It was a single flower. After being trampled by so many, it was almost the color of the dirt below. Only a few ripped petals remained, with just a little of their original purity peeking through. That faint fragrance didn’t last; it soon dispersed.4 Now
love the symbolism of this. xie lian, as a god being correlated with flowers, having the weight of all the people of yong’an and xianle on top of him, their hopes, their prayers, their expectations, and their the very same people who “trample” him
