A promotion, a fortune, and a dead husband: life's three great joys. Lin Nuan has managed to enjoy two of them.
In a little town where spring lasted all year and everything was steeped in exotic charm, a man listened to her read from the shadows.
From Haruki Murakami to Ryunosuke Akutagawa, from Franz Kafka to Somerset Maugham.
Her voice was clear and limpid, with a hint of husky allure.
Later, her voice trembled at the end of each sentence, and her pale, soft fingertips rested against his lapel.
She asked, "Will you stay with me forever?"
He answered, "I give you my whole life."
He hadn't lied. After his affairs were settled, a hundred million appeared in her account.
Lin Nuan packed her bags and boarded a red-eye flight to Los Angeles.
Once she found the three letters he had left scattered in corners of the world,
she would come back and stay with him forever.
Ning Ye was wild grass in a world of convention. Carefree and rebellious, with a rough edge to him, he lived without restraint.
He had never had much patience for delicate, fragile things, until the day he came across a girl with lifeless eyes in a sacred mountain in southern Tibet.
At an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, she knelt in the snow, dressed in thin clothes.
He took off his thermal jacket and tossed it to her. "If you're going to die, do it somewhere else. Not here!"
Lin Nuan pulled up her hood and kept well away from him.
Later, beneath San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, atop the mandala at Seda Mountain, and in a Yufuin izakaya in the early hours of the morning, he was everywhere.
Lin Nuan: "Didn't you tell me to die somewhere else?"
Ning Ye: "Give me back my jacket."
Lin Nuan tossed him the worn-out coat.
Ning Ye: "I meant the one covering your heart."
Many years later, under the bright sun in Spring City, red persimmons weighed down the branches.
Lin Nuan finally understood: both men had been trials fate had set for her.
☀ The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is. The heroine's first love never appears on-page, living only in her memories.
☀ Wild grass shields a flower on the verge of withering. Two lonely, desolate people save each other and spend the rest of their lives together.
☀ A healing road-trip story. Start with yourself: stand up to depression, let go of anxiety, resist self-destructive overthinking, and keep looking forward.
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Theme: Keep living with all your might, and wait for tomorrow.
