A Song in Midsummer

Before she was wheeled into the operating room, she clung tightly to their hands.

"Wange, if I don't wake up, let's be sisters again in our next lives..."

"Shengxia, if I never open my eyes again, I want to be your bride in our next life and have a whole bunch of children for you..."

On Tomb-Sweeping Day, she stood before the gravestone and gazed up at the sky. "Yufei, there's no pain in heaven. Our love and longing will always be with you. You have to be happy..."

The ancients said that the dead have spirits. On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, he stood on the rooftop, gazing toward the eastern night sky. "Yufei, I hear that Medicine Buddha is the lord of the Eastern Pure Land. When I recite the Medicine Buddha Sutra, my appearance will become dignified. Then I'll ride in on rainbow clouds to marry you, beautiful as a fairy..."