Before the Xiao Falls, in the Passing Years

Youth is a book you have no choice but to read, no choice but to understand, yet you only begin to make sense of it when there is barely anything left.

By then, spring and autumn had withered, and the sun and moon had changed. The years had changed their attire, and time had turned youthful faces gray.

Youth is a book of different stories, yet the loneliness is always the same!