He knows that hierarchy cannot be broken down, no one is exempt.
From the moment he is born, the highest level a person can reach in the future is basically determined. Maybe everyone has had the idea of a breakthrough, but in the end they will move towards the path that reality has already planned for them.
Four years later, when Shi Yu went to another country for further study, Chang Ming might not even be able to take the postgraduate entrance examination in his country, and would have to ask for a job from the capitalists to make ends meet;
Ten years later, when Shi Yu stood on the world stage with high spirits and became a young talent that major media rushed to report on, Chang Ming may have returned to the small county town from Kyoto. If he was lucky, he was admitted to a local civil servant, married a local wife, set up a dozen banquets, and entered the next stage of his life step by step;
Twenty years later, when Shi Yu's children enjoyed more top-notch educational resources than his father and walked towards his own prosperous road, Chang Ming's children, like his father, were squeezing a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops for a place in a key university;
A hundred years later, even if they all turn into a handful of white ashes, Shi Yu's cemetery will be full of gold, and the pines and cypresses will be evergreen. Chang Ming may be buried on the top of a wild hill, overgrown with weeds.
This is their visible life, even if they have a brief intersection, they will eventually go in different directions. The barriers between different classes are forcibly broken through, and apart from the initial novelty, only misfortune remains.
The moment the dormitory door opened, the afternoon sunlight enveloped Shi Yu's whole body. He seemed to merge into the light, separated from the darkness and coldness behind him.
Chang Ming thought:
He couldn't afford this piece of candy.
An extreme realist, but always yearning for freedom, lives the first half of his realist life with difficulty and eagerness for an idealistic future;
A son of Rome at the top of the pyramid, living in a vacuum of ivory tower, seemingly free throughout his life, but in fact he is surrounded by shackles.
They met and fell in love. Can the class be broken?
People are always a combination of contradictions, have idealistic capital, and live a predetermined life. In the quagmire of realism, we firmly pursue an idealistic future.
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This novel was written from the beginning. After the first draft was written, the entire novel was revised twice. It took nearly five years until the third revision was completed in December 2023 and now it is released. Of course, the time for writing and revising is compressed to about one year.
The story is not grand, and you have seen a lot of plots from campus to society. It's just that the people in the story have their own lives.
The first half of this novel is relatively immature, while the second half is more mature. I hope you can continue reading it, or you can read it from Chapter 75 first.
The author wanted to write about love, so he wrote about love well.
I wish to bring you a few days of quiet, gentle and long reading experience.
Intention: To love what I love is to be free.