One Thought, Half a Life
by Chen Qiling
About This Novel
Perfection in the world is the same, but imperfection can have thousands of interpretations. Eighteen stories, eighteen lonely relationships. Chen Qiling, the first prize winner of the United Daily News Literary Award, gave an in-depth interpretation of the impermanence of love. She is well aware of the changes in human nature and believes in the beauty of human relationships. She firmly believes that getting what you want is the best form of love. In his writings, the Buddhist truths of suffering - "love apart" and "unable to seek" - are endowed with a strong sense of fatalistic beauty. Reading her words, you can feel a little curious. The women in the book may go to the meeting alone and bravely, but suddenly stop behind thousands of rivers and mountains; or they may be cowardly and weak, but will risk everything for a crazy idea. The narrator hidden behind the words sometimes looks like an innocent and kind-hearted girl, and sometimes looks like a vicissitudes of life old man who cherishes his words like gold. Either one is her, but neither one is entirely her.
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Official(3)Scraped 10d ago
I can't help but want to make up a different ending for her, but I don't know where to start.
A touch of sadness is the trace of youth
I just finished reading the last article "The Same Same Old Story", and I feel so sad and confused. Throughout the whole book, there is not a single happy ending, all of which are missed and unavailable. Although we know that incomplete and unsatisfactory things are the true face of life, it is because of this that we look for paradise in books, forget our sorrows, and place our dreams on them.
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Official(3)Scraped 10d ago
I can't help but want to make up a different ending for her, but I don't know where to start.
A touch of sadness is the trace of youth
I just finished reading the last article "The Same Same Old Story", and I feel so sad and confused. Throughout the whole book, there is not a single happy ending, all of which are missed and unavailable. Although we know that incomplete and unsatisfactory things are the true face of life, it is because of this that we look for paradise in books, forget our sorrows, and place our dreams on them.
