Sunny Spring

Su TaNov 2025

2.8

Word count: 154K words
Chapters: 57

Summary

Yuan Xue grew up steeped in a vat of sin, tempered long ago into coldness, ruthlessness, and a readiness to use any means. She armors herself in malice and wields ferocity as a blade, all to overturn the darkness. Until she meets Moni—a man who cultivates himself through Daoist arts. He is willing to ruin his cultivation, break his vows, and even make himself a boat to ferry her across all her sins. Yet in the end she cannot bear it, and tells him: “I regret it. Go back to your heaven.” But he cuts off every retreat and says to her, almost pleading: “It doesn’t matter if Yangchun belongs to someone else; it’s enough that Moni belongs to Yuan Xue.”

Editor's review

Yangchun is a work of cold temperament with warmth hidden beneath. Yuan Xue grows up in a vat of sin, arming herself with coldness and ruthlessness; her “evil” is not innate but armor tempered by survival. Moni’s arrival forms a sharp contrast: a man who cultivates himself through Daoist arts is willing to ruin his cultivation and break his vows for her, even making himself a boat to ferry her sins. The title “Yangchun” forms a subtle intertext with the characters’ fates—Yangchun belongs to someone else, but Moni belongs to Yuan Xue. Su Ta’s writing is restrained yet tense; he does not write redemption as cheap conversion but lets the two truly face each other only after their retreats have been cut off. Yuan Xue’s line “Go back to your heaven” is both heartache and a sense of unworthiness; Moni’s almost pleading response hands the choice entirely over to her. Suitable for readers who like a glimmer of light against a dark ground and character relationships with a redemptive edge. While reading, note the shift between the images of “armor” and “boat”—they sum up almost the entire relationship between the two characters.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who like dark coming-of-age backgrounds and redemptive emotional lines
Readers who prefer cold, hard-edged characters and high-tension relationships
Readers who want restrained prose and care about imagery and language texture
Readers who can accept characters who armor themselves in malice and wield ferocity as a blade

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting a light, bright, sunny, healing tone
Readers who are strongly averse to depictions of sinful environments and ruthless behavior
Readers who prefer simple character relationships and straightforward emotional expression

Reading tips

Note the shift in imagery from “armor of malice, blade of ferocity” to “making himself a boat”—this is key to understanding the relationship between the two.
When reading Yuan Xue’s passages, compare her words with her circumstances; coldness is often camouflage, not her true heart.
Read slowly through the passage where Moni ruins his cultivation and breaks his vows; the author writes with restraint, hiding emotion in action and choice.
Read the closing line “Yangchun belongs to someone else” once more; you can hear the desperate gamble of a character who has cut off every retreat.

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FAQ

Is Yuan Xue’s “evil” innate, or forced by circumstance?

From the material, she grows up steeped in a vat of sin; coldness, ruthlessness, and unscrupulousness seem more like a survival method tempered by environment. She armors herself in malice and wields ferocity as a blade in order to overturn the darkness, which shows her “evil” has a clear direction rather than being indiscriminate nature.

What exactly does it mean that Moni ruins his cultivation and breaks his vows for Yuan Xue?

The material mentions that Moni is a man who cultivates himself through Daoist arts; he is willing to ruin his cultivation, break his vows, and even make himself a boat to ferry all her sins. This is more like a symbolic self-sacrifice and bearing; the specific plot needs to unfold in the book, but the four words “ruin his cultivation and break his vows” already point to the weight of the price he pays.

What is the relationship between the title “Yangchun” and the story?

In the book, Moni says, “It doesn’t matter if Yangchun belongs to someone else; it’s enough that Moni belongs to Yuan Xue.” Yangchun here is more like a bright life that does not belong to Yuan Xue, while Moni clearly gives his belonging to her. The title and this line echo each other, pointing to the core choice in their relationship.

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About the author

Su Ta Author · Chinese

Su Ta is a Chinese web novelist and an author on Jinjiang Literature City, born under the sign of Scorpio. Public information about her is limited, and details such as her dates of birth and death are not recorded; the thirteen works held in the collection are the currently verifiable body of her work. She is known for urban emotional fiction and literary coming-of-age romance, with a restrained and delicate style that makes frequent use of metaphor, lending a degree of literary texture to genre romance. Her representative works include Blind Lamp, To Wang Lun, Red Wine Green, I Come from the East, Calling for Rain and Far Away, as well as Burning Knife, The General, Leap Year, Xie Chunguang and Red Happy Event. Her works generally fall under contemporary romance and youth literature, often centering on the emotional entanglements and personal growth of urban men and women, and have drawn readers who favor finely wrought emotional writing.