I Am the Paper Man Being Sacrificed

[Slowly savoring | Fate of the times | Entanglement of grudges | Explosive stamina] In the 20th year of the Republic of China, Meixi Town in the south of the Yangtze River suffered from a severe drought for hundreds of days, and the red land was thousands of miles away. In order to consolidate their power and stabilize people's hearts, the Chen family, a prominent family, restarted a century-old evil ritual. The seven-year-old orphan girl Shen Yangzi was regarded as a substitute for the drought demon. She was tied into a paper man and sunk in the empress's deep well to offer sacrifices and pray for rain. Rain fell from the sky, and the reputation of the Chen family was at its peak, but the Shen family was overturned, and the blood feud was buried deep in the well. Eighteen years have passed, and the storm of the times has swept through the small town. Drought, war, fall, war, rebellion, change... The fates of several major families are intertwined, and love, hate and calculation coexist. The parents and grandchildren of Chen, who have studied abroad, are trying to break through the haze of ignorance; The Shen brother, who bore a blood feud, turned into a spy and returned to his homeland; The gentle girl who struggles to survive is floating in the world's hearts. Everyone thinks they hold the road ahead, plan every step, and control life and death. In the end, I realized that all living beings are just involuntary pawns on a chessboard in troubled times. It turns out that the people trapped in Meixi Town were never the innocent souls in the well. It's human nature's greed, ignorance and indifference, the bottomless well in the heart that never dries up. In the early stage, the group portraits and the times are laid out, in the middle stage, the grievances and grievances are fermented, and in the later stage, the tragedy of troubled times bursts out with high energy. The writing is slow and painful, and the more you read, the more painful it is.