The Heart-Picking Chronicles: Where Love's Threads Return

He knew no pain, no warmth, no sweetness, no joy or sorrow.

He had no five senses, no feelings, and didn't even know what it meant to be "alive."

People called him a monster, an aberration, a child abandoned by the Great Dao.

Then he met someone who could smile, feel pain, and shed tears for him.

She took his hand and taught him to watch flowers bloom,

to listen to the rain fall, and to understand what it meant to have one's heart stirred.

Little by little, he regained his sense of taste, touch, and pain, and his capacity for joy...