★ Nominated for the 2022 Taiwan Literature Award
★ Following the Taipei Book Award-winning novel "Dear. Keeper" this is Chen Xue's latest long work.
★ Discovering redemption in slaughter, finding happiness in misfortune, reshaping the Chen Xue-style aesthetics of death.
★ How to grow a new self after destruction? Exploring the enigmatic memories of victims and perpetrators, sketching the light and shadow of human nature.

The most terrifying kind of abandonment is when, after careful arrangement, you are left alone on the spot.

In the season when peach blossoms are in full bloom, there is a hint of blood, a murder case from fourteen years ago reemerges in the small town, the girls left under the trees have grown dresses, shoes, and socks on the branches, this is their final exhibition...

I did not live on properly that time, I could only grow myself before being abandoned by the world.

Li Haiyan has returned to Taolin Town.

Fourteen years ago, her friend Ding Xiaoquan was found naked and discarded under the peach blossom tree of her home, her father, who had lost his wife and drank daily, was accused as the criminal and later hanged himself in prison. Li Haiyan has since become the daughter of a murderer, she fled her hometown, sealed her memories, seeking a new life.

Fourteen years later, another girl has been discarded under a tree in Taolin Town, the scene is a copy of the murder case from years ago, is this a copycat crime? Or has the murderer been at large all along?

Li Haiyan, now a journalist, seems to be called back to Taolin Town, reuniting with Song Dongnian, who has become a criminal police officer and was Ding Xiaoquan's first love. They each have their reasons for trying to find the truth, but as memories are unlocked, the sorrows of the past also return.

The murderer warns: "Within seven days, I will come again." Another girl has gone missing in Taolin Town, life is counting down, between the overlapping past and present...

Love is back, memories are back, and all the nightmares are back too.