
North City Avenue
北城天街
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- 316k Words
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- Danmei (BL)
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- Modern Era
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- 6y ago
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Which piece of driftwood have we caught in the whirlpool of love? Which one is better, friendship, family affection or love? As said in "The Nightingale": "In love we understand what kind of person we want to be, but in war we discover what kind of person we really are." Everyone meets in Beicheng Tianjie, looking for their own love. In this whirlpool, they understand who they want to be and who they are. The person who impressed me the most in "Beicheng Tianjie" must be Situ. He is a brave and timid man who dares to face his sexual orientation, but always puts himself in a more humble position emotionally. I saw a long comment from a sister earlier, saying that it was completely normal for Situ to be the one in the end, because he was interspersed throughout the entire story line and had been by Lin Ze's side since the beginning of the story. It was he who took the initiative to break into Lin Ze's life. Situ Ye follows Lin Ze like a shadow in his life, has low self-esteem and loves him stubbornly. Situ Ye has a complex character. From when he was a boy in Starbucks, every relationship he has had has always been indifferent to his love partner. But in this case, Situ Ye just doesn't understand love. In my opinion, no. On the contrary, he knows what he wants, but when he meets Lin Ze, he becomes confused again. Situ is a man who likes freedom. He has a SLR around his neck. His dream is to travel around the world. He works in Beicheng Tianjie just to fund his travels. In Beicheng Tianjie, Situ Ye met the person who made him understand love. Maybe he understands love very well. Before he meets the person he thinks is right, he will not dedicate his sincerity to that person. To be honest, I particularly agree with Situ's view of love (this interpretation contains a lot of my own subjective thoughts, just treat it as nonsense). Falling in love is one thing, but truly loving someone and being willing to stay with that person is another thing. Talking about Situ's family background, I really admire his courage. He was born in a big family of a religious sect. Homosexuality is a capital offense in the first place. So sometimes it is said that destiny plays a trick on people, what? It just happens to be me? Situ's bravery lies in the fact that after he realized that he was gay, he ran away from home without hesitation, even though he had been forced to get married, but for the freedom he pursued. I would rather sacrifice my life to get it. (There is an episode here: Situ confessed to Lin Ze that he was married, and Lin Ze asked him: "Does she love you?" Situ choked and replied: "She loves me very much." So I also admire this girl, she also has great courage, telling Situ not to be afraid, everything will be fine. So love is a very powerful force.) Situ finally escaped. After traveling around, he stopped in Beicheng Tianjie and became a boy at a Starbucks in Beicheng Tianjie. This was also the beginning of Situ's persistence. No one would have thought that the constant refills of ice water would cost money. Situ had already quietly entered Lin Ze's world in this silent way. He was supposed to be just a stranger, but he left a trace in Lin Ze's world, a crack that could not be smoothed or covered. He witnessed the love story between Lin Ze and Xie Chenfeng. In fact, I have always felt that Situ was greatly influenced by Xie Chenfeng. Even Situ himself could realize that his love was very humble. After all, there is a saying that goes well: Those who are loved are always confident. And the person you love becomes cautious. In another unexpected situation, Lin Ze found Situ and asked Situ to help with on-site photography. After this incident, Situ officially entered Lin Ze's world, and they gradually became inseparable. Situ also had an inexplicable dependence on Lin Ze. Even Lin Ze could realize that Situ was occasionally jealous, but Lin Ze only regarded it as jealousy between friends. We have no way of knowing when Situ Shi fell in love with Lin Ze. Perhaps it was their day-to-day life that created their love. At that time, Lin Ze and Xie Chenfeng had not broken up, and Xie Chenfeng decided to face AIDS head-on, so he went to Guangzhou to work as a volunteer (in my opinion, this reunion was not about falling in love, but a responsibility given to him by Lin Ze. Is that really love? I don't think so. Maybe it is more appropriate to describe it as a lover who is not yet satisfied. That is what Lin Ze thinks is the responsibility of a boyfriend. Lin Ze must have loved it, but this Love cannot last a lifetime) Since then, Xie Chenfeng has left this world. Lin Ze has long understood that there will be a day of separation. He does not show sadness, but that kind of sadness cannot be dissipated without showing it, and Situ is a sensitive person. Even to Lin Ze, he may be just a friend, or nothing at all, Situ Ye is willing to put himself in his shoes. In fact, Situ Ye always had the thought in his heart that he was no match for Xie Chenfeng. For him, he couldn't understand why