"If memories tasted like oranges, then my longing would have turned so sweet it became bitter."
After five cycles of reincarnation, Shen Qingyao keeps repeating the same mistakes amid the scent of oranges, from meeting Ye Xiuyuan beneath an orange tree in high school to an air disaster overseas and a fatal heart attack while he is frail and ill. Every cycle ends with his death. She shields him from a car in a rainstorm, forces canned oranges on him at his sickbed, and clutches his plane ticket in despair amid a blizzard, yet she can never escape the ending: "He dies for her."
When the fifth cycle begins, Ye Xiuyuan’s pale, smiling eyes finally see through her secret. "Qingyao, longing that tastes like oranges is too bitter." Beneath a shower of orange blossoms, he pushes an old man out of the path of a car, using his final death to free her from the shackles of reincarnation. In the years that follow, she opens a little shop called Longing That Tastes Like Oranges, filling every evening with candied oranges, preserves, and milk tea. When curious customers ask about the faded photo on the wall, she points to it and softly says, "Because there was someone worth remembering for a lifetime."
• Five cycles of reincarnation, and every death is for her: a heartbreaking mutual rescue
• The recurring motif of oranges, from soda cans and candied oranges to scarves and necklaces, captures an obsession woven from sweetness and bitterness
• A story of redemption intertwined with reincarnation and life-and-death cycles
• Death is not the end. Longing is the lingering warmth of an everlasting orange scent
Please note‼️ The cycles do not take place along the same timeline. Each volume has a different cycle and a different reason for reincarnation. You can think of them as taking place in different parallel worlds.
This is a work that makes you jump repeatedly between sweetness and pain. When the book pages are closed in the scent of oranges, you will find that they have been soaked in the stories of Shen Qingyao and Ye Xiuyuan, just like a piece of sugar cube dyed with orange juice, so sweet that it becomes bitter, but you are reluctant to throw it away.
"The sweetness of the orange candy was given by him, the coolness of the orange ice drink was left by him, and the orange-scented scarf was his farewell with body temperature." "Missing is like the white flesh on the peel of an orange. It is obviously bitter, but there are always people who insist on tasting every trace of the aftertaste."
Very nice, worth owning I don't even want to cook anymore.
Not enough, not enough! Other books are three points worse than this one
The author's writing is good, and the content is very good. It makes people unable to extricate themselves. I read the latest chapter in two days and I am so sleepy.
The writing is very interesting, and the main and supporting characters are well developed.
This is the first time I write a review after reading a book for so long. I am not very educated. But I still want to recommend this good book to everyone. It is definitely worth reading for newbies.
Super super super super super super beautiful ah ah