My next book is Stars in the Wilderness. Here’s the blurb:
[A story about a young woman whose Dao heart is shattered, then rebuilt.]
Zhou Jing loved to write. In her freshman year, a rural novel she wrote was nominated for the Huazhi Award, the highest honor in literature. But instead of congratulations, a storm of criticism followed.
Readers said her story was original, but her writing was overwrought and ungrounded, as if it were floating in the air.
Zhou Jing paid no attention to those comments, even sneering that the readers thought so only because they lacked literary sensibility.
But one bright afternoon, she saw a flower quietly bloom. Her thoughts surged, yet she couldn’t put a single word on the page. She had to admit that she cared far too much about those judgments.
Zhou Jing’s heart broke. She gradually lost herself in a life of glittering distractions, even skipping class and leaving early, until her GPA dropped from the top of her department to the very bottom. The school expelled her according to its rules. Her older brother, Zhou Zai, intervened and won her another chance, but Zhou Jing refused it.
At the time, she hated everything.
As they reached an impasse, Zhou Zai patted her head and comforted her. “Zhaozhao, don’t stay in Huaian. Go somewhere else for a while.”
Zhou Jing asked in a daze, “Where?”
Zhou Zai thought it over. “Chadong. It’s a nice place.”
Zhou Jing opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end all she managed was one word: “Fine.”
Zhou Zai arranged for Zhou Jing to take a leave of absence. One evening, he took her to the airport. She flew alone to Qiongzhi, took a train from Qiongzhi North Station to Zhuoyue Mountain, then rode a taxi from Zhuoyue Mountain to Chadong.
There, she met Yang Xizhou.
It was a rainy day in Chadong. He had no umbrella. He came off the ferry and took her luggage from her. The first thing she noticed was a tiny mole on the bridge of his nose. Then she met his deep gaze.
Many years ago, a literary master wrote an immortal masterpiece in Chadong, giving this remote border town a place in literary history. Years later, Zhou Jing, who had weathered a storm of criticism, put pen to paper here too, writing a story that changed her life.
Her shattered heart was made whole again on that rainy morning.
[The main story]
●A brazen heroine × a devoted hero
●Nine-year age gap | He gives in for love | His one and only
“I would gladly bow before you.”
Liang Songsong first truly noticed Jiang Man in a room in Xitang. Outside, rain was pouring in torrents. The sleeping girl on the bed was caught in a nightmare, tears running down her face. She looked as fragile as glass.
That year, Jiang Man lost all her family and became an orphan.
Out of kindness, Liang Songsong took care of her for a few months. When his term ended, he returned to Huaian, while she stayed in Qiongzhi. They never kept in touch.
They met again three years later in a hospital room. Wearing a blue dress, she was as cool and clear as a camellia in the rain, and she struck straight into his heart. He had paid her no mind at the time, but later those feelings wove a dense net around him.
He wanted to confess his feelings outright, but was held back by convention and didn’t know how to begin. Then, on a cold, dreary night, the drunk girl suddenly kissed him. For a moment, he froze, and then his reason crumbled.
He imagined countless things she might say after she sobered up. He never expected it to be this: “I was drunk and swept up in the moment. It didn’t mean anything.”
How could it mean nothing?
Liang Songsong stubbornly believed that his love was real, and that if he tried hard enough, he could move her. But after offering her all his sincerity, all he got in the end was: “You know I’ll do whatever it takes.”
She left without a backward glance, leaving him only the sight of her resolute retreating figure.
Years later, they met again.
The same rain as before fell over Qiongzhi. She was still wearing a blue dress, walking toward him through the rain.
For a moment, he lost himself. When he came back to his senses, he thought, “I’ll keep her with me, for a lifetime in life and a lifetime in death.”
●For detailed content notes, see the first chapter.
This blurb was revised on March 2, 2025, June 15, 2026, and June 17, 2026. Screenshots of all three revisions have been uploaded to Weibo.
Theme: A steadfast love
