Half a Life of Duckweed, Only a Dream

When she was six years old, Lin Ping was taken back to her grandmother's house from the mountains. She was belted and insulted as a daily routine. Only three teenagers protected her gloomy childhood under the plane tree in the compound. In the second year of junior high school, transfer student Lu Chen came in like a ray of light, but the red apple on Christmas Eve was eventually pushed away by her because of her low self-esteem. When she kept the five-year promise and rejected the whole world, all she waited for was two cold "hmm" on the phone. She never looked back and saw that the boy who drove two hours every Friday to be with her had already engraved the words "protect him for a lifetime" into his bones and blood. Fourteen years of secret love, eight years of fighting cancer, and a sudden loss of 20 pounds of depression. After half a lifetime, she finally understood: missing out on some people is a pity, but missing out on others is the greatest luck.