At the age of 33, Lin Wan received a diagnosis of advanced gastric cancer, shattering her 20-year "good" life.
When she was a child, her parents' eyes were always on her sister, and beatings and scoldings were commonplace. Only her best friend Su Man pulled her up from the dust, wiped her tears and supported her. Later, she met a man she fell in love with at first sight, jumped into marriage, had children, and turned herself into a spinning top spinning around her family. She smiled and said "it's okay" despite her husband's indifference and her children's alienation. It wasn't until Su Man forced her to go for a physical examination that this layer of false perfection was torn apart.
She did not choose to lie in the hospital bed and wait for the end, nor did she argue with her husband and parents. She took Su Man's hand and booked a flight to a distant place. She walked from the Jiangnan water town to the northwest Gobi, and finally landed under the aurora in Iceland.
Under the warm yellow light of the hotel, she wrote her last letter. There was no hatred between the lines, only gratitude to her best friend, relief to her parents, and the relief of finally breaking free from the shackles of marriage.
In this life, she had not lived for herself for more than a few days, but in the last part of the journey, she found her true self
When the aurora spread across the window lattice, Lin Wan closed her eyes with a smile on her lips.
Intention: to break free from the shackles of worldly disciplines and complete the journey toward self and reconciliation at the end of life