The Buddhist Next Door Is Waiting for His Wife

The Buddhist Next Door Is Waiting for His Wife Plot:

Xiaoman, who runs a wonton shop at the alley entrance, has been worried lately—a thin Buddhist monk named Nian Shen moved next door. He doesn’t eat meat but comes every day for a bowl of vegetarian wontons, with an undisguisable tenderness in the corner of his eyes. It wasn’t until she caught him crying over a half-piece of jade pendant one night that Xiaoman uncovered the secret: this monk was supposed to attain Buddhahood at Jinshan Temple, but he owed her a promise from a past life—she was the little doctor who saved him during the war, waiting for him to enlighten her until she died of illness. In this life, he broke his vows to return to secular life, just to stay by her side and wait for her to remember the past-life dream of “a monk in kasaya waiting outside the clinic for her.” And the vague dream Xiaoman has been having recently? The monk’s face is slowly becoming clear...