[Les Misérables] A French Illegal Immigrant’s Journey

It all began in 1815, when Napoleon suffered his stunning defeat at Waterloo. No one noticed that an unlucky young woman studying abroad, 200 years in the future, had transmigrated to southern France, where she met a brutal convict who had just been paroled after 19 years in prison... Zhu Nuoan had thought she could keep her head down and live a quiet country life. She never expected that, with Jean Valjean, she would spend a lifetime changing names and identities, as two people without papers fled from place to place. In the end, she said, "You are Jean Valjean." He nodded. "And you are Zhu Nuoan." A French wolfhound x a Chinese country cat An older man and a younger woman, with a 25-year age gap A super-long, slow-burn novel, an immersive experience of the Western world in the 19th century. Follow the heroine as she gathers society's "outsiders" along the way. Historical setting, with literary works from the same era woven in. If you haven't read the original, there's no need to worry. This story is easy to get into. Literary blurb: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.", Shakespeare "In me a tiger sniffs the rose.", Poet Sassoon A sweet little treat: Zhu Nuoan sat in the shade of the garden trees, leaned back in her chair, and flipped through Jean Valjean's reading notes. There she found these two lines of poetry. Who would have thought he was such a literary... uh... middle-aged man? She looked away and glanced at the strong man diligently plowing the garden. Tsk, with a physique like that, he's made for farm work. She had just gotten cabbage and peanut seeds from Philippe. They absolutely couldn't let them go to waste. Zhu Nuoan put down the book and went over to supervise. Jean Valjean saw her approach. "Want to give it a try?" He held up the hoe. Zhu Nuoan took it and gave it a try, then immediately handed it back. Only a fool would volunteer for hard labor. She bent down to see how he was planting. Jean Valjean saw her hair gleaming like black satin in the sunlight. On a sudden impulse, he reached over and picked a red rose from the flower bed nearby. When she straightened up, he tucked it into her hair by her ear. "Don't move. It looks good." Zhu Nuoan was just about to touch it when he stopped her. He held her by the shoulders, smiling. Then he leaned down and sniffed near her neck. "There is a flower... I think she has tamed me..." His gray-blue eyes gazed at her earnestly. Zhu Nuoan looked at the man before her. His temples had turned gray, and fine lines had appeared at the corners of his eyes. How was he a little prince? She laughed. "You're not young anymore, Mr. Mayor." "You can't be the little prince, but you can be the tiger who sniffs the rose." Zhu Nuoan held his face and gently kissed him. Lyrics from the French concept album of the Les Miserables musical: La lumière est dans le coeur des hommes, The light is in the hearts of men, Mais s’épuise de bruler pour personne, But it will not burn itself out for anyone, Aimez-vous pour vaincre les ténèbres, Love one another to overcome the darkness, Tant qu’il y aura partout orgueil, ignorance et misère, As long as pride, ignorance, and misery remain in the world, La lumière, au matin de justice, The light, in the dawn of justice, Puisse enfin décapiter nos vices, May at last absolve our sins. Original theme: Lead the French people down the path of socialism. Theme: Build from nothing and create a beautiful countryside