Qi Rulian, who was abandoned by her husband, lived a hard life in Cheping Town with her daughter.
I met Chen Yaosheng, a young carpenter in the town.
Love is still water flowing deep.
Love is the makeup that fades away after the glamor.
Gatsby believed in this green light, this blissful future that fades away before our eyes year by year. It has eluded us before, but that's okay - tomorrow we'll run a little faster, stretch our arms a little further... One day...
So we rowed forward hard, the boat going up against the current, constantly going backwards and into the past.
——Excerpted from "The Great Gatsby"
I obviously locked you in the land of dreams, reading the scriptures about the sun and the moon, the spring and autumn, and allowed you to write poems at your leisure, but you flew over the mountains and mountains, and before it was too late, you came to me and said: "I have been wandering for half my life, and every time I return to the boat with the rain."
All I can say is: "Okay, sit down."
——Excerpted from "Split Silk in April" by Jian Kuan
This article is a continuation of Gatsby after an in-depth reading. The green light will still come on again.
Author's note:
I've always wanted to write about a playboy... But it turned out to be a joke in the end.
This inspiration came from meditating on words one afternoon and a sudden thought. You said, what if a man who turned back as a prodigal met and fell in love with a woman who was scarred but still as tough as grass?
Someone once said, right time, right person. After reading Qianfan, it is very meaningful. Sometimes, love seems to come from vulgarity, but we forget that it is the dream of returning to nature, just like Gatsby's green light.
Not to be laughed at.
It should not be taken lightly.