A Floor Full of Broken Porcelain: I Secretly Looked Up to a Ray of Light
In their second year of high school, Lu Yuzhou knocked over the white porcelain cup he'd made in art class.
Shen Nian crouched in the empty classroom and picked up the seventeen pieces one by one, spending seventeen days putting them back together. She didn't know that he watched her from the end of the hallway every afternoon, or that the broken cup bore half a sentence he'd written to himself.
On the seventeenth day, he opened the door and brought the secret she'd hidden for seventeen days into the sunlight.
It began with a broken cup and ended with a windowsill full of kintsugi pottery. She spent a lifetime piecing together the things he'd broken, and he placed that ray of light in her hands.
Unrequited love · coming of age · healing. A story about how broken things can become more beautiful than before, and about someone willing to crouch down and gather up every one of your pieces.
“A floor full of broken porcelain. I secretly looked up to a ray of light.”
