Insomnia seems to have inertia. Once again, I found myself stepping out at around 4 in the morning into the dawn of a spring day, still catching the scent of lilacs in the neighborhood. The windows on the upper floors of the surrounding buildings were all pitch black. Under the dim streetlights, all I could see was a mottled shadow of flowers from afar; their colors and shapes were indistinct...
Love, after all, is given how much time?
Publication Date: 20110818
When love is down to one hundred steps
Publication Date: 20110304
Everyone seems to have experienced love, everyone has felt it. But each person's experiences and feelings are not entirely the same. Even someone who has gone through several love affairs, finds that every experience is different. It’s perhaps this non-repetition, this uniqueness, that makes love so...
There is a kind of love called longing
Publication Date: 20110707
Each of us dreams of love, each of us also experiences the magical journey of love. Many prospering moments end up as dreams. Many brilliant times are buried under old paths and setting suns. Only true love lasts forever. It transcends time and space, warming every lonely soul. That distant echo resonates throughout the universe. Love is...
I once thought that I was just a fleeting guest in your life. I once thought that love was so elusive to me. In the words I sought to possess, I didn't believe in the eternal nature of love. But because of you, I realized that love needs you to be complete. Because of you, my pursuit of love concludes...
Love is like the lotus, Zen-like and fragrant. Buddha says, if there is one person, there will always be another for whom they exist, though they may be hidden in some unknown corner of the world. With fate, they meet and know each other. Some people encounter this other person, while others never do, even until the end of their lives. Do you believe that somewhere in this world, there is someone meant just for you...
As a child, her family was poor. Each time they bought apples, she noticed her mother would always cut them evenly in half, giving one half to her father, while she and her younger brother each got a whole one. As she grew older, she mimicked her mother by cutting apples evenly in half, sometimes offering a piece to her mother, sometimes to her father...
Love only has two paths
Publication Date: 20110911
Love's egg white and yolk
Publication Date: 20110421
Love, I won’t retreat
Publication Date: 20110110
It seems I haven't believed in love for many years now, despite writing numerous stories about it. Most of those were fabricated romantic scenarios while drinking coffee in an empty house, gazing at the stars and moon in the night sky. Having seen too much sweetness and bitterness, having heard too many tales of love and hate...
Love is the language of hibiscus flowers
Publication Date: 20110417
I still remember last night's thunder, it was loud. It pulled me from my dreams back to reality, but it made the present feel more like a dream. Checking the time, it was only around two in the morning. The rain was drizzling, with a hint of melancholy. It sounded like a maiden quietly shedding tears, accidentally making a sound. Dreams...
Foolish love
Publication Date: 20110319
Love is half an apple
Publication Date: 20110521
Tears fall when the heart breaks, and only then does one realize the depth of emotion. When facing you, I find myself speechless and realize that life holds no joy or fear of death. Emotions become eternal in the moment of a sincere embrace. My memory fragments and distorts all the innocence once reflected on my face, and I...
Love is a splendid dream
Publication Date: 20110216
Discussing love...
Publication Date: 20110803
I will always love you
Publication Date: 20110614
The first rain of August fell heavily, with thunder. I hid in a corner, fearing the thunder, especially such a loud one. I dared not turn on my phone, and my computer was turned off early. Wrapping my arms around myself, where were you? Eventually, I gradually became accustomed to these rainy days, habituating myself to...
On my way to work, I always see a young man in his twenties who appears to be mentally challenged, wandering freely on the streets. He works tirelessly, carefree, and spends his days holding money to buy snacks from nearby shops. Passersby often tease him, "Hey, give me something tasty!" He frowns...
Love is not frivolous, for it is deeply serious. Precisely because of this seriousness, love always faces the risk of failure, and if it fails, it leaves deep wounds that may never heal. Lovers invest their entire beings in each other, and when love ends, it often leaves a sense of...
Loneliness and love
Publication Date: 20110513
Life may separate us, but our hearts have pledged. Holding your hand, we grow old together. This is an ancient and steadfast promise, a romantic and beautiful legend. When hands join, distances vanish, grievances fade, and tears are hard to bear. Holding hands in longing, sleep becomes impossible. At the touch of hands, warmth returns...
There is always a kind of love that brings tears to your eyes
Publication Date: 20110316
Loneliness, everyone dreads its extreme unease and suffocation. Perhaps your pen desires to write but finds no words, or your mouth yearns for taste but finds none. Or you drink alone under the moonlight, or you lie awake at midnight sighing. Whatever discomfort you endure, the cause is always desire, unavoidable...
I enjoy love, but I don't waste it, nor can I afford to squander it. Accumulated whispers of love, stored in the small hut of my heart, easily dampen when weather permits. So, during good weather, I should treat them like fresh flowers, placing them in the sunlight to dry. For every flower of love, I am reluctant to discard...
