Centella Asiatica

"In the most inconspicuous corner, we have grown our own shape." "Centella Asiatica" is a coming-of-age story about two high school girls. Shen Weixi and Wei Hexun, two sixteen-year-old girls who met in a liberal arts class in a key high school, one was as silent as a deep pool, the other as bright as the autumn sun; one built a city wall with books, and the other used freedom and ease to cover up her loneliness. They are like the Centella asiatica that can be seen everywhere - it has an elegant scientific name, but is commonly known as "Gotu Kola" and "Thunder Bowl". They are so common that they are ignored, but they are so stubborn that they cannot be stepped on or frozen. In the cracks of exam-oriented education and in the confusion of adolescence, they met, tested, and got close, becoming the light shining through each other's gaps. This is not a story about love, but about the mutual recognition of two souls. When Shen Weixi wrote a poem that no one could understand on the back of a math test paper, and when Wei and Xun searched for the resonance of classical literature in the two-dimensional world, they discovered: It turns out that there really is someone in the world who can understand the sound of you tapping the wall of the jar. Among the yellowed pages of the second-hand bookstore, in the smoke of the flea market, and in the sway of the bus at dusk, they shared the unknown fragments - Shen Weixi's rebellion hidden in his notebook, Wei and Xun's scars wrapped under the fashionable appearance, and their fears and expectations about the future. There is no upper limit to life - ranking in key classes, parents' expectations, and society's standards are not the ceiling of life. The real upper limit only exists in the boundaries we set for ourselves. You and I are the best together - there is no need to be "excellent" in the eyes of others, no need to pretend to be "normal", no need to explain why you prefer reading to socializing, and why you choose to be alone instead of being gregarious. When we meet, the truest self is the best version. This is a book for all the "nobodies", for those who feel alienated in crowds but feel whole when alone. About how to find another imperfect but compatible soul in an imperfect world; how to quietly grow oneself in the gaps of the rules. Just like Centella Asiatica, even if it is called a rustic name like "Thunder Bowl", it still has the right to bloom, the power to heal, and the tenacity to remain green under the snow in winter. Opening this book, you will meet two girls, and you will also meet yourself who was or is lonely, but still believes in the light. (The author wants to say that there is no PT) Intention: Savage growth in the cracks of the rules, there is no upper limit to life, you and I are the best.