Jin Hanzi’s New Novel: Blood, Tears, and Family Bonds

My new work is out now! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!

Blood Ties of Love is written in the traditional chapter-by-chapter novel format. It has 148 chapters and two million Chinese characters. The novel carefully portrays the shining image of veteran revolutionary cadres such as Gao Yang and Fang Yuqing, who uphold the Party’s principles, show courage and perseverance, and devote themselves wholeheartedly to serving the people. It is also a sincere celebration of the Party’s wisdom and greatness. The novel further explores the complicated family ties and fierce emotional conflicts among four generations of several families: Bai Xueyin, adopted daughter of secondary-school teacher Bai Sen and Wu Qi, whose nominal father Zhou Anrui was executed by firing squad shortly after Liberation and whose birth mother Gu Juxian fled; Lü Xiangyang, a senior official in a small mountainous county and Bai Xueyin’s biological father; Li Li, daughter of Li Chengzhang, an elementary-school principal, and Hou Xiaoyan, a teacher, whose brother Li Zhi is a secondary-school teacher; Guo Wen’ge, son of Guo Ren, director of the county power plant, and He Ji, a government employee; and Peng Jie, whose father is a secondary-school principal and whose husband, Qiu Xinglong, is a secondary-school teacher. Blood Ties of Love seeks to convey several ideas: First, the joys and sorrows, reunions and partings of ordinary people are closely connected to the ideas, emotions, preferences, and changing moods of those in power, as well as their policies, priorities, and standards for making decisions. Second, the pursuit of a prosperous nation, a peaceful society, harmonious relationships, and a happy life is a dream and aspiration passed down from generation to generation. Third, the central element of human spiritual life is emotion. Human emotions comprise countless forms of feeling across five spheres: blood ties, kinship, society, nation, and country.