Hongdou Linglong

The exquisite dice is decorated with red beans, and I miss you deeply. Linglong, who suffered from leg problems since childhood, was admitted to school at the age of ten, but was forced to drop out due to gender and physical reasons. When he was 16 years old, he fell in love with Su Wenyuan, a painter in the provincial capital, but they died without any illness due to the disparity in family status. Later, he married the military officer Zhao Zhenguo at the order of his parents. After marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Mingyue, but her husband died young and she raised her daughter alone. As an adult, Mingyue fell in love with Lin Qinghe, a poor fisherman, and married into a fishing village despite her mother's objections. However, after her husband was killed at sea, she became insane and eventually threw herself into the sea to die for her love. Three-year-old Haiyin became an orphan and was adopted by her grandmother Linglong. Because Haiyin's eyes resemble her mother Mingyue's, Linglong has been unable to face the bond of blood ties for a long time, and the grandfather and grandson fell into a long emotional gap. Until Haiyin became seriously ill when she was fifteen years old, Linglong guarded her day and night, and the emotions that had been frozen for many years began to melt. In the years that followed, Linglong gradually opened her heart to Haiyin, telling the story of two generations between herself and her mother, and before she died, she passed on her understanding of "the courage to love" to her granddaughter. Haiyin takes this inheritance and moves towards his own future. The novel uses "red beans" as an image throughout—the red beans Linglong received as a girl, the red beans she collected every year but never sent out, and the red bean tree in the courtyard that grew up with three generations—connecting the emotional codes of three generations of women across time and space.