Sayonara, Love

Author: Cool Little Wolf
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book tells three love stories set in three different cities: Taipei, Tokyo, and Beijing. Koki Makoto, a Japanese boy working in Beijing, unexpectedly meets a girl named "Tian'er" over the phone. As they get to know each other, Makoto learns that Tian'er came from Taiwan to work in Tokyo and is now carrying the immense pressure of being an unmarried mother. To care for this worried girl, Makoto decides to return to Tokyo. However, he discovers that the Tian'er he met is not the same one he spoke to on the phone in Beijing. Lu Xiaochun, who has always secretly loved Makoto, is heartbroken and upset because he has returned to Japan. By chance, Xiaochun meets Chen Weichen, a handsome American art student from Taiwan who has come to the mainland to paint. Xiaochun, who becomes moody when drunk, and the cheerful, joke-loving Weichen gradually grow closer. After Makoto leaves, his roommate Akira, curious, calls Makoto's home in Tokyo. To his surprise, the person who answers is still the "Tian'er" he spoke to. Suspecting something is off, Akira starts investigating and discovers that the call is connected to the past—twenty years in the past! The "Tian'er" on the other end is about to give birth and decides to name her child "Chen Weichen." Akira decides to follow the clues from the last call and travels to Taiwan to find "Tian'er."