Completed on March 28. The afterword (Chapter 48) is not part of the main story; it explains and reflects on the story.
Lu Jing loves tall Chinese scholar trees most of all. In Beijing's scorching August heat, their tiny pale-green flowers flutter down and scatter over the ground. The petals are delicate and rounded, each with a stem.
Standing beneath a tree, she exclaimed to him, “I love scholar trees most. They're beautiful.”
Liang Xize stood beneath the tree too, but he looked at her. A smile played on his lips, and when he smiled, even the beauty mark beneath his eye seemed to smile with him. He looked so elegant.
Sometimes Lu Jing would lose herself in the illusion that she was living in the most beautiful stretch of time.
But one day, with tears in her eyes, she asked him, “Liang Xize, did you marry me because I resemble her, or because I was carrying your child?”
Aurora means the northern lights. In Roman mythology, Aurora is the goddess of the dawn. She brings the first pure and beautiful light that turns darkness into day, much like the northern lights. The Inuit believe the aurora is a torch carried by spirits to guide the souls of the dead to heaven. The northern lights are so beautiful that they seem like the dawn rising in the distance on the way to heaven, where the greatest happiness can be found.
This is a love and marriage story about two people who take a winding road through hardship and setbacks, experiencing loss, gain, sacrifice, and devotion before finally mending their broken relationship.
The story touches briefly on how love, children, and social status and compatibility affect marriage in real family life.
The heroine isn't naive, a Cinderella, or overly sensitive, nor is she an ultimate beauty. The hero has flaws too, and makes mistakes.
We're all human, so we have to live a normal life, right? ^_^ Happy ending.
On March 21, I revised several chapters and details. The major plot twists haven't changed; I only adjusted the order in which they are revealed so the characters' emotional changes feel more natural.
Other works by the author: Xu Tian's Love, a love story set across the passage of time. Click here for Light Fades.
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In fact, women who are both materially and spiritually wealthy are less intolerant of the person they love not loving them. They are not the kind of people who cannot live without love. You said that if the child is gone, the male protagonist will not pursue the female protagonist again, but the female protagonist may not have a new life and a new lover. The world is so big, and this kind of male protagonist is not the only one.
The second time I watched it, I have had a lot of changes in my thinking in the past two years. This time I watched it a second time because I have never forgotten this story. But at the same time, during the process of watching it, I really felt that Liang Xize was a scumbag, but he was not a scumbag with a lot of heart. He was not like a Beijing man, indecisive and irresponsible. , Whether it is the "Prince and Cinderella" love with his first girlfriend, or the well-matched love with Xiaomei, he is not manly enough. I can't accept him letting Xiaomei take over when he is pretending to be a private person in his heart, let alone cheating during the pregnancy. He is too self-righteous. Will the happy ending at the end happen in reality? In reality, Xiaomei forgave him, so with Liang Xize's temper, wouldn't something happen again?
It's so disgusting, it's really disgusting. I ask myself, I am not a noble person when I read novels, and I have always liked this kind of dog-eat-dog plot of breaking up and getting back together. Moreover, when I read novels, I am usually a proper male protagonist, so I can tolerate the male protagonist of this novel. Moreover, some of the opinions expressed by the author are really disgusting.
I've seen a saying before that if you feel happy and relaxed with someone, you like them. If you are unhappy with someone but still want to be together, this is love. So I really don't think the male protagonist is in love with the female protagonist. As long as the heroine makes him feel pain, his reaction will always be to avoid and leave, rather than accompany her. Everyone said that being with Shu Jing was tiring and stressful, but the hero never wanted to separate from Shu Jing. No matter how difficult or heavy it was, he always wanted to be with Shu Jing. If you compare it like this, he actually loves Shu Jing. It's just that the author insisted on arranging for the male protagonist to break up with Shu Jing. This article is really full of logical loopholes.
I feel that the biggest evil of the male protagonist is not that he is emotionally lost, but that his original impulse is not responsible for changing the trajectory of a girl's life. Maybe a girl has another sky, but she is really tied to death by a child.
