Read this years ago and I can still remember the pure, vulnerable, painful and tender love between the fl and ml.... more>>

Exploring the relationship between a regretful rebirthed fl and her first love ml with schizophrenia, this novel highlights the need for patience and understanding to sustain love as well as acknowledge the pain and sadness felt in a relationship with a mentally struggling partner. Love can be salvation but it is not without thorns.

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What was even more shocking than how Li Wei won the world’s highest prize in theoretical physics at such a young age of 35 years old was the fact that he was found dead at home due to committing su*cide the day before the award ceremony.

In his letter to his student Jackie, he wrote: I have only been doing one thing crazily all these years, and physics is all I have. On the day it ends, the darkness will completely engulf me.

Many years after graduation, Zhang Man saw a love letter in her physics book while sorting her things out. It was signed by Li Wei. After his su*cide, she couldn’t eat or sleep at night, until one day she woke up and found herself back at the age of sixteen.

–Later, Li Wei, who became a leader in the world of physics again, said in an interview with global media, “There are two important things in my life, physics and her. Physics gave me the ability to think in the dark, and she gave me light.” <<less

I read this short story in a span of four hours and let me tell you the author morphs the overused trope of the neglected wife/girlfriend leaving into a beautifully realistic story exploring a relationship tainted with regret, insecurity and lingering love after the separation between longtime lovers, a tired model fl and self-conscious actor ml.... more>>

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“My dream was you, Na HaYeon.”

Model HaYeon has been in a relationship with actor Taewan for a long time. The love that started at the tender age of eighteen is about to end at the age of twenty-nine.

“Let’s break up now, Taewan. Let’s stop.”

“Why do you want to break up? Are you telling me the love is gone?”

“No, the love isn’t gone.”

The love had never gone away for a moment. From the moment he walked over with the springtime as his backdrop, it had always been there.

“I still love you.”

“Then why?”

Taewan shouted out as if he couldn’t understand.

“I don’t have the confidence to love you tomorrow.”

“……”

“That’s the reason.”

Me, the one who tells you it’s the end even though I said it wasn’t.

You, the one who knows it’s the end but can’t end it.

This love that only gives us more wounds as we stay together…

Will we be able to protect it? <<less