The Things I Could Never Say

The Things We Can't Bring Ourselves to Say

Author: Milian Shenqiu

When she learned her husband was cheating, she was holding her cancer diagnosis in her hands. How would Ling Xi, who had only just entered middle age, choose to face these double blows? Would she struggle to survive, or sink into despair?

The sincere support of her fellow writer Shen Muyun made her shattered heart beat again. An encounter with her kindred spirit Lin Wanqing allowed them both to reach a deeper level of spiritual fulfillment.

When love came again, the shackles of ingrained beliefs and the flames of her innermost desires pulled fiercely against each other. Could she rally and truly live for herself for once?

Open this book and step into the lives of several women from the 1990s who left their hometowns for Beijing. They struggled for their careers, devoted themselves to their families, and made sacrifices for their children. Decades of life unfold before your eyes.

Read about their marriages and relationships, their happiness and sorrow, their successes and failures, and you will hurt, cry, and come to understand.

Life is so hard. It's not that we don't understand how to live, but that there are too many things we can't bring ourselves to say...