“Xie Gongqiu, do you like me?”
“When autumn comes, I’ll tell you.”
A little angsty, but not too much. Read with care. Love you all 🥰
At seventeen, Xie Gongqiu’s life was already in ruins.
Suffering from amnesia, domestic abuse, and a brutal reform school, he struggled on the brink of despair every day.
Then, one afternoon, a soul appeared quietly before him, visible only to him. Calling herself Su Yingye, she was pale and fragile, and had forgotten everything except her name and her search for a lover.
For the sake of an empty promise, two lost souls began walking together.
Xie Gongqiu fought to survive in the purgatory of reality, while Su Yingye searched for clues through the fog of her shattered memories.
Cold walls, silent bullying, and companionship unseen by anyone else were their only warmth.
But as Su Yingye’s memories gradually came together, a story about peonies and a cruel truth slowly emerged, one even more suffocating than the hardships of reality.
When Xie Gongqiu finally uncovered Su Yingye’s buried past, he found that the truth was a poisoned double-edged sword.
The law was silent, justice was absent, and the devil responsible for the tragedy still roamed free beneath the sun.
Should he live on in agony with the truth, or burn himself away to offer one final tribute to the soul who had passed on?
The fates of the two boys were tightly intertwined. A journey that began with desperate companionship would ultimately lead to an ending from which there was no return.
Could they find peace and redemption before complete darkness descended?
It was really suffocating in that so-called "reformed" school. I really had a lot of feelings when I escaped. Their pale sacrifices shocked me. I didn't expect anyone to give in to others when it comes to their own lives. Maybe this is the difference between novels and reality. While I was reading, I kept thinking whether the "parents" who sent their children to this place really didn't care at all. After seeing this, this idea disappeared. If they really cared, they would not send people to such a place. Rather than saying that they "care", it is better to say that they are "killing". After escaping, it was Xie's "new life", but there were many people inside. They were so pale that they would even be beaten to death. Xie was still in fear after he came out. Those scum hung him up for a reward, and there were those who wanted to hand him over. . . When he was looking for the secret of Su Yingye's life experience, I was always worried that he would do something illegal because of impulsiveness. Later, he settled down and worked in a noodle shop. But when he met Officer Wang, he thought there was hope, but it couldn't be said to be meaningless. After he told Officer Wang about his experience, I started to think about why Officer Wang didn't care about the "reformed" school. But I forgot that I was from God's perspective. My family has no right to demand that they are not qualified. My so-called empathy is also false. I will never know their true feelings. The latest chapter, where Su Yingye's soul no longer exists and Xie's collapse, is really numb. After reading the introduction, I thought this was a novel about love and redemption, but I was wrong. This is their tragedy. There is no love or even redemption here. I hope this novel can be read by more people, and I also hope that such a "school" in reality can be paid attention to by more people.