Time Stands Still in Autumn's First Chill

#BE novel#Regret#Mutual love#Short life#Unexpected tragedy#Age gap

Ye Jingqiu & Shang Shixu Xiang Suinian & Qi Xiu Zhong Yunyan & Tao Nanxu

Ye Jingqiu is hospitalized with cancer, and her attending physician, Shang Shixu, falls for her while treating her. They cherish one another between bouts of illness, but in the end, the cancer spreads. He spends the rest of his life clinging to their memories.

Designer Zhong Yunyan meets forest ranger Tao Nanxu while gathering inspiration. Their love grows between the woods and the studio, but Tao Nanxu dies fighting a forest fire. From then on, her paintings contain only the eternal green ash.

Soldier Qi Xiu and planning manager Xiang Suinian wait for one another for three years. He returns after leaving the military and prepares to propose, but dies in a car accident on his way to buy a ring. Her long wait ends in emptiness, and the ring becomes a keepsake he never got to give her.

Every story ends in death. Their love is frozen in separation, etching the weight of life and regret into their hearts.