Lin Xi, who has lived half his life, looks back at the past in the snowy night in Hangzhou. Since her vague awakening in junior high school, her life has been a long journey between self-identity and worldly expectations.
She experienced the throbbing of first love, encountered the rejection of straight women, gave her first kiss and sincerity in the passionate love in college, but ended up heartbroken. She tried to follow the rules and get engaged, but the hole inside was never filled. In her forbidden love in Hangzhou, she experienced the ultimate sweetness and brokenness; she also had a brief encounter with a subordinate whose soul was in harmony, but ultimately lost to reality.
The epidemic left her stranded in her hometown town, and her life was forced to press the reset button. It was here that she met the woman she fell in love with at first sight.
A profound entanglement that lasted for five years, grew in the cracks of marriage, and was full of pull, sweetness and fear began. They confirmed each other during their travels, warmed each other in the shadow of reality, and continued to struggle amidst the complexity of human nature and the shackles of morality.
This novel delicately depicts a woman's half-life emotional map, recording her encounters and separations with seven women. This is a story about finding your true self, about love, desire and compromise. Finally, in another snowfall in the West Lake, Lin Xi reconciled with all the past and thanked every snowfall and melt in her life, which together constituted her unique and finally complete life.
Purpose: Female growth and awakening