he should pour so much love into an AIDS patient, even if it was a dying person, but if Lin Ze cared, he would care about what Lin Ze cared about. He remembered what Lin Ze once said to Xie Chenfeng: "If Xie Chenfeng confesses, he will never leave her and will not blame Xie Chenfeng." How much does Situ love Lin Ze? In order to stay with Lin Ze, he had to confess to Lin Ze even though he knew the outcome. At that time, Lin Ze was very angry and felt that he had been deceived. Why was love so far away from him? Situ Ye burst into tears and asked him like a child: "Why did Xie Chenfeng confess to you that you would be with him for the rest of your life, but I couldn't?" Because Lin Ze later also expressed his understanding of deception, he said: "Why do you want to lie?" What you can get back by deceiving people is all lies. You can deceive the whole world, but you cannot deceive yourself. Lies will be exposed one day. At that time, everything that can be obtained without lies and cherished things will eventually be in vain. Everyone knows that cheating is wrong. We cannot tell the truth all the time. At least we must know that it is wrong. We must be as sincere as possible instead of following the trend to deceive others. Bad people deserve to die. We may not be able to do anything about them. At least we must fight against them instead of worshiping them and following them to be bad people. If you don't want to trust strangers and don't chat with them, how can you get to know someone? It's always okay to be a friend. What Lin Ze wants is truth, which can make him understand the importance of feelings, and let him know clearly that the two parties are in love, not playing house. I was particularly sad when I read this paragraph. I understand Situ Ye's desire and pursuit of love. I think Situ Ye understands that they are in love, but what he knows better is that Lin Ze does not love him as much as he loves the other person. Situ Ye's love for Lin Ze can cost his life, and Lin Ze But he couldn't do it to that extent (I think Situ's dependence on Lin Ze and his desire for love are largely due to a lack of love, so he has to keep that rare love even if he is beaten to death), Situ Ye is willing to indulge me soberly like this, because he can no longer find a reason not to love Lin Ze. Situ had two choices. One was to return to Xinjiang and get a divorce, so that his love with Lin Ze would become flawless; the other was to stay with Lin Ze as if nothing had happened. The world is so big, any place with Lin Ze is home. But Situ was like a child, stubborn and persistent. Even though Lin Ze came after him later and told Situ Ye that he loved him and that he could get married or divorced. It didn't matter, as long as the two people's hearts were still connected. But Situ didn't want it either. He had to get a divorce just because he knew that Lin Ze cared. After returning to Xinjiang, Situ was imprisoned. He began a hunger strike and made a silent resistance by hurting himself. This is the point in the whole story where my tears started to burst. From confession to escape, Situ took a shabby mobile phone and fled to the desert alone. He used this shabby mobile phone to call Lin Ze. He cried incoherently to the other end of the phone. Situ The disciple said, "When he is sixty, seventy, or even eighty years old, when his father, brother, and wife have passed away, he will come to me. At that time, if I am single and willing to love him, we two old men can finally be together. He also said that he would carefully put away the ring I gave him if he didn't want it back. "But he said that he only wanted to marry me in this life and would never fall in love with anyone again. He also said that he knew that I didn't love him and was just tired and wanted to find someone to accompany me." The other end cried miserably and told Lin Ze, "He may not come back, but he will always keep his love for me in his heart." Wait until he gets old, wait until he has killed those people in his family, and then they can be reunited, just like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Besides, Situ was a person who even expressed his love in a roundabout way. That phone call in the desert really made people feel desperate. He loudly expressed his love to Lin Ze, which had never happened before. "Infatuation is inevitable in life, and this hatred has nothing to do with the wind and the moon." After this phone call, Situ Ye, who expressed his love to Lin Ze like a madman, disappeared. Lin Ze felt that he could never love again after losing Situ Ye. Situ Ye dug a hole in his heart, "I am also disabled. God took away my ribs and made me my lover, but hid him in some forgotten corner of the world and never gave him back to me." His heart was leaking. He had looked for Situ, but the vast sea of people was destined by fate, and God did not want lovers. Later, he began to want to find his old life, but for Lin Ze, he could not fall in love with those people, and he no longer had the energy. Zheng Jie's concern made him helplessly fall in love with this straight man again, so the two frustrated people came together, and Lin Ze knew that he could not provoke Zheng Jie. He would never have thought that on the other side of the Internet was his lover, Situ Ye, who he could not let go of. Lin Ze confided in this new friend with