Challenge your mental endurance! The "abuse" of this novel does not lie in the cruelty, but in "soberly heading towards brokenness". The protagonist has a super high IQ and a deep mind. You watch him make the coldest choices for the best reasons, pushing away or sacrificing the warmest people around him one by one. Who knows the feeling of 'I understand him, but my heart hurts'! The author is so good at writing character relationships. The deeper the bond is created in the early stage, the more painful it will be when it is torn apart later. It was a tragedy for the group, and no one got a fairy tale ending. The setting is very dystopian and makes you doubt everything is good. The writing is good, the pace is slow but the stamina is huge. If you like deep torture and psychological torture, this is a masterpiece.
# Dieyingguichen You may not believe it, but I refused to read the abuse of the Republic of China. I always feel that the routines are the same: warlords, bloody misunderstandings, torture for the sake of torture, and you can guess the ending by turning two pages. Until a friend clicked on "Butterfly Shadow Returns to Dust" and clicked it with the mentality of complaining. As a result, I finished reading it in one sitting and was silent for half a night. It really breaks out of all the clichés. There is no golden-fingered protagonist, there is no villain who is bad to the core, and even the misunderstandings are not deliberately created to be bloody. It just quietly tells the story of a group of ordinary people who strive to love in troubled times but are forced to be separated. All the regrets are logical, and all the endings seem to be inevitable. After reading it, I felt panicked, but I couldn't find any flaws in the logic. It turns out that the real thing about good Republican novels is never the plot, but the feeling of powerlessness of "being born at the wrong time". Sisters who have been biased against the Republic of China literature before, believe me, you can really try this book.
