"Contemporary Lovers: 1001 Nights of Heartbeat"
His name is Chen Xiao. I fell in love for the first time at the age of fifteen. Looking back at it at the age of fifty, I have experienced a thousand women in forty years.
Not showing off, not confessing. He said that he was really moved every time.
From the first hand-holding in a bicycle shed in Suzhou in 1990 to the last unread message late one night in 2030 - in these one thousand and one nights, he witnessed the changes in love of an entire era: handwritten letters and the back seat of bicycles in the 1990s, sex and sleepless nights in the millennium, the swipe-left fast-food romance of the 10s, and those lonely reunions that no one knows about after middle age.
This is not a novel love history, it is a chronicle of contemporary emotions measured with body and heart. Every woman has a name, a face, and a story. Among them were his first love, his wife, his lover, and his strangers; some made him break down and cry, and some made him regret it for the rest of his life.
Chen Xiao said: I'm not a lover, I'm just a person who doesn't know how to stop.
Opening this book is like opening a thousand and one boxes. Hidden in each box is a night, a heartbeat, and a life that can never be returned.
One hundred women is a number, a thousand women is history.
Intention: The intention is to measure the love temperature of an era with a thousand heartbeats. This is not the story of a man conquering women, but the forty years in which a sensitive person was repeatedly hijacked by "heartbeat". Chen Xiao is not a love saint - he is a prisoner of the heartbeat. Every relationship started with a real heartbeat, but every heartbeat left traces in his body, good and bad, until he could no longer tell whether he was too loving or too incapable of stopping. On a deeper level: this book is a private chronicle of China's emotional changes over the past forty years. From handwritten letters to WeChat, from bicycle sheds to Tantan, from the morality of "one thing to the end" to the freedom of "change if it doesn't work" - Chen Xiao's 1,000 Women are a magnifying glass and operating table for everyone's emotional patterns in this era. He is not a hero, he is a specimen. The deepest level: The struggle between memory and forgetting. Fifty-year-old Chen Xiao began to forget his name. What he was afraid of was not death, but forgetfulness. Writing these 1,001 stories was his self-rescue - turning every woman who had ever moved her heart back into a concrete person before completely forgetting it. ---