Ashura's Rosemary

Author: Wang Qilin
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Post-adolescent novel series. D and W, under an oil painting titled "When the Sunset Westers, We Will," are inspired to seek the "Mountain of Love" depicted in the painting, which is said to have a beautiful legend. They long to journey together to Hokkaido, Japan, known as the "Lavender Kingdom." However, one grows up in a ivory tower, while the other loses both parents in childhood. With a vast gap between them, they struggle to love each other like an angel and a dolphin. The angel dives hard toward the sea surface, while the dolphin leaps with all its might out of the water. Yet in mid-air, they miss each other. After W leaves, D searches everywhere while still pursuing career advancement, falling into the vortex of money and power and becoming someone else's pawn. H takes advantage of her relationship with the Wang family to drag D and his friend into her chessboard. In the bewildering business war, former friends turn into drug addicts, and wave after wave of setbacks makes D realize that he has fallen into the plot of two terrifying women. Did the once-vows lovers find the legendary "Mountain of Love"? After W, who disappeared while watching the dawn, is called back by death, can they fulfill this life-and-death appointment again? In the search and pursuit, only a futile void remains.