Why Is the Road of Seven Nights So Long? (Originally: Deep in the Blossoms)

Literary blurb:

At first, I always thought love meant dependence: wherever you were, that was where I could survive.

Later, I learned that love was a wait through the years of youth. As the world changed around us, I thought being safe meant protecting myself. I never imagined that safety was often closest to loneliness. We weren’t afraid of being alone, but we were afraid of loneliness.

Only in the end did I realize that love was really about being moved. A single word or glance from the person you love could say so much. And so I gave up the self-protection of safety. From then on, I no longer had to face the vast, silent darkness of sleepless nights alone, nor let my heart wander aimlessly through the cold shadows.

Perhaps love is also about meeting someone. Somehow, there is always someone waiting in the same place, waiting for us to draw near. Then we realize that love is just like the song says: I dream, I wait, I hope. How many turns must love take before it arrives?

Hopeless blurb: Calm vs. cunning

Qi Yanshi thought she would only get married once in her life. Little did she know that she’d be forced to divorce as soon as she got married.

Qi: "You love me, yet you’re divorcing me?"

Ye: "I married you even though I didn’t love you. So if I love you and divorce you, isn’t it just so I can marry you again because I love you?"

Qi: "Um...?"

Ye: "So, do you want to marry me again or not?"

Qi: "A second marriage seems like it might cause trouble."

Ye: "Then let’s work on getting along first..."

Qi: "Mm... You can’t do this..."

Ye: "I don’t plan to stop here..."

Confession: I love you, but I don’t understand you, so we let love pass us by and let it down. Later, I finally understood: to love deeply, you have to understand. Loving you well is what I should spend the rest of my life doing.