In Those Days of Waiting for the Light

Ling Tomb was admitted to the hospital when he was seventeen years old, with the heart of a sixteen-year-old girl beating in his chest. Lu Huaishen was her attending doctor—and the brother of the original owner of the heart. He waited for ten years before the heart finally appeared in front of him again. He thought he was here to protect his sister's legacy. She thought she was just a vessel. They tormented each other, got closer to each other, and opened each other's deepest wounds. When he finally realized that it was her whom he loved, she no longer wanted to believe it. My father died, and his suicide note read "I'm sorry, Dad." The heart failed and she said "I don't want your heart". On a snowy night, she put the last orange candy into his mouth: "I only find two things sweet in my life, one is orange candy, and the other is you." Then she died in his arms. He guarded the tombstone for fifty years. She never wanted much. A piece of candy, a "I love you", a body that is not borrowed. But everything came too late.