I'd like to wish all my fellow book friends an early Happy New Year. I hope everyone stays healthy and happy!
Honestly, I don't know what to say either. Sometimes I have so much I want to chat about with everyone, but when it really comes to a situation like, "Say a few words to everyone," I become tongue-tied and don't know what to say.
After serializing for several years, the more I write, the shyer I become.
Since this year-end and New Year event lets book friends enter a prize draw, with lots of coins up for grabs, I'm enthusiastically taking part.
A Fortune Red Packet bonus chapter will automatically open after the chapter. Book friends can activate the prize draw by clicking into the bonus chapter and commenting or interacting. Wishing everyone the best of luck!
Since New Year chapters need to be over five hundred characters, to make up the word count, the still-very-young Ashen has decided to share a few love poems written when he was even younger—
[Wind Through the Reeds]
An ancient painting spreads across the water's surface
The evening glow is Peach Blossoms in the Clouds
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The road stretches on, and the wind moves slow
I am all alone
Yet meet you again, your long hair draped over your shoulders
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I have been reading poetry for a long while
When suddenly, wind passes through the reeds
[Surely, From This Day Forth]
From this day forth, can you
Love me sincerely?
The love I speak of is not winds and clouds vanishing, a fleeting stirring of the heart
Nor can I say for certain that it will last forever
What I want is rebirth
Another kind of romantic freedom, apart from solitude
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My universe has been collapsing all