I've been writing this novel for two months, but hardly anyone reads it and there are no comments. This kind of theme and plot isn't very popular on Tomato Novel, and the stats are poor, so there's no income. I'm giving up on it.
Midsummer, 1950. Chen Mu, a bronze mirror restorer, sees an eerie light ripple across a bronze mirror, and his soul falls into the body of a starving, freezing young boy.
He has no golden finger that lets him foresee the future. He can only struggle to survive amid the turbulent waves of the times, relying on his keen sense of the currents of history.
During the famine, he hoards grain to save his ailing mother, watching coldly as he sees what humanity is willing to pay;
During his years as an educated youth, he holds her close for warmth between haystacks, as their suppressed feelings smolder like a wildfire;
Amid the tide of reform, he makes his way through the business world beneath the neon lights, but his unrestrained desires ultimately scorch his soul.
Over sixty years of hardship, his fate becomes entangled with four women, and he experiences three rises and falls of fortune.
At last, in 2008, as fireworks for the Olympics light up the night sky, he finally dusts off the grime of a lifetime and buries the secret of the bronze mirror forever, gently making peace with the hard-won ordinary life he has found.
