A life spanning forty-five years, from 1971 to 2016. The symphony of the protagonist Xiang's life and fate plays out as a magnificent, tumultuous, heartrending melody, at times like a sob, at times like a song.
Xiang's life is your book. Xiang takes the starring role, and you watch the show. Through forty years of wind and rain, she has tasted every bitterness and hardship life can offer.
She has never had anyone to rely on, and never known fear. Life is stormy by nature.
She can no longer carry the past; it is too heavy, so she lets it go. She still dreams of the future, but no longer indulges in wild fantasies, and so finds peace. She dares not let the present slip away, accepts reality as it is, and so finds calm.
Having drunk water from five corners of the land and tasted seven kinds of heartache, can the protagonist's life resonate with yours? Read patiently and savor it slowly.
A life full of hardship and a fate fraught with twists and turns are the protagonist's great treasure. Whether in life or death, it belongs to her alone. No one can take it away, and no one else can claim it.
Forty years have shaped the protagonist's unique path in life, independent and full of character.
Such a life is ever-changing and gives one much to ponder.
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