Xiao Nuanyang of the World-Weary CEO

This novel is a love letter to patients with severe depression and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Lin Jiyang, an elite who once dominated the business world, was fatally retaliated for sticking to his conscience and exposing a Ponzi scheme, and was left physically and mentally disabled. Severe depression and PTSD go hand in hand, and he sets a countdown to his death at the age of forty. Until he met Ye Xi, an Internet writer who was seven years younger than him. Like an unexpected morning light, with the warm fragrance of citrus and off-key humming, she clumsily but persistently crashes into his frozen world. The crispness of frozen pears, the scalding heat of roasted sweet potatoes, the quietly sprouting new green of dying tomato seedlings on the balcony... The glimmer of daily life flows in the silence. On a trip back to her hometown, a silent five-year-old girl uncovered the secrets of bloodline and the truth of betrayal that had been buried for six years. The broken past suddenly collapsed, but Ye Xi's words "Look, you look so much alike" became the fire that lit up the abyss. Two souls approach cautiously, and a little life comes unexpectedly, learning to walk awkwardly in an empty apartment. She used stories to weave a warm nest, and he used his will to fight against the disease. When the frozen pears turn sweet under the warm sun, and when the buds of the tomato seedlings finally touch the light, those cold plans about betrayal, depression and death gradually melt into the gray-haired promise of looking at the sea. This is a story about how to be warmed by the subtle morning light after being broken, and how to rebuild a home on the ruins with your own hands. Under the ice, warm currents surge; at the end of the long night, the morning light is slightly warm.