A Curtain of Dreams: The Rest of My Life, One Thought at a Time

Was Lüping in the wrong? I can't help wondering. Did she do something wrong by pursuing her dream and becoming excellent through hard work, only to lose the person she loved? Wasn't it just that useless scumbag, Chulian, who couldn't keep his eyes on one woman? To destroy Lüping, Qiong Yao stopped at nothing. Lüping's life was already under siege. Her lover wasn't a lover, but a despicable man, fickle and indecisive. He craved the envious looks Lüping brought him, yet couldn't give up the flattering admiration Ziling gave him, which made him secretly pleased. Sometimes he wanted to take responsibility, but when faced with duty, sacrifice, and atonement, he would shrink back. Her sister wasn't a sister, but a rat who envied her older sister's excellence while refusing to put in any effort. Lurking in the gutter, she coveted the light but feared being scorched by the sun. So she dragged in clouds to blot out the sky, calling herself an ugly duckling, when in truth she had no resolve to weather the storm. Worse still, this rat had a businessman with peculiar tastes behind her. So Lüping's sorrow became melodramatic, and losing the leg that had made her a dancer took away her dream, yet somehow it mattered less than the unreliable love the rat coveted. All she had left were her parents, but who could have guessed that her father would find true love in middle age and join forces with her sister against her? And her mother? Oh, her mother was just a sorrowful woman longing for her husband to come home. She would quarrel and make a scene, but would never blame him. So her mother wasn't a safe haven, but a hotbed for breeding malice. Being surrounded on all sides like this was suffocating. Lüping had lost her pride and was already painfully vulnerable, but what surrounded her wasn't love. It was a stench strong enough to fill the heavens. So she needed someone who loved her. They had met back when she was working hard, and at the time, they admired her excellence most of all. But even after she was no longer excellent, they could still see what that excellence had brought out in her: her unique, steadfast heart. They would tear open the gloom and let the sunlight in. All evil spirits would be driven away! Theme: