The holly tree was a short story written by a modern Chinese author. The work mainly told the story of a young man, Li Qing. He met a beautiful woman in a bar and had an emotional entanglement between the two. Li Qing found out that this woman had a past and had a psychological trauma because of it. Li Qing tried to help her walk out of the past, but the woman was not willing to. There was a conflict between the two of them. In the end, Li Qing left the bar and the woman, but he still cared about the woman in his heart. The whole article, through a short story, showed the complexity and multifarious nature of love, and also revealed the complexity and contradiction of human nature.