No Return is a tragic love story based on high school youth, which revolves around the seventeen-year-old love between Lin Zhiwan and Shen Yubai. Lin Zhiwan, a girl suffering from a serious congenital disease, is reserved and withdrawn. In the midsummer of her senior year of high school, she shared an umbrella with the dazzling Shen Yubai. The young man's delicate and gentle care slowly opened her closed heart. Their confession under the camphor tree in late autumn made the two lovers, and they spent a time full of tenderness. Accompanying her day and night, Shen Yubai carefully took care of the frail Lin Zhiwan and planned a future for the two of them to study in the same city and spend the rest of their lives together. Lin Zhiwan was greedy for warmth, but was trapped by his worsening condition.
Knowing that her time was running out, Lin Zhiwan didn't want to drag down Shen Yubai, who had a bright future, so he endured the heartache and deliberately remained indifferent, fabricating the lie that he no longer loved her and breaking up cruelly. Shen Yubai was deeply hit by a broken relationship and went abroad to study full of regret. Little did they know that on the rainy night when he boarded the plane to fly to a foreign country, Lin Zhiwan stayed up until he left safely and died of illness. Her parents concealed the news of her death for four years to avoid the young man's grief.
During the four years of studying abroad, Shen Yubai was always single. He couldn't let go of the sudden breakup and was filled with doubts. After completing his studies and returning to China, he searched around and learned the whole truth. He learned about his lover's forbearance and sacrifice, and was defeated by endless regret and grief. After that, he went to the cemetery every day to accompany Lin Zhiwan, unable to face the world without his lover alone. Finally, four years later in the late autumn, Shen Yubai, dressed in his old school uniform, passed away peacefully next to his lover's grave, sacrificing his love to complete a relationship that spanned life and death.
The whole book connects the joys and sorrows with the passing of the four seasons, describes the youthful heartbeat and the separation between life and death with exquisite writing, and depicts the ultimate affection through the regret of running in both directions but being separated forever. The tragic ending expresses the fateful regret of "no return every year".
Purpose: To extol the love of young people who are pure, sincere, and willing to fulfill each other. Lin Zhiwan reluctantly broke up and put her lover's future first, while Shen Yubai clung to the rest of his life and stayed with her through life and death, interpreting the sacrifice and single-mindedness in love.
