"The Broken Cocoon" is a long realist novel that profoundly analyzes modern family ethics, emotional dilemmas and human redemption. The story is set in a northeastern city in 2014-2015, and revolves around five characters, Zhou Youguang, Li Guilian, Ding Jiabao, Mou Hong, and Zhang Fang, who are trapped in the quagmire of fate. It tells a story about family fate, secret desires, silent protection and final disintegration.
Core story:
Police officer Zhou Youguang travels between the two places all year round, taking care of his mother-in-law (the famous actor Song Tuan of the theater troupe) who is suffering from cancer, while maintaining a seemingly peaceful marriage with his wife Ding Jiabao. In the rented house of Q City Hospital, he and his cousin Li Guilian, who had taken care of his mother for a long time and whose marriage had failed, developed dangerous and restrained emotions amidst extreme exhaustion and despair. At the same time, Zhou Youguang's first love and cousin Mou Hong returned from abroad, bringing back a child named "Si Guang" and the shadow of a family hereditary disease; his wife Ding Jiabao silently guarded his half-brother Su Qin and carried out a decades-long forbearance plan; and Li Guilian's husband Zhang Fang, under the pressure of business failure and debt, was being dragged into a despicable blackmail trap by the greedy landlord Lao Wang. Candid shots, secrets of medical certificates, old debts, pending wills... Everyone's fate is like being entangled in a cobweb. After an out-of-control conflict, a series of explosions pushed this already riddled family into the abyss of destruction.
Concept: Based on an in-depth analysis of the full text of "The Broken Cocoon", the concept of this work is profound and complex. Its core lies in a cold and compassionate slice-by-section dissection and presentation of "the existential state of human nature in troubled times".