When Flower came to the field in which Huang Wen was working. She saw Huang Wen wore a broken straw hat and worked in cotton field under the cruel son. Suddenly she didn’t know what to say. Originally on the road she had a lot of things to talk to Huang Wen.

  She just called his name gently, “Huang Wen.” When Huang Wen turned around, she saw his swarthy face full of sweat and was moved to tears. Huang Wen never expected it to be Flower. His quiet heart was suddenly full of all kinds of feelings.

  They gazed each other for a long time without talk. Then Huang Wen’s mother said, “miss, it’s really hot here. We can go home and talk.”

Flower then smiled lovely at Huang Wen’s mother and said, “yeah, aunt, I’ll carry hoe for you.”

  Huang Wen’s mother shook her head promptly, “it’s dirty. I’ll just carry it myself.” Huang Wen’s father just laughed without stop.

  When they came to home, Huang Wen’s mother even couldn’t find a appropriate place for Flower to sit. Flower just found a broken bamboo chair and sat on it.

  Huang Wen’s mother quickly made a sumptuous lunch as the same as New Year’s Eve. During lunch, Flower just told Huang Wen’s parents she would marry Huang Wen and Huang Wen’s money was all kept by her. Huang Wen was shocked and became silent. Huang Wen’s parents looked at beautiful Flower and felt it was just like a dream. The more they looked at her, the more they liked her.

  After that day with Huang Wen, Flower suddenly found she was so lonely. After all these years of so-called luxury life, she never had a man really loved her before. All of the men care about only her beauty. What’s the meaning of life without true love? However, she hadn’t enough courage to abandon her life.

  After a year, Flower finally decided to abandon her luxury life and live with Huang Wen for the rest of life. If a man can devote all he have to her without any expectation of return, so what’s the reason of her hesitation to live with him for the rest of life?

  They got married happily. Now Huang Wen’s fellow villagers just treated Huang Wen as VIP of the village, even more important than the village head. Some of them even asked Huang Wen how to get a rich and pretty woman as Flower. Huang Wen was just as silent as before.

  Flower often went out for a walk with Huang Wen after supper. The sunset of countryside was really beautiful and peaceful .Flower never felt so happy all her life.

  However, Flower often felt extremely tired and knew it was the result of all those years of irregular life. She didn’t tell Huang Wen and endured it by herself. Until one day, she passed out, Huang Wen took her to hospital and the doctor told him it was blood cancer.

  Huang Wen seemed to be struck by a lightening. Happiness was always frail and short. Huang Wen hated himself being so careless and didn’t find his wife’s illness earlier.

  Huang Wen tried everything he could do to save his wife’s life, however, it was in vain. Flower passed away when Huang Wen fell asleep before her sickbed. She just left Huang Wen a message, “Wen, for the short days with you, really the happiest time of my life. I have to go now. You take good care of yourself, mom and dad. Sorry, really sorry.”

  After the funeral, Huang Wen felt his heart as dead as a stone. He wasn’t allow himself to be over by sorrow because he had his parents who depended on him.

  After his parents passed away, Huang Wen was left alone in the world. He was single and didn’t want to get married again. He had no place in his heart for any woman and felt it was unfair to marry a woman if he couldn’t give her his heart.

  Now he was totally alone. He did farm work in the field as usual.

  One day, he took out all his and his wife’s money to pave road and build bridge for the village. After all these things done, he felt it was time for him to go now. The village head held a meeting in village hall to praise him and wanted him to say something. Huang Wen just said coldly, “I have nothing to say. I did it for no one and had no reason. Don’t bother me again, or else don’t blame me for ruthlessness.” Huang Wen left and the village hall was in an uproar.

  During a very cold winter night, Huang Wen lay in bed. The north wind was blowing really hard outside the small window. Huang Wen’s hands and feet were both as cold as ice.

  He thought of his parents. They loved him so much. From his childhood, they never asked him to do things he didn’t like. They always said,“as long as you live well, other things aren’t important at all.” Maybe other people thought it was only dotage. Now they were gone, Huang Wen was ashamed that he didn’t give them a normal life. He should marry and have children so that his parents could live a happy life instead of living at his own will.

  Though he didn’t turn on the light, the outside window was bright. He knew it was snowing outside. He also thought of his wife Flower, the love of his life, who has skin as white as snow. Really a poor girl, for all her life, she suffered so much. Even her pursuit of peaceful life wasn’t allowed by the heaven. No one remembered her now.

  There wasn’t north wind blowing anymore. The winter night was just as still as death. Huang Wen thought to himself, “it’s time for me to go now. Life is really a dream. Death will take all things away, good or bad.”

  He lighted a candle and wanted to see his parents and wife like the little match girl did, but he couldn’t see anything except the dim candlelight. Then he slowly closed his eyes and didn’t woke up anymore.

  The next morning, the sun would rise as usual. Without a zilch as Huang Wen, the world was the same as before. The only difference was that the world would be added a new grave.