Dacheng Xiaoshi (original Novel of the Tv Series "all the Way to the Sun")
by Jiang Lihan
About This Novel
Xie Xiaodan is a beautiful and capable CBD white-collar worker who strives for an elegant and superior quality of life; his cousin Chen Qing is a top student who graduated from Stanford, and gave up a well-paid job in the United States to fully support her boyfriend Beipiao's entrepreneurial start-up; her best friend Tian Rong's love career has been hit by obstacles, and after losing her job, she devoted herself to real estate speculation. During the ten years when housing prices in Beijing have been rising steadily, the wealth, sense of achievement, and social status of the three people have quietly exchanged, dividing them into those who own houses and those who do not. The pursuit and hope of the three people in life have involuntarily changed in the cruel reality of high housing prices. Through meticulous and realistic descriptions of reality, the novel leads us to find answers to the problems that plague Chinese people's houses.
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Everyone has his or her own little room in the big city
I was attracted by the TV series and wanted to read the original work. I mainly wanted to see what life was like for people who lived in the same familiar space in those years when they were not in Beijing. Teacher Jiang's words are much more real than the TV series, and they won my heart. This is the real Beijing, the real CBD. In 2021, I will leave Beijing and go south to Chengdu. When I occasionally return to Beijing on business trips, I will also walk the same path that classmate Xie walked. The China World Hotel, Yintai, Jianwai Soho, Guanghua Road, Kerry Center... Although it seems like a world away, the little girls who struggled in those years are real. When I graduated, housing prices in Beijing were already very high. I thought the same thing as Mr. Chen: "Everyone in their twenties thinks they can change the world..." Based on age, I should be 8-10 years younger than Mr. Xie, and both Mr. Lin and Mr. Lin were born in the 1990s. My most vivid memory of the "small house in the big city" of the post-90s generation is that I first arrived in Beijing in 2016 and lived in Tongzhou Tuqiao Free Building. I felt that although the commute was quite far (I worked at the World Trade Center Tianjie), it was clean even if I shared a loft... So after working overtime again and again, Didi's master made a mistake and decided to move to the city. Although Jinsong and Shuangjing are only separated by one subway station, people living in Nongguangli will use the app in the middle of the night to calculate how much money they are apart from R&F City. The girl who pitied her wallet but loved beauty kicked her boyfriend who was snoring next to her. Her boyfriend's leader should be about the same age as Ding. The leader who lives in Tongzhou goes to and from Wangjing South every day. In our sleep, our faces gradually fell into pieces. Amidst the countless trivial matters of wanting to buy a house, going to see houses, calculating social security, and competing for a place to settle down... The girl asked the boy with tears in her eyes, when can we get married? The boy across the door thought of him who was once proud of the university stadium and who once scolded Fang Qiu in the student organization. But now, he can't make any promises. The most realistic thing is that he hasn't thought about tomorrow's work report yet, he still doesn't know how to practice OKR, and the new intern's academic qualifications and school are so dazzling... In this way, our most pure love turns to ashes in the face of survival. From now on, we can only comfort ourselves and weigh the pros and cons in reality. The two Western MCAs each had a bowl of noodles. After a moment of silence, they walked in opposite directions. My sister who lives in Heishanhu is a teacher in a public institution. She has always paid attention to housing prices but still lives in the teacher's dormitory. Seeing the housing prices in Beijing rising to the sky, her sister said that boyfriends, like houses, need to be compared again and again and must pass the test of time. The new house is on the top floor of Building 23 in Warwick North. The girl took a fancy to it at first sight. Wave after wave of people came to warm up the house, praising your house for being warm and well-decorated. Only you know how nice this house would be if it were your own. You come here all year round, and your family introduces you to a nice boy who works in a factory in Yizhuang. He comes back from studying in Germany. Your family advises you to get married, and you are full of hope, but the reality is so unlucky, and because of the house... You have looked at almost all the houses from Beijing University of Technology to Jiaomen, but you have been reluctant to make a move, mainly because of the price... How to repay the loan? How much is the down payment for each family? In the helpless eyes of their parents, the two chose to break up peacefully. Later, he began to refuse blind dates and refused to talk about a house. How nice it is to be alone, it's spring again, the magnolias are in full bloom, and the big magpie as big as a cat is chirping in front of the window early in the morning. Before the Qingming Festival, I touch the heater and there is still residual heat. I turn on the humidifier and turn on the stereo that I earned half a month's salary. Ah, this may be life. Life may be meant to be broken. Words used to describe love are generally rather sudden. Suddenly, another boy breaks into the world, with his own label - a Beijinger. The first time I came to Shunyi Central Villa District was when I just joined the industry in 2016 to interview a well-known investor in the industry. The second time I came here was to accompany my boyfriend