36-Year-old Chen Yu and 28-year-old Cheng Shen are eight years apart. They are close friends, confidants, and family. If there is an emotion that takes a lifetime to be engraved, in what form should it exist in this world?
In "The Afterglow of the Long River", Chen Yu is a mother, a wife, and a woman. She walks on thin ice balancing the role assigned by society. She is lucky because she met Cheng Shen; she is also unfortunate, breathing in the cocoon of the role her whole life.
This high moral wall builds the invisible foundation of civilization. It restrains human nature and seduces human nature. It is a bright mirror that illuminates good and evil. And restraint, I don't know when it became a virtue. Some people climb high walls to find what they want, at the cost of being branded with the thorns of the world and the tattoo of history, while others stay trapped in a small place until they grow old, sinking into the eternal night in silent tears.
If you read this far, you might as well get into this clumsy but long story. My words may be dull or barren, but I still hope you will touch these inscriptions that I warm with my heartbeat. They will leave scratches on the bronze mirror of time that refuse to dissipate.
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The sun sets over the long river, and the setting sun shines brightly. It has been warm and enthusiastic, and there are no regrets! The narrated stories or memories ignited the surging and eager expectations that filled my chest. It was a bit sour, an indescribable tacit understanding...
The sun sets over the long river, and the setting sun shines brightly. It has been warm and enthusiastic, and there are no regrets! The narrated stories or memories ignited the surging and eager expectations that filled my chest. It was a bit sour, an indescribable tacit understanding...