Xia Jiu, an introverted and sensitive art student, met Chen Xue, who was dancing gracefully at the university welcome party. That familiar dance made his silent heart stir again. The two met, got to know each other and gradually fell in love. Xia Jiu used his paintbrush to record the good times they spent together in movie theaters, Ferris wheels, aquariums and under fireworks. However, as graduation approached, Chen Xue suddenly broke up on the grounds of studying in the United States. Xia Jiu didn't know that what she was really hiding was her worsening heart disease. After learning the truth, he rushed to the hospital and had a final meeting with Chen Xue, but he failed to keep her after all. Many years later, Xia Jiu traveled around with his thoughts on Chen Xue, drawing her into every scenery along the way. An old painting collected by Chen Xue for many years revealed the past of the two's childhood encounter - it turned out that the acquaintance in college was actually a reunion arranged by fate. After that, in the snowy sky of Mount Tengu in Hokkaido, Xia Jiu met Chen Xue again on the edge of life and death, and finally completed the dance that he could not say goodbye to properly. He finally understood that the real farewell is not forgetting, but continuing to move into the future with the heartbeat of the one you love.
Concept: The novel takes the love between Xia Jiu and Chen Xue across childhood, youth, life and death as the main line, and explores the meaning of encounter, loss, memory and farewell through images such as painting, dance and heartbeat. The work aims to express: the departure of some people does not mean the end of the relationship, and truly profound love does not persist in the past, but treasures the beauty that each other has experienced together in the heart, and continues to move forward with the part of the life that the other person has not finished. Painting allows brief moments to be preserved, reunion allows past regrets to be responded to, and the final farewell means that the protagonist moves from being addicted to loss to acceptance and growth. The true farewell is not to forget the one you love, but to still have the courage to face life again and move towards the future after acknowledging the loss.