to the imported supermarket to buy steaks based on ounces... I was in the starry sky of Changping Hot Spring, had afternoon tea at Black Swan, and went to SKP to pick up a bag in less than five minutes after getting off the plane... At one time, I thought I was a part of this city, but one day after the sudden epidemic, I received a message that was inappropriate for us. Yes, I have never belonged to Beijing. Later in the story, there is no situation like Mr. Xie's meeting a man who can be married physically and considering whether to continue to be rich or to get richer. Babyface, who has always only attracted boys younger than himself and kept a distance from older men, did not persuade himself to accept the claws of the big brother in the industry. From the World Trade Center to Jintai Road, then to Wanda Plaza on Dawang Road, and then starting my own business to the HNA Industrial Building opposite where you can see big pants. The moment I left, I thought that I had also seen the rise of high-rise buildings in the industry, and witnessed countless people who lost their money and buildings collapsed due to the madness of B and E... But this is all other people. Whether it is 2016 or 2021, there is no reason why we can't afford the houses that we can live in in Beijing... After the hustle and bustle, I am still me... Later, I came to Chengdu because of a job transfer. The first thing I did was buy myself a house and a car... I was not very good at driving yet, so I retaliated by doing things that Beijing had not done. In 2022, I accidentally discovered that the house in Warwick North where I once lived was listed for sale online. I carefully opened the door of the house that was once full of memories from the perspective of a seller... I have the ability to buy this house back, but it has been less than five years since I left the house in 2021. Beijing's housing prices will skyrocket again in 2023. When I was on a business trip during the summer vacation, I took my sister, who had just graduated and interned in Beijing, out to eat. Seeing that she was 7 years younger and was also considering buying a house, ah, this may be a legacy. The 32-year-old classmate Xie is single but not single. The 31-year-old me repeating the path of classmate Xie may be a kind of inheritance. The big city may be Beijing or Chengdu. But under the sky, besides the smog, there is hope for people in every city to live and work in peace and contentment. No matter what kind of life we live in, whether first class or economy class, we all want to not fall behind, but to move forward. We must have what others have, and who can be exempted from it?
After watching "All the Way to the Sun", my biggest emotion is probably the job opportunity that Xie Xiaodan happened to encounter, which led to the following stories happening to her. Of course, there is also her emotional line, such as with Jiang Zhongliang in the end. Will someone like Xie Xiaodan really stay with him till the end of their marriage and grow old together? Or maybe it is said that capitalists like Li Ming, businessmen value profit over separation. If I were Xie Xiaodan... Forget it, I won't bring it in. There will be interesting articles in my life every day.
I feel like the TV series is better, but the novel is a bit bland.
Very true, one of the best novels in recent times
It's cruel, but this is reality. After reading the original work, you will sneer at the TV series.
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Official(5)Scraped 21d ago
Everyone has his or her own little room in the big city
I was attracted by the TV series and wanted to read the original work. I mainly wanted to see what life was like for people who lived in the same familiar space in those years when they were not in Beijing. Teacher Jiang's words are much more real than the TV series, and they won my heart. This is the real Beijing, the real CBD. In 2021, I will leave Beijing and go south to Chengdu. When I occasionally return to Beijing on business trips, I will also walk the same path that classmate Xie walked. The China World Hotel, Yintai, Jianwai Soho, Guanghua Road, Kerry Center... Although it seems like a world away, the little girls who struggled in those years are real. When I graduated, housing prices in Beijing were already very high. I thought the same thing as Mr. Chen: "Everyone in their twenties thinks they can change the world..." Based on age, I should be 8-10 years younger than Mr. Xie, and both Mr. Lin and Mr. Lin were born in the 1990s. My most vivid memory of the "small house in the big city" of the post-90s generation is that I first arrived in Beijing in 2016 and lived in Tongzhou Tuqiao Free Building. I felt that although the commute was quite far (I worked at the World Trade Center Tianjie), it was clean even if I shared a loft... So after working overtime again and again, Didi's master made a mistake and decided to move to the city. Although Jinsong and Shuangjing are only separated by one subway station, people living in Nongguangli will use the app in the middle of the night to calculate how much money they are apart from R&F City. The girl who pitied her wallet but loved beauty kicked her boyfriend who was snoring next to her. Her boyfriend's leader should be about the same age as Ding. The leader who lives in Tongzhou goes to and from Wangjing South every day. In our sleep, our faces gradually fell into pieces. Amidst the countless trivial matters of wanting to buy a house, going to see houses, calculating social security, and competing for a place to settle down... The girl asked the boy with tears in her eyes, when can we get married? The boy across the door thought of him who was once proud of the university stadium and who once scolded Fang Qiu in the student organization. But now, he can't make any promises. The most realistic thing is that he hasn't