Chen Xiaolan's previous life was a perfect footnote to the word "obedient".
I listened to my parents and gave up my distant dream of going to college and stayed in my hometown. I listened to the matchmaker and married a seemingly honest husband and got married. For the next twenty years, she struggled with daily necessities and exhausted her passion in endless quarrels and cold wars. She was once a filial daughter, a virtuous wife, and a hard-working mother, but she forgot how to be "Chen Xiaolan".
An accident brought her life to an abrupt end at the age of forty-five. When she opened her eyes again, she went back to the summer when she was twelve years old, the fork in the road that determined her future destiny.
Her parents still plan her stable but boring life trajectory, and her relatives still say that "the most important thing for a girl is to get married." But this time, looking at her childish yet cowardly self in the mirror, Chen Xiaolan clenched her fists.
She wants to change her way of life.
Reader comments
On the road of asking the heart, few people stick to it till the end. Some things cannot be solved by seemingly seeing them clearly. It is not the timing, the mood, the strong subjective fluctuations, the right thing at the right time, the cognition and emotion that should be used to promote this kind of persistence. If Chen Xiaolan had not experienced rebirth, everything would be nonsense. What ordinary people need is a great change or the belief accumulated day and night. It will not be too late to persevere from now on.
The meaning of life has always been simple, progress, growth, experience, and it is self-sufficient.
But people are always imposing meaning, power, desire, calculation and suspicion, going with the flow and being intolerant of the world. They are just waves of external things. If you waver and hesitate, you will be trapped in it. If you stick to your heart, it will not matter. We all just need a process of cultivation.
I have also been searching for myself recently. I am not deliberately monitoring whether I have done what I have done or what I should not do. I have truly achieved it by devoting myself wholeheartedly to something that is most relevant to life. It comes from my own touch and understanding of reality and things. I reshape it and fill it. Originally, everything is natural. If I continue to force myself to let go of my inadequacy, it will be a wrong cycle in the end.
In fact, there are still some small thoughts. In the end, in the cold night, Chen Xiaolan realized the final path of questioning and accepted her own complete self and life. However, the short resonance and encounter between Zhou Mingyuan and Chen Xiaolan described above gave the writing a hint. Let nature take its course, but it already has some biases. However, the rest of the story is hastily reprinted, hoping to give an extra explanation.
On the road of asking the heart, few people stick to it till the end. Some things cannot be solved by seemingly seeing them clearly. It is not the timing, the mood, the strong subjective fluctuations, the right thing at the right time, the cognition and emotion that should be used to promote this kind of persistence. If Chen Xiaolan had not experienced rebirth, everything would be nonsense. What ordinary people need is a great change or the belief accumulated day and night. It will not be too late to persevere from now on. The meaning of life has always been simple, progress, growth, experience, and it is self-sufficient. But people are always imposing meaning, power, desire, calculation and suspicion, going with the flow and being intolerant of the world. They are just waves of external things. If you waver and hesitate, you will be trapped in it. If you stick to your heart, it will not matter. We all just need a process of cultivation. I have also been searching for myself recently. I am not deliberately monitoring whether I have done what I have done or what I should not do. I have truly achieved it by devoting myself wholeheartedly to something that is most relevant to life. It comes from my own touch and understanding of reality and things. I reshape it and fill it. Originally, everything is natural. If I continue to force myself to let go of my inadequacy, it will be a wrong cycle in the end. In fact, there are still some small thoughts. In the end, in the cold night, Chen Xiaolan realized the final path of questioning and accepted her own complete self and life. However, the short resonance and encounter between Zhou Mingyuan and Chen Xiaolan described above gave the writing a hint. Let nature take its course, but it already has some biases. However, the rest of the story is hastily reprinted, hoping to give an extra explanation.