When the Mist Clears, the Flute Calls Me Home

[Previously titled Let Her Land] [Mutual pining, broken things mended, and healing] [Avoidant girl and protective boy, HE] Years after graduation, Ruan Diyin took a holiday job tutoring Luo Wenyuan, a younger student at the city’s experimental high school. She discovered that his cousin was Wen Qing, her former high school classmate, whom she had lost touch with. “I didn’t know your brother was the one who hired me for tutoring,” Ruan Diyin told Wen Qing. “You don’t need to transfer the tutoring fee to me. We’re classmates, so it feels too formal to charge you. I’ll send the money back.” When he didn’t respond, Ruan Diyin explained, “I don’t use my old WeChat account anymore. I got a new one.” “Which old one? The one you used to block me?” After a long silence, Wen Qing finally spoke to her in a cool voice. It was the first thing he had said to her since they reunited. Before transferring to Hong Kong in her final year of high school, Ruan Diyin blocked Wen Qing on WeChat. After moving to Hong Kong, she deliberately cut off every unhappy tie to her past, trying to sever her connections with everyone from her old world. She tried to keep everyone out of her life, and that included Wen Qing. Until one day, she suddenly remembered a night in her second year of high school. She had skipped evening study and hidden alone in a corner of the rooftop, hugging her knees as the wind blew, hoping no one would find her. But Wen Qing, her class monitor, found her anyway. The boy came running, breathless. When he met her tearful gaze, he slowly crouched in front of her. He sat quietly by her side, using his own body to shield her from the wind. Only after she had finally finished crying did his slightly hoarse voice mingle with the wind and fall softly by her ear. “Ruan Diyin, will you promise me something?” “What?” she asked, dazed, looking up with red-rimmed eyes. “No matter what happens, don’t let me lose track of you.” The boy looked into her eyes and spoke slowly, with earnest sincerity. “If you can help her land, the sky is free and endless.”, He Lu, Let Her Land Theme: The ability to heal yourself