When the morning light in the operating room flooded through Shen Yanzhi's tightly clenched medical records, and when the wind five years later lifted the ring mark on Lin Yanqiu's ring finger, the inkstone that had witnessed countless days and nights had long been cracked with fine lines.
The past between Shen Yanzhi and Lin Yanqiu is hidden in the undelivered candy wrapper, hidden in the creases of the engagement note, and even hidden in the crack that coincides with the memory deliberately left when the inkstone was re-engraved. Illness is an invisible wall, and time is a blunt hammer that shatters the trajectory of the two of them into pieces - the medicine bottle he hid and the promise she failed to keep became unspeakable regrets.
It wasn't until the end was approaching and the final destination of the square inkstone was revealed that all the buried deep feelings came out along with the cracks: It turns out that love is never a perfect footnote, but even if it is scattered into pieces, each piece still carries the warmth of each other. This is a story about using memory to fight forgetfulness and making regrets eternal in the face of impermanent destiny.
Intent: To trigger readers' resonance with "possession and loss", "moment and eternity"
