her life. But they lacked understanding and tolerance for each other, and both fell for someone else, so they decided to part ways. Wei Fen threw herself wholeheartedly into a beautiful romance. But her beloved already had a family, so they could only carry on a secret affair that could never last. He had responsibilities of his own, and love was nothing more than an unattainable dream for him.
When it rains, it pours. The tide of the times changed the fate of Wei Fen, who had lived a steady life for nearly forty years. She lost not only her family but her job as well. Her spiritual longing for love was suddenly reduced to the most basic need of all: having enough to eat. She drifted from place to place, with no idea what lay ahead
