If you had only 100 days left to live, how would you say goodbye to the person you love most?
Bai Yun, a 26-year-old lawyer, chose the cruelest way: he broke up with her. With the words “I don't love you anymore,” he pushed Lin Xia, the girlfriend he'd loved for three years, completely away. Then he began following a meticulous “death preparation checklist”: deleting all their photos, cutting off their shared social circles, erasing every trace of his existence, pretending to his family that he was “just exhausted from work,” and moving out of the city he knew so well, all alone.
What he didn't know was that Lin Xia never believed him. The images in her nightmares of him coughing up blood, the way he was rapidly wasting away, the black diary he always wrote in late at night… Every clue pointed to the truth he refused to tell her. When she saw him in a wheelchair outside a café on a rainy night, only for him to coldly look away, she understood: the deepest love in the world is often hidden behind the cruelest lies.
“Bloom cleanly, like a magnolia, and let every petal fall. Don't be afraid to fall.” That was what he wrote in his final letter.
