Mother and son met a traveler from a foreign land on their way back to the West Lake, and a brief encounter revealed two lives. Using a lipstick and a city's neon lights as a microcosm, it depicts the forbearance and tenderness of small people at the bottom looking up to prosperity and remaining ordinary, and illustrates the disparity in human circumstances.
Purpose: The article uses encounters during the journey as a carrier, and through the contrast between the bustling city and the fireworks of the small town, the superior life and the bottom-class livelihood, it depicts the helplessness of ordinary people who are shackled by life, and interprets the background of ordinary people's lives in adversity, adhering to gentleness and ordinary life.