When love walks past the mystery of courtship, when love enters the wedding hall, when love no longer makes grand appearances, and when angels fall to earth, what love leaves us might just be ordinariness, a deepening kinship over time, and a tangible life. Since life is real, it...
The timeless melody of love has never ceased. Plato's view of love, like the Bible, guides every lost soul. From the forbidden fruit in Eden, love has embarked on a process filled with mixed flavors. Everyone has tasted the sweetness and bitterness of love, whether loving or being loved, or both...
Love, has always been a form of cultivation
Publication Date: 20110529
Romance is a growing experience, valuable either way. There is no such thing as a bad love history; whether good or bad depends on one's mindset and tolerance. Love, indeed, is a form of cultivation. True love doesn't happen only in first love. When you preserve love and keep it fresh, love can remain in its initial state...
One is the flawless flower of the celestial garden, the other a flawless jade. If we say there is no destined bond, why do we meet in this life? If we say there is a destined bond, why do our heartfelt wishes remain unfulfilled? One laments in vain, the other pines in futility. One is the moon in the water, the other the flower in the mirror. How many tears can the eyes hold, enduring autumn's flow till winter's end...
Love makes me cry in happiness
Publication Date: 20110128
Loving you, gaining you is my fortune, not gaining you is my fate, and that's all.
Publication Date: 20110905
Giving love another chance after the storm
Publication Date: 20110608
After the snow covers the ground, leaving behind a desolate scene, at a humble corner, your faint smile whispered softly, "If it's already like this, then it can only be like this." Preface: At midnight, I was searching, your light blue silhouette caught my eye, thus beginning our encounter. I...
After tidying up the laundry, he pushed his bicycle and stormed out of the door, ignoring the boiled eggs his wife had repeatedly reminded him to cook before dinner. It had just rained, the streets were wet, few pedestrians were around, it was quiet. After a heated argument with his wife, he harbored resentment within him...
As a child watching the movie "Butterfly Lovers," I cried for their tragic romance. Back then, I only knew how wicked Ma's family was and how unreasonable Zhu Yingtai's parents were, without understanding the steadfast love between Liang and Zhu. At the open-air square, some young couples were secretly embracing in dark corners...
Holding your hand, crossing this life together
Publication Date: 20110429
Love, act without hesitation
Publication Date: 20110302
After marriage, she kept cooking him dishes with onions: onion slices with meat, steamed fish with onions, soup with mushrooms and onions, and onion omelet boxes because the first time she visited his home, his mother held her hand gently and told her that although he never picky eater, his favorite food since childhood was onion.
She was a librarian, and she had enough...
The taste of love
Publication Date: 20110414
We had agreed to walk forward, back-to-back. We promised that when we reached the hundredth step, we'd look back. If we could still see each other, we would forget all the unhappiness and start anew. If we couldn't see each other, we would keep walking, never looking back! When I took the first step...
It either comes too fast or too late, beautiful mistakes are often the hardest to decide upon. Sometimes the protagonists of emotions arrive in a misaligned timeline, either coming earlier or later than expected, love always arrives at the wrong time. Encountering the wrong person at the wrong place and time, meeting the right person at the right place...
Love is a mystery
Publication Date: 20110525
A thousand-year embrace
Publication Date: 20110404
Mourning the past
Publication Date: 20110302
When spring flowers awaken, amidst the white backdrop of the room, there is a strange oppressive feeling everywhere. The only familiar thing is his light gray coat, with the little blooming hibiscus flower embroidered on the chest, done by Spring Flowers herself.
The post-surgical pain still came in waves. She didn't expect him to appear...
All worldly loves follow two paths: either they grow stronger or they grow weaker. Simply put, in love, there is only loving or not loving, nothing else. All loves inevitably go through these two paths, only understood deeply when walked upon...
In the mundane days of shared love...
Publication Date: 20110617
There is someone in the world waiting for you forever
Publication Date: 20110824
Love, requires no calculation. If it's truly loved, move forward boldly. Shyness and timidity, in my view, are acts of the weak. Loving each other requires many conditions and causes. People say that five hundred lifetimes of glances result in one passing encounter. Yet, consider how vast five hundred lifetimes are...
Love is an encounter, a splendid dream. We only meet, know, and fall in love within this dream. Love is a luxury; without sufficient material foundation and similar backgrounds, love can destroy everything within it, carrying heavier burdens forward. Carrying on is tiring, but abandoning it...
Love blossoms in the summer
Publication Date: 20110720
How many loves in a lifetime are unforgettable?
Publication Date: 20110404
Love is not frivolous
Publication Date: 20110110
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