Return to the Rain

"Return to Rain" The rain in the forest never stops. Kaoyu, who grew up in an orphanage, chased a dark blue butterfly into the dense forest when he was eight years old, and met the girl Quedie walking in the fog. She was wearing a blue cloth dress that had been washed white, with blue eyes and a blue butterfly perched on her shoulder. She said: "My name is Quenching Die." From that day on, the two children held each other's hands tightly through the endless rain and fog, made a promise under the crooked neck old tree, and escaped from the forest together to see the sunny sky without fog outside. When he was sixteen years old, Tempered Butterfly disappeared. Kaoyu walked like crazy through the entire dense forest, waded through the undercurrents of the swamp, carved her name on the bark of the trees, and finally broke into the forbidden mist cocoon - there were sixteen marks carved on the stone wall. The tempered butterfly waited for her here for sixteen days, and then left alone and turned into another blue butterfly. The never-ending rain in the forest hides the cruel and unknown truth. The tempered butterfly didn't disappear, it was stripped away. They were never two people, but one soul that was torn in half and took eight years to recognize each other. Those obsessions trapped in the fog, the silent dean who has been twisting rosary beads all his life, and the fog spirits who have occupied the forest for thousands of years all share the same secret with them. The deepest bond is never to find someone, but to find the other half that you have lost. It's still raining. She is still waiting. It's not because she can't wait, it's because waiting itself is the way she lives. A novel about obsession, separation and wholeness. Some people spend their whole lives looking for others, but in the end they find that they have been looking for themselves.