There Is No Snow in Taipei, and There Is No You Either

The rain in Taipei is always lingering. In the second-hand bookstore on Shida Road, she picked up a bookplate, but found a Northeastern boy wearing a jacket and a mint in his pocket - Xu Yuchuan. He was an exchange student from Harbin Institute of Technology to National Taiwan University. He could play the guitar and carve wooden bookmarks. He would hold her hand and run to the beach under the New Year's Eve fireworks, saying that he would take her back to Harbin to see the ice sculptures and step on the thick snow. She is a gentle and sensitive Chinese language girl. She writes his promises into prose and hides the photos of the two of them in old books. She thinks she has captured love, but she has captured the missing sense of security. It's so sweet when you're in love, but it's so painful when you're apart. The suppressed coughs in the library, the chemotherapy drugs hidden in the rental house, the thinning hair... Xu Yuchuan used the excuse of "I don't want to drag you down" and pushed her away with his own hands. "Let's break up." One sentence broke the confession by the Tamsui River and the agreement between the two of them to go to the Ice City together. He turned around and returned to Harbin, leaving her in the rain in Taipei, breaking down and crying with a room full of memories. She thought she was no longer in love, until she received a call from Xu's mother and held the letter he had written but not sent, and then she realized that this young man who was carrying the pain alone was saying "I want to see you again" until he died. It never snows in Taipei. It's a blessing that God owes them. Many years later, Ruan Xingmian stood by the Songhua River looking at ice sculptures, and one morning, he encountered the rare falling snow in Taipei. She put on the leaf ring from back then and whispered softly: "Xu Yuchuan, the snow has fallen in Taipei, but where are you?"