Twins - Moonlight on the Han River

## Introduction to the work "Twin Flowers" On November 3, 1998, two girls were born on the same rainy night. One was born in a top private hospital in Gangnam District, Seoul, wrapped in silk swaddling clothes, and named "Yoo Linzhen" by her father, which means "Treasure of the Liu Family." A child was born in a dilapidated clinic in Jeonju with no heating and no father. She was named "Zheng Yan'en" by her mother, which means "beautiful and grateful". One is standing at the top of the mountain and the other is climbing at the bottom. They don't know that the threads of fate have been intertwined as early as the moment they were born. Twenty-five years later, they reunited at the press conference in the 63 Building. One is the head of the planning office of the Liu Group, a rich man who was monitored by his father with a bug; the other is a reporter from the "Daily Economic" who uses his pen to make miners, demolished households, and the forgotten people "seen" at the bottom. Born in the same year, the same month and the same day, they met on the mountainside and became each other's "alternatives" from then on. But what entangles them is not only fate, but also the grievances of the previous generation. Huan Puying, the director of the strategic advisory office, has eyes as sharp as knives. He approached Liu Linzhen out of revenge - twenty-eight years ago, her father Liu Dongyuan forced his father Huan Mingyu to death. He used a carefully calculated "seduce" to enter her life, but without even realizing it, he was truly moved. Ha Zhize, a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, has been a loner in his study for eight years. He read Zheng Yanen's article on the forum and was struck by the light in her eyes that "let the world be seen". He walked out of the study just to be close to this woman who didn't need anyone. Four people, two relationships, and a hatred spanning twenty-eight years. When Huan Puying kills Liu Dongyuan with a perfect crime, when Liu Linzhen discovers that the "Mr. H" who comforted her anonymously is the enemy who killed her father, when love and hate explode at the same time - how should they face it? Yan En said: "It doesn't matter if you can't tell. The important thing is that you are still alive." Zhize said: "Hate, there is no right or wrong. There is only whether you should let it go." Park Young said: "Those things that are not in the plan are all true." Linzhen said: "I forgive you, not because you did the right thing, but because I love you." This is a story about class - born in the same year, the same month and the same day, one was born on the top floor of Gangnam District, and the other was born in an old clinic in Jeonju. Wealth and poverty are like rivers, class is like cliffs, some people stand on the opposite bank all their lives hating each other, and some people try to build a bridge with their eyes. This is a story about eyesight - Yanen uses a pen to let people be seen, Zhize uses philosophy to teach people how to see, Linzhen spends her life learning to be seen, and Park Young uses 40 minutes of staring to see love from hatred. This is a story about choices - some people choose to hate for twenty-eight years, some choose to forgive, and some choose to let hatred stop here. We were born on the same day, same year, same month, and met halfway up the mountain at the top of the mountain. Concept: The concept of "Twin Flowers" is nested in three layers - **Level One: The Allegory of Class** Born in the same year, the same month and the same day, one was born on the top floor of Gangnam District and the other was born in the old clinic in Jeonju. From the moment they were born, they stood on both sides of the rich and the poor. This is the epitome of South Korea's chaebol society: people at the top of the mountain look down at the world and think everything belongs to them; people at the bottom of the mountain look up at the top of the mountain, thinking there are answers there. But when they actually met, they discovered that the people at the top of the mountain wanted to come down, and the people at the bottom of the mountain wanted to go up. The place where they met halfway up the mountain was called "seeing". **Level Two: The Philosophy of Gaze** Yan En is a reporter. She has been "seeing" others all her life - those miners, those who were demolished, and those forgotten lives. She thought this was her mission. Zhize is a philosopher. He has read so many books and thought about so many questions. In the end, he found that the answer is not in the book, but in his eyes. He watched Yan En for forty minutes, not because he was bored, but because he could finally "see" someone. Linzhen is the daughter of a chaebol. She has been "surveilled" by her father all her life, but has never been truly seen. It wasn't until she met Yan En and Huan Puying that she understood: to be seen is not to be observed, but to be understood. Park Young is an avenger. He has spent twenty-eight years hating, thinking that hatred is all he has. But when he stood downstairs in Linzhen and looked at the window for forty minutes, he discovered that hate can also turn into something else. The stories of four people are all telling the same thing: people become themselves in each other's eyes. ** **The third level: Questioning of the times** My father's death was not a moment of coldness, but a lifetime of humidity. Huan Puying's revenge is a continuation of the hatred of the previous generation. He killed Liu Dongyuan because Liu Dongyuan killed his father. But will this hatred stop with him? Or will it continue to be passed on to the next generation? Yan En's mother has been blamed for Mrs. Liu for twenty-six years. In those twenty-six years, had she ever felt hatred? Have you ever thought about revenge? She chose silence and forgiveness, but was this forgiveness cowardly or strong? After knowing the truth, Linzhen asked Yanen: "What does the chaebol mean to the common people?" Yan En did not answer directly. She told a story about an old miner. The old miner's son died in the mine and he lost 300,000 yuan. He asked: "Girl, is my son's life worth only three hundred thousand?" Yan En said: "Whether it's worth it or not, it's not the money that has the final say. It's the people who remember it that have the final say." This is the core idea of "Twin Flowers": **It's not hate, it's seeing; it's not revenge, it's remembering; it's not that the class gap can never be crossed, but that some people are trying to cross it. ** We were born on the same day, same year, same month, and met halfway up the mountain at the top of the mountain. They met. They saw it. They chose not to let the hatred continue to pass on. This is what "Twin Flowers" wants to say: Between two worlds that can never meet, someone built a bridge with their eyes.