The Boat Rendezvous

The Boat Rendezvous Plot:

Su Wan’s ten years have all been tied to a promise of "the boat rendezvous". On the Dragon Boat Festival night at fifteen, Gu Zhaozhi held a paper lantern boat dotted with fireflies, hooked her little finger, and said, "Next year at this time, I’ll take you to see the firefly sea in the river center." But the next day, the Gu family was raided, and the boy’s body was never found. Now she sells jasmine at the pier, but bumps into a boatman with a scar on his face—he can fold the same paper lantern boat, say the "firefly secret" only Gu Zhaozhi knew ("fireflies need to be fed in cupped hands"), and even remember she peels three layers of paper for fritillary candy. When she thought her old love had returned, the boatman handed her a half-broken jade plaque (the token of love she gave him back then), with crooked words on the back: "The boat rendezvous was a trick. Don’t wait." Clutching the plaque, she demanded answers. The boatman lowered his eyes and smiled: "I’m here to keep the last boat rendezvous for him."