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Upcoming healing and redemption novel in my column, Look Toward the Light. Blurb at the end.
*Blurb:
Seven-year-old Pei Que hid beneath a bridge in a dark corner of the city, wanting to drown herself in the pool behind her, but when she lifted her eyes, she saw Tan Yue on the other bank.
Tan Yue was a boy who lived across from the slums, a pampered young darling adored by everyone, and a person from a world Pei Que could never touch in this life.
But the moment their eyes met, he appeared before her, bent down, and reached out his hand.
Pei Que never imagined back then that one day she would be the one to push away the boy who was willing to fall from grace for her.
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Eighteen-year-old Pei Que knelt in her mother's memorial hall.
She turned to look at Tan Yue, who had always stayed by her side through the years, pulling her out of despair again and again, and tirelessly taking her away to escape.
Somehow, he had become the source of every hardship in her life.
Perhaps divine salvation came at a price that someone like her, mired in a swamp, could never afford.
She let go, her gaze falling straight onto the boy's face. Her voice was as firm and decisive as a marble dropping to the ground:
"Tan Yue, someone like you being by my side will use up all my good luck. Whenever you appear, I suffer and cry, and slowly lose everything... Tan Yue, please don't come looking for me again, okay? I'm begging you."
As she wished, the two of them had no contact for the next ten years.
But after Tan Yue left, Pei Que often dreamed of his amber eyes.
She dreamed of the bright smile on his lips and the lingering warmth of his palm as he bent down to her when she was seven
He would appear beside her as if opening one of Doraemon's Anywhere Doors, lace his fingers with hers, and take her away from beneath the damp bridge, away from every hopeless moment of reality that followed.
He often told her, "Wake up. Let's hide together so fate can't find us."
/
Twenty-seven-year-old Pei Que regretted it.
She returned to the town and knocked on the door of the boy in her memories.
"Creak, "
The boy, with the same face and eyes as before, peeked out.
Tan Yue leaned against the doorframe, his clear amber eyes calmly sweeping over Pei Que.
He spoke in a distant tone. "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"
#Both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending
#One-on-one healing and redemption
#The original line "Let's hide together so fate can't find us" is from Jian Zhen's Let's Take a Walk Together
*Upcoming novel blurb:
"The finest, deepest parts of my life are understood by no one but you."
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The first time He Du saw Zhou Yige was through the eyeholes of a mascot costume.
The amusement park was lively, but a cloud hung over him.
His face was ashen, and there was a beauty mark by the corner of his eye.
He Du recognized that look.
It was the same look she had worn when she was tired of living.
The evening parade was about to begin. She raised the hand of the guide beside her and pointed at Zhou Yige, hidden beneath the trees.
/
The first time Zhou Yige went to the amusement park was the day before he planned to kill himself.
He stood outside the crowd, staring at the mascot rabbit surrounded by people in the distance, his suicide note clenched in his hand.
"Sir! Sir, "
Just as he turned around, he heard someone calling after him.
Zhou Yige looked back. A staff member in a bright vest was following him, with the mascot rabbit behind her.
The costume was cumbersome. She had to hold its ears with both furry paws to take little steps toward him.
"Our Rongni Rabbit would like to invite you to join tonight's parade!"
The popular mascot, Rongni Rabbit, stood to the side, covering her face and pretending to be shy.
Though her smile was fixed in place by thread and needle, Zhou Yige somehow read another expression in it.
Under the blazing sun, she put all her effort into every movement.
So he thought, I'll live one more night.
/
It was a long time before He Du learned that Zhou Yige ran a bar.
It had a simple industrial style, its walls covered in posters of the White Dove band.
Her eyes swept over the room, and He Du spotted a familiar album cover.
"Zhou Yige, would you sing 'Faraway Journey' for me sometime?"
Zhou Yige didn't answer.
Ever since the drummer of White Dove had died by suicide over love, he had never sung that song again.
He Du looked at the beauty mark by his eye and smiled openly. "Actually, the first time I heard this song, I was standing on the roof of a twenty-six-story building. At the time, I decided that no matter what, I had to keep living."
Down-on-her-luck heiress x band frontman
Theme: The world is vast. Let love be your home.
True, false, true, is it reality or Pei Que's imagination. It is nothing more than love and pain that scares us, makes us afraid, and makes us dare not step out of the "cave". "Pei Que, you think you are small, but to Tan Yue, you are also an extremely huge and irreplaceable existence." When I saw this sentence, my heart really skipped a beat. You are really good at writing. Perhaps it is the infusion of my own experience that makes this story more impressive and moving. But it is undeniable that the author's portrayal of redemption means that only he can redeem himself. As Zuo said, "Before you meet Tan Yue, you must first become your own Pei Que." Only we can save ourselves, and others only provide us with strength, courage and help. Thanks to the author for his creation, allowing me to see such a great work. I can't really feel what the author went through to write such a work. I also hope that the author will always have the courage to start from the beginning. I wish you all the best in the new year. We are destined, see you next time, and wish you well~
I would like to politely ask the two first-time lovers, have they ever separated, and have they talked to the male protagonist after the separation (personal reading preference 😭)
😭 😭 😭 😭 You are so good at writing 😭 😭 When Pei Que was 27 years old, was the fifteenth year you repeated [Heartbroken] [Heartbroken] 😭
The confusing feeling of interlacing time and space and changing persons made me stunned for a moment 😭
If I push for updates every day, will the author be able to make more than 10,000 daily updates?
