Written in Winter and Spring

Different stories, unrelated to one another. Most are love stories, while also exploring ideas about life. The title indicates when each story was written.

Chapter 1 is mostly a collection of thoughts on various subjects.

Chapters 2 and 3 are pure romance, with a faithful couple, and a tragic ending.

Chapter 4 is about redemption and forbidden love, with infidelity, and a happy ending.

Chapter 5 explores questions about historical research.

❗❗For example, with the first chapter, be sure to take your time and read it all the way through, even though some parts at the beginning are a bit outrageous…

I got up to leave. When I was almost at the door, he suddenly rushed over and hugged me so tightly I thought my bones would break. Fighting back sobs, he said, “Xu Shanfei, don't go. I've liked you for a long time. But there's a ten-year age gap between us, and I'm your teacher. It's so shameful. Do you know that when I met you, I was at the darkest point in my life? I shut myself away in my room every day, not daring to write the words, ‘One day, success will come.’ I didn't believe it.”

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“But then I just had to meet you…”