I just read this book recently and wanted to express my opinion. After Liang Xize broke up with Shu Jing, he was in a very numb state of mind. His proud character could not allow him to actively seek peace, so at that time he thought that as long as Shu Jing did not find him, the relationship between them would be completely broken. Besides, the eight years of love were not only sweet abroad, but also sweet at home. As for his feelings, he has been hiding them. He has too many burdens on him, so he is in a state of numbness towards feelings at this time. Then he meets the heroine. I don't think he uses the heroine as a substitute. Although the author seems to have written this intentionally, I can understand that she wants to attract readers. , Liang Xize himself was interested in this type of girls, and arguing with the heroine made his numb heart feel a little better at the time, so before he knew the heroine's family background, he had the idea of playing with the heroine, but after knowing her family background, he classified Xiaomei as a couple who could get married. Xiang, I can temporarily understand that the first one is that he is interested in the heroine, her character, how she behaves, and he likes girls with long hair who are confident and can take him out (this also explains why he went to bed with the heroine without completely forgetting the second heroine, it should be a momentary impulse that prevailed). Second, after eight years of love with Shu Jing and seeing through his eldest brother's marriage, he may have had a self-defeating idea at the time, so he thought that he would never marry the woman he loved like a normal person in his life, so he desperately wanted to be with the heroine and completely forget about the second heroine, regardless of whether he would fall in love with Xiaomei in the future. I think the marriage confession in Tanggu was just a momentary emotion on his part, recalling his own past events, but the heroine's attitude was also very clear and she didn't want to get married, so he probably still wanted to slowly start a relationship with the heroine. Of course, I said that his purpose at that time may have been to numbly draw a clear line between himself and the second heroine. It was just the arrival of the children that made them get ready to get married. I can also understand that he also wants to live a good life with the heroine after marriage. From his monologue later, we can know that he comes back late every day because he feels the resistance of the heroine, not because he is irresponsible. Just when he thought he could live like this, Shu Jing When he came to find her, she said she regretted it, so Liang Xize was confused. If Shu Jing could have turned around earlier, nothing would have happened to Xiao Mei. But now he could only push Shu Jing away and say that he was married. That's why he was depressed when he got home and didn't notice the wine glass piercing his skin. But the heroine's caring care, their three views, and their views on how to deal with people are so in sync, so it is not surprising that he gradually fell in love with the heroine. However, during this period of time, Shu Jing kept looking for him, so he was very confused and who he liked. In fact, the result is very obvious. On the one hand, there is a beautiful present and future, Xiaomei is a soul mate who matches his three views, and on the other hand, it is just eight years of obsession. And I think that the day before the car accident, the male protagonist went back to his parents' house, the male protagonist got drunk and kissed the female protagonist, as well as the erotic dream. This time period already hinted that the male protagonist only loved Xiaomei, but he didn't realize it. Speaking of the most unacceptable plot in this article, about cheating and going to bed, when he went to find Shu Jing, he also wanted to explain it clearly to her. So Shu Jing begged Liang Xize for the first time and refused. Then Shu Jing talked about the past between the two of them eight years ago, which immediately hit his heart. In fact, during his hesitation, the biggest reason was the eight years of true love, so he agreed to Shu Jing's request. But after the car accident, he recognized his heart clearly. If he really still had Shu Jing in his heart, he should have enjoyed the last breakup, but he didn't, so he realized that he no longer loved Shu Jing, but only lamented the past eight years and felt guilty for her. So after he was discharged from the hospital, he was very happy that he married the one he loved. Of course, I can only say that the time when I wrote the article was 14 years, so the author abused the female protagonist a bit too harshly. For example, I think it is completely unnecessary for the female protagonist to give birth and the male protagonist to be jealous and go out to drink. Of course, I don't mean to defend the male protagonist, because I just like to read books clearly and figure out the ins and outs, because the author later created Liang Xize who really loved the female protagonist. I believe everyone can see that, but the author wrote before the car accident in the early stage. It's very cold. It feels like the male protagonist has no love for the female protagonist and just treats her as a substitute. The key is that you don't care if you write it like this. It's just that I understand that the male protagonist is a complete scumbag, because I have seen others who are worse than him, but the author added later. The male protagonist did not regard the female protagonist as a substitute, and the writing was quite good. It was probably not a temporary replacement. It was probably because the writing was not strong enough, and he wanted to attract readers through this in the early stage (but it was understandable in 2014, and you cannot use the current perspective to demand previous articles), so I repeated it over and over again I have read this book many times, trying to understand the psychology of the male protagonist over and over again, hoping that it will be the same as what I thought. In short, this book is actually a pretty good book. I don't have the habit of being the male protagonist Meng San, so I can accept it no matter what the male protagonist's setting is, as long as the author's writing is good. Compared with some female abuse novels, other authors are simply superb in portraying the male protagonist, while the female protagonist is indeed flat and single, so I think Du Ning loves Xiaomei very much. Because in my eyes, a novel is about stories about people with different personalities, so I don't require the male and female protagonists to have perfect characters. Finally, I hope the author will read this comment and see your new work soon. This book is so amazing. You can only find the details by reading and savoring it over and over again. The author really buried a lot of foreshadowing and details. I personally think that such a rigorous logic should be more suitable for writing criminal investigations.
The male protagonist really has no charm at all. What did he do to chase his wife? It all depends on the female protagonist giving up her original moral standards and deceiving herself. She cheated during pregnancy and the male protagonist stayed out all night with his ex-girlfriend to get drunk. What did the author use to be handsome and have a good family background to charm the male protagonist? It was a complete failure. I only saw a coward who ran away from trouble and was mute when in conflict. He left when he was unhappy. Where is the responsibility? He did not let go of his ex-girlfriend and got the female protagonist pregnant. What Tanggu? There is nothing about the mansion that America has lived in that shows love for the heroine. The whole text is filled with two words: love for men. The women in it seem to have been bowed down. They all can't live without men. They love men wholeheartedly and love men at all costs. The female characters written seem to be all male mothers, not to mention that the men are more united. Reality already loves men so much. Can't we love women more in novels? The female protagonist is abused both physically and mentally. The male protagonist just sheds a few tears and is called abused. Is it because of my ex-girlfriend that my spleen was removed in a car accident? Because of him, the heroine seemed to have left her body and turned into a Japanese.
I really vomited. The female protagonist was sexually assaulted repeatedly, so forget it. How could the male protagonist cheat on her during pregnancy, and her parents still manage to reconcile and finally return the favor? It's so disgusting. What an astonishing view this is.
With the heroine having such good conditions, it is more realistic for the second male lead to take the lead. The male protagonist and the second female protagonist should be tied to death, and then the male protagonist cheats on her. This is the best of scumbags. Is it tolerable, but who is intolerable? It also says that if the male protagonist doesn't have children, he won't look back. If there were no children, the heroine would not be with him at all. The heroine did not love him in the first place. Anyway, there are a lot of bugs
The cheating during pregnancy was really shocking... Unfortunately, the writing was good and I liked the narrative style, so I just finished reading it. To be honest, I didn't feel that the male protagonist loved the female protagonist very much, but I could tell that he loved Bai Yueguang.