thought about tomorrow's work report yet, he still doesn't know how to practice OKR, and the new intern's academic qualifications and school are so dazzling... In this way, our most pure love turns to ashes in the face of survival. From now on, we can only comfort ourselves and weigh the pros and cons in reality. The two Western MCAs each had a bowl of noodles. After a moment of silence, they walked in opposite directions. My sister who lives in Heishanhu is a teacher in a public institution. She has always paid attention to housing prices but still lives in the teacher's dormitory. Seeing the housing prices in Beijing rising to the sky, her sister said that boyfriends, like houses, need to be compared again and again and must pass the test of time. The new house is on the top floor of Building 23 in Warwick North. The girl took a fancy to it at first sight. Wave after wave of people came to warm up the house, praising your house for being warm and well-decorated. Only you know how nice this house would be if it were your own. You come here all year round, and your family introduces you to a nice boy who works in a factory in Yizhuang. He comes back from studying in Germany. Your family advises you to get married, and you are full of hope, but the reality is so unlucky, and because of the house... You have looked at almost all the houses from Beijing University of Technology to Jiaomen, but you have been reluctant to make a move, mainly because of the price... How to repay the loan? How much is the down payment for each family? In the helpless eyes of their parents, the two chose to break up peacefully. Later, he began to refuse blind dates and refused to talk about a house. How nice it is to be alone, it's spring again, the magnolias are in full bloom, and the big magpie as big as a cat is chirping in front of the window early in the morning. Before the Qingming Festival, I touch the heater and there is still residual heat. I turn on the humidifier and turn on the stereo that I earned half a month's salary. Ah, this may be life. Life may be meant to be broken. Words used to describe love are generally rather sudden. Suddenly, another boy breaks into the world, with his own label - a Beijinger. The first time I came to Shunyi Central Villa District was when I just joined the industry in 2016 to interview a well-known investor in the industry. The second time I came here was to accompany my boyfriend to the imported supermarket to buy steaks based on ounces... I was in the starry sky of Changping Hot Spring, had afternoon tea at Black Swan, and went to SKP to pick up a bag in less than five minutes after getting off the plane... At one time, I thought I was a part of this city, but one day after the sudden epidemic, I received a message that was inappropriate for us. Yes, I have never belonged to Beijing. Later in the story, there is no situation like Mr. Xie's meeting a man who can be married physically and considering whether to continue to be rich or to get richer. Babyface, who has always only attracted boys younger than himself and kept a distance from older men, did not persuade himself to accept the claws of the big brother in the industry. From the World Trade Center to Jintai Road, then to Wanda Plaza on Dawang Road, and then starting my own business to the HNA Industrial Building opposite where you can see big pants. The moment I left, I thought that I had also seen the rise of high-rise buildings in the industry, and witnessed countless people who lost their money and buildings collapsed due to the madness of B and E... But this is all other people. Whether it is 2016 or 2021, there is no reason why we can't afford the houses that we can live in in Beijing... After the hustle and bustle, I am still me... Later, I came to Chengdu because of a job transfer. The first thing I did was buy myself a house and a car... I was not very good at driving yet, so I retaliated by doing things that Beijing had not done. In 2022, I accidentally discovered that the house in Warwick North where I once lived was listed for sale online. I carefully opened the door of the house that was once full of memories from the perspective of a seller... I have the ability to buy this house back, but it has been less than five years since I left the house in 2021. Beijing's housing prices will skyrocket again in 2023. When I was on a business trip during the summer vacation, I took my sister, who had just graduated and interned in Beijing, out to eat. Seeing that she was 7 years younger and was also considering buying a house, ah, this may be a legacy. The 32-year-old classmate Xie is single but not single. The 31-year-old me repeating the path of classmate Xie may be a kind of inheritance. The big city may be Beijing or Chengdu. But under the sky, besides the smog, there is hope for people in every city to live and work in peace and contentment. No matter what kind of life we live in, whether first class or economy class, we all want to not fall behind, but to move forward. We must have what others have, and who can be exempted from it?
After watching "All the Way to the Sun", my biggest emotion is probably the job opportunity that Xie Xiaodan happened to encounter, which led to the following stories happening to her. Of course, there is also her emotional line, such as with Jiang Zhongliang in the end. Will someone like Xie Xiaodan really stay with him till the end of their marriage and grow old together? Or maybe it is said that capitalists like Li Ming, businessmen value profit over separation. If I were Xie Xiaodan... Forget it, I won't bring it in. There will be interesting articles in my life every day.
I feel like the TV series is better, but the novel is a bit bland.
Very true, one of the best novels in recent times
It's cruel, but this is reality. After reading the original work, you will sneer at the TV series.
