"Two-way redemption"
"Slow heat x long flowing water x city life x warm healing"
[Little bitter gourd, pulling, group portrait, no female competition]
[The silent, melancholy and self-exiled male protagonist]
[The heroine who is tough on the inside but exhausted on the outside]
There is an old bookstore deep in the old street that is almost out of business.
Lin Zhan works part-time here. She dropped out of school at the age of 20 to take care of her seriously ill mother. She is used to swallowing all the pain and showing others a "I'm okay" smile.
Shen Yubai moved here one day. The one who is always silent and always sits in the backmost seat of the bookstore, staying there all day long.
The bookstore is very old, and the books are also old. The people coming and going are ordinary people who have been overwhelmed by life.
The days go by day by day, the medicine is bitter, the money is never enough, and tomorrow will always be harder than today.
It was not until his mother's death that she collapsed and his love surfaced, silent and deafening.
It turns out that collapse is not weakness.
It turns out that people are not strong only when they stand alone.
It turns out that in the deepest darkness, a little light is enough to keep you warm.
——We have all been broken by life, and then, in the evening breeze of summer night, we put ourselves and each other back together piece by piece.
Reader comments
It's good to read. I like reading this kind of realistic novel. It's very delicately written.
It's good to read. I like reading this kind of realistic novel. It's very delicately written.