Two names: Cheng Youjing, Hang Tiantian. Traces left by a pair of lovers in a well tunnel—each inscription wr…
Two names: Cheng Youjing, Hang Tiantian.
Traces left by a pair of lovers in a well tunnel—each inscription written side by side.
Between digging, they secretly etched their names everywhere. The other would find it and add their beloved's name.
A simple game, like the bow they imagined exchanging as husband and wife. These names, under heaven and earth, forever paired.
Before leaving on a camel adorned with red flowers, the girl wrote one last inside the well.
Sold by her father to a merchant caravan—they could take her far away. Where there was water, a better life.
But she wept. That faraway place had no boy whose name she wrote.