The Reason Why I Must Fall in Love
by Wang Dagen
About This Novel
Douban celebrity Wang Dagen's first collection of works "The Reason I Must Fall in Love" interprets the youth of most of us in a playful way. The sharp sentences in the book are like sharp knives piercing the reader's heart. This book is a campus story composed of seven short stories and one full-length novel. It tells the youth of a real ordinary girl: a face that cannot be beautiful even after being carefully retouched, a weight that cannot be reduced despite all efforts, a crammed academic study before every exam, a beautiful boy who has made countless encounters but still does not fall in love with him. They are the group of people who have never been the protagonists in youth movies. They are the group of people who have never encountered any romantic scenes in youth novels. They are... You and me.
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Book Title: The Reason I Must Fall in Love Author: Wang Dagen Genre: youth, campus, realism, humor, satire, 7 short stories and 1 novella Recommendation index: ★★★★ (anyone with 2 stars or above can read it, a total of 5 stars) Introduction: "There's no way people like us can become heroines!" We are a group of people that have never been described in youth novels. Stories such as falling in love with the school sweetheart have never happened to us. We have nowhere to go after we skip self-study classes. We don't know who to send love letters to. This is our girlhood where nothing happened. ?0?2 Comments: This book was written by a Douban celebrity. I think she is a very interesting person who speaks sharply and straightforwardly. It is necessary to mention her author profile here: "Wang Dagen (author's name) is the person who passed by you happily while eating ice cream just now. She is younger, not very good-looking, and if you need to know, she is a woman." It looks very simple and down-to-earth, right? So does her writing. Although you know every word, she can combine it into wonderful sentences and create a wonderful feeling. And the most important thing is that the story she writes is about your and my youth, an ordinary but interesting-looking youth. In other words, her words capture every pain point and every joy in youth. Even if you dress up, you are still ordinary, you are not beautiful even if you lose weight, your grades are average despite your hard work, and the good-looking boys around you will only like the good-looking girls around you. These are some stories in this atmosphere. And, some ridicule of reality, and helplessness towards the ordinary self, but also enjoy it. So, in fact, life is not necessarily about falling in love (is it a forced transition)? Although it seems that love is very beautiful, only good-looking people can have beautiful love. If it is really a pity, it is that when I was very young, I did not have a pure love. As for life in your twenties, apart from getting married, it is normal to continue on alone if you haven't met the right person. After all, in fact, there are only relationships that are suitable for marriage, not the age that is suitable for marriage. Let's choose an excerpt from the story to give you a feel for the painting style: As we all know, love is a required course in college. If you have not been in love, you will not get a diploma. For me, this is a difficult subject, and my classmates are very cunning. Many of them have been preparing for this course since junior high school and high school. I come from a small place, and we don't have this class at all. Of course, although I have never taken this course before, I also studied it on my own when I was in middle school. I read some romance novels and watched some idol dramas, but they never matched my real life. When I was in junior high school, I accidentally got a little blood on my pants. At that time, the boy sitting behind me did not take off his school uniform jacket and put it around my waist like what was written in youth novels. Instead, he pointed at my pants and said, "Everyone, come and see! There is blood on Wang Meili's butt!" When I was in high school, I walked home on the same road as the boys in the next class. It was already after nine o'clock after evening self-study, but it wasn't like in the idol drama, where bad guys came out and surrounded me, and then he came up to rescue me. My hometown is a listless city, and there are no hooligans who are eager to help the hero and heroine fall in love. --Excerpt from [The Reason I Must Fall in Love] ?0?2 ?0?2It's 2015! I am different. As soon as the clock struck midnight, the old me fell to the ground and died, and the new me peeled off the old skin and crawled out, completely abnormal! I became a brand new person, to be precise, I became an adult! I was very high-spirited and walked into the store to eat hot and sour noodles. I ate a fly and didn't swallow it as hard as before. I directly called the waiter (also the cashier) and alerted the lobby manager (also the delivery person). Finally, I went to the store manager (also the waiter), waived the order and ate another bowl! When I see my classmates on the street, I no longer lower my head or look blankly like before, pretending to be 10,000 degrees short-sighted! I waved and shouted from ten meters away. When I got close, I patted the other person's shoulder and asked them where they came from, where they were going, and what they had eaten. Now that I have become an adult, I have to face problems in a more adult way. I should praise my relatives' children, participate in the political forums of my uncles and uncles, listen carefully to the great deeds of my second and third cousins who were admitted to the civil service, and explain my love problems to the world... It couldn't be simpler! I was full of confidence and couldn't wait to rush to my hometown, carrying big and small bags. --Excerpt from [New Year for Our Adults]
