A Bouquet of Blossoms

[Silver Award, Second "Discovering Intangible Cultural Heritage" Theme Essay Contest]

[Merit Award, Ninth Online Literature Competition for Realistic Fiction]

Xue Fanghua, an employee at a financial company, is forced to resign after falling ill when the company cuts costs and improves efficiency. She returns to the side of the grandmother who raised her. A single velvet flower links the lives of three generations, bearing witness to the years in which they bloomed and nurturing their lives. Some leave, while others return, but their longing for freedom and dreams never changes. Their songs never cease, their youth still waits to blossom, and the flowers of their lives will always bloom.