In Nanjing in 1946, she was the proudest poplar in the ivory tower. She held a degree in literature and had poetry and distance in her eyes.
In Shanghai in 1949, she was the cheapest dancer in Paramount, wearing a frayed old cheongsam, with only gold and chips in her heart.
It only took three years from Shen Manjun to "Miss Shen".
When the golden coupons turned into waste paper, when the fragrance of books was no match for the fragrance of powder, she thought that marrying into a rich family was salvation, but she didn't know that she was stepping into a gorgeous cage; she thought that the chips on the card table were confidence, but she didn't know that it was a deposit for selling her soul.
She was once the girl who looked at the stars on the top floor of the library, but in the end she abandoned her own flesh and blood with her own hands on a rainy night at the train station.
This is not an old-fashioned story about "a beauty with a bad fate", but a cruel anatomy about how women "self-destruct" in the torrent of material desire.
This book uses the troubled times of the Republic of China as a mirror to reflect the present.
Today, when consumerism is coerced and traffic is paramount, temptation has changed its face and is still lurking at every intersection:
It is the brainwashing of "doing well is not as good as marrying well", the vanity trap behind "exquisite poverty", and the luck mentality of "taking shortcuts"...
When Shen Manjun saw his former self in the mirror, did you also recognize the lost soul in front of the screen late at night?
"Heap of Brocade"——Written to all women who are struggling between prosperity and sobriety:
True independence is not about how expensive clothes you wear or how big a house you live in, but about being able to keep the light in your heart no matter what situation you are in.
Don't let your youth end up being just a pile of gorgeous ashes.
Purpose: An apocalypse of the fall of women in the Republic of China, using history as a mirror to question contemporary women's sobriety and choices in the torrent of material desires.