Let's Not Talk About Love

Name: Let's Not Talk About Love
Author: Ershu Ershu

不谈爱情

by Ershu Ershu (二叔尔淑)

Status: Completed
Length: 179k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 2y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

Don't Talk About Love is a purely fictional serialized novel.

The novel tells of the inner torment of Zhao Xiaosong, a middle-aged man who works at Shenfeng Tire Factory and suffers from cerebral atrophy. It portrays his resentment, anxiety, loneliness, helplessness, despair, selfishness, longing, and, finally, his struggle...

The story begins in the 1990s. Zhao Xiaosong, a country bumpkin from that era, is lucky enough to become a tire-molding worker at Shenfeng Tire Factory in Jiaoshi. Back then, he is simple and kind. He not only has love in his heart, but also the ambition to better himself. He takes pride in working at the factory, cherishes his family, and strives to give his wife and children a happy life. But when he finally attains that happiness, receives the highest honors Shenfeng Tire can offer, and faces the many temptations of society, his human weaknesses begin to fester. His ego swells beyond control, and unable to resist temptation, he lets those weaknesses grow unchecked. Tragically, he loses his home and the wife and children he loves most, and ultimately ends up on a road with no hope...

I didn't write Zhao Xiaosong on impulse or on a whim. I had to write him. He is an ordinary man, with all the strengths and flaws that ordinary people have. His strength is that he knows what he wants and gives everything to pursue it. His flaw is that he takes things too far, loses himself, and abandons all principles and limits. In the end, he throws away the happy life that was once his. I believe I've portrayed Zhao Xiaosong as a fully rounded character, and done so very successfully. I'm confident about that. Put another way, a character with such depth is all the more compelling

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