Why does the Bodhisattva sit facing backward? Because she sighs that all living beings refuse to turn back!
But what if she says she wants to turn back? Can she really go back?
Clear-eyed surrender x dangerous symbiosis
College student x scion of the powerful (Beijing social scene, a familiar, down-to-earth recipe)
In the autumn of 2008, Zhong Qing, a student in the Chinese department at P University, draws a fortune at Hongluo Temple: Those who love too deeply often have to learn to live with heartbreak.
Who could have known that these words would become a prophecy for the half a lifetime she would spend entangled with Qiao Zhizhi?
She is a top student who has fought her way up from a Shanghai longtang, and she knows exactly what she wants. Yet she plunges headfirst into the hot, humid swamp that is Qiao Zhizhi.
He is Young Master Qiao of Beijing, a law firm partner who lives in forum posts and financial news, both heartless and deeply devoted.
Qiao Zhizhi has a law license, but never takes anyone's case. Zhong Qing asks him, "If that's so, why did you study law?"
He replies, "It's easier to break the law when you know it."
But they are ultimately people from two different worlds. At his most heartless, she is a pawn on his chessboard.
At his most devoted, his one regret is: "But I never got the chance to peel grapes for you."
Time span: 2008-2023
A miniature portrait of Chinese society during its 2008-2023 transformation, where power, capital, class, and personal feelings intertwine.
A snapshot of an era. This story commemorates the fifteen years of economic boom.
A revised and polished version of the bonus chapters to her earlier story, Waiting for Her to Fall
Theme: Amid life's tumultuous world, bravely forge ahead alone.
So in the end, the male protagonist didn't even know that the child was him. It felt like the ending shouldn't be like this, and it seemed like it could only be like this.