[Mutual Purity + Reunion + Healing + Happy Ending]
In the cicada-filled summer when they were eleven, they had been the only light in each other's dark youth. Time had swallowed Bai Yan's name, leaving behind Mu Zhiyi, who seemed to have it all but was covered in scars. He had been living like a machine shrouded in darkness.
Then Ruan Lanyu quietly approached him with a carefully crafted agenda. His eyes held an obsession and emotional desolation no one else could understand, yet he showed an unusual patience only toward this introverted gardenia. As they spent time together, a familiar warmth slowly returned, and fragments of memory pieced together the farewell left unspoken back then. The shadow he had longed to catch in his midnight dreams had been right before his eyes all along.
Ruan Lanyu's love came with thorns. He paved a path forward for Mu Zhiyi in his own way, with an obsession that was almost suffocating. Mu Zhiyi's tenderness concealed old wounds, but through their bittersweet push and pull, he glimpsed the brokenness beneath the other's hard shell.
Eleven years apart had been a dull ache piercing the heart; their entanglement after reuniting became a bitter kind of salvation. When their repressed past was laid bare, could two lonely souls heal all that was barren in the faint light they found in each other?
Ruan Lanyu: "I'm not throwing my life away. He's my life."
Mu Zhiyi: "My island holds desolation, yet it waits for me alone to fill it with gardenias."
The writing is very delicate and beautiful, and the plot is novel and exciting.
Although it's not much, it's very good 😳😳