At seventeen, Su Wanhe's shoulder injury clipped the wings that would have carried her to the Olympics, leaving her like a butterfly stranded on the shore.
At eighteen, illness pressed pause on Xie Linzhou's life, leaving him like a whale washed up on the beach.
One lost the swimming pool, the other said goodbye to the court.
In the sea breeze of a small southern town, two people who should have been shining on the field meet by chance.
She folds a thousand paper stars and prays for a miracle. He quietly writes her name into the eternal river of stars.
"Xie Linzhou, when you're better, let's go see real whales together."
"Su Wanhe, swim far, far away, and fly higher and higher."
When the spring sea breeze blows past the lighthouse, the butterfly finally learns to say goodbye to the deep sea.
It turns out the fiercest love is teaching each other how to face a future without the other.
[The tide murmurs tenderly, the whale sings low; the butterfly sails far away, and love is an eternal shore.]
My next book will be titled Spring Comes Late, Unnoticed (A Gentle Journey Toward Death)
(I'm currently revising the manuscript. The outline is finished, and I expect it'll be around 100,000 words.)
Ruan Qingyan is reborn thirty days before Jiang Xunhe's death and bound to the "Will to Live Monitoring System."
He stands in the dim light of the basement, his survival rate at 2%. His first words to Ruan Qingyan are, "...What is it?"
She smiles and offers him a bowl of hot porridge. "Starting today, I'm going to pursue you."
Later, she spends all her savings to get him a hearing aid, stands between him and his bullies, and stays by his mother's side through her final days.
The day the System's reading rises from 2% to 99%, he pulls her into his arms, his voice trembling. "Qingyan, I want to live on with you."
She holds him and says, "We have money now. The doctor was right, you can still be treated..."
Theme: In a life of limited length, love isn't about binding each other together. It's about teaching each other how to sail onward alone.
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