The Green Wisteria Across the River

The Green Wisteria Across the Shore

Dedicated to my four years of American boarding high school, which are destined to come to an end.

A colorful, radiant season of youth begins in awkward innocence and ends in understanding.

In that mysterious sanctuary in life, far from the clamor of the world and hidden among secluded valleys, dense forests, lakes, and mountains, you see members of royal bloodlines, heirs to billion-dollar fortunes, and the descendants of political heavyweights everywhere. A warmhearted nobody from a third-tier Chinese city, who has crossed oceans to get here; a beautiful mixed-race girl, icy as a glacier, whose origins are a mystery; a goofy, muscular guy from an impoverished family; the darling daughter of a billionaire; and a bookish newcomer entering the proving ground without the protection usually given to beginners. Drawn together by fate, they meet here amid shifting currents...

The quest far from home is long, but the winding journey of the heart is longer still. As the years quietly slip by, and they turn back in a moment of sudden recollection, the princess's castle still stands proudly, and green wisteria still clings to its ancient red-brick walls. Yet the most beautiful shooting star to cross the sky has fallen. Youth, trapped in its own cocoon, will cross a heart-wrenching past and finally rise again, transformed like a butterfly. And that sacred love without an answer remains cherished, sealed within the heart of a crystal ring...