When Will the Sun Set?
夕阳西下几时回
by Yan Qian (晏七安)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 12k Words
- Chapters
- 4
- Genre
- Multi-Orientation
- Era
- Ancient Era
- Updated
- 6mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Stats
Tags
- ThemeCultivation
- POVDual POV
- Age18+
- Ensemble Cast
- Jianghu
- Supernatural
- Xianxia Cultivation
Synopsis
In this world, can we have both the Dharma and the Dharma, and live up to the Tathagata and the Lord? The seventh era is a time of prosperity and prosperity. The lights on the sky streets of Yunmeng City are like a red dragon opening its eyes. Humans and monsters coexist, laughing and talking. Xie Changgeng leaned on the pillar in front of the Demon Detective Department, holding a blade of grass in his mouth, watching the fireworks in the world, but his eyes were empty - he did not remember who he was, and he did not remember that a hundred years ago, there was a woman named Shen Qingwu who waited for him on the cliff of the back mountain for three days. Shen Qingwu remembered. She is a tree, and trees are best at waiting. A hundred years ago, he was a high-spirited young swordsman. He smiled and said to her, "The phoenix lives in the phoenix tree. You will definitely be able to wait for your phoenix." Now he stood in front of her and asked, "Have you seen me?", And she could only say "No." Because she didn't dare to let him think of it - those memories were so heavy that it was enough for her to carry them alone. Yuan Zhou didn't remember either. He is a descendant of Zhu Yan, with cruelty in his blood, but he just wants to be a simple and honest man selling candied haws. He picked up a little fox demon, named it Xiaonian, and gave her candied haws to eat every day. He doesn't know who Xiaonian is - she is the distraction of "Nirvana", a god destined to return to her true form. But in the human world, she learned to laugh, learn to be greedy, and learned to want to protect someone. Nirvana has come. It is not a demon, it is the immune system of the universe, the end of the cycle. It comes to erase everything and turn the prosperous world into nothingness. But in Xiaonian, it learned "pain" for the first time. Forgotten villages, memory fragments, blood bursts, distractions and backlash... When everyone is being forgotten by the world, when Xiaonian looks back at Yuan Zhou for the last time before disappearing, when Xie Changgeng finally thinks of the woman who has been waiting for him for a hundred years - they discover that "return" is not returning to the original place, but traveling through forgetfulness and recognizing each other again. "Dad... Can you give me a bunch?" As the sun sets, old friends return. Intention: This is a story about "return" - not the triumph of a hero, not the rebirth of a king, but the forgotten people who are rediscovered by love in the lights of the prosperous age. When the vicissitudes of "helplessly the flowers fall away" meet the obsession of "the familiar swallow returns", when the waiting of "the fragrant path in the small garden wanders alone" until the moment "if life is just like the first time we met" - we want to ask: When the sun sets, when will the old friend return? The answer is hidden in every moment that "cannot be remembered" but "cannot be forgotten". As long as there are still people who remember, as long as there are still people waiting, they will always come back.