After Dark, Dawn Came Again

Everything that came before was only a prologue.

After the dark comes the dawn.

From pain, she forged her sharpest edge.

This is Rong Ci's story, a story of love, hurt, forgiveness, and being reborn. In her fifties, she finally became the person she most wanted to be.

At fifty, Rong Ci returned to the stage in a white dress, her sweet, rich voice concealing the trials of a lifetime. Once the beloved queen of sweet love songs, she fell from the heights into the mire after an old scandal, bearing infamy and disappearing from the public eye for twenty years.

Her love affair with Feng Ting Shen had once been a passionate spark in the sea breeze, but swept along by the tide of the times, it became fodder for gossip. After years adrift, she read and tended flowers in solitude, turning her pain into nourishment. When she finally returned, public opinion had shifted. She smiled calmly, letting go of the past without resentment.

When the cloth was lifted from the long-forgotten piano, and a long-delayed apology finally reached her across the years, Rong Ci had already become her own moon. With a long life ahead, she made peace with time and turned each day into a song.