The Mountain Is Not Alone

Chen Ziming is nearly forty years old and has been with Li Yancheng for fifteen years. Love has long sunk into Chaimi and Daily Video, but physical intimacy has gradually withdrawn from life. To avoid family pressure to get married and to find new career opportunities, he came to Hangzhou alone. An invitation on a dating app led him to meet Zhu Xingyu, who was twelve years his junior. Chen Ziming confessed from the beginning that he had a partner in Beijing, but Zhu Xingyu was still approaching with desire, dependence and uneasiness. A hot pot session, a bowl of dipping sauce, a dance drama in Nantong, the night view of Gemstone Mountain, and cardboard boxes moved into the same room gradually transformed the originally irresponsible relationship into a family. Zhu Xingyu believes in feelings, but he believes more in money, house and the certainty in his hand. Repeated setbacks at work, heavy mortgage payments, and a future without status made him constantly look for a way out. Old Song Dynasty, Xiaojie in Shanghai, work in Nanjing, and Shen Yu'an who came from a wealthy family are all other answers besides love. Chen Ziming saw the clues, but because of his concealment and debt, he chose to forgive again and again. Three years later, Zhu Xingyu got married, and Chen Ziming left Hangzhou and returned to Li Yancheng, who was always waiting for him. Later, in a hot pot restaurant in Beijing, he saw Zhu Xingyu's "Xide Lin'er" circle of friends. The mist rises on the window, and the sunset looks like the West Lake many years ago. You are never alone in a lonely mountain. Those who are lonely are those who have love and a place to belong to, but still have to pay the price for their choices. Purpose: "No Alone on the Mountain" does not praise betrayal, nor does it exempt concealment, possession and harm in the name of love. The novel attempts to ask: When desires, emotions, responsibilities and real interests conflict with each other, how should people maintain honesty, restraint and goodwill? True nobility does not mean never having desires, but still seeing the dignity of others in the face of desires; true affection does not mean interpreting injuries as extenuating circumstances, but being willing to bear the consequences of choices, not deceiving, not retaliating, and not passing on one's misfortune to innocent people. Chen Ziming finally left, not because love had disappeared, but because he finally understood: if love cannot bring responsibility, at least it should not continue to cause harm. People can miss a period of real happiness, but they should still choose to stop with dignity, respect the lives of others, and take up their own life again.