A Selection of Short Love Stories

These stories take many different forms.

There are old alleys and the depths of space, the dust of everyday life and imagined realms...

There are ferries on winding rivers, lanterns at the Shangyuan Festival, fireworks blooming across the night market, and people whispering through the wall...

Each story has its own voice. Their eras, narratives, joys, and sorrows make no concessions to one another, each forming its own little world.

The only thread that binds them is the love hidden in the words.

Love in this world has no single appointed time. It comes and goes in its own way, and each love has its own return.

This anthology gathers all kinds of affections from different moments in time. There is no need to tell every tale of a beating heart in the same tone, because love has never had a fixed language.