In this world so vast it makes you want to cry, I lost myself, then unexpectedly found you.
Lin Xia fled the stifling city and headed west, wanting only to find a place deep in the Gobi Desert where she could die.
Gu Yingying turned down a gilded cage and set off home alone, yet she was afraid to face the hometown she could never return to.
Forty-six hours in a hard-seat train carriage, a sudden stomachache, and a first encounter in the Gobi.
Two souls who seemed to have nothing in common unexpectedly became intertwined on this land buried beneath windblown sand.
He said, "I'll stay with you."
She said, "You don't have to."
But the wind brought them together, and the blue of Sayram Lake and the green of Nalati became witnesses to their saving one another.
This is no ordinary trip. It is a grand tale of youth, of the road home and a reunion.
