[Written for fun at age 15, not yet polished. Read with caution.]
[Chapter comments are open. Feel free to speak your mind.]
[The younger sister's story is complete. For her older brother's story, see Everlasting Days.]
"We face death together and wager on dying side by side. In this world of smoke and war, love is strewn across jagged ground."
"The cold flash of blades cuts through the eternal sky."
"I have given myself to my country. I can no longer give myself to you."
-- Ken Shu, Black-and-White Silent Film
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Shang Shiqing thinks of herself as a blade of grass, carried by the wind and borne by the water, able to take root anywhere.
After all, she's always been adrift, with no place to call home.
Ten years ago, she met someone. He had the sincere, tender heart of a young man. As a girl, she smiled at him and spoke casually, as if it were nothing.
They laughed together, shared a vague affection, and grew up as childhood friends living close by. Yet they were too shy to put their feelings into words.
Later, they argued furiously and parted on bad terms.
Life turned upside down. The bloodied deaths of her parents, both anti-drug police officers, stained the school uniforms of their youth.
Their disagreement had not been resolved. Their relationship had not been defined. Their love had not been confessed.
She paid with her left hand and left with regrets.
Back then, everyone lived beneath the same sky, beneath clouds that came and went.
She always felt that Fang Jincheng was a mountain. She could neither take him away from the place she stood nor shake the sky above him.
Fang Jincheng, head of the Anti-Drug Division of Pingyang Public Security Bureau, is nearing thirty and still single. The people around him urge him to hurry up and find a wife instead of staying a bachelor.
Who would have guessed that Fang's lashes would tremble, his cold features swallowed by drifting smoke, before he spoke in a voice barely above a whisper: "...I won't talk about love until that person is caught."
Who was being caught? Caught in what?
The new officers are baffled, but don't dare ask.
The veterans exchange glances, smack their lips, and sigh.
What a shame that back then, they didn't understand love, and they couldn't make sense of their hatred either.
They never expected that the person who once said they would never meet again, in life or death, would cross paths with him once more after all those twists and turns.
Just like before, they can't seem to untangle themselves from each other.
[Dual timelines: the present timeline is N, and the flashback timeline is P.]
Reader's Notes 🔔
1. The female lead still has her left hand. It was treated in the UK, so she's not disabled! It's just less nimble than her right hand.
2. The female lead was bullied because of her outgoing personality. She liked making friends and had many male friends, which naturally attracted resentment... (For example, Wu Zhao liked Xin Ziyao.)
3. The author does not put the female lead through misery! This is not a story about tormenting her! The female lead gets all the spotlight in this book! The hardships at the beginning are part of her growth and show the darkness of human nature! (And does anyone remember this is an anti-drug story?)
4. Both leads are virgins. The female lead has been married, but is still chaste. The male lead is chaste in both body and heart. (No rivalry among women, but there is rivalry among men, hehe.)
5. Darlings, this is the author's first book. I didn't account for readers who skim, so if you have questions, please ask. I'll be happy to answer! Please don't bottle things up until you can't take it anymore and then yell at Zhouzhou. Zhouzhou is fragile too (sad).
[This book has officially come to an end. Maybe I'll polish it further when I have time. Since I revised it in sections, some parts may not flow smoothly.]
This book will be premium starting 11.29. Chapters 1-23 will become paid chapters.
Companion story Everlasting Days: Anti-Drug Police Officer x Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Children rejected by their parents don't cry. Children who don't cry get no candy.
Zhu Xun spent all fourteen years of her life this way, beaten and bullied.
Then one day, her younger brother framed her for breaking their father's favorite vase. Terrified, Zhu Xun hid at You Nan's house.
The neighbors said You Nan was strange. He never smiled, rarely spoke, and was gloomy and withdrawn.
Yet when Zhu Xun was sobbing, he told her, "There's no need to fight for something that doesn't belong to you."
You Nan protected her for four whole years, then left when she was in ninth grade.
They reunited in a hospital.
On the day Zhu Xun became the surgeon she'd always dreamed of being, You Nan lay quietly on the operating table.
Theme: May our land remain peaceful and our lives go on as usual.
Happy ending 🎉Shengqing99🎉
You are my own mountain, Shiqi 😭 😭 😭
Let the author write some sweet side stories 😭 It's so bitter for both of them.
Animal sculpting extra!! It's also good to have some [orange candy] for honeymooners.
Have you seen Sa Ye? There is a sentence in it: "No one's life will be perfect all the time, but no matter what time, you must look ahead, and you will be invincible if you are full of hope." I want to tell you that being bullied is not your fault. You don't have to blame yourself or reflect on yourself. We don't have the obligation to please everyone, and we don't have to be friends with everyone. Disguised bullies like them have nothing to play with. People who really want to play with you will not get to know you through rumors, so I hope you can get out of this period of haze without adding a lot of burdens to yourself. The high school entrance examination may be a stage that we must go through in life, but no one stipulates that he must go. The future is hard to say, and living the present is the most important thing. Don't lose yourself because of them, so I firmly believe that you have worked hard enough now. Love yourself more.
I really like the author's concise writing style. What should I do? I feel like I have no meal replacement after reading it [][]
I wish Zhouzhou good luck in writing! Principal list~
The author should not doubt himself. People who are bullied have really suffered a lot. I hope you can meet very, very, very good people in the future [Rose]
The writing is great and the author discovered the treasure [Orange Heart]
I can't understand here that the heroine's parents regard the heroine as a target. Shouldn't the heroine's father, with his identity, hide his child to prevent the bad guys from retaliating? In reality, families in this special profession would not deliberately sacrifice one child for the safety of other children, right?