
Maybe This Love is Too Ordinary
by Chen Qiling
About This Novel
He was really handsome when he was young, even though she would never praise him to his face. The first time he asked her out, there was snow all over the mountains and fields, so he took her to the boiler room in the cafeteria to keep warm. The fire was blazing, and she didn't dare to look into his eyes. When their first daughter was born, the mountains were covered by heavy snow and her stomach began to hurt. He tried his best to tell her the story of Monkey King, hoping to make her laugh. He always calls her a "big fool" and she says you just have to be smart. She didn't learn to ride a bicycle until she was in her forties, and she didn't learn to change a gas valve until she was sixty. With him around, she didn't have to worry about anything. She returned to her hometown with her two children, thousands of kilometers from north to south, while he waited at the station and looked out of the windows. In an era of material scarcity, he got hepatitis, and the hospital prescribed him a box of glucose. The sweetness of sugar was so rare that he couldn't bear to enjoy it to himself. He mixed the glucose in the injection into flour bit by bit, and baked sugar cakes for her to eat. He often had to travel far to make a living, and he was afraid of being sad when they said goodbye, so he would always find trouble and quarrel with her before leaving, as if a few quarrels would harden his heart. He was in a peaceful mood in old age and they rarely quarreled, but his temper suddenly turned bad and he often cursed people for no reason. She is angry sometimes, but she doesn't really care. But she never thought that his unreasonable behavior was due to a foreknowledge that it was time to travel far away.
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Official(2)Scraped 11d ago
not worth
The storyline is not attractive
true and moving
Although it is a variety of tastes that I have never experienced before, I can often feel the same when reading them.
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Community(0)
Official(2)Scraped 11d ago
not worth
The storyline is not attractive
true and moving
Although it is a variety of tastes that I have never experienced before, I can often feel the same when reading them.
