When he was ten years old, Shandong boy Wang Dazhuang met his neighbor Li Dayong in Lingjiang, Wenzhou. In the following thirty years, amid separation and reunion, depression and redemption, they used a desperate migration to plant their own flowers in the secular wilderness:
In 1995, ten-year-old Wang Dazhuang moved with his parents from Weifang, Shandong to Lingjiang, Wenzhou, and rented next door to Li's family. Introverted and sensitive, he met the steady Li Dayong, and the two boys formed a bond beyond friendship in Qingshiban Lane, amidst the typhoon and rain. When he was fifteen years old, the Wang family returned to Shandong for some reason. The young man's thoughts were crushed by the train heading north, leaving only a shell, a bamboo whistle, and twenty-five years of silence.
During the years of disconnection, Wang Dazhuang suppressed himself in the wind and sand of the salt field and came out to his father...; Li Dayong was admitted to a prestigious school and formed a rational marriage with Li Shuzhen, a highly educated woman, but fell into the depression of infertility and mental wandering in middle age...
In 2025, a late-night call tore apart all peace... Dayong's response was a desperate migration plan. Is it a fortress of loneliness, or a deeper self-deception? In the wilderness, can flowers bloom in a place without soil?
The novel contains a total of seven volumes:
Volume 1: Misty Rain in Lingjiang·Young Man's Thoughts;
Volume 2: Salt Field Wind and Sand·Lonely Journey to the End of the World;
Volume 3: Ten Years of Love and a Stranger in the World;
Volume 4: Crossing the Ocean·Rebirth of Bloodline;
Volume 5: Breaking out of the cocoon and rebirth·The direction of the heart;
Volume 6: The dust has settled·Everyone is well;
Volume 7: Passing on the fire from generation to generation·Love will last forever.
Intention: In the midst of separation and reunion, depression and redemption, use a desperate migration to plant your own flowers in the secular wilderness.