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"She thought that life is something invisible. When you fall into a pool, you sink without even ripples." This is Pei Que's view of life, and this is also how others view her. My father is a lame man who buys his wife with money and likes to drink. Although he has a carving skill, he only uses it to mend the holes in the bed, and he has no intention of caring for the family and raising children. My mother was a rare college student who was supposed to have a bright future. Unexpectedly, the world was unpredictable, and she was trapped in a narrow alley, wasting away the little afterglow of her life. Pei is indeed evidence that she was hurt, so she cannot love her. Pei Que was born in such a family. Her parents had no expectations for her birth and no one cared about her. Therefore, for Pei Que, her life is trivial and can easily be swallowed up by fate. She was born in an alley. It was a slum where most of the people were ignorant. Some people beat her, bully her, and treat her as a part of their control. Fate has given her too much suffering, but there is always goodwill to support her. Wang Baimin opened a nearly free study class, so she was able to learn knowledge; Yuan Yuan not only stopped the gangster in time when he bullied Pei Que, but also taught her a lot of life knowledge so that she could live a better life. Tanyue gave her a random door and a stable shelter, allowing her to glimpse a different world. It was precisely because of their kindness to Pei Que that she was able to successfully walk out of the alley and have a new life. A major design of this article is the dual personality of the heroine Pei Que, which overturns the common routine of redemption novels in the past: I redeem you, or you redeem me. Instead, it puts forward a new point of view, that only you can redeem yourself. When the truth is revealed and I think back to the previous article, all doubts will be solved. Why did Tan Yue come back after leaving? Why does he always show up to save her? Can such a young child really accept when faced with so many desperate things? All the clues are strung together, pointing to one answer, that is, she split into a new personality in order to protect herself. The care and salvation of others are actually our own self-salvation in pain. Tanyue was the person who once said to her, "Wake up, let's run away, don't be found by fate." He was also the person who gave her a lot of warmth and care. So whenever Pei Que encountered harm, she would think of Tan Yue. Because Tanyue can take her to escape and bring safety and peace. But people can't live in escape all the time. No matter how much she escapes, fate will still befall her. She is going to marry Wu Yicheng. In this desperate situation, her mother's brave resistance saved her. She begins to understand that running away doesn't solve anything, it only solves itself. On the day of realization, Pei Que said goodbye to "Tan Yue" and she was going to start a new life. However, things are never that easy. "She stayed there like a clear lake without any ripples. Of course she had her share of turbulent waves, but those seemed to have been internalized and dissolved by her, to the point where they were completely gone. When you stand outside and look out, you can only see a quiet and peaceful lake, nothing more. " It was not her intention to become a pure lake, but the harm she had suffered in the past was like a accidentally eaten stone, which not only brought her pain, but also made her unable to digest it. So the stone gradually became a part of her body and became a kind of dull pain. If Tanyue hadn't asked someone to help her, she might have been trapped in that dark and narrow alley her whole life, continuing to repeat her childhood countless times. Looking back at this period of Pei Que's life, it's heartbreaking to see so much pain and suffering. Fortunately, she still had a strong will to save herself. Fortunately, there were people with good intentions around her. Fortunately, she met Tan Yue again and alleviated her psychological problems. Fortunately, Pei Que's life ended well in the end. Let's talk briefly about the villain later. I don't like Zhou Zhanyi because she hates the wrong person. Who caused the two families? Tanyue? Who was responsible for being forced to leave home? Song Kunhe? No, neither. It is Tan Ziming who cheated in marriage, and Tan Ziming who committed corruption and committed crimes. When you were a kid, you hated the wrong person. I can understand why you didn't grow up. However, you are an adult and have experienced so many things. You should understand that Tanyue does not owe you anything. So I really don't understand what she said and I can't accept it. In fact, looking at it this way, I can't accept the negative characters in the book. They are really examples of the evil of human nature. Song Kunhe probably stayed at the top for so long that he lost the most basic respect and compassion for life. A life was about to pass away in front of her eyes. Not only did she not choose to save the person, she also prevented Tan Yue from saving it because she wanted to kill her son's mercy. In her view, life is just a sacrifice that can be used to educate her son. Even many years later, Song Kunhe did not apologize at all. She just said lightly, "I always wanted you to live a better life." The parents' "good for you" is vividly reflected in her. Wu Yicheng, as his name suggests, has accomplished nothing. The dirty things he did with his parents were so painful that he really wanted to rescue Pei Que and kick them away. Fortunately, there are still normal people here, otherwise Pei Que would really be bullied to death TT After reading it, I really wanted to say something, so I coded this article. Finally, I am very grateful to the author for bringing us this work! See you next time : P
These days, mistress's children are more arrogant than legitimate children.
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