Moontail Grass

When Shen Chuan was seven years old, his mother left him. From then on, all that was left in his life was his father's fist, his ranking in the exam, and a piece of unattended moontail grass. He lived to the age of fifteen with scholarships, became the first in his grade, and became the quietest shadow in the classroom. And Lin Xubai was the second grader who was always ranked behind him. He was sunny, casual, and unguarded against the world. He didn't know what was hidden behind the name on the red list. During the summer vacation after graduating from junior high school, they met again in a second-hand bookstore, and Lin Xubai gave him an illustrated book of plants. That was the first time someone took the initiative to approach him, and it was also a long, slow, cautious approach. From high school to college, from sharing a house to working, it took Lin Xubai ten years to convince Shen Chuan that he could not be supported by a person, could be loved, and could no longer live in the flower language of moontail grass. "Heavy love" and "the end of waiting", Shen Chuan waited for so long that when someone finally came, he no longer knew how to catch him. Depression had lived in his body for so long that he couldn't remember what it was like to be without it. He began to clean up his traces, handed over his password, cooked his last meal, and said the last words, "Be careful on the road." But Lin Xubai never knew that the farewell had already been started the moment he went out to buy shrimps. This book is about how a person spends ten years to warm another person, and how to use the rest of his life to remember him. It writes about the words that were not spoken in time, the letters that were not sent, and the hugs that were not caught. It's about moontail grass – it can survive without anyone taking care of it, but it will bloom better if someone waters it. What it says is that the two names were on the red list for three years, and later they were also next to each other in death. If you have ever felt that living is a tiring thing, if you have ever waited for someone but didn't know if he would come, if you have ever thought of someone in front of a flower - this book is for you. Four hundred thousand words. About waiting, about arrival, about the flower still blooming after loss. Purpose: Use plant imagery to explore the arrival and miss of love - the moontail can survive without care, but after being watered, the flowering period will become longer and the color will become darker. The story goes through the ten years when two names were connected on the red list, exploring how a person is slowly changed by love, and how a person is unable to change because he is loved too late. Death is not the end of love, forgetting is. The moontail grass blooms by itself every year, helping those who are remembered to continue living, and also finding a way for those left behind to move on without forgetting. This is not a story about redemption, but a story about "being seen" - seeing a person's fragility, weight, silence and every little thing he did before leaving. When someone sees it, that person is not completely gone. The flowers will wither, but the roots are still in the soil; when spring comes, those roots will break out of the ground again in a certain gap, even if no one in that place remembers its name.