At the Crossroads of Fate

Name: At the Crossroads of Fate
Author: Zhang Guofu

站在命运的十字路口

by Zhang Guofu (张国富)

Status: Completed
Length: 243k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 1y ago
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42Reads

5.8Score

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This book explores Standing at the Crossroads of Fate through five major sections. 1. Fleeing for Their Lives: This section recounts how the protagonist Sun Shigui’s grandparents left their landlord’s household to make a life of their own amid the hardships of the old society, and how, after enduring countless trials during the War of Resistance Against Japan, they fled all the way from Nanjing to Shiqi Village and finally settled there. 2. A Life of Hardship: This section follows the many hardships Sun Shigui faces as he grows up: being falsely accused by a classmate of cheating on an exam, losing his younger brother to drowning, his grandmother falling into a gorge while picking herbal tea, the deaths of his maternal grandmother and grandfather one after another, and a village party secretary seizing his family’s farmland. These events prompt him to question, reflect on, and seek answers about the relationship between money and power, death, and fate. 3. Love, Separation, and Reunion: This section tells how the protagonist and Xu Xingyao first meet by chance at a bookstore in town while they are in high school, then meet again, grow close, and fall in love while attending university in the provincial capital. Ultimately, the pressures of real life and the clash between their values tear their relationship apart. 4. Setbacks at Work: After graduation, the protagonist is assigned to work at a newspaper. Even in an environment dominated by money and power, he holds fast to his conscience. Eventually, he writes a letter reporting an industrial zone for illegally discharging wastewater and is suspended as a result. 5. A Turn for the Better: This section follows the protagonist as he desperately seeks help and connections when his father is struck by a falling boulder and left on the brink of death, but cannot be admitted to the intensive care unit. After numerous setbacks, Xu Xingyao helps him get his father into intensive care, where he eventually recovers and is discharged. The protagonist resigns from the newspaper, returns to town to write full-time, and eventually becomes an author.

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