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Book Title: The Reason I Must Fall in Love Author: Wang Dagen Genre: youth, campus, realism, humor, satire, 7 short stories and 1 novella Recommendation index: ★★★★ (anyone with 2 stars or above can read it, a total of 5 stars) Introduction: "There's no way people like us can become heroines!" We are a group of people that have never been described in youth novels. Stories such as falling in love with the school sweetheart have never happened to us. We have nowhere to go after we skip self-study classes. We don't know who to send love letters to. This is our girlhood where nothing happened. ?0?2 Comments: This book was written by a Douban celebrity. I think she is a very interesting person who speaks sharply and straightforwardly. It is necessary to mention her author profile here: "Wang Dagen (author's name) is the person who passed by you happily while eating ice cream just now. She is younger, not very good-looking, and if you need to know, she is a woman." It looks very simple and down-to-earth, right? So does her writing. Although you know every word, she can combine it into wonderful sentences and create a wonderful feeling. And the most important thing is that the story she writes is about your and my youth, an ordinary but interesting-looking youth. In other words, her words capture every pain point and every joy in youth. Even if you dress up, you are still ordinary, you are not beautiful even if you lose weight, your grades are average despite your hard work, and the good-looking boys around you will only like the good-looking girls around you. These are some stories in this atmosphere. And, some ridicule of reality, and helplessness towards the ordinary self, but also enjoy it. So, in fact, life is not necessarily about falling in love (is it a forced transition)? Although it seems that love is very beautiful, only good-looking people can have beautiful love. If it is really a pity, it is that when I was very young, I did not have a pure love. As for life in your twenties, apart from getting married, it is normal to continue on alone if you haven't met the right person. After all, in fact, there are only relationships that are suitable for marriage, not the age that is suitable for marriage. Let's choose an excerpt from the story to give you a feel for the painting style: As we all know, love is a required course in college. If you have not been in love, you will not get a diploma. For me, this is a difficult subject, and my classmates are very cunning. Many of them have been preparing for this course since junior high school and high school. I come from a small place, and we don't have this class at all. Of course, although I have never taken this course before, I also studied it on my own when I was in middle school. I read some romance novels and watched some idol dramas, but they never matched my real life. When I was in junior high school, I accidentally got a little blood on my pants. At that time, the boy sitting behind me did not take off his school uniform jacket and put it around my waist like what was written in youth novels. Instead, he pointed at my pants and said, "Everyone, come and see! There is blood on Wang Meili's butt!" When I was in high school, I walked home on the same road as the boys in the next class. It was already after nine o'clock after evening self-study, but it wasn't like in the idol drama, where bad guys came out and surrounded me, and then he came up to rescue me. My hometown is a listless city, and there are no hooligans who are eager to help the hero and heroine fall in love. --Excerpt from [The Reason I Must Fall in Love] ?0?2 ?0?2It's 2015! I am different. As soon as the clock struck midnight, the old me fell to the ground and died, and the new me peeled off the old skin and crawled out, completely abnormal! I became a brand new person, to be precise, I became an adult! I was very high-spirited and walked into the store to eat hot and sour noodles. I ate a fly and didn't swallow it as hard as before. I directly called the waiter (also the cashier) and alerted the lobby manager (also the delivery person). Finally, I went to the store manager (also the waiter), waived the order and ate another bowl! When I see my classmates on the street, I no longer lower my head or look blankly like before, pretending to be 10,000 degrees short-sighted! I waved and shouted from ten meters away. When I got close, I patted the other person's shoulder and asked them where they came from, where they were going, and what they had eaten. Now that I have become an adult, I have to face problems in a more adult way. I should praise my relatives' children, participate in the political forums of my uncles and uncles, listen carefully to the great deeds of my second and third cousins who were admitted to the civil service, and explain my love problems to the world... It couldn't be simpler! I was full of confidence and couldn't wait to rush to my hometown, carrying big and small bags. --Excerpt from [New Year for Our Adults]
