Sugar and a knife are never in opposition - the sweetest candy always has to be defended by someone with a knife.
The end is coming, and the ruins are engulfing the world. When Qiu Mingyan was on the verge of death, he awakened the forbidden power - "flowers grow in the ruins": using memory as fuel, transforming pain into strength. Every time he uses his power, he will forget some precious memories: his sister's fingertips turning red when passing the candy, the smell of his mother's fried eggs, the rustle of his father peeling wood...
In order to protect his only remaining sister (pseudonym "Xiaotang"), he formed a "sympathy lock" with Ye Wanqing, the inheritor of the Pure Fire who was also eroded by the ruins, sharing weal and woe and sharing the same journey of life and death. Two scarred souls become each other's last anchor in a desperate situation.
This is a war about "remembering" and "forgetting". When the world tried to use "mind-washing" to strip away all pain, and when the eternal "painless quiet land" whispered seductively, they chose a more difficult path: living with scars, letting pain and sweetness coexist, and blooming their own flowers on the ruins.
In the post-epidemic era, aren't we experiencing similar struggles? When trauma becomes collective memory, when "forgetting" and "numbness" become cheap painkillers, this novel is a love letter to all those who "walk with wounds" - true healing is not to erase the pain, but to learn to coexist with pain and let sweetness take root.
Sugar will melt and people will forget, but as long as there are still people who remember the "sweet taste", new flowers will eventually bloom above the ruins.
"If pain is the only way to go, I am willing to share it with you; if the memory will eventually pass, at least for now, sugar is in the palm of your hand."
Use memory to protect the last bit of sweetness.