low self-esteem. He confided in "Hong" about his arduous love history. Situ comforted him and accompanied him, but he dared not tell Lin Ze the truth: "I am the ex who hurt you." Because in Situ Ye's understanding, after a long period of time, Lin Ze might fall in love with someone else. How much love will he still have for him? Maybe all that's left is hatred. And he was just a passerby, as he said: "Lin Ze was just tired and wanted to find someone to accompany him." Even he himself didn't believe that Lin Ze really fell in love with him, and how could Situ dare to set foot in such a restricted area. He had no choice but to keep that love, silently accompany Lin Ze, and watch him be happy. That was enough. But after all, Lin Ze and Zheng Jie are not Yuan Yuan and Ma Liu. Their relationship is not love. Yuan Yuan and Ma Liang are "I can't live without you." Lin Ze and Zheng Jie are a relationship that transcends friendship, love, and even family affection. Those who accompany them all year round and are inseparable have made them the closest relatives to each other. This cannot be measured by love. Therefore, Lin Ze still doesn't understand love at this time, and he is still confused. Slowly, Lin Ze finally figured out what this relationship meant to him. So Lin Ze chatted with this online friend "Hong" whom he had never met before, and told Hong everything about himself. Lin Ze said that he might not fall in love again because the previous one took away all my love. But he also said: "God does not give you love just to take it away from your soul in the end." Things in the world are always unpredictable. You have no way of knowing which day misfortune will come, and at the moment of surprise, people will always be at a loss. "If I see you again, after so many years, how will I greet you? With tears, with silence." If I should see you, after long year. How should I greet, with tears, with silence.——"When We Two Parted" Lin Ze's thousands of words merged into one sentence: "I miss you, Situ." The person on the other end of the phone was already crying. Finally, the timid Situ Ye received a firm response for thousands of times. He understood that Lin Ze also loved him, so he finally dared to speak, "I miss you too... A Ze." Lovers will eventually get married. And I am willing to write so much about Situ because I always feel that I can always sympathize with him. Lin Ze once said, "There are more stories behind a photo." So getting to know someone is very tiring. And Situ was the one who took the photo. He recorded one story after another. However, he could record the ups and downs of a person, but he could not record himself (I would like to praise Lin Ze and Situ's friends here. They can record Situ, but they are specialized in the art. The photos taken by others must not be as good as those taken by others. Situ's sense of story) This is also like a reflection of their love. He loves Lin Ze so much, but he has no way of knowing his weight in Lin Ze's heart. Perhaps in Situ's heart, his status in Lin Ze's heart is not as good as Xie or Zheng, but he is unique. He gave Lin Ze complete love, and he is worthy of being loved. In "Capture the Dream", we saw that the boss and the landlady are still happy, and Situ Ye still has the heart of a child, which shows that they are really happy. Later, Situ gave Yu Hao a photo album. Yu Hao was very touched, and I was particularly touched. It was a happy enough thing to be secretly recorded by someone and retain the beautiful memories. However, I always act as a person who records others. After a long time, I will feel that the happiness of that moment is not mine. I am just spying on other people's happiness through the viewfinder. I can't love it. I wonder if Situ would feel this way. I remember what Situ Ye said to Lin Ze at that time, "You just rely on me to love you." So I think Lin Ze didn't understand what love was until he said the words "I miss you, Situ." It gave Situ the sense of security he needed. Love is not about living together, it is about two people's hearts joining together. They can quarrel or be sweet. Respecting each other like guests and raising eyebrows together are the worldly definition of love, but noisyness can also tell us that they are in love. I'm very curious about Situ's story, but only hens know his story. Sometimes the blank space is beautiful, but it also makes me scratch my head and yearn to know. Here we are looking for love, understanding love. The storytelling is over, but their story continues. Finally, I end with a song by Eason Chan: "I will accompany you to embrace the soreness of missing you into warmth. Let me help you write out the plot of your hesitation The future is long, no matter how long it is, there is still hope." "Stay with you until the story is finished Accompany you to live out your feelings along the way and find the answer Accompanying you turns loneliness into courage." "I lost and came back again and again. I didn't leave. Companionship is the longest confession of love." "I will accompany you to embrace the soreness of missing you into warmth. Let me help you write out the plot of your hesitation How long the future is, no matter how long it is, there is still hope I will accompany you until the story is finished." Companionship is the longest confession of love. I wish you happiness forever.
