Back to My Hometown

[Both volumes of the print edition are now available everywhere online.]

The day they met again, Xing Hui smashed the window of Li Xiaoli's car to get an AED and save someone.

He publicly said he wouldn't hold her responsible, then personally went after her to make her pay.

Feeling targeted, Xing Hui angrily asked, "What's wrong with me?"

Li Xiaoli remained expressionless. "Your attitude toward the car's owner."

Xing Hui replied without holding back, "Then this distinguished Bentley owner should take a good look at himself first."

She had always treated him poorly. She had developed "time-displacement syndrome" and couldn't remember that, in the five years after their breakup, Li Xiaoli had gone back and forth to Milan twenty-seven times and covered eight thousand kilometers in pursuit of a reconciliation. [She had forgotten all the mountains and rivers he had crossed for her.]

Just as they were about to get back together, Xing Hui's memories regressed to when she was nineteen, and she no longer knew Li Xiaoli.

During her hospital stay, Xing Hui met another patient, who told her how his girlfriend had once ridden a motorcycle more than two hundred kilometers through a snowstorm to bring him back from a car accident, saving his leg.

Xing Hui was so moved that her eyes reddened. "Your girlfriend must love you so much."

Thinking back on her own courage back then, Li Xiaoli choked up. "Yes. You love me so much."

He simply skipped the step of getting back together, reframed their five years apart as a long-distance relationship, and brought her back to his side as his lover.

[Her amnesia was silent, but his love was deafening.]

[The old home remains. The stars turn back. This is not a detour, but a place to belong.]

[A story about two people deeply in love whose relationship fell apart, forcing them to start over and fall in love again, just like their first love.]

Theme: Carrying on traditional Chinese culture and the intangible cultural heritage of textile arts and embroidery.