Work introduction
"Gardenia Sword" is a fantasy love novel that spans four hundred years. It tells the story of high school student Xiao Chenrui and the mysterious girl Wang Ranhong, who are entangled by the fate of their past lives.
There is a transparent sword shadow hidden in Xiao Chenrui's left eye, which was transformed with the soul blood of Lian Xinshui (Hongyu), the Japanese wife of Xiao Muzheng, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty four hundred years ago. Mu Zheng died at the hands of his best friend Yan Lang to protect Hong Yu. Hong Yu died in love and turned into a lonely soul, waiting for Mu Zheng's reincarnation for four hundred years. And Ran is the remnant soul of Hong Yu who was separated into the world - she folded 1314 paper cranes, but she doesn't know why she is so persistent.
When the fateful night comes, Yan Lang's resentment, Hong Yu's protection, and Ran's deep affection converge on the wasteland behind the equipment room. In the end, Xiao Chenrui did not choose to die to break the situation, but refused reincarnation with the will to "live in the present", and used the mantra of "I will not regret it, forever" to dissolve the four-hundred-year curse. He lost sight in his left eye, but was truly reborn.
The novel uses a first-person perspective and combines campus suspense, past life dreams, and love between humans and ghosts. The core motif "I don't regret it, forever" was passed from Mu Zheng to Hong Yu, Yan Lang, Ran, and Rui, and was finally inherited by her daughter Xiao Zhi, completing an intergenerational dialogue about love, obsession, and letting go. Gardenia is pure white and intense, short-lived and eternal, just like those souls that refuse to be extinguished.
Intention: Love is persistence, selflessness, and eternity.