"Flowing water and falling flowers are gone in spring, in heaven and on earth."
The giant wheel of time never stops, it just runs over everyone's face and leaves a little trace;
From the fairyland in heaven to the abject world, who is singing "broken walls and ruins"?
We look back countless times, forget countless times, and remember countless times, and finally turn into rolling dust.
"In 1946, when I stepped on that ship, my destiny began to run wildly off the rails. I had no choice but to go with the flow."
"Miss Zhou, it's wrong, it's wrong, this is not the life of a young lady - she is lying to you!"
"Wuguan, don't cry. After I die, you have to take good care of my aunt. She works very hard. Don't hate her."
"Miss Hu! You shouldn't!"
"Mengjun, you have to be a happy person, okay?"
"Time, Memory and Self-Deception"
This is the memory of a woman who looks like a dodder flower.
Tragedy, drama, novella, intertwined timelines, mainly flashbacks, first person perspective, another protagonist
Inspiration comes from various sources, including but not limited to Bai Xianyong, "The New Yorker" and "Taipei People"
Drawing on Kazuo Ishiguro's "unreliable narrative" style
The article refers to military dependents' villages in Taiwan and refers to the descriptions of this situation by many Taiwanese writers.
Purpose: The life of ordinary people in this era