Some people wait ten years for a plant to take root.
It's not waiting, it's cutting - insert the broken branch into unfamiliar soil and watch it slowly grow roots where there are no roots. No change was visible in the first year. In the third year, I thought it was dead. In the fifth year, I found it spreading quietly underground. In the tenth year, I looked up and found that it was already three meters high.
In the past ten years, someone has poured a fixed amount of water on it every day, like completing a problem that must be completed within a time limit. Someone planted another one next to it so that their branches and leaves intertwined in the wind but never entangled. Someone recorded its growth data, and the error was controlled within 0.01, But they couldn't figure out why it suddenly sprouted in a certain spring.
Later, they understood that cutting cuttings are not about skill, but about trusting them to survive. Just like some connections, they do not occur naturally but are artificially continued. Just like some people, they didn't wait for it, they poured a little water every day until the tenth year.
This is a story about artificial continuation. About believing that broken branches can take root. It's about two people taking root separately, and then the branches and leaves intertwine.
Concept: Cutting is an artificial continuation, not a natural growth. But artificial continuation requires the same faith: faith that broken places can heal, faith that roots can grow where there are none. Ten years is not a length of waiting, it is the intensity of pouring a little water every day. Two people don't become complete only after they meet, but only after they become complete separately can their branches and leaves intertwine.