Sunflowers Under the Moonlight

Cheng Nuo stood before that old wooden door, a sunflower clutched in his hand. Twenty years ago, at five years old, he had stood on tiptoe at this very door, kissed his neighbor sister Lin Xi on the cheek, and declared in his childish voice that he would marry her. Lin Xi waited a full twenty years, from a little girl with pigtails to a woman with gentle eyes and soft features, only to see Cheng Nuo walk past her window holding another girl’s hand. Now he has returned, remembering everything, but Lin Xi’s heart is sealed shut, like a dry well.