Time Under the Ginkgo Tree
银杏树下的时光
by Yaya (亚丫呀)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 5k Words
- Chapters
- 1
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 3mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Tags
- ThemeLight Novel
- POVFemale Lead
- Age18+
- Angst
- Second-Chance Romance
- Tragedy
- Urban
Synopsis
Three years ago, during a heavy rainstorm, Shen Zhiyi pushed Lu Zeyan away with the words "We are not from the same world" and disappeared into his world with the unspoken diagnosis sheet of "hereditary heart disease". She thought that letting go was the fulfillment, but she didn't know that the young man who was left behind would spend more than a thousand days and nights turning his longing into paranoid motivation, pushing the Lu Group to its peak, just so that one day he could confidently tell her: "I can give you the whole world." Three years later, during a heavy rainstorm, they reunited for a hotel soft decoration project. Lu Zeyan became the superior Mr. Lu, with cold eyes and distant words, but he was caressing the old photo with frayed edges in a deserted place - in the photo, she was wearing his white shirt, smiling like a flower by the library window. In the days when the project was progressing, he used harsh requirements to cover up his concern, and used silent guarding to replace questioning. Until she suddenly fainted at the construction site, all the disguises collapsed. The moment the diagnosis sheet was spread out, he asked with red eyes: "Who allows you to make decisions for me?" In the ward, he clumsily learned to peel an apple and walked with her in the corridor, giving all his tenderness to this borrowed time. He said: "Even if it's only for one day, I want you to be my wife." So, the white wedding dress appeared in the ward, and the ring was put on her pale fingertips, which became the most passionate confession at the end of her life. After all, she couldn't survive that autumn, leaving only a letter asking him to "live a good life." And every evening for the rest of her life, Lu Zeyan would sit in the hotel she designed, order a cup of hot cocoa, and watch people coming and going outside the window. In the wind of the city, her voice always seemed to say "I love you", like an ember that remained, warming him for a long time to come. This is a story about miss and reunion, concealment and forgiveness. Illness has stolen their time, but it cannot steal the courage of love - even if it is only the last journey, we must hold each other's hands and turn the unfinished time into eternity. Intention: Shen Zhiyi's "letting go" seems to be a fulfillment, but in fact it pushes both of them into the abyss of misunderstanding - she thinks that concealing the illness is protection, but underestimates the weight of "sharing" in love; Lu Zeyan's "fighting to prove" seems to be obsession, but in fact it is to use success to cover up the fear of abandonment, but forgets that love never needs to be measured by "worthiness". The pull after reunion is essentially about two people trapped by "self-sacrifice" and "self-doubt" learning to believe again: love is not a fragile armor to escape from, but knowing that the outcome may be loss, but still being willing to hold each other's hand and live every moment as "this moment is eternity." Shen Zhiyi's final departure is not the end of love, but gives "treasure" a heavier annotation - those wedding dresses in the ward, unfinished words, and memories under the ginkgo tree will turn into the light of Lu Zeyan for the rest of his life, reminding him: Even if life has an end, loving sincerely and guarding bravely is the gentlest way to fight regret. What it wants to say may not be "perfection is love", but "even with scars and regrets, every moment of loving hard is worth remembering."