At every fork in the road in history, there are countless roads not taken. The distances those roads lead to are as real as the actual history - it's just that no one has walked them.
History is never a one-way street, and those abandoned forks and untaken choices are never empty phantoms. They hide another direction of the times, another ending of the fate of countless people, regrets, expectations, and countless realities that have not yet come to fruition.
They are just fixed in the "not happening" by time, but they will always exist in the parallel folds of history, just like the established trajectory we are on.
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History is like a pot of tea. What is brewed with boiling water is the past that we know well, and what sinks at the bottom of the cup are the forked roads that have not been traveled before. Some people have tasted the richness of the golden war, and some have tasted the ups and downs of the world. And those distant places that no one has traveled are unopened tea buds, hiding another kind of sweetness and bitterness, just like everything that really happened, fresh and hot.
This is the first time I've seen such a detailed novel written by Wei Wei, and it's worth looking forward to!
History is like a pot of tea. What is brewed with boiling water is the past that we know well, and what sinks at the bottom of the cup are the forked roads that have not been traveled before. Some people have tasted the richness of the golden war, and some have tasted the ups and downs of the world. And those distant places that no one has traveled are unopened tea buds, hiding another kind of sweetness and bitterness, just like everything that really happened, fresh and hot.
This is the first time I've seen such a detailed novel written by Wei Wei, and it's worth looking forward to!