I had only known about the book "Beicheng Tianjie" before, and it probably told some kind of story, but I never read it. It wasn't until last week that I discovered that Guanyinqiao Sky Street, which I have been to countless times, is the famous "Beicheng Sky Street", and then I finished reading the entire book. It's so friendly. In the past few years in Chongqing, I have been to all the places mentioned in the book, including the main city, districts and counties, and even restaurants and desserts. I have to say that things that were popular more than ten years ago are also popular now, and more expensive things are also expensive now. Of course, the phenomena and problems that existed before have not changed much now. Whether it is the content of the novel or the writing style, it does not feel like reading an article 13 years ago. [Glasses] Thanks to Brother Xiaofei for recording the story. It allowed me to understand this familiar but different world from the perspective of a new group, including the profession of journalists, the gay group, and the group of AIDS patients, all of which gave me a new understanding from other perspectives. When I saw the end, I was very surprised that there was a charity event that spanned more than 10 years. [Red heart] Thank you for the stories and the people in them. There are so many people, so many stories, so many lives. Beicheng Tianjie looks at the world from Lin Ze's perspective, so what does the world look like in the eyes of others? Just like the "I" at the end regrets that the story should be unfolded from Situ's perspective, then can we know the places he has been and the lives of other people he has met, as Situ himself said: "Everyone of the places I have been and the people I have known can write a book." [Let me be healthy] There are endless people to meet and endless stories to tell in this world, but just in "Beicheng Tianjie", I saw their stories on the same land, bad, regretful, incomplete, unwilling, and perfect. I will have the same or different stories like them in the future, encountering setbacks of one kind or another. I also hope that by then I can get some inspiration or enlightenment from them to face an unsatisfactory but hopeful life. [Come on]
Recently, I watched Han Tong's movie "The Law of Love in the Metropolis", and I always think of Mr. Ji's "Beicheng Tianjie". If "Beicheng Tianjie" can also be adapted into a movie with a good team, it will definitely be very interesting. I really like A Ze and Xiao Ye.
It's so beautiful, and it's a real and touching story. No wonder so many people went to Beicheng Tianjie to check in after reading it. It's so well written. This is the best gay novel I've ever read. The writing is delicate and smart, the plot is compact and smooth, the writing style is natural and unrestrained, and the story is profound and realistic.
From now on, when I read articles, I have to read the original version, so that the author can earn more
After half a year, the top show of the year can be booked in advance - "Beicheng Tianjie". This year I read Xiao Fei's "Beicheng Tianjie" and "Mountains with Wood". The two books spanned 10 years, and I deeply felt the process of the author's writing style becoming more mature, but I still chose to put "Beicheng" first. Xiao Fei really likes to write articles with realistic prototypes, and I am also obsessed with the authenticity. I personally think that "Prince's Disease" will have more artistic processing, but the two books were both written in 2012, and it feels like I liked documentaries during that time. Now I write more ancient fantasy. Beicheng Tianjie, the name became more and more interesting the more I read it. It was paired with an unpretentious novel cover, which made me choose it among more than ten books. Later I found out that it is actually the name of a place in Chongqing. The article deliberately did not indicate the protagonist. A person passes by the protagonist. Everyone has his own story. There is no need to ask who is the final protagonist. After all, true love does not have its own sound effects when it appears. Who is the love who will accompany me throughout my life? This is the topic that Lin Ze pursues throughout his article. The article is divided into three parts: The morning breeze is flying, the flaming stars are in the sky, and the lanterns are rising, which correspond to Lin Ze's three different life stages. I personally like the first part the best. When I saw the end, I put down the phone and wiped my tears. I picked up the phone and put it down again, sobbing and regretting. It turns out that there is really something. A kind of pain is heartbreaking. The pain is not the death of love, breakup, or separation. The pain is the emotion that a person who is so bad will still be so affectionate after getting love. The pain is knowing that you are vain and arrogant, but I still love you. The pain is that it is too late, and I can only recall the past.
I kept crying during the second half of the movie. A Ze and Xiao Ye want to be happy forever.
This novel is Eternal White Moonlight. It has so much stamina that I think of Lin Ze from time to time. This is really my favorite character in so many years of reading novels. It's so perfect.
My youth. Recently, I started to review the novels I have read before. When I opened this novel, I felt that the plot was very familiar. After reading it, I realized that I had not caught up to the end. After reading it today, I feel calmer again. May we always maintain a good background.
2025.12.26 As soon as it was finished, life was really full of blood. The main text was full of shocks and sighs. The donation at the end made me cry to death. I actually participated in a charity event in this way.