Plum Rain Season Syndrome

1

Another plum-rain season has come, and Shen Yanyu visits his ex-girlfriend's grave.

Six years ago, in a moldy rented room, he spent the whole night weighing his words before asking her to break up.

She agreed readily, then turned and walked away without looking back at him once.

He didn't hear from her again until a year later.

She was dead.

Her ghost appeared in every corner of his life, leaving him to spend the rest of his days steeped in an endless plum-rain season.

Only today did he learn that she had fallen to her death because of online harassment.

“...I've finally come to see you.”

Shen Yanyu smiled, tears mingling with the rain as they fell. “It's been five years. You only missed this face of mine, didn't you?”

“Too bad I'm not handsome anymore, Big Sis. So this is goodbye.”

The umbrella slipped from his hand, and raindrops soaked the tips of his hair. Yet, strangely, the umbrella rose again to shelter him from the rain.

“Shu Zhiqing?” He met the eyes he hadn't seen in six years.

She was dead, yet here she stood beside him, smiling. “Xiao Yu, long time no see.”

“Oh, by the way, why don't you call me Big Sis anymore?”

“I'm older than you now.” He couldn't help giving a bitter smile.

Am I fantasizing again?

2

Shu Zhiqing knew how carefree she was. She casually got into a top university, casually started dating Shen Yanyu, then broke up with him soon after.

Maybe it was karma. She casually died during that plum-rain season, leaving behind an unfinished research project and patients she had yet to heal.

When she opened her eyes, she found herself in front of her ex-boyfriend once again.

The boy who had once been full of confidence, standing center stage and promising to hold a concert, was now dressed in a suit and looking utterly exhausted.

Shu Zhiqing raised her hand, but couldn't touch him.

His voice was almost choked with sobs. “Why did you kill yourself back then?”

Shu Zhiqing stared at him. “I didn't kill myself.”

“It's just that I don't know who killed me.”

But she knew she wasn't a figment of his imagination.

Reading guide ☔:

1. Widower fiction. Includes flashbacks.

Maybe it's a story about two troubled people healing each other.

Gentle, level-headed older woman x sunny, cheerful peacock (before the heroine's death)

Both are each other's only partners, and both are virgins.

Theme: Believe in love