[Love is longing, love is chasing, love is a dripping new wound] - Merivitis, "Dan Song" (excerpt) (translated by Li Fan)
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When he was seventeen, Li Fan transferred to Jiabing High School and met Lin Jieying who was sleeping in the lower bunk.
She is a sickly genius, the light in everyone's eyes, and the secret that Li Fan dare not tell.
They read Merivatis in the dormitory late at night, kissed each other after lights out, and fell in love in the gap of youth,
Until Lin Jieying left a word "forgot me" and disappeared into the sea of people.
Twenty-seven-year-old Li Fan walked alone in the rain in Paris, tracing the traces of the martyrdom of the female poet Merivatis.
But I found that I had never left that humid summer.
She met A Ling, who was as passionate as fire, and Qin Xiaohan, who was as free as the wind.
But every time he got close, it felt like betrayal - betrayal of the girl who never looked back.
"Love is longing, love is chasing, love is dripping new wounds."
When the fire of Notre Dame de Paris ignites, when the promise of youth turns to ashes,
Li Fan finally understood:
Some people, once you love them, can never live fully again.
Purpose: For the eternal loneliness in the world