“Leave the withered lotus to hear the patter of rain.”
(zh-CN) 留得残荷听雨声。
As quoted in Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760) by Cao Xueqin, ch. 40, translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang in A Dream of Red Mansions, Vol. II (Foreign Languages Pr., 1978), p. 1129