(Full manuscript completed; updates daily at nine)
One day, Lin Yang asked herself this:
If I couldn't work, if I couldn't do anything, and didn't want to do anything.
If all I could do was breathe and eat, keeping myself alive while greedily consuming the resources here.
If my life meant pushing a boulder day after day, only to watch it roll back down from the mountaintop.
If all I did was repeat a predetermined task.
What was the meaning of my existence?
So, on a slightly chilly morning, she set off on an unknown journey with a boy who loved her, a journey whose end pointed to either rebirth or death.
Reader's Guide: 1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, but the heroine has an ex-boyfriend; they break up in Chapter One. The hero has no ex.
2. The heroine is conflicted and solitary; the hero is gentle.
3. Some plot points are a little outlandish. Everything serves the story; I'm mainly trying to create a certain feeling. Please don't hit me, please don't hit me. The author is a snowman. If you hit me, I'll just melt in the sunshine, sobbing. ()
4. Short story, expected to be about 70,000 words.
Theme: A world-weary person seeks herself, while one who longs for love gets her wish.
