One sentence introduction:
She spent ten years paving a colorful road, waiting for her to come back; she spent forty-one years traveling all over the world, just to return to that road.
Content summary:
Lin Qi, a 28-year-old sculptor, fled to a small southern town due to creative bottlenecks. He met Su Wan, a 22-year-old blind girl, in a blind massage parlor. On that rainy night, Su Wan's words, "Your shoes are soaked, you'll get a headache if you don't change them" made Lin Qi feel the warmth of being seen for the first time.
She took Su Wan to live in the mountains and used mud to teach her to "see" the world. They fell in love, tattooed each other's names, and collected fallen leaves, stones, feathers and the first white hair. But after regaining her sight, Su Wan wanted to see the outside world. Lin Qi tattooed the word "wait" on her belly and let her go down the mountain.
It has been eleven years since Su Wan left. Lin Qi spent ten years paving a colorful stone road from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. Each stone is engraved with a day's thoughts. In the spring of the year when the road was paved, Lin Qi died of illness, leaving behind a glass jar and a long letter.
Eleven years later, Su Wan came back and walked along the road to the top of the mountain. She saw the words on the stones, the sculpture depicting her at the age of twenty-two, and the letter filled with their entire lives. From then on, she stayed in the mountains, guarding the road, the jar, and the sculpture until her hair turned gray.
Forty-one years of waiting and return, there are two roads, one is paved with stones, the other is written with longing. In the end, they slept together under the camphor tree, with only two words engraved on a stone:
"We."
