The tragedy of the previous generation did not end with their deaths after the violent tremors. A long-delayed aftershock came crashing down with all its weight on two young people of the next generation.
Lin Xieyu and Qin Wang were both innocent victims of that earthquake.
They should have responded to the tragedy by either ignoring each other or showing each other understanding.
But Qin Wang chose a far more terrible path.
Carrying hatred for Lin Xieyu's bloodline, he brought the orphan to the edge of a cliff, giving her hope again and again, only to plunge her into despair each time.
To Lin Xieyu, this man who had haunted so many years of her life was rotten to the core. He laid all the original sin at her feet, lured her into the abyss, pushed her in, and left her trapped in hell for years, suffering endless torment.
Just when she had come to hate him completely, the man suddenly told her, "I love you."
What a cheap, rotten man's heart. He lightly murmured that he couldn't bear to let her go, yet had never once understood her pain.
Many years later, Lin Xieyu still had one unanswered question: In this sea of hatred and love, which was greater, the hate or the love? And wasn't what I hated about you the fact that you didn't love me enough?
I am Lin Hua Xie Liao Chun Hong, too swiftly gone. Such is life: a lasting sorrow, like water flowing east.
You are a reckless, absurd, irrational delusion.
Together, we became trapped in a dilemma with no way forward or back.
(New story now updating! It has some female-lead angst, and the male lead is selfish, promiscuous, and messed up. If that's not your thing, please give it a miss.)
Theme: You kept me trapped for years, and I, in turn, trapped you in a cage.
