Saggisilver:
This grave contains the mortal remains of John Keats, a young English poet who died at Rome Feb. 20 1820 [sic—again an incorrect date] aged 25 years. This short life was so imbittered [sic] by discouragement & sickness that he desired these words to mark his grave: 'Here lies one whose name is writ in water.
I found this in google, the meaning maybe that he relates to Keat as he also suffered a lot after his parents death and spent years in desperation to find his parents murderers and always being disappointed by the results.
or maybe related to Chen Man's brother as he also died in his 20s.
oh wow thanks for searching it up! Now I also think this quote might have something to do with his desperation and dissapointment.. I'm so currious about the future occurences, Meatbun is really great in putting plottwists in her novel. Ah I want to know about Xie Qingchengs past so bad, and I also want to find out the reason why he is so detached towards people. It definitely has to do something with his parents death but I think thats not the only reason..