[Zhang Yunlei] Iris and Orchid by the Yuan and Li Rivers

Her name was Cheng Yuanxi. Her mother died the year she was born. Her maternal grandparents had opposed her parents' marriage from the start, and their resentment spilled over onto the newborn girl, whom they couldn't help but despise. The world treated her cruelly, but she never hated it. When she was little, she met a boy at the Grand View Garden. He stood onstage, his confidence making him shine so brightly that she couldn't look away. At the Tianqiao Theater, the girl always sat in the front row to cheer him on. Her passion for folk performing arts, which she loved as dearly as life itself, moved the boy. Neither of them meant to enter the other's life, yet they kept each other in their hearts for many years. Later, she returned to the place where it all began, hoping to find the young performer. But the boy had vanished without a trace, leaving only that stage, which had witnessed the joys and sorrows of the world. "I don't even know his name. Maybe I'll never find him..." When she returned to Beijing at eighteen, she got lost in a subway station by chance, only to run into the person she had thought of day and night for years. Fate brought them together once more, and the preface was written to a story that would end in death...